Big Birthday Weekend

Aaron is Two!! Just ask him. He'll hold up four fingers and insist there are two. According to a scientist I heard recently, until he's 3 or so, he won't really understand anything more than "one" or "more than one". He'll recite numbers up to ten but doesn't really know what they mean.

So what did we do to celebrate? The Pop Shop of course! We did eat a meal there, but it was all in preparation for ice cream.


On Saturday, we attended Jack Santee's fifth birthday party at an athletic club. He was interested in the moon bounce, then too scared to stay in it, then incredibly upset when it was deflated at the end of the party. It's so hard to be so emotionally labile.

With Mike at the party

On Sunday, it poured, so we went to check out the Please Touch Museum in Northwest Philadelphia. For those who don't know it, the P.T.M. is designed for children about ages 1-8, and everything is made for touching! And touch we did. He was so incredibly happy there that we felt like terrible parents for not having gone sooner. Some highlights:

With mommy on the carousel:

In Storybook Land on a boat that went up and down:

And then we found the Transportation Room! They have a part of a real city bus that the kids can get into and pretend to drive or ride. When he saw it, he went nuts. "A bus! A bus! A bus!" I don't think he's ever been on a bus, so I'm not sure where the excitement comes from. There were also cars to drive and a monorail train to sit in.

On the monorail (it's a good think I'm short):

Driving a "gruck":

By this time, our little guy was tired and it was really too dangerous for him to drive, but he insisted on getting behind the wheel.


I'm off to work in a few minutes. More pictures later.