THREE

V loves the bear hat Grandpa knitted for her. 

 2019 week three

It's train city in our front room every day after we drop V off at school. 

Theodore stole my pork chop bone and started shooting everything with his gun.

Hey! Look! It snowed in Texas! 

Saturday night dinner date with one of my favorite friends in Texas! We went to Sichuan Hot Pot. It was SO FUN! It was very delicious - even more so when the rice finally came to temper how ridiculously spicy half of it was. Look at that boiling red chile side of our soup! 

Then we cleansed our palates with Arabic ice cream! It was cool and not terribly sweet, and stretchy and creamy. The pistachio-pomegranate combination was A+. Margie's Lotus Biscoff cookie flavor was also excellent. It was so fun to hear Arabic spoken all around us and try nibbles of different Arabic sweets and cakes. I grabbed a bag of Arabic coffee on our way out. The cardamom flavor is wonderful! 

Sunday morning we took the train down to Fair Park in Dallas. 

It was a long train ride but really nice to just be able to sit and not think about traffic or exits. In my heart I am a train enthusiast. Theodore and I have this in common. 

We went into Dallas to take the kids to Jurassic Quest! 

We met up with some friends and the kids just ran and screamed and giggled the whole time. 

Excavating fossils.

Riding life-size dinosaurs.

Matt lent himself to being a step-stool during a performance so the kids could get a better view.

During the dinosaur show the dinos came and scared the kids and pretended to bite them. Theo laughed the whole time his head was in the dilophosaurus' mouth.

Then they got to ride on a T-Rex. 

And then everyone spent over an hour jumping around the dinosaur bounce houses before heading home. What a fun time, even if Matt made everyone read every sign... I supposed he wanted everyone to learn something about dinosaurs as well. :) 

Matt studying with his heater cat.

Quotes

Theodore

V- Can we get donuts today? Is it donut season?

T- It's always donut season.

According to Theodore a duck says "Grack Grack"

Kissing every zit on my face "There, now your owies will get all better."

Veronica

Matt- I'm going to take a shower.

V- Yeah, you're so filthy you look like a poop.

V sobbing in a bubble bath Matt- Why are you crying?

V- Mama wouldn't help me wash the bubbles off!

"I feel free when I'm outside naked. Like I get to run away with no permission."

"I'm going to learn Spanish and speak it for the rest of my life. I will never ever speak English again."