Hummus...it's what's for breakfast

Yesterday Ramon and I went to the Bronx Zoo. On the drive over Ramon started asking for hummus. Uh oh. It is New York but even here in New York the zoos don't sell hummus for lunch. So I happily fed him whatever else we had and we decided to try the zoo anyway. We had a great time. The children's zoo was particularly exciting. Click on the picture below to see the full zoo photo set :).



Now that Ramon is talking the zoo was so much more exciting. He got to chant "animals...animals." He said "peacock" over and over. He ran up to a turtle yelling its name. He got to say "cock-a-doodle-doo" to a rooster wandering freely among the tourists. It was great fun.

Then he got tired and when I asked if he wanted to see more animals or go home for hummus he said, "home...hummus!" He was feeling so hummus deprived that he even had hummus with his oatmeal for breakfast this morning.

Sprinklers in the parks are awesome

Ramon was pretty excited to run in the sprinkler at the playground today.

Ramon enjoying the rain and running to play with the bus;)

The best toys

The best toys are holes in the dirt and bright, shiny pennies.

Driving the Bus

Ramon is obsessed with buses. He hums and then says, "Bus!" at the right spot for Wheels on the Bus. He carries around Fillmore from the Cars movie all the time saying bus. He also calls a lot of other wheeled things buses while pointing at their wheels, bopping up and down and humming.

When Daddy drove by in our bus he tried to run as fast as he could on the sidewalk to catch up...then he refused to leave it parked on the street so we could play in the park.

Here he is driving already :).

Wheels

It has been forever since I posted. So much has been happening so quickly that it will be a while before I get caught up :).

We spend a lot of time in Isham Park. There are always gobs of kids and great piles of toys to run off with. It seems like Ramon touches every wheeled item in the park at least once every time we go. He especially likes the mini kickboards (little scooters with two wheels up front instead of one). Last week I was talking to another mommy and she was saying that her 13 month old girl figured out how to ride one. She gets up on it and totally kicks one leg out to move. I was very impressed. I said that Ramon didn't do that. He kind of pushes 'em around and tips 'em over to play with the wheels. So I turned to throw Ruta's ball cuz he barked at me and this mommy says, "Uh, Cherith...you should see this..." Ramon made a liar out of me...he was totally riding somebody's kickboard. And now he has his own :).

I'm still figuring out how to use the camcorder function on my HTC Incredible so the video is sideways...but here you go :).



And another...

Ramon's latest doctor checkup

Here's the the latest stats. I kind of like this virtual wall measure:).