i sick
We packed up and left for the Museum of Natural History and Enzo got a little nippy nap on the way down there. Its a little on the thin side for a natural history museum (we cannot wait to take him to the ones we've seen in New York, London, and Paris someday!) but he had fun anyway. The highlight was the Discovery Center, where he got to see a lot of turtles that were swimming as well as some active tortoises, some very large snakes, some disgusting giant cockroaches, and all the stuffed animals. He saw every variation of moose and elk that exist.
After our fun time at the museum, we went to Chinatown and had some dim sum. At one point, there were 3 little old Chinese lady waitresses with their respective dim sum carts that surrounded us and were watching him eat with rapt attention. Too bad A-ma wasn't there, she would have been so proud. After lunch we still had to kill some time because the cleaning ladies were at our house so we got ourselves some coffee and went to look at the crane and do some Christmas shopping. On the way there, Enzo had a coughing fit in the car and when mommy asked him if he was alright, he answered "i sick". It cracked all of us up.
Mommy and Enzo went to pick up the dogs while daddy did some work, and when we got home we had dinner. Enzo is growing increasingly wary of the old airplane in the hangar trick. We went for a nighttime walk around the neighborhood after dinner to look at the Christmas lights - the highlight was a pair of lit deer that moved. There is also a house on the corner with all kinds of crazy lights and things all over the place - he was a bit overwhelmed by all that. We walked by all the places where we went trick- or-treating, and Enzo would say "knock?" It must confuse him, why its sometimes ok to knock and ask for candy and why sometimes we say no.
After our walk we watched one of his Christmas presents, the new Blue Planet dvd - lots and lots and lots of sharks and whales. We danced around the living room to the B-52s "Rock Lobster", wrestled around, had a long bath, read some books and off to bed. It was a really great day for the little man.
