The life and times of Oscar Marcos Perez-Cytron. Born Thanksgiving Day 11/22/01.
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Sunday, November 21, 2004
11:27 PM posted by Oscar
Oscar on the eve of his third birthday:
"I'm a happy boy, 'cause I'm a big boy. I'm not a baby anymore."
We started the celebration today, since we'll all be in school most of the day tomorrow. Oscar woke up early and opened half of his presents: a Lego set with two trucks and two small tubes of legos for making animals. He loves his legos and has been going crazy making all sorts of animals, monsters and constructions. Tomorrow he's going to get another Lego set for making houses (I'm particularly excited about this one--it even has a lego toilet!). He also got a few more bits of track for his train and some "Spiderman big boy pants underwear." And Polar Express from Mom. And a poem written by Lala that he already knows by heart (I'll have to post it here tomorrow).
He played with his new toys all morning and ate grits for breakfast (or the closest thing to them in Madrid). Then we went to Principe Pio (a train station with a big, new, American-style mall and stadium seating movie theater). Very much reminds me of Union Station in DC.
We went to see a movie, Los Increibles (The Incredibles), another Pixar movie. It was WAY too violent, in my opinion. And Oscar agreed. He told me afterwards that it wasn't as good as Finding Nemo. I think it's sad that they market a movie like that to small kids, but make it as violent and light on plot as any regular Hollywood smash-em-up movie, so that it will appeal to adults. Beautiful, but trashy.
We came home and went to Plaza de la Paja to pick up Oscar's birthday "cake" at Delic. Oscar asked to go to the "jardin"--a tiny little walled in garden at the bottom of the plaza. He loves to run around it and dance under the gazebo. We ran into our (unbelievably nice) landlords who live next door, Alex and Esther. She is almost four months pregnant. They are so sweet with Oscar. They invited us for "huevos rotos" at Taberna de Almendro, but we had to turn them down. Oscar was ready for his siesta.
He woke up and we got his "birthday cake" ready--really three little tarts: wild berry, pistachio, and apple raisin. We sang Happy Birthday, wore homemade hats and he blew out his three little candles. A happy, happy day.
Tomorrow: more presents, more fun...
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