So I packed up the kids and drove to the local party store today hoping to find two cute cow costumes, since that’s what the wondertwins have declared they’d like to be for Halloween. (Well, first Avery wanted to be a giraffe, but a cute giraffe that looks like a giraffe costume is even harder to find than a cute cow, so I nipped that in the bud.) And on the way to the store, we passed by a new Mexican restaurant where we ate last weekend. The food there was awesome. I had steak fajitas. The twins had a chicken quesadilla, some tortilla chips with guacamole, and several bites of a seafood paella they begged from Daddy. Adam just had a bottle of milk. The building for the restaurant is sort of distinctive, but I never would have thought they would recognize it after only one visit. But sure enough, when we were driving past, Alex pointed out the restaurant and we had a fun five minutes of them asking what everyone ate and trying to pronounce foods like fajita, guacamole, quesadilla, and paella. Fast forward a couple of hours to when we got home and I asked them what they’d like for dinner. Of course, his very serious sounding reply was, “Paella.” Clearly he doesn’t know who he got for a mom. He got leftover chicken and scalloped potatoes from a box! Yesterday we were at Uno’s for lunch and Don asked Avery to eat a pepperoni on her pizza and she looked at him and said “Actually, Daddy, the pepperoni is kind of spicy.” We both cracked up, and Don had to ask me if he had heard her correctly! Do normal 2 year olds speak like these two???

Oh, and the party store had no cow costumes in their size. I’d very much like this one but it doesn’t seem to be available in their size, and I don’t really like either of the two that do seem to come in their size (2T or 3T,) so if you happen across a cute one somewhere, please show me!