Yesterday Koen and I got to go to the Tiny Tots Concert at Heinz Hall by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It was so great! Today's theme was, "The Tortoise and The Hare." The orchestra does such a wonderful job of welcoming these loud and busy young ones into such a beautiful hall for a real concert. They play amazing classical music to narrate and accompany the story. Yesterday they did various pieces with different tempos, either fast or slow, to encourage the costumed actors in the race. The actors also did a great job and Koen was so engaged in the whole program. I love having him exposed to these opportunities! We had the treat of getting to sit next to Krissy and Jonathan and Faith, good friends of ours that we rarely get to see. Also, we were able to see another neighborhood friend that we haven't bumped into in a year! So all around it was a great experience at the event. Also, Koen and I enjoyed our voyage on the city bus to get there. It's so fun that we live right on a bus route, so it makes it super easy to use the city transit to get downtown (and totally makes this free event really worth it as bus fare is so much cheaper than driving and parking downtown!). Here's Koen waiting for the bus. 
He said to me, "Hey Mommy, I have an idea, how about while we wait for the bus to come, we sing a song!" Just then a girl walked by on her way to work and totally started cracking up. I love my vivacious 3 year old! So, yes, we did sing. Koen also made dirty snowballs with the nasty snow left on our front lawn and threw them at the telephone pole. The bus came and he ran to the middle of it and says very loudly, "Oh Mommy, I found the PERFECT seat!" All the women on the bus just started cracking up. Again, you gotta love the little things in life! 
Our wait for the bus on the way home was such a great contrast to the waits previously when he was younger. This time he stood the majority of the time, right by me (next to the building because it was kind of spitting rain and we were able to hide under the awning), but he didn't try to run away or explore. He knew our job was to wait for the bus and that we did. 
It was a little late and he was very patient. I let him pull the cord to request our stop on the way home. He loved it! It was a lovely little 2 hour outing. Such a blessing to have a little time just the two of us. Koen was on good behavior (such a contrast to some of the discipline issues we've been having lately at home with him). It makes me wonder if Tavin really is quite a strain on him with wanting my attention, etc. I don't know, either way, we just both really loved our time together on a morning date.
He said to me, "Hey Mommy, I have an idea, how about while we wait for the bus to come, we sing a song!" Just then a girl walked by on her way to work and totally started cracking up. I love my vivacious 3 year old! So, yes, we did sing. Koen also made dirty snowballs with the nasty snow left on our front lawn and threw them at the telephone pole. The bus came and he ran to the middle of it and says very loudly, "Oh Mommy, I found the PERFECT seat!" All the women on the bus just started cracking up. Again, you gotta love the little things in life! 
Our wait for the bus on the way home was such a great contrast to the waits previously when he was younger. This time he stood the majority of the time, right by me (next to the building because it was kind of spitting rain and we were able to hide under the awning), but he didn't try to run away or explore. He knew our job was to wait for the bus and that we did. 
It was a little late and he was very patient. I let him pull the cord to request our stop on the way home. He loved it! It was a lovely little 2 hour outing. Such a blessing to have a little time just the two of us. Koen was on good behavior (such a contrast to some of the discipline issues we've been having lately at home with him). It makes me wonder if Tavin really is quite a strain on him with wanting my attention, etc. I don't know, either way, we just both really loved our time together on a morning date.The PSO doesn't allow children under 3 to attend the concerts any longer (apparently it was always in the fine print, but I totally didn't realize it. I've been taking Koen since he was 18 months old!). So, Tavin wasn't able to join us. I would have loved to take him, but I do think it was much easier and smoother to not have to bring him along. So, my dear friend, Kyndal, who has two little boys of her own, Kaiser (2 yrs.) and Porter (3 mos.) came over to hang out with Tavin. Thankfully he slept most of the time she was here so she didn't have to juggle 3 boys under 3, but she handled it all great anyways of course! Tavin did really well playing with Kaiser and vice versa. So, it was nice that Tavin got to have a special time too. Kyndal, thank you so much for giving up your morning to make my date with Koen possible! It was such a blessing to me! Here's a few pictures of Tavin enjoying his special Kaiser playdate...
Kyndal woke Tavin up from his nap. She said he gave her quite a look, like, "why are you here in my room?" Then when she brought him downstairs he just sat in the kitchen on the floor with his favorite book and she tried to coax him into the living room to play. Finally, after Tavin wouldn't budge and only kept staring, she just picked him up and brought him in to play. He eventually relaxed and had a great time socializing with Kaiser. 
Here's a picture of the boys at lunch. Kaiser got the biggest kick out of Tavin passing him his milk cup over and over again. Kyndal said he was cracking up. Kaiser is going to be such a fun big brother for Porter to interact with!
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