Alexia's new chair

The weekend that Alexia was born, Ricardo's mom bought Diego a present so that he would feel special. Per our request, she bought him a special chair. He has loved his chair since the day it arrived in the mail and he has had to share it with Alexia for 18-months now. We have our family prayer time every evening in his room and he sits in his chair and Alexia sits in Ricardo's lap. We decided it was finally time for her to get her own chair so we ordered one this week and it arrived yesterday. Oh yes! It was a hit! She RAN to it as soon as she saw it and screamed "down! down! down!" (That's what she calls chairs!) We are going to keep it in Diego's room for now since they love to sit in the chairs together and read books, play, have prayer time, etc. We'll eventually put it in her room, but they are attached at the hip these days so I don't think it's worth separating their chairs.

In other news, Alexia had her 18-month check up on Monday. She is not gaining weight, but has grown a lot in length and head circumference. She only weighed 20 pounds, 4 ounces which is around 4th percentile for girl's her age. Her eyes were a little puffy so the doctor ordered some blood work just to make sure there wasn't any protein deficiency or anything. We saw her results today and Praise the Lord, all of her blood work was within normal range. I wasn't terribly worried because she has an incredibly good appetite, but I was still really wanted to see the results. The doctor was really happy with her growth in height and head circumference so I guess that's where all of her calories are going!

This is our spirited little peanut in time out:

She can sure act up, but she also responds really well to discipline and sits completely still and quiet in time out...we'll see how long that lasts...! :)

While talking to friends in San Francisco, I realized I have never posted pictures of the kids' rooms and they asked me to see them...so, these are for you Auntie Paige and Auntie Asawari. They are still a work in progress, but we're getting there...!


View of Diego's room from his doorway

Still from doorway

View from windows back to doorway

View of Alexia's room from doorway

View of room from closet (to the left of the door)

After dinner tonight, my darling boys went to cut me a magnolia flower from one of our trees.