Last weekend Ricardo had a busy Saturday morning. Early in the morning my friend called to say she needed help with her kids since she had been in the hospital all night with her husband (side note: Travis was in the hospital for severe back pain, but is all better now). Since I was scheduled to talk at a women's brunch at church, I could not stay home to help Ricardo so he had four kids all to himself for the whole morning. I called as I was leaving the church to tell him I was rushing home to help him, but he said "Go ahead and do the errands you need to do...I'm fine." What a man! I did two quick errands and came home around 1:30 to find everyone happy and in good spirits. He even took pictures!
Alexia and Dillon (16-months old) enjoying their drinks together
Addie & Diego watching a video on the laptop
Alexia and Papa having a little dance party this past Friday:
I couldn't resist posting this picture of the most darling lil' face ever!
This lil' peanut has a lot of person in a small body.
Some fun Alexia stats:
- She still weighs 21 pounds (has not gained weight in 8 months, but is getting taller and taller)
- Her favorite foods are black beans, yogurt, chicken, fruit, tomatoes and pizza
- She says everything is "azul" (blue) or "verde" (green). If I ask her what color something is, she always says "AZUL!" But when something really is blue she says "Si! Azul. Si! Azul."
- She loves Dora and sings "D-D-D-Dora. We did it. Hooray!"
- She can count to three (so cute!)
- She loves, loves, loves her daddy and big brother.
- She loves to dance, especially with her daddy
- She loves to read books and do puzzles
- She loves to bug her brother
Some fun Diego facts:
- He weighs 36 pounds and I only write this because it is a BIG deal to him. He is always asking me how much different people and things weigh and gets excited that he weighs 36 pounds
- His favorite foods are pasta, salad, hummus, fruit, yogurt, ice cream, puffins cereal and anything sweet
- He just learned to write his name last week and is very excited about this milestone (as am I!)
- He loves to read book and do puzzles. He can do almost all the puzzles we have at home all by himself
- He loves to play board games (zingo, jenga, candyland, ladybug game, etc)
- He loves to sing
- Spanish is still his strongest language. His english is improving, but is not nearly as good as his spanish
- He loves numbers. He counts everything...how many puffins in his cereal bowl, how many birds on the bird feeder, how many stripes on his shoes, etc. He counts all.day.long
- He is shy
- He is a mommy's boy
- He is extremely strong, athletic, coordinated and fast!
2 comments:
Wow, Alexia hasn't gained in 8 monhts? I've seen that girl eat, so I guess her metabolism is mighty fast!
A thought from teacher Paige, for Diego's counting...see if you can get him to start group things by 2s and 5s and he'll soon learn to count by 2s and 5s. High five with him and count by fives and I guarantee he'll impress his kindergarten teacher when he can count by 5s on day one of school!
Miss you all much! xo
Your kids are so beautiful and it is so cute that you say Diego is shy...that is how I remember him being when we lived in Atlanta but it was so cute and he was so sweet and kind! I always remember he seemed like such an intelligent little boy...I was always blown away by his bilingualism from such a young age so I am not surprised that he can do a lot of things now! And good job to you! It looks like you always do so much fun stuff with them! That is surely one of the main reason they are both doing so well!!!:)
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