Happy Birthday Papa!!!

I spent a long time writing up a post last night and when I hit "Publish," it disappeared...ARGGHH!! So, as much as I would love to retype all that I had written, I'm afraid I won't get to it for a few days so I thought I would share the pictures that I had uploaded and write some brief captions for them...


Alexia loves to do absolutely everything by herself. Here she is spreading peanut butter on her waffle for breakfast. She can mostly get herself dressed and undressed and puts her own shoes on everyday. It is wonderful to see her in this independent stage, but it is cause for many tantrums and meltdowns when things don't go just her way.

Ricardo's birthday was last week, but he was in London so we were not with him on the actual day. He returned home early Thursday evening so we went out to a special family dinner at our favorite sushi place. Here are the kids making his favorite chocolate tart Thursday afternoon:

Enjoying their rice at Circle Sushi

My favorite boys!

After dinner we came home for a little celebration. The kids could not wait to get their hands on that cake! Notice the knife in Alexia's hand!

Mmmmmmmm!!!

For Mother's Day I asked Ricardo to go to Ikea with me to get a chest of drawers for our closet. I have several little projects I want to get done before our baby arrives and this was one of the big ones. So, after church yesterday we headed to Ikea to pick up the drawers and Ricardo and the kids spent all afternoon putting it together for me. I am still in the process of organizing the closet, but will post some before and after pictures when I'm done.

Here they are working hard!

When they got bored with all the work, I brought them some markers and crayons to turn the boxes into masterpieces. They loved it!

My awesome family who made me feel very loved on Mother's Day.