A few quirks

- I'm not sure how long Ricardo has done it, but for as long as we've been married, he ends his warm showers with an ICE COLD rinse. He sometimes screams out because of how cold it is, but is able to stand it for a long bit. Diego now showers with Ricardo much more than he bathes in the tub. Yep, you guessed it...he LOVES the ICE COLD rinse. He makes Ricardo go first and does a little prep dance in the corner and then jumps into the cold stream of water and screams and giggles and shakes his body. It is hilarious! He sometimes even asks for the cold water rinse as soon as he enters the shower and Ricardo has to remind him that it is only at the end. Diego also now enjoys showering by himself. Sometimes we will turn on the water for him in his shower and let him shower on his own, which he thinks is pretty cool.


- Diego LOVES sports cars and race cars. He has a list of favorties that he is always on the look out for when we are on the road, including corvettes, porsches, BMW's, chargers and mustangs. Alexia has not learned how to distinguish between the cars, but she often calls out "Look at that mustang!" or "I see a corvette!"

- Ricardo keeps asking me to slow down and rest during these last days of pregnancy, but with two littles ones, that is impossible. I am so blessed that I still have energy and feel great (most the time). Today I decided that the van needed a complete interior cleaning. I hauled the vaccuum down to the garage and got to work. As I was vaccuuming I looked up at the stairs and Diego was waddling down the stairs with the step stool from the kitchen. He said he wanted to wash all the windows...so that is what he did! He washed two windows on the inside and then went around the entire outside of the van and washed every window. What a champ!

- Diego has a fish in his room named Suni. Suni's food is in a bottle that has a small opening, but inevitably, 10-20 pellets of food spill out every time the bottle is tilted. The first thing Diego does every morning is feed Suni, before he even comes out of his room. He tilts the bottle, counts out two pellets to feed to Suni and then carefully picks up the spillage and puts the bottle back in his closet. He loves having this reponsiblity of feeding his fish on his own.