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We are back!

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Let me just say…SHEW!!!!  As much as I love vacations I love being home just as much. Especially after a week long vacation in Florida visiting family. There is no place like home.

Me and the kids went to Florida to see my sister, her family and my dad, stepmom and sister. It was long, exhausting, fun and makes me really wish that we all lived a little closer together so that we could visit more often. But now it is time to head back into our old routine.

Lots of swimming!

Watching the shows at Seaworld.

Eating and playing with the cousins.

We had a really great time. To bad it is over but grateful that we are back home.

How they grow!

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I am sitting here at the dining room table with Nattie just hanging on to the edge of the table. She is just talking to me like she doesn’t have enough to say when she is mad.

I was just thinking about how my kids are growing up so fast. Jay will be going to pre-k next year. I know still a year a way but I do know that it won’t be long before that year is here and is off to school. In the meantime we are working on the attitude that he has. Sometimes he is just so loving and precious and then other times he tries to act like he is 21 and can tell me no and get away with it. From what my sister and mother say that is the age. I hope this is the just the age because if the attitude grows with him I just might have to velcro him to the wall and only let him down when he needs to do potty.

Nattie will be walking soon. She is already testing out her balance when she stands on her own. She is crawling all over the place but isn’t happy in crawling. You can tell that she wants to walk. She gets so upset when she has to crawl after mami and papi have helped her walk all over the house.

Papi just mentioned that Nattie is attention hungry. However they both are. Whenever I talk to Nattie Jay is right there getting into my face and when I speak to Jay Nattie isn’t far away trying to get into my face.

I love my family, they are crazy.

I had family visiting…

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Julian and Natalia with their wind chapped faces.

Jay and Nattie with their wind chapped faces.

I also have a small house and having my sister and her three kids here…it is a tight squeeze. I really wish that they lived closer so that our kids could play more often but alas they live in FL.

We had a good time and the kids played mostly well together. You could tell when they would gang up on each other to protect their siblings otherwise they were just loud and playful mostly. There were plenty of times where they as a group or individually would become annoying or would tattle or something. That would get on my nerves. Gabe, the oldest of the cousins, would get bossy and tell Jay what to do. Addison, next in line, would be the whiniest girl. Especially when she would wake up from her nap. Jay, next after Addison, is really over sensitive. You look at him the wrong way and he would freak out. Regan, the youngest, would torture Jay (I can say that because I am his mami) by just standing there with her arm held out and shaking her hand at him. She wouldn’t touch him or anything and he would just start flipping out. I have no idea where he got that from. Nattie was fine. She just liked being strolled everywhere and as long as she was fed she was fine.

We did go to the aquarium in downtown. I would love to post pictures except my camera died on the way down. So no pictures of that. Everyone seemed to have a good time. It was really busy though. I would rather have gone when there were fewer people around. We had a good time anyways.

Then we had pictures taken. I was hoping that we would have been able to get shots of all the kids together, but my son had a melt down and wouldn’t have his picture taken. I did get one shot of him and Nattie. However Jay is trying to escape from the photographer. I did get some nice pictures of Nattie. I will try to post them if I can.

After that it was Stone Mountain. We had a good time there. It was really windy though. I am pretty sure that is why we are all sick now. Well that is what I think at any rate. Both Jay and Nattie came back with chapped faces. I had no idea how windy it would be at the top. It was awesome. I had Nattie strapped to my back so she slept through the trip mostly. I hadn’t ever ridden the skylift before either. That was interesting too. Addison however was upset because she was scared to ride it. She cried that she didn’t want to go on but was a real trooper about riding it back down. She didn’t throw herself on the ground or anything like that which is good. She is a brave girl.

Then they left. Shew!!! what a week. I love my family but my house is really to small to have that many people in it.

*Edit* I finally got some pictures to upload

All the kids

All the kids

Julian at the top of Stone Mountain.

Jay at the top of Stone Mountain.

Happy New Year!! ( I think…)

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I know that this isn’t the first day of the year but having a two year old going on three in a few months and a four month old who just has an attitude takes up a lot of time that I could be doing other things like writing on my blog.

I love my children but they, or rather he at the moment, drive me crazy. Jay because he has become the most talkative person that I know other than my sister. He has a lot to say and most of the time I do understand it, but sometimes I haven’t a clue as to what he is saying.

Nattie on the other hand I think is teething. Already!! Has time flown by or what. We were at my grandmother’s house a few weekend’s ago and my grandmother told me that she might be teething. I didn’t think to much about it since she is only just turned four months old. Then I looked up the info on line. Yeah, she could be teething. The way she gnaws her fingers and drools buckets. I can’t believe that she is teething already. So soon. My little girl is already growing up in to a toddler soon. Of course she still can’t walk but she is starting to roll. (to soon she will be having boyfriends. That is the scariest of all.)

Thinking of my children and all their quirks has me drawing up resolutions that I hope to keep. This is of course just for me, let us hope that I stick to them. There are just a few. I don’t want to over do it otherwise I know that I would fail miserably.

1. More patience – Now I think that I am pretty patient already, however with Jay going on three and the fact that he is becoming more energetic (how can that be?) and more talkative (why me?) I find that I am going to need the most patience that I can maintain with him. Especially as he says my name a thousand times in a row to get my attention when I choose to ignore him because I am trying to have grown up conversation with my husband.

2. More hugs and kisses and I love you’s – this is for everyone. There are times that life gets so hectic that I don’t tell my loved ones enough that I love them or show them by giving them hugs and kisses. So I am going to try to show my family that I love them more, even when I don’t want to because that will be the time that I will need to show it the most.

3. taking care of myself – OK, this is one of those resolution that fall in with everyone else’s at the beginning of the year. I will go to the gym or will work out 6 days a week. I won’t go that far, but I want to work on my body so that I will have more energy to chase after my children. That is half the fun. The other half is hopefully losing the belly that I have gained with being pregnant with two kids.

That is all for the moment. There is plenty that I want to do my my family and in selfish moment just for me, but I know that there just isn’t enough  hours in a day nor days in a year to do everything that I want to accomplish this year. So I will do what I can and enjoy the ride along the way.

New Pictures….

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It has been a while since I last wrote with pictures with my projects or kids so I decided to make up for it by writing this post about them.

Here is Jay and Nattie while she is quiet and calm. She has been such a fussy baby, not colicky but just whiney.  Such a good picture of both of them.

Here is Nattie in her blessing gown, unfortunately I didn’t get a full length picture of her since we were running out the door to make it to church in time.

Above is the messager bag that I made for Jay. I wanted him to have something that he could put his stuff in and also tote around himself while we travel to Oklahoma.  The face that Jay made in the last picture is him coughing. What a great shot…. (I didn’t mean for that to happen).

Isn’t this a great picture.  She looks like she is contemplating something great.  “Hmmmm, I wonder…” is what she seems to be saying to me. She is so funny because her hair sticks up all over the place and when I bathe her her hair is fuzzy looking and brown. It is kinda funny, she skips a bath and her hair still sticks up it is just black, but washed it is fuzzy and brown. How weird is that….

Tonight we are going to our Ward’s Trunk or Treat and of course Jay is sick with a double ear infection, again! Right before Oklahoma too.  Right now it is wet, cold and rainy so I hope that the trick or treating part is indoors.  I didn’t have time this year to make Jay’s costume so my MIL bought him a costume. He is going to be a spider. Nattie I had no idea what to do her as so MIL came to the rescue again and she will be a pumpkin. Of course this would be the year that I don’t make any costumes and there is a costume contest.  Man!!! Isn’t that how it always works.

OKLAHOMA! Where the winds go rushing down the plains….!!

Yep that is where me and a part of my family is heading to support my youngest brother, Aidan, by seeing him graduate from basic training from the Army. It will be a week long trip with me, my two kids, both under the age of 3. Meredith and her 3 kids all under the age of 5 and my brother Peter who is twenty something. Don’t you just feel for Peter. Being stuck in a van with two old women and five kids. Poor Peter!!

Thank goodness it is Friday!!

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How glad that I am that the weekend is here again.

One more week down and 5 to go until my c-section. I can’t wait until this child comes out. For every woman out there who have had children you will understand, for those women who haven’t had children yet, just wait…and for the men, boy I wish you could be in my shoes for about a month…or nine.

We have finally decided on a name for our little girl. I really like this name and everyone else seems to like it as well.  I just hope that she looks like the name belongs to her. Otherwise we are in trouble.

I am going to see if we can go swimming this weekend. Which to most people wouldn’t be a big deal except that we don’t have a swimming pool nor a membership to anywhere that has one. I am going to ask my sister since she lives in an apartment. I went swimming once when I was pregnant with Jay and it was wonderful how I was able to just float around and have all this weight taken off my hips. Gravity can be a pain in the rear or well pelvis…

I can hear Jay singing to himself at the table. He is such a goofy kid. He loves to sing and look at the pictures on the computer. When he sees birthday pictures, it doesn’t matter who of, he will start singing the birthday song which he just really learned with Reinaldo’s birthday at the end of June. I am going to have to get video of him singing at the top of his lungs the birthday song. It is really cute. At least he will know the words by the time my birthday comes around.

He is also a monkey.  Almost every time I sit down he is right here with me either on my lap or behind me in the chair or crawling around me on the chair or jumping from the armrests of the chair onto my shoulders and head and lap and I am just a jungle gym to him. That gets really tiring after awhile.  Right now he is playing with a bunch of disposable cups that we had left over from a get together. He likes to stomp on them and hear them crush and stack them up and pull them up onto himself. Such an odd child. He needs a playmate or something….oh, wait, he will have a playmate in a little bit and a bit longer so that she can grow up some first.

Such a change has come across Julian since I have been pregnant with the girl. He used to stroke my tummy and kiss my belly but now he won’t do any of that. If he sees Reinaldo stroking my belly or kissing and talking to my belly he gets mad and says “no stomach”. I think we are going to have some jealously issues with him, but how much I don’t know yet. I just hope that he doesn’t regress to much, especially with his potty training. He is doing so well.

Here’s to hoping and going to swimming this weekend.

Mama’s package

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I have sent my mom a package, I am sure that you will really like what I put in there other than what I owed you already.

Here are some pictures of the shawl that I had crocheted for her for Christmas I think. Here is me modeling it along with my big ole pregnant body….

And here is one of the back. You can’t really see the details but the yarn is so soft and it is kinda rumbly with lots of texture. I plan to make one of my own for this winter….I really like it.

Because it was her birthday last week. (29 forever!) I added a few other items to the box for her. Like this….

And a few other soaps that I had left over since they were so nice to use….(give them away if you don’t want them.)

Love you mama.

It has been a while…

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It has been awhile since I wrote last. Right now I am listening to the Monkees, while I wait for some work to come my way and Jay is asleep.

We had come back yesterday from visiting family in Alabama. My sister came up from Florida with her three kids and then I had mine and my sister in AL has her one.

Jay just loved playing with his older cousins. He had such a good time following Gabe around and wrestling with him.

And this week we have my husband’s mom with us for a week and it has been wonderful so far. She brought her step grandson as well and Jay has been so busy playing with them that I actually have time to work and do other stuff that I have been wanting to do for eons.

I hope that everyone had a good Mother’s day. Here are some pics of the stuff that I made for all the mothers in my life. This little pack has bubble bath, lotion, Yuzu soap, Oatmeal, Honey and Milk Soap, Cherry Vanilla Lip Balm, and a crocheted wash cloth.

Here is one just for my sister…..

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I got a call from my sister this morning. How nice and thankfully no screaming kiddies in the background.  Don’t worry, it will be the same with me once I have two or more running around half naked just because they like to be nude. (not hers just mine. My love muffin is sitting here with just his shoes on right now. I can’t convince him to wear his underwear at the moment.)

So shout out to Meredith, my sister and second in the hierarchy of siblings. I am looking forward to seeing all you guys in Alabama in a couple of weeks and seeing the kids all growing up.