Christmas Day at home!

On December 25th, we woke up to a nice tree with lots of presents and Christmas music. I guess Santa stopped by and drop a few presents for us. Arianna had a Cabbage Patch doll, Elmo Live, Mr. Potato, and books (we replaced her favorite, Peter Cottontail). Ah, she thinks that the Transformer is hers as well. She seemed to really like it. Must be in her blood :) Then, we opened our presents. Mike got 4 books and two games ( one DS, one Playstation 3). I got my cricut with some accessories, and we were really happy.


Then after so much excitement, Arianna decided it was time for a nap (She had breakfast as well). Do you see our kitties inspecting the whole event?

While Arianna napped, we got some breakfast ourselves and we went to the basement to be with Ezri for awhile. We played, brushed her, gave her some treats (for Christmas) and finally left because she went to take a nap too. Hopefully, next Christmas all 3 kitties can be together.

A few more pictures from Christmas -1

After the children opened their presents (and did you see Scarlett and Raven so excited about their American Girls? They thought they were not going to get it, so they were very surprised!), but it was the "adults" turn. And we did a grab bag, so everyone got one really nice gift. And here are some pictures.






Then we took some family pictures to remember this day!

Merry Christmas!

Pictures from Christmas - 1

So, here are some of the pictures taken during our get together!

Here we are getting ready to go to my sister's place. Arianna just finished eating a little bit so she could hold on until dinner.

Here they are trying to entertain Arianna, as she gets shy in the beginning with a bunch of kids around. Plus, they are so EAGER to open their presents as well...

The girls were dressed in beautiful red dresses! Boys being boys they were dressed to their own tunes, but they were equally excited to open their presents, especially Logan.

Hello! Santana was about to eat and my sister was playing with him. He wanted chicken and of course some pie later.

Arianna is thinking how can I take this tree home? mmmhm... maybe I can carry it all by myself. (Yes, the tree had ornaments, but they disappeared just before Christmas).

I love this picture of Santana. The kids were fed first, then the adults ate fast so we could open the presents. At this point, the kids were melting in anticipation.

See, here we are at the end of our meal. We can barely move, but the food was so good especially the turkey and the tamales!

There are so many good shots of the kids opening their presents, but these represent the happiness when they received their toys!

Merry Christmas!

Today we celebrated with my family at my sister's house. We had a bunch of food from a very good turkey to some Boston Market (chicken and sides) to tamales and a nice apple with cheese pie. [There was pozole too, but I did not eat some. Alma save me some!] So, after eating we opened some presents and the kids were very happy. All kids had a wonderful time, and I think they enjoyed what they got. I will post some pictures in the next few days.
All in all, we are very happy and blessed that we were able to celebrate together :)
Have a wonderful Christmas Day!

Welcome Ezri!

Due to some unexpected circumstances, Ezri is back with us. We are trying to introduce her to our other 2 kitties. So, hopefully it will work. Otherwise, she will have a good home with Ann and Barry eventually. So, here are some pictures for you.

Isn't she adorable!!!!

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Arianna loves our Christmas tree (especially the jingle bears, the monkey sock, and a ball ornament with her name on it). She was so happy as you can see in the pictures.



Well, it is a mess, but I am letting her eat her food (some of it). She uses both, fingers and the fork. She likes eggs, but loves the sausages. Yummy!


She is watching Blue's clues. It is the only program that she will seat for 15 -20 minutes on her chair. It is also the only thing that she asks me to turn on (on demand -noggin has a few episodes).

She loves fruits and veggies. Banana is a recently fruit for her because she tends to be in the constipated side so I have to be careful with bananas and apples and rice, etc.. But, I gave her one and she loved it.

She was playing around in her pj's!


She was dancing in the kitchen while I was preparing some lunch for us. I like this picture for some reason. (oh, the Mickey toy was donated to the Salvation Army collection toys for kids, the only thing we know is that it was a 2 yr old girl). Arianna loved the toy (it had a song so that is why she was dancing)


Here she was just playing with her cups. She likes to put things in and out of boxes or any container. She was happy putting the green cup in the blue cap in the white cup (in the background) for a good 10 minutes. What kids like these days! :)

Hooray for Mike!

Mike passed his English Competency Exam (as you know a requirement to graduate) so now he only needs two more classes!!! Hooray, we are celebrating this summer :)

15 months check up

On Thursday, we had Arianna's 15 months check up. They took her measurements: 31.5 in height, and 21.8 lbs weight. I was a bit worry in the weight department since she only gained a bit less than one pound (and she does eat), the doctor said that it was normal and since she started walking (jumping and running) she burns more calories. She also had one more vaccine (the second one that she needed was a booster that is in shortage so they are giving them to babies 4-6 months first. She said it was ok since she had it, and she is in the list for it). They also took a bit of blood from the finger to check her lead and hemoglobin. She is fine in both :) So, more veggies and fruits for her!
It was traumatizing seeing her blood coming from the little finger, and since it was hard to put a band aid, it kept coming (a little, but it felt a lot to me) so we started singing Twinkle and Itsy Bitsy Spider and she calmed down. Oh, she would start to whimper again everytime she saw the band aid so we put a glove on it. Thank God no fever or other reaction so far... One more appointment at 18 months for some vaccines, another at 2 or 2.5 and then just the general yearly appointment (unless a cold or something else pops up), but no vaccines (except for flue shot if you want) until she goes to school (around 4-5 yrs).
In other news, she loves the Christmas tree and the snow! She played just a little since it was too cold while I made a path from the garage to the house. Yeah, it was hard since the snow was more like ice! When it was time to go inside, she did not want to. I guess she was having too much fun :) This was the "evil band aid"!