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Feliz Navidad

Santi's block tower

he built it all by himself!

Patita de Perro concert

This week we got to go to a concert at the new performing arts complex at the college. We saw Patita de Perro. They're a rock group that sings songs for kids. It was really fun. They let the kids run all over the place during the concert.

Crazy Week

These are pictures from crazy week at Alex's school. It was the week of Halloween and since they really don't celebrate the holiday here but wanted to let the kids have some fun dressing up, they did a whole week of things. They had camoflage day, which Santi really wanted to take part in...they had favorite soccer team jersey day and crazy hat and glasses day as well. The kids had so much fun and of course Santi keeps begging me to let him go to school with Alex. I may let him start going a few days a week starting in the spring but I have to get him potty trained first which he is not too interested in yet!

Santi Sings

Santi is singing "The pirates who don't do anything" Here is the translation: We are the pirates who don't do anything, we just stay at home and lay around. And if you ask us if we do anything, we just tell you, we don't do anything.

Angeles de Puebla Basketball Game

We went with the AguiMendez Clan to a pro basketball game last night. The Angeles de Puebla team beat the Cordoba team by ten points and we had front row seats. It was a lot of fun. Alex and Uzziel have no trouble entertaining each other. They really do well together. Camila and Santi also have fun together but Santi got fed up with the noise (it was extremely loud) and Dany had to take him up to the upper level. I think out of all the players on the team, one didn't speak English and maybe half were Americans. It was a fun time.
The first picture is with one of the star players. When the team wins, they let people onto the court to get pics and autographs with the players.

mañanita mexicana

Santi is TWO!

Santi turned two yesterday. It's gone by SO fast. He is talking so much more now. He says I love you now, which makes me melt everytime I hear it! He loves HI-5, it's his favorite show. We celebrated his b-day on Saturday with oreo cake and a hi-5 piñata.

mud puddle

Alex is FOUR

He turned four on July 19th...but we've had a kind of crazy time lately and it's just taken a long time to post anything. So, Alex is now a "big boy" in his own terms. He is "not a little kid anymore". In the past year he started preschool, learned to write his name and use scissors, became completely fluent in Spanish (since we speak mostly English at home), and made lots of new friends. Overall, I think he had a great year. He is very excited to start preschool again in a week and a half. I think he's mostly excited to be in a new class and be with the "older" kids.
The day before his birthday we went to Africam Safari with friends and had cupcakes and the actual day of his birthday we took him and Santi out for pizza and back to play at Piccolo Mundo. I think he had a good time.

Beauty and The Beast...Presented by Alex's school

These are two scenes from the play Beauty and the Beast Alex was a part of with his school on Wednesday. It was very very cute. The videos are long but Alex is SO adorable, and his friends too.

blowing out the candle

Alex's Birthday Party

Alex wanted to have a birthday party with his friends at school, but since his birthday is in July and school is almost out, we had it last Friday. He and his classmates had lots of fun eating cupcakes and hotdogs and breaking the piñata. Grandma and Abuelita got to come too.

the piñata

waiting their turn to hit the piñata
scrambling for dulces
Alex and Geraldo grabbing candy.
Santi got candy out of the piñata when I had filled it!
(the hole was in Buzz Lightyear's back)

We went back to Valle Fantastico with Linda, Uzziel and Camila last Saturday. Alex and Uzziel had SO much fun. They rode one roller coaster (a small one!) 8 times in a row! We kept thinking they would get off but they kept on riding.