Happy Holidays!

Christmas programs

We had a Christmas concert at church last night and Alex and Santi sang.  They also had their school play on Friday and they sang and danced and recited poems.  I wish we had a better video of it.  They were great.

Singing

Here's a video of Alex and Santi 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzYEALiDLiw&feature=channel

He lost his tooth at school today!  He was so excited to show it to me when I picked him up.  He is very excited to put it under his pillow..not for the tooth fairy though, she is not in Mexico.  Here we have El Ratón Pérez.  He takes the teeth and makes them into pearls :)  He still leaves a coin though.

Here are some pics of: Alex's first loose tooth!  My two superheroes. Alex and Santi after Alex had dressed them both for school (out of a give away bag of too-small clothes!)  I didn't want to tell him after the fact to change again after he had gone to all that trouble!  Santi's shirt was 12-18 mos. today haha, and both of their pants were a little short.  And finally Santi with his brace-thingy for his collarbone.  He will get another x-ray next week to see if it has completely healed.

Santi

Well, we have had a lot going on these past few weeks.  (haha I say that as if I update every two weeks or something...)  Anyway, Santi fractured his collarbone last Tuesday.  I was sitting on Alex's bed with him having a very philosophical conversation for a five year old (I'll post about it later) and wasn't paying much attention to Santi behind me on the bed.  Anyway, I heard him say "BlastOFF" and then a huge thud.  I thought he had hit his head so I cradled him and he yelled at me to put him down.  He cried all night long so in the morning we got it x-rayed and sure enough it was fractured. He is wearing a brace on his shoulders for the next few weeks to keep them back.  He doesn't mind it too much since we told him it was part of his super hero costume.  It's his power pack.  I'll try to get a picture of him with it soon.  Then, to add insult to injury he got a stomach bug that started bothering him Sunday..he was up all night long with diarrhea and stomach cramps, vomiting, etc.  Poor guy.  On Monday we got him medicine and it seems like he is over it now.  He went back to preschool today and told me he was just fine, and he is really better now but I know he would've said he was fine anyway just to go to school.  He always wants to go.  I ask him what he does and he always has the same answer: "play play-doh".

Viva Mexico!

Celebrating Birthdays!

In July we celebrated Alex's Birthday with the Del Valle gang and in July we also celebrated Josue's b-day.  Last Tuesday (the 25th of August) was Santi's b-day and we celebrated with friends.

Santi is THREE!

Happy 5th Birthday Alex!

Brothers

Santi HERMOSO!

This boy is so adorable. Here is his smiley happy Mickey Mouse adoring face!

party

Today we went to a classmates of Alex's b-day party. There was a show with Mickey Mouse and Santi got SO excited. He was smiling so wide. I wish it showed up better on the video. He had this excited, ecstatic smile on his face for about 10 minutes! He sighed and almost cried he was so happy to see Mickey Mouse. It was the CUTEST thing.

Big Boy Pants

"Yeah I really did it, and now I know I can. I can go in my potty and I will do it again. No more diapers now, I'm as happy as can be. I get to wear big boy pants. I'm so proud of ME!"

what we've been up to lately...

Enjoying a visit from cousin Ely and tia Elizabeth, playing, bouncing, swimming, posing in front of cactuses, riding pretend cars and reading.