Staying home today.

The last couple days have been very busy. They were great days in terms of getting things accomplished, and I managed to save some $$ in the process too!! Woohoo! I did laundry, got the luggage unpacked, got groceries (this one is usually Quijote's thing but we really had nothing left in the fridge when we got home and he was going to have a full week) and then I also got cheap, cheap Halloween costumes from Toys R Us!

I also got some shopping done for a party we are throwing for the soon to be Mr & Mrs (my only brother is getting married in late November!) and did a few things around the house that really needed to be done.

So today Mr E and I decided to stay home and take it slow. Miss E wants me to make a "pumpkin coach" for her (she's going to be CinderEva this year) so I was tempted to make a trip to the dollar store to get some spray paint and...

But no.

We needed a slow day. I had Q take the car instead of dropping him off so I could keep it.

So this morning we ate a HUGE breakfast of oatmeal (he ate 3 or 4 bowls!! how is he not fat??) a pomegranate, and what was probably a whole cup of pecans ...and we took it slow. We ate and watched TV for maybe two hours. It was so nice :) Mr E is so cute when he is eating.

Then we ate leftovers for lunch and played blocks, cars, trains, did a little coloring "Paint? Paint? Mommy, Paint?"...
I love our Mommy-Son days <3




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One quick entry for my "Things My Children Say" label:

Last night we watched the short film series by Disney that Netflix just posted. Mr E loved "paperman," which is a sweet little love story. When the short ended, Mr E, who had been sitting on the couch being a daddy to my old rag doll, gave a huge sigh and said: "Awwwe. Niiiice." We have a romantic amongst us!

A little weekend visit

I wanted to check in and post some pictures from our trip to visit  the Grandparents :)
It was a great little visit. It was good to see my in-laws again, and the kids -little Miss E, especially- had really been looking forward to the visit as well. We spent time together talking, eating, playing and even painting some pumpkins.

I love this picture!!

Getting ready for a delicious meal <3

She loves to draw, cut, glue, paint...

Mr E is in love with the train <3

Love those ears!! Haha! too bad all the pics of him wearing this are blurry.

 

Miss E wanted a pink pumpkin, so we painted one :)

He hasn't actually used that bottle in a loooong time. It's just a safe item to take that can get lost without a problem.. hehe!

We all spent time outside playing and running around. It was a great time!

And finally, Mr E struggling to keep the train pieces hooked together. Hee-hee!! (I am sorry to report that I forgot to give Miss E a second interview, but maybe it was for the best. Perhaps we celebrated a bit too much?) Well here is Mr E in all his cuteness.

He sure got the hang of it -when it came to hooking it together- right away. It was the "keeping-it-that-way" part that was the problem. Hahaha!! Awe my sweet little man.

More pictures from our trip to Manhattan

Miss E's Birthday Interview

Miss E is 4!
She has really started speaking. She loves to play outside- running, jumping, climbing! She is the perfect mixture of tomboy and pink fairy princess in a ballet tutu kind of girly girl. Fashionable and interested in all things glittery. Intelligent and cunning, my pretty little spitfire of a girl. Her favorite color is pink, and she loves to be the boss --which in her world translates as being the Mommy-- so she loves her dolls. She also loves building complex structures (a bycicle-tower-giant in this particular instance) and telling stories. Of late she loves the I-Spy game, writing her name "A-V-E" and going to school. But above all, she loves visiting her grandparents on both sides. This video was taken on our visit to Manhattan to see her abuelos, and next week we are off to repeat it at her grandparents'. So she will have two interviews this year, to make up for the past years when she could not yet communicate verbally.

I so excited!

My favorite picture from this post bc I want it to show up when I share it on fb =)

The Fall season has began, and we cannot be any happier about it. We have had serious allergies problems with Mr E, but I don't want to cry right now so I'll write about that later. We have been purposefully celebratory this month. There is much to celebrate and be grateful for!!

I started the season by being grateful for our home. Which means cleaning house of course, and moved furniture around -including the playset, which now is also a great play tent!

It was Miss E's idea to turn it into a tent. She loves the playset. They both play on it every day, but Miss E is especially fond of her swing. She does Circus Solei looking pirouettes on that thing! I'll catch it on video some day. In the meantime- here is my little girl enjoying the swing and looking adorable.

 Then I cleaned the worst of all our drawers. This is what we inherited when we moved in:

I scraped, cleaned, and painted the drawer (hope I don't get in trouble for that!) and then I washed all our utensils and organized them (it was a hot mess in there!). And ta-daaa!

I also organized my closet and sold some baby stuff on craigslist and FB and finally ran out of steam. Did I mention I also moved the playroom into the living room and hung a mirror and blackboard on the side wall by the chandelier? We used to have the dining set there but we moved it a the corner of the kitchen, then this week we moved the table to behind the couch in the living room.

The kids playing by the dining set in the new spot by the kitchen

The final set up showing the table behind the couch and the desk with the round mirror I hung.

Space! We have lots more space now! I am loving it. When we are not using the table, we often fold the wings and it looks like just a normal, slim sofa table, and it's very pretty.

And as you may have noticed Miss E's birthday gift from Mama and Daddy has been here for a little bit! We started celebrating her early this month, starting with her play kitchen. I built it as soon as it got here a couple weeks ago. Usually it would have been Daddy, but he had an especially hard week with lots of long long days, and it was honestly a very easy build (Daddy just had to fix one door for me that I screwed on too low). We have all been playing with it. LoL!

There has been lots of playing, reading, dancing, eating...

Miss E reading a story to her little brother

Mr E in his super-corgy pajamas

Ricotta and pesto stuffed manicotti and topped with beef tomato sauce. I was very proud of myself.

Mermaid princess hot dog. haha!

Earlier this week during naptime one day I made Miss E a felt birthday cake. I did not spend a dime because I made it with scraps from other projects and the styrofoam packing from her play kitchen. And she LOVES it. All day that day. ALL day she played with it. And then she took it to bed with her that night. It makes me smile.

Mr E had a bite of cake too.

Quijote added ambiance to the birthday party.

And yesterday Mr E and I put balloons, treats, cupcakes, cookies, and Miss E's princess dress in the car and headed to Kids College to throw Miss E a birthday party. Daddy also met us there, and it was all kinds of fun.

"I so excited!!"

ugh it's the last time I cut his hair I promise.

She kept saying she was so excited all throughout her party and on the way home (she wanted to stay the rest of the day so we picked her up a couple hours after the party). She made one last request to go to MacDonalds that night and then we all went to sleep.

I gotta recreate that last picture in a better setting and with better light! I'm in love! My sweet little girl. Feliz No-Cumpleanos Bebe!!