Blog Nuevo

So, I'm out of space.  Out of picture space that is.  I tried deleting old posts, but somehow that didn't bring back any space despite what google said. :) So I've started a new blog! Some kiddoes, same format, different address.  If you want to keep watching, we're at joaquin-eliana.blogspot.com.  Thanks!

Halloween 2012

 The day of Halloween, Joaquin's school decided to have "Day of Disguise".  This meant the kids got to wear a 'disguise' of their favorite book character.  Of course this meant we had to come up with two costumes for Halloween since Joaquin wanted to be an Angry Bird.  We decided on King Edmund for our costume, but we needed a cloak.  So we went to Walmart to look at their costumes.  However their selection the day before Halloween is limited.  I purchased a girls' Cleopatra costume hoping the cloak would work.  It was declared too girly by Daddy and Uncle Matty, but the 'jewelled' collar and arm bands made a fabulous ice-skater outfit for Eliana.  We did manage to adapt the crown for Joaquin's usage though.  Daniel and I fashioned a cloak out of left over material, rivets and a old drawstring and I think it turned out pretty good.  He was even still wearing his cloak when I picked him up from school so he must have enjoyed it.  Halloween night, Joaquin slipped into his Angry Birds Ice Bird costume and Eliana wore her bumblebee costume (a present from Mi-mo).  She looked super sweet and Joaquin looked like the Ice bird (I would say cute as well, but you couldn't see his face!)  Daddy outdid himself this year on the costume, it totally looked like the actual bird.  You can see the rather pathetic antenna I made for Eliana in the first pictures, but she tore it off on the way to Grandma's house, so the last pictures are what she looked like most of the night.  It was fun to show off our costumes to the grandparents and to Great-grandma plus Great-aunt and uncle Milton and Darlene. (They were staying here on their way to Phoenix) With so many admirers it makes dressing up extra-fun.  Eliana was very interested in Great-grandma's walker.  To the point that she tried to pull herself up on it, which I felt like would have been a cute visual pun.  Trying to walk while holding onto a walker.... But unfortunately by the time I grabbed the camera she was just sitting near it.  After showing off to family and friends, we went back to our house where Eliana and I passed out candy while Daddy and Joaquin collected some.  When they came back, Eliana had a great time playing with all those pretty candies.  I let her thinking she didn't know what they were.  I forgot that she had a Dum-dum at the pediatricians office after her flu shot.  She recognized them right away and stuck one in her mouth, wrapper and all.  I was going to be a tough mommy, but I was so impressed that she remembered them (plus she bonked her head on the floor nastily and needed comfort) that I let her eat one.  It was so cute that I took pictures and it was especially cute when she fed her lollipop to Chita.  Of course it was also unsanitary so I stopped that and took the lollipop away.  Right after I took a picture.

Sonrisa

 Last Saturday we went and had our pictures professionally taken (our church is doing a pictoral directory so we get a free 11 x 14).  We haven't seen them yet so I don't know if any of them turned out well (here's hoping), but apparently they inspired Joaquin.  He and Daddy went to a safety event at the mall (Fire trucks and policeman, etc.)  They had a good time apparently and look at these pictures with sweet smiles!  Joaquin's picture grimace and or goofy faces have been the bane of my photographic existence lately (I rarely photograph him because he never looks good) and so it was lovely to see these.  What a handsome boy.

Setenta Meses

 And of course you can't celebrate a baby turning 9 months unless you celebrate her brother as well.  Joaquin wrote his sign himself. However I was doing something else while he was writing.  So he came to ask me how to spell month and somewhere between me and the table it became mom.  So he is 70 mom old apparently. :)

Suéter Azul

 This is an old sweater of Joaquin's.  For some reason we still have it, so when I found it, I put it on Eliana.  Admittedly people in the grocery store probably wouldn't know she was a girl, but it does prove one thing.  Blue is her color.  Despite the fact that she's darker than me, she does look good in all the colors I look good in.  Which makes the experience I had the other day all the more inexplicable.  The check-out lady at Marshalls was admiring Eliana and then asked me, "So her dad must be dark, right?"  I was both intrigued that she actually could tell and somewhat amazed at her chutzpah. I mean couldn't be a sensitive subject to take a guess at?  Of course now that Eliana's eyes are actually a distinct brown she does have different coloring then me, but then again, so does my mother.

Leer

 Eliana's become quite literary lately.  And apparently theological since all these books are from Daddy's seminary stash.  One of her new favorite activities is pulling books from Daniel's shelf (it's perfect since it sits right on the floor).  Then she occasionally flips through them, for all the world looking like she's reading.  And of course when she seems Mommy has pulled the camera out she has to come investigate!

Nueve Meses

 Eliana is now nine months.  At the doctor's office she weighed 20 lbs 3 oz and was 28 and 3/4 inches long.  (Which is a huge increase since her last appointment!)  Which puts her still in the 90th percentile for height but only the 75th for weight.  I've never had a baby like that before! I think it's due to all the crawling.  This little girl is on the move.  She's much more content now that she's mobile and she spends much of her free time crawling around exploring.  When Joaquin is home we tag team to make sure we know where she is and what she's playing with.  When he's at school I have to be extra vigilant!   This of course makes getting the nine month picture a little difficult.  I think my favorite picture is where she's apparently reading the sign.  "Hmmmm, nine months, where does the time go?" Notice the pic with a lopsided smile.  This is due to teething.  It feels like we've been teething forever!  And this is unfortunate because she is not a happy teether.  Having raised 2 other babies I can definitely say she's suffered the most.  Still we've cut through 3 bottom and the 2 front top teeth so we're almost done for awhile.  She's started talking, mostly just a lot of baby babble, but a few words that seem to mean something.  She says "I", and it's usually when she's greeting you or trying to get your attention.  And she screams "Mamamamamama" whenever she's upset about something which I'm guessing is probably a pretty solid clue she means Ma-ma! She also kept calling Joaquin "Buda" one morning, but since it hasn't been repeated I don't know if it counts! Not much progress on the growing hair front and she's now almost impossible to give a diaper change to, but still maturity continues.  Such a big girl who can do so many things!