for some reason both my babies like playing on the tab with the camera. enjoy the recent pics!

oh you fancy huh?

whooohoo for date night thanks to a great aunt, literally! (My aunt, sofia and hektors great aunt cassandra)erik and i got to go on a double date with my parents. it was sooo much fun! A friend of the family got married. it was a black tie affair. what a great time we all had!

oh christmas tree oh christmas tree photos

oh christmas tree oh christmas tree

we finally got our tree up!

i was so excited to get our tree up and decorated this year. so, this morning i made starbucks cinnamon coffee, set pandora up on the tv, jamming to christmas music, put the kids in christmas jammies (for photo ops),and got the decorations out. everything started off great! hektor was calm in his bumbo. sofia was ever sooo preciously singing her heart out to o holy night. so i started with the lights on the tree. everything felt like from a movie, just right.so next i started with all the snowflakes, then out of no where hektor is screaming because sofia wouldnt let him hold any ornaments. she would give them to him, then take them away and say nooooo noooooooo. so i decided to let her help me hang them on the tree to get her mind off of what he was doing. so she starts trying to hang them. but she could not figure out why they were not staying. (she was not hanging them, just placing). so tempur tantrum number one, over the ornaments not staying put. so then she was telling the ornaments nooooo noooo. haha. finally, a christmas miracle! She found a spot in the tree she could stack ornaments. thank god!!! so that kept her busy for a long while. i think she got about 8 or so to stay. Then,hektor started crying again, morning nap time. so i put him down for a nap and come back to find sofia had taken off about 15 ornaments. i guess she decided she didnt like them? so i get them from her to re hang, ughhh! And tempur tantrum number two. she wanted them put back in the box, grrrrrr. so i decide to let her put those back and continue to hang the rest. eventually she forgot about them. she was asking to watch chipmunks. i hesitated because, as corny as it sounds i wanted to hear christmas music! but i figured better to hear the chipmunks rather than a screaming toddler. so she won. and of course hektor got his cute christmas pjs all dirty before i got his picture in them. it was a fun,slow downward spiral of events this morning.

with an 18 month, a 5 month old, and a puppy i need to be realistic of how this tree will hold up this year:-/ sighhhh...

santa baby

sofia thought santa was a creepy guy this year! Haha. the pic is priceless. love my little butterball turkeys!

5 months!

Hektor at 5 months...

still not sleeping through the night. im very sleep deprived. if this post is incomplete i may have fallen asleep writing it!

he is a verrrrry light sleeper, in fact erik sleeps upstairs in the guest bedroom during the week so he can get some sleep and have energy at work.

he eats cereal three times a day. he loves it and gets excited watching me prepare it.

hes still very alert and aware of everything.

hes napping alone during the day now! I was having to hold him, but not any more!

hes begun to play in the play room with sofia.

he still sleeps in bed with me.

we still do cloth diapers, so far so good. i admit i use disposables when we are out in public or in corpus.

hes smiley just how sofia was.

it seems he prefers girls, lol. at the gym day care he will only go with the girl employees.

he wears size four disposable diapers. he and sofis wear the same size, lol.

hes very talkative

he still thinks sofia is sooo great : ) he smiles and talkS to her a lot. i hope they stay close always!hes reaching and grabbing anything and everything!

he sucks or chews on his thumb.

he doesnt roll over yet, but then again he hasnt had much practice cause he never lets me put him down!!

hes sitting well in the bumbo, finally!

hes growing and changing soooo fast! I love him more and more every single minute!

lucy

erik had been on and on about wanting a mastif mix. i though he was just talking and thinking about it. well then the day before thanksgiving(as if i wasnt busy enough) he asks if i want to go look at puppies. as you can see from the pics above we got one.

lucky for erik shes a good dog, or hed be sleeping in the laundry room with her! Sofia really loves her already! Its cute to see them play. i have a feeling shes going to make a great family dog. we just have to get past this puppy training stage!