Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The last 2 days

We have Linny here with us and we are a very busy house with 3 kids, 3 adults and my aunts dog. Yesterday we took a break from the hospital for the morning and papa and I went and played soccer with our friends in between world cup games. I felt so good, as far as my touch but I was clearly out of breath. It felt good though, like I was renewed, playing soccer and being in water are my two fav places to be and this is how it has been since i was born i believe. Of course now I enjoy the water more with my kids but we all love water. Anyways we came home and I took the kids to get their free lunches, more on that in a minute then came back and watched spain beat portugal. Then it was back to the hospital to check on my aunt. Who is doing amazing we even hope she comes home tomorrow (thursday). The second i got home we took the kids to the park. (i think, my days are all jumbled into one)

Then today we woke up and went right to the a free movie at the actual movie theatre, it was an already released movie but the kids loved it none the less. I did this last summer every week also in New York. We got our free lunches on the way home from the rec center and then came home and went swimming then naps and now the kids are at the park. I love these days because we spend $0 really. Tomorrow we have the library and a free lunch fiesta at the rec center. Im really enjoying having Linny here, we always do and having the 3rd being older really helps out too.

So the free lunch thing is put on by SD City Schools. It is for anyone, no paperwork involved at all, as long as you are under 18 and present, you get a free lunch. SD has been doing this for 6 summers in a row now and its an amazing thing. Click here for the link

And the free movie thing is put on by Regal Cinemas on Tuesday and Wednesday Mornings at 10am all through the summer. It is nation wide so click here to see if there is a free movie near you.


This was taken Sunday when we had 4 kids with Linny and Ava

This was Taken Tuesday when we had Nico and Linny

This morning at the movie, Tiago wasnt interested in having his photo taken

and this afternoon in the pool, where we love to be

Monday, June 28, 2010

Monday Milestone

I am very tired but will do my best to do an over all update on everything.


1st- Took my aunt to the hospital today for her big cancer debunking surgery, in other words they take all the cancer they can find out of her. We have been waiting several months for this and Im actually very excited it is finally here and we can move forward after this. She did great and is her funny self, but even funnier all drugged up. She will be in the hospital the rest of the week so my days are usually spent there and not much with the kids but when i got home today, it was just a little light out so we went to the park and took my aunts dog to his fav place.

2nd- brasil won today and moves on to the next round in the world cup. I actually came home during my aunts surgery to watch the game, check on the kids eat lunch all at the same time then went back to the hospital. It was a better game than the one before, still not playing their best but better and thats all i can ask for, as long as they keep winning. We just watched Mexico and USA get knocked out so Im glad we still got one country left.



3rd- TLC, again I am not pregnant that I know of as i type this, I should know something in the next week or so. I havnt even really thought about it much this month with graduation and Lakers winning and family visiting and now my aunts surgery, we have not used any products or charted or tracked nothing, not even once. Just going all natural, It is how my other 2 kids were created so why not do it again?


Ok and now my babies.... I have tried to write down a few things they have said this past week.

Tiago has OCD and he gets it from me. You know I am a recovering addict and one of the left over traits of mine is a bit of OCD well I can see I have passed it down to my son. He always has to have all of his cars in a straight line by color, than shape and any thing else he can sort by. So my mom has a bad habit of leaving her bathroom drawer open and every single day, Tiago nags her and reminds her and tells her she is doing it wrong. Its not just the drawer, he does it to all of us about just about everything that is out of place or not in the right place. Its hilarious!

Thais asked me the other day who my mom was, so I answered it was her nana, so she asked who her nana's mother was and I explained it was her buela. She didnt quite get it because then she started asking but what about Valerie (my aunt) and what about Jordan (our cousin), its was hilarious.

She is also very into octane singing right now. She watched Little Mermaid where Aerial gets her voice back and starts off with a low note and goes higher and higher and higher. And Im proud to say the girl can hold a note, just not in the right tone, but at least she gets the idea.

Thais is very into weddings right and gets in her princess dresses and tells me she wants to get married and have a big ring. Really? At the age of 4, Im already dealing with weddings? Oh man...

Tiago has asked several times to watch Kobe again, meaning he wants us to have more Laker parties and wants to watch the Lakers win the championship again. I am so raising this boy right, i love it! So then my mom told him Kobe went to the world cup to watch soccer and Tiago asked, "But how did he get out of his kobe clothes?"

Thais had a very very small scab on her hair line on her head, and i took it off and she freaked out telling me it was there to stop the bleeding and i was supposed to leave it on to protect her brain. Which sure she is right, but where on earth does she learn this stuff from?

My cousins moved and in the move all 3 of Thais's fish have died. I thought she understood but then today she saw the empty tank in the garage and she said, "My poor fish flippy and friends are sick, i hope they get better soon and come back from the hospital" I can only assume she thinks they go to the hospital like my aunt to get better and will come home at some point. Not quite sure what to do about that one yet.

Both kids are beginning to understand money and length of time. Tiago was going poop and I asked him if he was ok and he told me" it's working, its just going to take 40 minutes". I about cried, only later to be told by Thais, she couldnt buy the new toy because it costs one hundred thousand dollars. I dont know what toy but at least she understood it was expensive.

Cant remember if i told this one or not already but thais found a penny a couple months back and didnt have any pockets on her shorts, so she dropped it in her underwear. Well of course it got stuck in the liner of the crotch and the actual cloth of the under wear and she couldnt figure out how to get it back out. So there she is grabbing her crotch inside and out of her shorts, eventually i help her get it out. Only for a few days later we are driving and thais says, "Uh oh mommy" im trying to look at her through the rear view mirror and i ask her "what?" she says, "I dropped my penny again" so I start yelling at her about how i told her not to put her penny in her crotch and she answers back" but i didnt, i put it in the back" so there I am driving on the freeway trying not to laugh but laughing at the fact that I have to ask my daughter "Did you put your lucky penny in your butt?"

and finally some random photos over the last few weeks

My Grandma and I at the beach last week

My Grandma, Tia Lyd and myself

My Mexican God Daughter support Brasil

Linny and Carlos in the hotel

Tiago during the pool construction using the pressure washer

My mom taking shots and drinking beer during her Laker games

Me and my girl Rachelle, friends since 6th grade


and this was Thais 4 years ago cheering on Mexico for the world cup


When I mentioned my kids were always outside and in the pool, did i tell you, they even sleep outside next to the pool? Tiago refused to nap in the house so after many tries and tired of arguing, i said fine and Thais of course joined him but within a few minutes they were both asleep peacefully.






well thanks for reading, I always feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest after doing Monday Milestones, like i finally got everything out.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Pool, Pool, and More Pool

My brother and niece drove down from LA with our cousin Linny who will be staying with us for a few weeks. So we have 4 kids now who are all honestly like best friends. They are all inseparable and just want to be together all the time. So our days are still full of watching world cup all day and in between we eat, nap, do some school work and once in awhile actually leave the house to go to the park, but mostly we just go swimming, sometimes 3 times a day. So if your tired of pool pixs and videos, i suggest you skip this post because its all i got photos of, our water babies.



Linny





Ava



Thais



and Tiago





Cant forget Ozzy






Believe it or not, this is the next day






























Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Tiago the Fearless

Got a few photos of Tiago doing the things i was trying to describe the other day. I still want to get video of it and while I am right there next to him, I am not holding him or helping him at all. The slide I sit him half way down it, then push him so he can get some good speed and go down. As for jumping on the body board from the edge, i am just making sure he doesnt go flying back to hit his head, which he doesnt like but he isnt allowed to do it otherwise. Regardless the kid is fearless, Thais has yet to do either of these things.


















Monday, June 21, 2010

Beach again

I am fully exhausted. I can barely keep my eyes open and yet i hear my daughter and son tell me they want to go to the beach with their cousins and up we go. We are waking up early, staying up late, eating tons and tons of amazing food, having cake, swimming all day, sitting in the hot sun for hours for graduations, not to forget drinking tasty beverages and yet we keep going and going and going just like energizer bunnies. I know we just went to the beach but with so much family visiting san diego, they want to go to the beach every day and its special for us to be at the beach with them also. Thais and Tiago have grown so much in their swimming and beach skills, i only hope to be able to show them at some point but it wasnt today. This whole weekend was more about just sitting and enjoying the time with my family and I loved it. I will say Thais now body surfs the waves and loves to roll and roll as the wave crashes. Tiago loves to jump them. I showed all the kids how to find sand crabs in the sand and they spent hours digging and finding many of them, then papa played beach soccer with them for a very long time, we buried them in the sand, we jumped waves, had snacks, feed birds and squirrels and found just about any rock, shell, and barnacle at the beach. It is so fun to share these memories with everyone. I so wish they all lived here but i will enjoy my long weekend and week with them.


Grandma at the beach again. She is where we get all the energy from. Since she has arrived, she has gone to the beach twice, won at the casino, went to the swap meet, 2 graduations, lunch, parties and now at the beach again. My hero!

Thais posing as usual

Nana and Beto

Tiago pretending to surf and thais preparing to roll in the waves

Buela and Tia

The boys looking for sand crabs

My kids looking also, but not quite as smoothly

Chasing waves

Beach soccer

one of the hundreds of sand crabs the kids caught

and barnacles swimming in our bucket

Rod is the kid magnet

Loving the beach

Now thats relaxing