Can you say very big update?

 It's definitely been a while, but since I've had to do a blog for school I decided it's something I can do more often. You can check that blog out at http://parentingpreschoolers101.blogspot.com/.

Our son is now two and we are slowly beginning to be able to understand him. Whenever we repeat what he is saying he gets all excited and says "yeah". Lexi is 4 going on 15. A good example is today she refused to give Grandma kisses because she was afraid her "friends" may see her and make fun of her. We're working on not caring about what others think. In 15-20 years I will let you know how that's going. I will graduate (finally) from the U with my bachelors in about a month. Edgar is still working on school himself. 

There's a quick update and I will see if I can do better at it this time around. And I will put a couple of picture up for a visual update as well.

Ha sido mucho tiempo ya pero que tengo que hacer un blog para la escuela pense que lo podria hacer mas a menudo. Se puede ver ese blog a http://parentingpreschoolers101.blogspot.com/. Nuestro hijo ya tiene dos anos y poco a poco lo entendemos. Si podemos lograr repetir lo que trata decir se anima y grita "si". Lexi tiene 4 y esta por cumplir 15. Un buen ejemplo de eso es hoy dijo a su abuela que no la pudo dar un beso por miedo que sus "amigos" iban a verla. Estamos tratando ensenarla no importarle lo que piensan los demas. En 15 a 20 anos vamos a ver como anda eso. Voy a graduar (por fin) de la U con mi titulo en como un mes. Edgar anda con la escuela tambien. 

Ahi se ponen al corriente con los Lopez y vere si puedo hacer mejor esta ves. Tambien pongo unas fotos.

The most reason family picture we have

Silly Lexi

Lexi is a handful, but she's a hilarious handful. I've started posting some of her funny sayings on facebook but I want to add some things on the blog as well.

One night I thought she was sound asleep in her bed. When i went to check on her after about 30 minutes, she wasn't in her room. However, my bedroom door was closed. I walked into the bedroom to find my makeup all over my bed and all over her. Of course, she was proud of how pretty she looked.


















Another day I came home and thought Edgar had found a new pair of capris for Lexi from the hand me down clothes people had given us. As I looked more and more at them I could tell something wasn't right and then it dawned on me. She was wearing Nico's suit pants. She had changed into them herself which was not surprising to me since she changes her clothes about three times a day.

Yes, the same pants.

She will often grab one of her play purses or keys and tell me she is going to work.

When she get's mad at her daddy she will call him "Edgar Lopez" in such a serious voice. It makes daddy angry, but it makes me laugh.

She started making friends and would just call them all "friend". "Friend, don't do that" "Friend, come play with me" "Friend what are you doing?". She learned one of their names and now she calls them all by that one name.

Solid Foods

 Nico started eating solids at about 5 months. he ate cereal in his bumbo. He kept making funny faces like he hated it and then would open his mouth or reach our for more. I really love that I can be there for so many of their firsts even though i have to work. It's great that Edgar allows me to have the moments with kids.

Easter

We decorated eggs at grandma's house. Lexi used grandma's new apron and made it as pretty as the eggs.

 Easter day was lots of fun. Nico got his first suit and he looked adorable. Lexi got some more dress up clothes. She loves to "get dressed" in them all of the time. We went to church with my mom after the Easter bunny visited our house and we did a small Easter egg hunt.

There was another egg hunt at grandma's house.

Baby Blessing

We tried to bless Nico in January but the day of we woke up with sore throats. We changed it to February and he ended up being blessed on the day of the super bowl. It was a nice blessing despite Edgar being so nervous. A lot of my family was there & a few of our friends. It was a great experience for me and I was grateful that he was able to be blessed by three months. 

Tratamos bendecir a Nico en el mes de enero pero no pudimos por estar enfermos. Lo hicimos en enero y fue linda la bendicion aunque el papa fue muy nervioso darla. Fue una experiencia linda para mi tener lo bendecido a las tres meses.

Bouncing Baby

Nico loves to bounce. I could probably say at four months it is his favorite thing to do. I found a door hanging bouncer. After it was set up I put Nico in it and all he waned to do is eat around the rim. The second I took him out he started jumping on me. I think it may take time but he'll get the hang of it.

Potty Training

After a few failed attempts we are trying the potty training thing again. I tried a few times and it ended up in both of us being irritated with one another. She then took it upon herself in July but that only lasted a month and she was back to diapers. She started going to the bathroom on her own again last week so we set the date for Monday the 3rd of January to "stop wearing diapers". She will still wear them when she's sleeping though. So far she's been doing pretty good. We are trying the "get a sticker every time you go potty" method. We had to go out and run some errands so we put a pull up on. The errands took twice as long as we were expecting and she had an accident. Of course I didn't have any new underwear or pull ups but I did have diaper. At first she didn't want to put it on but after a few minutes trying to convince her she clapped her hands and shouted "yeah" because she was going to have to wear a diaper.

The seventh of January, five days into the potty training, and she had an accident free day! She's had two accident free nights as well. Two more days like this, it's all we need (this is what mommy decided). The next thing is to teach her to completely finish before she tries to flush. She gets around 5 flushes each time otherwise. I think it was Wednesday and she looked where we keep the diapers and shouted "goodbye diapers" and waved goodbye.

The nice thing about having some time home to help is that Edgar can't just get frustrated and put her in diapers. If he does that when I go back to work then he will have problems because I refuse to buy her more diapers and he will have to start all over with her from scratch.

On the 10th it had been three days completely accident free. I'm calling it official now and hope it sticks this time. It looks more promising so I think we won't have a problem. Mommy is so excited and Lexi now can wear necklaces because she's a big girl (it was our deal if she went three days without an accident). She even wears undies to bed. Good job Lexi!!!

What a Day

Last night I told Edgar I had a bad feeling about today. Now the day is almost over and I know why. Around noon we had to go out to run some errands. We got the kids in the car, turned the key and nothing happened. The battery was dead (for the second time in a week). I called my sister who lives about a block away and she said she would send her husband as soon as he got back from taking things to the city dump. About thirty minutes later he was at my house. My car was in our parking spot facing inwards with cars on either side so we had to try and push the care out of the spot. I put the car in neutral and shut the door so it wouldn't get hit and my car locked. The dead battery caused my alarm to short and lock my car with my key in it.

My brother in law made some calls an then went to get a hanger. After a few tries with that we found more help and luckily were able to get my door unlocked. Two men tried to push my car out and it wouldn't budge. My brother in law then has to pull my car out with his truck at an angle because there is a building behind the car.

We finally got the car charged and I headed to Auto Zone to get the battery checked which was, of course, a "bad battery". I bought a new battery and called my sister (because she's good with cars) who said she could change the battery. I started my car and it was even more dead than it was before. I called my sister back who sent her husband again. (They have a baby so one of them has to stay there). He came and changed my battery and I was good to go.

As we were driving around with our errands a warning that my steering power fluid was low came on. This wouldn't have been so bad except it came on the month before and I had just topped of everything two weeks before.We continued with our next errand to get my husband's prescription and the pharmacy we usually go to of course did not carry it. My son was screaming so we had to stop at my mom's house so I could feed him before we headed to a different pharmacy. When we got to the next pharmacy they did not carry it either but luckily they were able to find it at another store so we could pick it up the next day.

We made it home about 8 pm. Our two hour errands ended up taking my whole day. Despite all the problems we had there were the positives. I am grateful that my brother-in-law was around to help me, twice. I am grateful that I did not have to pay for a lock smith. I am grateful that my mom lives by where we had to do errands so that I could feed the baby. I am grateful that we were able to find Edgar's prescription at the end of the day. Despite the bad there was a lot of good and I believe they were blessings because I was definitely praying and thinking "trust Him".

[Digamos no tuvimos un día muy fácil. El auto estuvo con problemas. No pudimos encontrar la receta para Edgar. Pero al fin del día veo muchas bendiciones del Señor. Hubo personas para ayudarnos y al fin encontramos lo que buscamos

Family Holiday Party

I'm not really into setting New Year's resolutions because I never follow through with them and then I feel like I don't have to try again until the next year. I am going to put a goal of trying to do my blog more often. I hope Edgar's family will look at it occasionally so they can stay up to date with what we are doing.

Today we had a Holiday party with my family at my mom's house. It was fun and almost everyone was there. We did a white elephant and I think most people enjoyed it. After that we played some games. I really enjoy playing games that make you think and that we can laugh at because I think people can enjoy themselves no matter if they "win or lose".

Trishelle and Racheal are wearing antlers they won from the White Elephante. (Trishelle y Racheal llevan  cuernos que recibieron del elefante blanco)

(No me gusta poner resoluciones del año nuevo porque si fracaso siento que no tengo que tratar de nuevo hasta el próximo año. Pero si voy a poner una meta de hacer el blog más a menudo. Espero que la familia de Edgar lo mire de vez y cuando para que puedan saber lo que hacemos.

Hoy tuvimos una fiesta de los feriados con mi familia en la casa de mi mama. Fue divertido y casi todos estaban. Hicimos regalos de cambios (elefante blanco) y por lo general todos les gusto lo que recibieron. Después jugamos unos juegos. Me encantan los juegos que se hace pensar y reír porque es más fácil disfrutarlos no importa si se gane o pierde.) 

2010

It's been over a year since I last posted something and I have gotten comments from people. A lot has happened this past year. The biggest and the best change is our new little addition. Nico was born on the 18th of November. Lexi just adores him and I think he may adore her even more.

Here's a quick update of the past year:

January: Edgar started school.

Lexi in the dress her great-grandma in Argentina made.

February: Our third anniversary.
     Shower for my sister.

Shalisa's shower

Our anniversary

In clothes her great-aunt in Argentina Made

March: My sister had her first baby on March 6th.
      Found out we were expecting a baby.

Lexi & Pattersen

        

April: Edgar and I got to go to a conference session together at the Conference Center.

Lexi in mommy's shoes

Lexi getting her hair done for church

( Like many toddlers, Lexi has a thing with putting anyone else's shoes. She has actually gotten pretty good at walking in big shoes)
(Every Sunday morning Lexi & I would spend an hour or so "getting ready" for church. I would do her hair and her nails. It became a special tradition for us).

Our road trip to Southern Utah.

Easter Morning

(I wanted to go to St. George for my birthday. Although we had fun once we got there, it was terrible traveling. I'm not even going to pretend otherwise. We had to stop about every 45 minutes because Lexi was getting car sick [both ways].

May: Found out the baby was due in November, not December like we thought.

         My niece was blessed on Mother's Day.

         I started back to school & Edgar stopped going.

         We felt the baby move the last day in May.

June: Found out the baby was a boy.

        Lexi turned 2 and burned her hand on the barbecue at her party.
    

At Trishelle's party. Lexi did not want to give the toaster up

Lexi's birthday party

(In the middle of Lexi's barbecue birthday party Lexi run into the barbecue and burned her hand. I ended up having to take her to kids care Luckily we were able to return and enjoy her party).

We returned to her party with her bandaged hand.

Lexi learning to dress herself.

July: Lexi potty trained herself.
 (One day we had to leave and I told Edgar to wait for me to go to the bathroom. Lexi ran into the bathroom and went potty. She hardly had an accident after that. Then a month later she just stopped going & we had to put her back into diapers).

Trying to get curls in her hair again

Watching the parade with a friend

(Poor Lexi has my hair which means it almost never holds curl. I like to try different ways of curling her hair. I can get it curls to stay for about 4 hours if I'm lucky).

Pattersen eating strawberries in her nun hat at the parade.

24th of July with Aunt Shalisa & Pattersen

(My family has a tradition of sleeping over at the park and then watching the 24th parade. We didn't sleep over, but some of my sisters did and we went in the morning to watch the parade. It was fun to see Lexi Enjoy it so much)

August: Lexi decided she didn't want to go in the potty anymore.
       We moved.

In her fairy costume Aunt Trishelle bought for her.

I would just like to show you the house that I "left a mess". Yeah, this picture was taken about a week before we knew we were for sure moving. Can't you tell the kind of slobs we are?

September: Edgar turned 29 and was thrown a surprise soccer themed party.

October: I was given a shower by the Relief Society.

Just 11 days from my due date

Lexi in her dogie costume

Halloween night

Lexi came to visit mommy's work in her costume

Pattersen was a fairy

(For Halloween Lexi was a dog, I was a cat and Edgar was a Gothic woman. Our original idea was to go as Monsters Inc characters. Edgar as Sully, Lexi as Boo, and i would have been Mike from the belly down. we ran out of time and resources.)


November: Nico came a week late after & I had to be induced.
       Nico's first smile and laugh (both were with mommy).

Lexi likes to wear mommy and daddy's shoes

With mommy

Lexi loves her brother.

Lexi decided to share her toys with her brother

One of my favorites of the two together.

Our new baby.

First time together

The first time daddy held him

The family together at home

(Lexi wearing my shoes, again).

(Lexi just adores her little brother. When she came to visit him in the hospital the cleaning lady came in and Lexi started yelling at her "That's my baby. Nico's mine." The poor cleaning lady was just doing her job.


December: Nico rolled over the first time when he was exactly 1 month old.
      Christmas time.

Enjoying tummy time together.

Spending quality nap time together

He was so excited that Santa came that he just sat there smiling for 20 min

     Christmas time.

"Really mom, do you have to take a picture? I just want to see what I got"

Lexi & Pattersen in matching outfits

Dress up princess clothes

Family Christmas picture. Notice the matching frog pjs.

"Again with the pictures"

(I have gotten Lexi frog pjs for 3 years now. I don't know if I will continue next year because she is starting to have her own "favorites". I guess Nico will have to deal with it for a couple of more years).

Her first Christmas she liked Santa.

Trying on shoes at the Dicken's Festival.

Swinging at the Dickens's Festival

(It took two days for us to get to Santa because, well Lexi has some behavioral issues. She was so excited when we finally made it. We walked into his little sugar house & she flipped out. At least Nico wasn't bothered).