Update- Hudson 2 years (the rest to come)

I must, must, must make myself take a minute here to update what is going on in our life. Our kids are just so amazingly smart and funny and FUN.....I want to make sure that I document what's happening at this particular moment.

2 Year Stats:

28lbs

35.5 Inches Tall

15.9 BMI

You are perfect in every way! You will be playing independantly and out of nowhere come over and hug me or Harper or Ruby. You love to be rough and tackle daddy. You are extremely coordinated in sports, making baskets, hitting the ball and swinging a golf club. You're so cautious! WOW! You're more comfortable watching Harper while standing on the sidelines instead of jumping in and doing the swimming, swinging or activity yourself. You're observant, part of me wonders if you watch so that when you're ready to try it....you get it right. You're so strong. You swing from the table and now recently from the barre at gymnastics and you're upper body is so strong. You're methodical and a great problem solver. You stack and pile things and get a HUGE grin and say "wow" when you get something to balance. This is so strange. It's a sippy cup, with a piece of toast balanced, then a spoon, then a stacking pile of cheerios. Hahaha.....I love it! You line up your toys ALL day long! I don't know what this means.....but it must mean something!

You are great at throwing and hitting balls lately, hitting them almost as far as daddy!

You love cho cho trains (which sound like coo coo nain) and trucks (which sound like cucks) and saying what the trucks say "wee ohh wee ohh wee ohh). You're picking up Spanish really well.....but your speech is slower to develop so we feel you get frustrated (as well as us) when trying to figure out what it is that you want.  Oddly as it seems, your spanish words are more clear than English!  And you're really good at syllabals.  So if we say "Hudson, can you say Minnesota" you will say a blurry version of Minnesota but it will have the same voice infliction as we have. 

Hudson, you are my sensitive boy.  A kiss from mommy, daddy or "Yon" when you've fallen makes it all better. Seriously!  You give toys to Harper when she's having a fit, you run and give kisses to Ruby when she's fallen down.  You woke up the other morning around 5am and not thinking, I picked you up and brought you into bed with us.  You snuggled up with me and slept like a rock for the next 3 hours. 

You are truly amazing. You're our only boy and I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO happy I get to experience having a son. You light up my life. Your smile, your eyes and those curls absolutely MELT me!

Ruby's Appt

With the Ortho team at Children's today at 3pm!  Praying we can get a plan in place...soon!  Miss thing is busy crawling (July 10th) and pulling up on furniture.....I"d like to take care of the surgery soon so that it doesn't slow her down too much.
Will update after!

Red, White and Boom 2012

Starting off the day at the Parade....they had a blast even though it was unbeleviably HOT!!!

This serious little guy, he was SO hot!!!

With our amazing au pair

Me and my 3 little firecrackers! Love them so much!!!

My sister and her 3 little firecrackers as well!!!

HOT little guy, cooling off with some water

Always smiling

Red faces  at the park, closing down a wonderful day!

It was a VERY Mickey/Minnie Clubhouse! The twins turned two and we had a BIG bash to celebrate! Pics below!

New Room

So along with our big house project, we did a little musical rooms. Ruby moved into the twins old room, the twins moved into our old room and Blake and I got our new room in the addition. We changed a little bit in Ruby's room....but not much. The twins room.......Ugh what a sad sight it was. I just didn't know what to do. I think eventually it will be the girls room.....but I'm in no rush to switch the kids around again and if anything, I'll move Ruby into the room with them. So priority was to keep it gender neutral. I LOVED sharing a room with my sister growing up and in 5th grade, when we moved and we got our own rooms.....she snuck into my room our first night "alone". Anyway, I love thinking of the kids laying in their cribs (because I plan to keep them in cribs FOREVER) and talking and laughing together. Hudson sleeps through Harper's singing....every single day. This girl doesn't need sleep (or so she thinks) so she goes down for naptime and talks to her babies, sings, talks to the air....just jabbers on for 2 hours while he snoozes. I think Ruby will be a sleeper like her brother, and I think it's great that they can sleep through the chaos around them. Anyway, we decided the room needed a temporary fix. So we got busy. We painted a chalkboard wall, Ivonne and her friend Erika stenciled on the letters.....and the rest were just minor touches. It's not much.....but it's definitely more "kid" friendly now!

Ruby is 6 months old!

Dear sweet Ruby, WHY are you growing so fast??? Seriously, time is flying by faster than I can say. Baby girl is already 1/2 a year old. Unreal. A quick recap of jolly Ruby girl 6 Month Check Up 19lbs 11oz (98% percentile) 27in (99% percentile) Head was off the charts, but can't remember the circumference. Skills Sits on her own Rolls and rolls and rolls Can grab at small objects and trade from hand to hand. Loves to find her paci and flip it around into the right position then pop it into her mouth. Loves Bath time. Kicks when she sees the tub because she is so excited! Once in the water, she kicks and splashes around like crazy. Not being swaddled. We stopped swaddling around 5 months and now she's a free girl. Going in to get her in the morning is a joy, she's kicking her chubby legs like crazy but it's also so funny to see which direction she's squiggled herself into. Food. She loves most fruit (baby food), bananas (in that mesh snack thing), and her big 9 oz bottles. Life. She's just so happy. She loves being sung to, tickled, snuggled, kissed. She rarely ever cries. I am just so in love with this child!!! Hates Strangers. No, not really. But she does have bouts of stranger danger already. We're trying to get her out more so she sees more faces. Here are few pics of the sweetie. I can't believe a half of a year has already passed!!!

Hablas Espanol?

So....the kids are really picking up Spanish. It's totally nuts.....but because this blog USED to be a place where I'd document all things and has lately just been collecting dust.....I am going to record their adventures in learning Spanish. Ivonne can't be a part of their lives forever....unfortunately. I think we've convinced her to stay another year with us. I pray that is the case anyway. We will keep the kids immersed in Spanish always.....so this is the start of their learnings. :-)

Words learned since Ivonne arrived on Oct 21st, 2011
Agua- Water
Pan- Bread
Uvas- grapes
Leche- Milk
Fruta- fruit
Pajaro- Bird
Elefante- Elephant
Boca- Mouth
Cabeza- Head
Ojitos- Eyes
Orejas- Ears
Dientes- Teeth
Manos- Hands
Pies- Feet
Nariz- Nose
Chichi- pee pee
Cuantos Anos Tienes?- How old are you?
Como te llamas?- What is your name?