A Great Day

We enjoyed a great day today. Thought the temp was triple digits again, we stayed cool the entire time.

Here we are at the Nugget Market yet again. This time we needed a few lemons for tonight's chicken dinner. But if anyone is familiar with this grocery store, you know that they have wonderful food too.

Mommy is so smart to have scheduled the day just so, and we could enjoy a great noodle lunch at The Nugget. Rebecca is enjoying her fresh squeezed lemon and Orange blend. Nice and cold just perfect for the walk back home. The pictures with the noodles are never going to be seen in public. Sorry but we are trying to teach Rebecca that being sloppy and gross is not what we do.

(But they are pretty funny, so you can always come see us in person if you ever want to see any of "those" pics.)

We were still enjoying the day even for dinner.

We had our Mami Latina group come for our monthly meeting. Rebecca was so excited to have her friends over, she kept opening the front door and saying "Come in, Please!"

We see all the kids playing in Rebeccas' play room. the biggest surprise here is that she is actually enjoying herself and not being terribly sad about everyone grabbing and playing with her toys. She was actually being a great host.

The kids seemed to have forgotten their moms were present at all, and were having the greatest of times. Of course because it was a late meeting, all kids that attended were asleep before arriving home.

The kids were well aware that Irving was present. He was in fact the person who cooked for them and was supposed to be watching them while us moms discussed the group and future events. Rebecca seemed so proud of her Daddy, that she continued introducing him to everyone. But of course he is the one next to the Blue M&M man.

On this night, Rebecca slept so well, she didn't wake up till 7:30am the next morning.

Did I mention it was a great day?

Working in the Garden

We had great weather for doing yard work today. Rebecca and I got an early start to beat the three digit temp. As you can see, Rebecca is a pro at this now. She is ready in her sweats, gardening shoes and blue gloves. As is her usual, she heads straight to the flowers, so she can smell them.

But as we can see in these pictures, she is not a light weight. Rebecca is not known to shy away from hard and heavy labor.

But just so everyone knows, she is using the proper lifting technique. She is lifting with her knees, not her back.

But in case you are worried about a two year old doing heavy lifting, this is not a full bucket, and she does have a smaller one she uses to fill with weeds and rocks.

Here we are after a well deserved bath, very hungry and eating fresh, juicy oranges. On this day, Rebacca actually ate everything on her tray. She had chicken taquitos and milk juice and of course orange slices.

Walking the Nature Center

A wonderful Mothers Day Trip to the Effie Yaew Nature Center.

Here we are, my mom and I with Rebecca in between having had enjoyed a nice walk and some great warm weather.

After having maneuvered our way down to the lake over so many rocks.
Tireless Rebecca and Daddy staying on the path back to the Center.

It could not have been a better day for this trip.

Thanks Daddy for an unforgettable day.

Hanging out with TiTa

Today we had a great time with Tita.

Since we are now spending all our afternoons with Tita, we decided to do something a little different. Instead of going to her apartment, we decided to bring her home with us instead.

Rebecca is trying to look like Tita in this picture. As we can see, she is doing a good job at it.

Because we were all feeling so great after nap time, which we all took part. We decided to go for a walk, one mile each way, to our closest market and get some great fresh fruits and veggies for snack.

Rebecca of course had a great time at the Nugget. She ran and tasted everything on all the fresh produce isles and tired herself out by the time we got to the check out counter. From the looks of Rebeccas' stroller, you can see we grabbed more than we could carry. So really it was a great workout for Tita and myself, since we started taking turns pushing Rebecca home.

Gymnastics Class

Rebecca is going to gymnastics now.

Here she is going through an obstacle course. There is lots of jumping, tumbling, going through and over things. She is learning to walk on a balance beam, do the double bars and all that sort of thing.

Here we see Rebecca doing part of the obstacle course. She had to go through the giant donut, into the ball pit, and next she is to crawl around the flat donut.

This next part, she is working on her arm strength. She also had to balance and pull herself towards the next obstacle.

Green Day

Today was all about Green for us. Rebecca decide early today that she was going to wear this very green dress her Tio Ofilio brought her all the way from Nicaragua.

After a day with Tio Ofilio, to show him that Rebecca loves his present, Rebecca decided to practice her pedaling.

She is concentrating very hard, trying not to drop Bunny and ride at the same time.

As soon as she saw the camera out, she started to pose. this is the shy look, the over the shoulder glance, I think, she has perfected. There were a lot more, but there is only so much space we can use.

Discovering and trying to keep her discoveries in her pockets.

Today Rebecca is pocketing everything the color green, leaves and other little objects that can fit in her two little pockets.

Just something new she started doing. Mommy gets to find all sorts of things, some yucky, some indescribable, some living and others not so much alive.

Meet and Greet

This weekend we attended the Official Introduction of Lucca Binotti to the world of other kids and adults.

Here we see Lucca and hid Daddy having a snack. Being the center of attention is a hard job, not everyone can do it.

But then, he's lucky to have Irving, who can teach him a thing or two. Or maybe they are discussing trade secretes and technique.
The kids were having a great time playing and monkeying around on the living room floor.

Irving and Rebecca enjoying a great get together in more ways than one. Did anyone notice how the dads in these pictures all match their kids?