Someone's getting a little older...

Diego lost his first tooth!

A few weeks ago we realized that Diego had a loose tooth. Well on the walk to the bus stop in the morning he was finishing a muffin (his 3rd) and he stopped walking. He asked if he could spit the muffin out. When he started speaking I noticed his tooth was gone! He spit and out came the tooth! I grabbed it and he was so surprised. He said "I'm surprised it came out with a muffin. A muffin is so soft!" He was excited to see if his friends at school would notice...they did. =)

A little piece of heaven

(Sorry for the 3rd post today but...) We woke up to this beautiful site! A snow day which makes everyone happy. Anthony wanted to go out bright and early at 7:00am to build a snowman. I told him he was on his own! He has just had to keep looking through the window! Maybe later...

A new love

Anthony has found a new love...coloring! And I couldn't be happier. He will sit for a good 30 minutes (if not more) and color. I love it. He gets excited when I suggest he gets his coloring book. It has been a huge life saver, especially at church. I will say though, I think he might end up a lefty. I try to switch his hands but he always goes back to the left! He sure does make me smile...sometimes!! :)

A walk in the park

On a nice Saturday afternoon we loaded the kids into the van and headed to a nearby park that has a great walking trail. The boys love it. Here are some pics from our adventure!

We went a little off the path and followed this stream where it had a lot of fallen trees over it that boys loved to cross. They also liked throwing rocks into the water to see who could get a big splash.

This was the best part for the older two. They loved crossing the big fallen trees and just climbing around. They were always looking for the next tree to cross...hoping it was bigger and a little harder!

This little guy didn't get to do as much climbing and scooting across the trees as the other two. He would have loved to though. He is quite the follower and tries to do everything the older ones do.

This particular tree was massive. I kept trying to get the boys to take a pick by the roots to show how huge it was compared to them but they just wanted to climb the limbs. Of course, they are boys...they don't want to stop for a picture! What was I thinking?! :)

A Great Day

When I came downstairs this morning this is what I found waiting for me from Jose for my birthday. What a great guy! I'm lucky to have him. It totally made my day. And even better the kids hadn't gotten into it! I also woke up to snow! The first of the season. Diego has been complaining that we haven't had any snow yet and January was almost over. When were we going to get any snow?! Today his pleas were heard. So of course we got all the gear on and headed on out. Here is Anthony in his snowpants. He was excited to find his Nike hat but that didn't last long outside. He is too cute!

Christian was exhausted and hot while waiting for everyone to be ready. Getting snow stuff on takes forever! You have to spend a good amount of time outside just to make getting ready worthwhile!

Here are Diego, Anthony and out neighbor having a snowball fight. They were so excited to be outside.

My Christian. My Christian. What am I going to do with him. He was not happy to be wearing a coat and his gloves were just material. After I found the waterproof gloves, he refused to put them on. I told him he wouldn't be happy in a few minutes after the snow went thru his gloves and sweatshirt. I guess he just has to learn by experience!

This was Anthony's first real snow that he realized what it was and was excited to get in it. He had a good time and actually kept his gloves on.

After I had a snowball fight with all the boys, they decided they needed to build a fort to try and protect themselves from me. Here Diego is starting to build it.

Finally Christian helps out.

All three get in on the action.

As I thought, Christian didn't last long and wanted some hot chocolate to warm up.

Here Diego is trying to be a penguin. He would run and jump on his belly. We'll see how bad he hurts later!

Anthony wanted to try being a penguin too.

Passing on the wisdom!

So if you remember a few months ago, there was a post about Christian telling me how to cut and gel his hair. Today he decided to pass on his wisdom to Anthony. I caught them in the bathroom with Christian telling and showing Anthony how to put gel in his hair and how to style it. Maybe Christian can start a little side business!

Anthony wanted to take his new found knowledge and try it himself.

Here is his finished product. Notice how shiny it is because his hair is so filled with gel that the flash reflects from it.

Here he is checking out his skills in the mirror. He was very proud of himself!

After all that hard work Anthony needed a drink. I think this is funny because if you look closely at Anthony's head, you can see how much gel he used because of the big drip coming down his forehead!

A lesson learned?

So on Saturday we let the boys stay up and watch a Ben 10 movie. Before the movie though there was a Ben 10 cartoon on to which the boys decided to act out in their room. Ben 10 is about a boy who can turn into different aliens to protect others. Needless to say things got a little rough and this is what happened. Anthony got pushed too hard and pushed into the bed. This picture doesn't do him justice (it's been 2 days). He had a good bruise that went up the side of his cheek and the cheek itself looked like he was storing nuts for the winter. I can't say I felt too sorry for him because he can get things started just as good as the other two. Plus he was trying to go another round the very next day! His injury doesn't seem to be slowing him down any =) !