Creciendo!

Asi es mi pequeno Ian esta creciendo. Cuando Nicole cumplio 2 anios decidi entrenarla para ir al banio. Fue una tarea muy dura y aun pienso que si no llego al reino Celestial sera por esa etapa de nuestras vidas. Con Ian queria entrenarlo tan pronto cumplio 2 anios, pero mis ganas se fueron por el bano cuando vi el precio de la reparacion de la alfombra de estos departamentos.
Simpre habia escuchado historias de mamas orgullosas que decian "POTTY TRAINTING WAS THE SIMPLEST THING TO ME" or "MY KID WOULD ASK ME TO GO POTTY WHEN HE WAS READY AND HE WAS BARELY 3 YRS OLD"
Claro pense que eso jamas me pasaria a mi porque mis hijos aparte de testarudos son muy contrarios a lo que yo les digo.
Lo imposible se presento hace ya algunos dias. Ian me seguia incistiendo que no quiere usar panales. Asi que le di una oportunidad de empezar a usar calzoncillo. Para sorpresa mia le ha estado hechando muchas ganas. Si tiene como maximo 2 accidentes diarios. Pero aun asi sige empeniado a no usar panal. En la hora de las siestas se despierta con su panal seco. Aun estoy que no me la creo. Le hemos pedido tanto al padre que le ayudara a enteder el concepto y mira que si a esuchado nuestras oraciones.
Sera interesante cuando el tema salga en alguna contestacion. Ahora yo sere la mama orgullosa que dira "HE WAS THE ONE WHO WANTED TO BE POTTY TRAINED NOT ME" estoy segura que mas de una me va envidiar jaja.

Spanglish?

Este anio he decidio continuar mi blog en espaniol. Tengo muchos motivos personales. Uno de ellos es que como RESOLUTION quiero que mis hijos tengan por lo menos este anio de recuerdos solamente en mi idioma. Probalemente todos aquellos que desconocen mi LANGUAGE decidiran dejar de ver mis POSTS. Yo estoy bien con eso. Me gusta mantenerme en TOUCH con la gente que quiero. Pero creo que este blog ya se estaba haciendo muy UNIVERSAL y aun la gente que no me agrada pasaba por aqui.
To my friends and long distance relatives that I love with all my heart. I just want to tell you that I'll keep in touch by commenting in your posts and as always through FB who is btw another great way to keep track with you girls. I love you and I'm very grateful with my Heavenly Father to have you in my life.
Ian me ha estado insitiendo en usar calzoncillo por los ultimos dos dias. Estoy aterrada del trabajo tan arduo que esto me va acarrear. No solo por limpiar todo el desorden que hara, pero tambien como lo dije antes, la reparacion de alfombra en estos departamentos es ridiculamente costosa. El no tiene problema con hacer NUMBER 1 OR NUMBER 2 en el POTTY. El problema es que le tengo que recordar cada 5 minutos de que tiene que ir. Aun no sabe escuchar las necesidades de su cuerpo.
HANNA mi pequenia a estado un poco renuente a tomar liquidos. Poco a poco he dejado de amamantarla. Estaba tomando muy bien la formula. Ahora resulta que no desea tomar formula y que quiere pecho SIEMPRE Y CUANDO ESTE ACOSTADA CON ELLA. Pareciera que a mi pequena PEACH le consierne todo lo que pasa alrededor al grado de distraerla y no dejarla sucsionar con tranquilidad.
NICOLE sige yendo a la escuela. Sus habilidades en ballet van progresando (claro si contamos su problema de zambes y su poca cordination) Me da gusto que le heche ganas al ballet y que despues de cada clase me diga lo mismo MOM DON'T YOU THINK I DID AWSOME! Si alguien cree que es buena en todo esa es mi pequenia Nicole.
GLENN sige trabajando arduamente. Esta sera su ultima semana en Vascular. Ha estado ahi por 2 meses. Pobre, nunca lo he visto tan agotado. Aun asi sige teniendo tiempo de llegar a la casa, jugar con los ninos y de acurrucarse a mi lado mientras los dos hablamos de cosas inciertas como THE FUTURE! Los dos esperamos con ancia el paso mas cercano y proximo GPS. En esa clinica aunque trabaja muy duro son menos horas. Estamos ansiosos por el cambio YIPY!!
YO por mi parte sigo disfrutando cada momento que nos queda aqui en Arlington. Tantas cosas por hacer, me he divertido mucho. Si tuvieramos que vivir en Texas Glenn sabe que Arlington esta en el TOP 5 de mi lista.
Por ahora me voy. Tengo mucho suenio y en verdad siento que mi energy del dia de hoy esta totalmente OUT!

Espaniol!

Switching to Spanish for a year. Personal reasons.

Poor ducks and geese!

My mother in-law gave me a calendar that plans an activity for each day. It's called Fun Family Activites. I talk to my friend Laura about the activity of the day (for yesterday), it was to feed the ducks. Even though it was horribly windy/cold I didn't want to give up on my goal of doing each one of the activity and perhabp making these activities a family tradition.

Anyway somehow she said yes to my invitation. I grabbed some bread and crackers that I had. The park was beautiful. Seeing all those ducks and gesse was neat. We parked and the kids were anxious to feed the animals. The "animals" where ready to get fed by us. Literally, a starving goose bit my ankle. The kids are normally very happy to feed them but the 4 of them were complaining about these starving creatures. Real life kids normally chase them, but this time the animals chased the kids. It was so funny seeing Ian throwing all the food and running away from them. Nicky would jump behind my legs she was so scared. Ally and Livy were complaining about the geese taking the food out of their hand.

I felt bad for the kids, but more for these little animals. Laura and I were saying that is so unfair to the poor animals. They get so used to eating well during the summer, but during winter nobody goes and feeds them. I might go once per week to feed them. I'll also start encouaging people to do it during the winter, too. So whoever you are are, if you are reading this post, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE feed the ducks during the winter!!! Make it a goal, and go and feed the ducks with your family. Those little ones really need to eat, too.

Reciving our New Year and let's the year begin.

"I haven't showered since last year" is one of the jokes that I tell Glenn every New Year. The joke is pretty dead by now. However, I'm planning on sticking to my very own joke.

Our Walker/Soria New Year's Eve party was a success. In spite of Glenn being so tired and singing from the couch most of the time, everything turned out great. We did all our crazy traditions. The kids kept asking us why did we have to put our shoes on the wrong feet (funny as Ian always puts them on that way, but just that day he decided it was uncomfortable so he didn't want to do it). I told him I'd hate to finish the year by spanking him and problem solved. We danced, sang, and as soon as the clock said it was midnight we ate our 12 grapes with a wish for each of them, ran 12 times in and out the door with suitcases in hand (that means we will travel during the year), and then we cheered and hugged. We did all this at midnight. We took our last picture of the year, too. I went outside and beg to the moon with my wallet open to have money all year. Glenn joined me by begging forgiveness for my pagan and superstitious beliefs, clarifying, "WHOEVER SHE IS TALKING TO, PLEASE SHE IS JUST DOING IT TO HAVE FUN, NOT BECAUSE SHE REALLY BELIEVES IT. AND YET, IF WHOEVER YOU ARE WANTS TO GIVE US MONEY, DON'T FORGET TO FILL UP MY WALLET WITH IT, TOO." :) (I thought it was funny) Anyway we still don't have any karaoke Cd's (my friend didn't have time to buy them), but normal CD's work as well. The kids can't read anyway, so I guess it was fine for them to have the voice of the singer to lead them. Even little Hanna sang saying, "DADADADAAAAA!" and at other times she chewed on the microphone.

Here are some pictures of our 2009 NEW YEAR. It's good to finish and start New Year with a good laugh and with all the family together.

Another great blessing: Glenn came with me to Church (on his day off). It was the first Sunday of the year, and my hubby got to go with us! I wish I could make this another tradition too, but that is not in my hands.

There is another memory that I'd like to remember in this blog of mine: A few months ago was call to serve in the nursery. I was playing with this little polynesian boy, pretending that he was scaring me with his Jack in the Box toy. Ian saw this and while we where laughing Ian ran and pushed this kid telling him, "DO NOT SCARE MY MOMMA!" The other kid who, by the way, was taller and WAY THICKER than Ian came back and pushed him back. Then Ian was getting his fist ready to "touch" his face with it... where was I? I was trying to move the other 5 little girls away from me so I could prevent the fight. I stopped Ian just in time and explained to him that we were just playing and that I wasn't scared. He then told me with a very protective voice, "I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO SCARE YOU, MOM." He is a teaser, but he really is very protective of the people that he loves or is in need of. I feel very neat that my kids are so protective of each other and of us, too.