Ice cream

how do you keep two kids distracted all day while you build a playground? Well one try is ice cream cones and before dinner! Yikes but it worked for a little while. Getting closer to being built.

Diego's First year collage

I am only a year too late but better late than never! I finally got around to getting Diego's first year collages done. I had the silver frame since before he was ever born, a matching gift from Nena just like Callie's. The other i bought matching so Diego could have a similar collage on my office wall. Of course time changes and I dont even work in an office that has space to hang such things anymore. Instead I have them up at home but love them still the same.
I loved the collages so much and had so many great photos of the two kids together that I also made a bigger collage of the brother and sister love together. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. I'm glad I finally got around to finishing them. Diego loved his photos and kept saying Diego baby. Adorable!

Breaking ground on the playground

Things have gotten started with the playground at our house. It was what they really wanted and with lot of contributions from their birthday it's going to be here soon. Juan and Enrique worked all day yesterday getting the ground ready. Callie wants the playground to show up with the wave of a majic wand and is not too patient for the process. In the meantime I let the kids play with the slide. It provides quite a bit of entertainment all on its own. But Callie says it's not enough without the whole playground so back to work!

Zoo with Tia Mari

We had a very fun last minute planning trip to the zoo with Tia Mari. It turned out to be a cloudy cool day which was great for walking the zoo. The penguin was super interested in the kids today and even tried to nibble on Callies Barbie through the glass. We even fed the giraffes today!

I can sing my abcs

Diego sings the abcs frequently these days. Unfortunately I never can get it on video. Today he sang the abcs and even though he gets distracted he goes back to singing. Then he even adds in hickory dickory dock. He LOVES songs and music. I'll try to get him singing Hakuna Matata from Lion King as that's his favorite song right now.

Callie and D swan today and D is finally grasping how to "swim" with his puddle jumper and keep his mouth out of the water. I didn't get any photos as I was swimming too! But after they had a blueberry picnic on their towel, and then later a snuggle fest on the couch. They are good friends and it will only get better as D gets a little bigger. Today Diego was playing Barbie dream house with Callie and put Boo the bear in the house. He doesn't much like the Barbies because of their hair.

Outside adventures

Our garden has really been growing. Today we added sweet potatoes which we grew plants from an old sweet potato.  We had more cucumbers growing and picked a second one. Unfortunately I was busy trying to snap photos instead of help Callie and she ripped the whole plant off at the base, oops! Now that's a dead cucumber plant. Luckily we have 3 more growing. Some things are growing really well and others much slower but either way we have lots of organic fruits and veggies on the way. :) the salad greens are looking tasty now so I think I'll make a salad for work tomorrow. Both kids eat the veggies right out of the garden, that's what I call success. I'm hoping we get sweet tomatoes and I can get them eating a few new veggies too.

After planting and picking from the garden we blew bubbles outside too. Diego blew his first bubble! Of course when I tried to recapture this on video it was a fail but you get a cute rendition of itsy bitsy spider instead!

Double hats

I forgot to post this photo of Doego yesterday. He couldn't decide between hats so he wore both!

Then tonight we had two kids wrestling on grandmas floor, dancing to Elsa Let it Go and running with blanket capes.