Warm but smiley

It was a warm afternoon today, 87 degrees when I left work. Too warm to play outside. It's only going to get worse as the week goes on but the kids didn't mind too much . Even sweaty and hot they are still smiling.

Sibling love

Callie truly loves her brother. She wants to do everything with him but so often she is too rough with him. This weekend when I was ready to have a meltdown from running out of patience for these two I captured this sibling love. I think they knew I needed this. Callie reads to him and shares books. Aww sibling love and he actually watches her and seems interested.

Tow truck driver Callie

Callie learned how to drive her tow truck finally and decided she should tow her red car because it broke down (pretend). Hysterical!!

Callie's Band

What's loud and fabulous all at once? Callie's band! She drags out all her instruments and gets everyone to play with her and sings. She even gets Diego to play.

I'm having some trouble with my computer this week so I am working on adding the video of her singing as well but need to get it working.

In the meantime just imagine how loud this is...

Grocery store with two

I didn't take any photos but I think this story will make you laugh. I laugh now but at the time it wasn't funny. I took both kids grocery shopping with me today after a morning at the park. Callie sat in the cart while I carried Diego in the ergo carrier. Half way through shopping while ordering lunch meat Callie says she needs to pee. I asked if she could wait and she says no now! So I leave the meat counter and run to the back of the store through the employee doors and take both kids in the not so clean bathroom. I'm holding Callie over the edge of the toilet so she doesn't fall in while wearing Diego between us. She says she has to poop but doesn't like this toilet. She insists on getting down and not using that toilet. Then Diego gets screaming that he's hungry so I figure ill feed him standing in the bathroom in case Callie decides to go. Meanwhile Callie can't help but tough every filthy surface in the bathroom. And decides she will pee in the middle of feeding D. So now I'm holding D, balancing Calle on the edge of the toilet and hearing screaming. I swear the employees must have wondered what wa going on in there. 15 min later we come out with clean hands and 2 happy kids but now our ice cream has been melting in the cart. So we return the ice cream and trade for a frozen one, swing by the deli to pick up the turkey were ordered then get to the car. Don't you know as soon as we get to the car Calliie needs to use the potty again! Luckily I had one in the trunk and just sat her down in the middle of the parking lot while I put groceries in the trunk. She waited until we got home to poop and actually went to the bathroom climbed her stool and pooped on the big potty all by herself before she even called for help. So I guess I should be impressed! The lesson learned though was only go to the grocery store with full bellies and empty bladders, phew, parenting two can be difficult!

Puddle Jumper

I bought Callie one of these puddle jumper swimmy things last summer and she didn't quite take to it. We accidentally left it at a friends pool. Their little girl enjoyed it for awhile before it got lost. They graciously replaced it with a new one and today Callie swam with it for the first time. Boy was she happy. This little invention is genius! I wish I thought. Of it. It makes it so easy for kids to swim around yet still safely float. After she sat under the table on her towel and held "class" where she was teaching manny to count and te alphabet. I wish I had this on video because it was so cute.

Diego had another vaccine today. Preservative free pneumococcal. Turned out better than the last but he still cried a lot today and was seriously crabby. Tylenol and lots of love. 3 vaccines down and still so many more to go. We have appointments almost every Wednesday for a looong time.

Mommy night

Tonight I went out with some girlfriends for dinner and to catch up. Juan had bedtime kid duty which is the worst time to have both kids as someone is always crying and a lot of times both. Of course they both cried and gave him a hard time. I was hoping for this sleeping baby which I had in the morning when I was leaving for work to make Juan's life easier. Oh well. I still had a good time and a nice break to be out chit chatting with my girlfriends.