Let's see...
Today up at 5;30am with Santi. It just gets earlier and earlier!
After everyone else was up, Beto,Santi and i did a lot of errands.
We went to Home Depot first. We had to buy more rope to tie down our tarp on the roof. I remember now that i got up at 2:30am becuase of my cough and the ceiling in the kitchen was leaking. I felt bad because I had asked Beto to remove the tarp from the skylight to let the sunshine in better. And then Beto felt bad for not putting back the tarp, and then mom felt mom since she got a little mad at us for both of those things!
then we went to the Lkwd. mall to Target. Two stories! I didn't like it b/c I hardly ever go and didn't know where to find the one thing i needed to buy, but I found the baby bottle dept. in about 1 minute. then we went to Michael's where Beto didn't buy any expensive paint but I found some finger paints for Santi. He's a little young still but it was a fun little five minute activity to do with him. maybe next time i won't do it in the afternoon when he's really tired.

I do remember now that mom and I started to day off at 10am getting mani/pedis, and I got my eyebrows waxed for the first time since katy Baucum YATES got married!I havn't felt so female in quite awhile. I think i lost five pounds in eyebrow hair!

After michael's Beto and i got a snack at mcDonald's and went home. The night was a usual...dinner, bath for Santi, bottle to bed, TV and computer.

Tomorrow we all go to church for the first time in a few weeks b/c we all finally feel well! yea! Praise God!

Today....and yesterday

Yesterday (i'll start chronologically), was a pretty good day. Santi and I took a long walk and he fell asleep during most of it. I thought it would start to rain on our walk but it didn't rain at all yesterday.
In the afternoon I could tell that Santi was ready for another nap but he does not like to give up so easily! So i put him in the stroller and about half a block out he was a bobble head once again. So I turned around and went home quick and put him in his crib. Then I headed to the store. aaahhh...a trip to the grocery store now for me is like a mini-vacation. I was taking my time when RING ! (although, my phone doesn't RING, you know, like that. It plays some kind of asian sounding song, but techno-y) Anyways...my mom said Santi woke up as soon as I drove out of the drive-way and wouldn't stop crying. She didn't know what was wrong. She thought he had a stomach ache. He didn't want to be held but when he got down off her lap he just laid down and put his head on the floor. So I come home and as soon as I take him he stops crying and just looks at G.ma like, "Ha ha...I got my mommy now." ugh, I so didn't want him to ever go through this stage. But I guess better now than when he's 20,right?

So after calming him down, I take him to the store with me and he was fine the whole time! He loooves the store and waves at all the people.

Today we took Aunt Cindy to one of her appointments and then went out for a little snack and did an errand, and now I'm home. It's raining and we're just waiting for Santi to wake up so mom and I can go to Costco. YEA! So exciting! I'm sure Santi won't know how to control his excitement.

Oh, and by the way. He'll be one year in just a little over a month! I can't believe it! I still think of him as three months.

Manhattan Beach

We had too much cream cheese in the fridge, and NO BAGELS! That's how this whole day got started. I decided to take a day trip to Manhattan Beach Bread Co. where they have really great bagels and cream cheese, which we didn't need but of course I had to get their strawberry flavored one. So since Beto was free and we were going all the way out there anyways, we went down to the beach for about an hour. It was Santi's first (or second?) time feeling sand and he didn't much like it, but he loooooves looking at the birds and even attempts to say "bird", which kind of sounds like "bvvvvvvf". Not bad!

Learning from Dada

Santi meticulously watching Beto transplant his apple seeds.

santi greeting grammy

We made this for my mom when she was in the hospital.He waves and blows kisses.

USA vs. Honduras

A few funny pics of Santi, "thinking" a lot with his tongue sticking out and looking a little "tired".
the boys went to a soccer game of US vs. Honduras that was played here in Carson at the Home Depot Center.
They had a better time at the mexican food restaurant afterwards, i think, than at the game.

Pics of new door and bathroom

View inside and out of new front door we got mom for Christmas.
Also the front bathroom was remodeled. Mom got the vanity stool from Bed,Bath,and Beyond.

flood 2010

Some fotos from our recent little flood. Beto and i were out doing errands when it really started to pour and when we tried crossing this street to come home, we had to turn AROUND and go another way. This hasn't happened since 83 which i remember as a little girl. I didn't get to school or my mom to work becuase there wasn't a way out. Even in front of our house it was so flooded then I remember a VW bug floating down the street. This time wasn't so bad, but there were two cars stalled in the water on orange so all that traffic came down our street only to find that they couldn't pass at our corner either. It was a good way to meet some more neigbors.
we have had a lot of leeks in our old roof. this one was a "moist ceiling" that we thoguht was full of water only to poke it and find that it was empty. But now we gotta get that ceiling replaced.
Right now it's sunny but i see a lot of clouds blowing by out there. lot's of excitement!

Rose Parade 2009 and More Christmas Pics

Christmas in Long Beach 2009

Here's a lot of pics from Christmas. I won't be putting a caption for each one. Just enjoy the scenery.
I will tell you that Seth had more presents than anyone thanks to his parents and my mom had the least, but she did get a new front door!
We had a wonderful Christmas with our Aunt Lois-Ann here, my dad's sister from Illinois. The Robles' came also and we had a nice little pre present opening devo.
Beto was especially pleased with his new 10" table saw.
The table center piece is my aunt Lois' gift to my mom. And there are some pics of the party at Aunt Glenda's towards the end.
The pics in the middle are of the church's Christmas play in which Santi was going to play baby Jesus but that's the night he got really sick and we were in the ER.
Beto did build the prop that says "Holly Berry's Christmas Shop" and the manger.
OH, and me with messed up hair looking worn out. That's my interpretation of someone post Christmas rush.
Santi got a cute new outfit from the Heida's that Ed picked out with a sweater vest. Very stylish.
And the last pic is of him in his outfit mom got him in Uganda.

dogs as children

We walked with Santi to the park today and there was a dog park. We watched them awhile outside the fence and I noticed that the owners talk just like people do about their kids. And talk to their dogs as if they are kids. And give them bottled water, which I don't give to Santi. They were asking each other, "How old's your dog?" and saying things about their behavior. It was just funny to me.

Mom rocking her babies to sleep

santi walking 3

Santi walking 2

Santi is walking towards mom. She's holding Turbo, Aunt Glenda's dog. We're dogsitting for three weeks while she's in FL with my cousins, Eric and Lisa and their four kids at Disney world. He's a lot of fun and just about the same height as Santi when he stands up on his hind legs. He likes to burrow and make himself all warm and cozy on the couch pillows.

Anyways, SANTI has been kind of standing on his own, finding his balance, for awhile and has taken one or two steps here and there before this video was made but this night was when he was feeling most adventurous.

Santi walking