Pumpkin Patch and Announcement!

Today was a big day for the Ortegon family.  We found out this morning that we are having a baby GIRL!  We have been anxiously awaiting this day, and it is almost surreal.  We are a little shocked, and don't really know what we are going to do with a girl, after having a boy first.  We know that Mateo will be a wonderful big brother though, and are looking forward to March when we get to meet our daughter!  Juan seems nervous, probably more so about the bank account than anything else - and the amount of pink that will soon be in the house.  Anybody that has a boy though can relate - the clothes just aren't nearly as cute as they are for the girls!  I've had to walk past them for too long without buying!

Since we had the day off, this afternoon we took Mateo to the Dallas Arboretum pumpkin patch.  It was so amazing - I've never seen so many pumpkins - over 50,000.  Mateo had a blast, although I'm not sure when he turned from little boy to monkey.  It seems like overnight he has decided that he can climb anything - and he can.  This past weekend at Lady's while fixing his lunch, I had my back turned for a split second and he climbed into his high chair on his own.  And now at home he has started climbing up onto his changing table (time to put it away).  He climbs every piece of furniture, shopping carts, and anything else he can. 

Needless to say, Mateo climbed on everything at the pumpkin patch.

Trying to pick up a really big pumpkin.

Picking up baby pumpkins.  Pretty sure these were part of the display and not supposed to be picked up.  Sorry Arboretum.

A very mischievous smile.

Yes, let's see how far we can climb on the pumpkins.

Stop and pose for a pic.

They had several houses built from pumpkins.

Another display to climb.

Another display to climb.

Another mischievous smile.

Pumpkin house.

Climbing on (and jumping off) hay.  At least it was soft when he fell.

This was beautiful.  It was an arch of crepe myrtle trees.

First picture of me and Baby Mia at 18 weeks pregnant.

Weekend Pics

We had a nice weekend with Aunt Monkey and Uncle Worm in town to celebrate birthdays for the two of them and for Paw Paw.  Saturday morning we went to the open house at the local fire station and Mateo got to tour the firetruck and ambulance and meet some fireman.

Mateo's new favorite food is BROCCOLI!  As long as he will eat it, I'm going to make it as often as possible, because I'm sure it won't last.  I tried to tell him that cauliflower was just white broccoli, but he didn't fall for it.

One day this week they had red pajama day at school, so Mateo got to go to school in his pajamas.  Although they didn't announce it very well, so he was one of the only kids there wearing pajamas.  I'm glad he was too young to care!

When the weather turned nice last weekend we made a quick trip to the zoo with Lady.

This was Mateo's first train ride.  He really likes trains now and had a good time riding the one at the zoo, even though it was like a 2 minute ride.

Stay tuned later this week for more exciting news....