Happy Birthday Mia!

Today Mia turned one.  This is a bittersweet day.  She has grown up so fast, but is turning into such a sweet beautiful girl.  It is so fun to watch her change every day.  We are so blessed to have such healthy, sweet babies!

The weekend ended great, but started out a little rough.  Juan left for Argentina last Monday, so I have been playing single mom all week.  Mia and Mateo both came down with a stomach bug that left us quarantined at the house all day Saturday.  That makes for a very long, restless day, but we survived.  They were both feeling much better today, so we went to Lady and Paw-Paw's to celebrate Mia's birthday.

Here are some pics of the birthday girl.

Definitely her mama's daughter.  She has a sweet tooth!  She dug into that cake.  Considering this is the first time she's had sweets it's surprising it didn't make her sick!

Here are some school pics from this week.  She is moving up to the next class at school tomorrow.

Cutest overalls ever!  Thanks to Grandma, Grandpa, and Nana for all the new clothes for Mia's birthday!

Suddenly Mia loves the stethoscope.  I am praying this is a look into the future!  Dr. Mia?!?

Also a sign she has my blood in her - she loves waffles with cheese!  And she loves cheese - unlike Mateo.  

Mia stops in her tracks to watch this movie.  This was a life saver Saturday.

And I guess she has some tomboy in her.  She's a climber unfortunately.  

Happy Birthday Mia!  We love you more and more every day!

Spring Please...

We are anxiously awaiting Spring.  This end of winter cold weather and being stuck inside does not make for very fun weekends.  Last Sunday the weather was decent so we had the first BBQ of the season at Lady's house.

Being a good big brother and pushing Mia in the swing.

Acting silly.

This was the aftermath.  While we were eating dinner, Mateo said "I'm gonna take a break and go sleep."  And he did.  He got up from the dinner table, went and laid down on the couch and went right to sleep.

Believe it or not, Mia will be turning one in about a week!  Where has the time gone??  So what is new with Mia?  She is walking pretty good now.  She can take 10+ steps on her own.  Either she is lazy, embarrassed to fall, or scared, because even though she can walk, she chooses not to most of the time....We have finally started her on whole milk, thank goodness, and thank you for the raise!  She is very vocal lately.  She can say "dog", "hello", and that's about it....She has quite the sense of humor, is always happy, and still wants to be in bed by 7pm.  We put her in her big girl car seat last week, and she looks like she is in heaven - like she has never seen the world before...Her hair is growing very fast, and it is quite an adjustment, actually having to fix a child's hair before we leave the house.

Mia with one of her favorite teachers, Ms. Holly.  She will be moving up classes in school soon, which makes me very sad.

This is Mia's little boyfriend, Denver.  They started at the same time, are the same age, and have been BFFs since day one.  The teachers say that they play so nice together, but only with each other...

So what's new with Mateo?  He loves doing mazes and connect the dots these days.  He is such a sweet and loving boy.  I wonder sometimes how he got so sweet.  His new favorite show is Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Power Rangers.  He is still very into sports, baseball and football, and anything boyish...

We re-did his room superhero theme recently.  These are his new letters covered in old comic book strips.