Our children.

SAM

Francisco: Yesterday as I was folding some of Sam's clothes I was filled with some sadness that he won't wear  some of those clothes anymore. He is finally moving from new born into 0-3month size (about time right?). I guess I felt sad because I'm not getting to spend as much time with him as I did with Luke and he is growing. My baby is growing. At night when I was getting ready to go to bed I felt happy that my clothes had Sam's baby smell on them. I love my two boys.

Emily: The boys had doctors appointments the other day. Sam was 10 lbs 3 oz. He has almost doubled in size! He was also 22 3/4 in. His weight, length, and head size were all riding around the 25th%ile. So he is very proportionate. He is perfectly healthy. He got 4 shots and had a rough time. He was fine at the beginning, but when we woke up from a nap a few hours later, he wouldn't stop screaming! It was so sad! You could tell it just hurt really bad. It also didn't help that Luke was jealous and tried to whack him with a toy golf club. Thankfully Luke has bad aim and only nicked his ear. We gave Sam some Tylenol and put heat packs on his legs which helped him a lot. He slept most of the day. The only problem was that all that sleeping made him wake up several times during the night!

Some milestones for Sam lately: He has started smiling like crazy! He is SO cute. and I'm pretty sure we heard his first giggle this morning. We will keep you posted if he continues that cuteness. He holds his head up pretty well, but he doesn't get a lot of tummy time because we are terrified of Luke stepping on him! So it might take him a little longer to start rolling over. He generally only wakes up once each night sometime between 3 and 5 depending on when we went to bed. When he is hungry, he is so funny he starts pumping his leg very rhythmically; just in and out. He will sort of fuss to let me know and then patiently waits for me to feed him, just pumping that leg. I have to get it on video! Overall, he is a very happy baby. We love him to pieces!

LUKE

Francisco: Luke is also growing so fast. He is learning the alphabet, numbers and colors. He knows green (verde), red (rojo), and blue (azul). He can associate the letter 'c' with casa (house),  'g' with globo (balloon), 'm' with mami, 'p' with pan (bread), 'u' with uva (grape). I'm pretty sure that at this point he is bilingual. His vocabulary is expanding in both in Spanish and English. I think though he knows more words in English since they are easier to say than in Spanish (eg. one syllable compare to 3 in Spanish). He watches TV in English and I only speak to him in Spanish. Emily also does a great job speaking to him in Spanish. I can honestly say that She's bilingual as well.

I have been trying to teach him that now he is two years old instead of one. So whenever I ask him how old he is (Cuántos años tienes?) now he says 'DOSH'. Which is actually dos (two). So yesterday I was with Sam and I asked Sam how old he was, and Luke came and whispered in Sam's ear DOSH. It was so adorable. I guess he is learning something!

Luke is also 'almost' potty trained. He's been 'almost' potty trained for a while, but he is getting better. He doesn't go number 2 on his own, it has to be on his diaper which is really annoying. We have to find a way to get it to go number 2 on the potty!  Number one is easy, even in public places like restaurants, church, etc. Now and then when he is too distracted playing he'll have an accident, but it doesn't happen very often.

Emily: Luke also went to the doctors. He weighed 25 lbs which is the 25%ile as well! I cannot remember his height, but it was in the 60%ile! I thought he was short but apparently he is tall! He hated the entire doctor appointment even though the only thing they really did was prick his finger to check iron status and for lead poisoning at the very end. He was happy to get a sucker, but then he dropped it as we were walking out the door, so we had to go back and get another. On our way home he passed out due to exhaustion with the sucker still in his mouth.

Luke is a very good boy. I am proud to report that he eats most of his veggies! His favorite is broccoli. He also still goes crazy for fruit. He will eat his fruit even before a cookie or a treat on his plate! We have a bit of a problem though. He was learned how to open the fridge. So, he will go and get the bag of grapes and sit down and have a feast! The other day he tried to eat a cube of butter! Yuck! We also bought go-gurt for the first time last week. (the yogurt in a tube). Anyway I gave him one and then left him at the table to eat it. After about 10 minutes I went to check on him knowing that a go-gurt does not take that long to eat! I found him still in his booster at the table with his elbow on the table and hand holding the tube up-side-down and resting on his forehead. He couldn't figure out how to get the yogurt out except to let it slowly drain up-side-down. It was so sweet, because I could tell he was so bored but he wanted to eat his yogurt!

Luke also loves to read! He can identify his books through the characters. For example, I can ask him to bring me the books with Corduroy and he will bring them! He loves characters. His favorites are: Elmo, Diego, Blue, Dora, Ming-Ming from TV and Corduroy, Biscuit, and Busytown from books. He also loves Mickey Mouse. He calls him "too-loo" because Mickey always says, "Oh Toodles!" The other night I put Luke to bed and I checked on him about an hour later to go and get his milk. I found him still awake with all his books all over his bed! What a good boy to stay in bed and read!

Luke loves to color. He can now draw faces and calls it "Papi". He loves for me to draw things. He always asks me to draw our family "papi, mami, baby, Guke" and trains "choo-choo". Maybe I am stupid but I trust him with pretty much any writing utensil by himself. He has free reign on colored pencils, some chalk and some crayons. I think he even has a pen in his room right now. But he has never really colored anything that he is not supposed to...

One last story: we made a ginger bread house a few weeks ago and Luke was so excited to realize it was made out of candy! Now, on a daily basis, he will ask to eat the "casha". It is slowly losing its decoration. haha.

We love our boys. They are so cute and sweet and even have fun together. Luke loves to go "night-night" with Sam in our bed. He loves to talk to him and make him smile. He says "Hi Nano!" "Mamo" (Te amo) and will squeal "Ai!" right in his face just like Papi. I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family. They are the best!