My loves

To my olive and little man,

It's been months since I've written. It feels like days blend sometimes and things like dishes and laundry get shoved to another day just for me to spend those few extra moments with you. Lately, I feel like you're growing and things I long wished have come and I look back on the days before with a tear in my eye because although we wish them to come, we never realize what we had.

Little man
   We have accomplished taking away the bottle and you are for the most part an all night sleeper. You eat like a champ and could probably some day eat us out of house and home but that's okay :)
I watch you every day play with your sister, run and hide from her, and overall just love her despite that fact that she can get rowdy. You are my buddy. You bring me books to read, Legos to take apart, and blankets to snuggle you with. You love to be held close and love when i whisper sweet little love secrets in your ear and I love it. I truly love and soak in all you have to offer. I miss our early morning car rides when you couldn't sleep. I miss having you lay on me as you drink a bottle. I miss just the baby moments that are  now memories. You are my sweet summer rain that comes when most needed. You refresh me and bring me back to earth when the world gets complicated. May you always be my sweet boy who wants to climb on me and kiss me because I'll always happily oblige.

My olive
   You are my wildfire. You love independence and are happy all the time. Lately, you've taken it upon yourself to switch from your crib to your big girl bed. I'm so proud of you. It's the moments when we let you be that you grow up and decide when you're ready on your own terms. The other nighti opened the day and just gazed at your beauty. I looked at the empty crib and cried. I know that you're growing up it wasn't until I saw the empty crib that it hit me. Your not the tiny baby anymore. I can close my eyes and still see me kneeling by your crib, rubbing your back as you tried to sleep.i can see me leaning in to kiss your sleepy eyes and you laughing because you can see me getting closer. What if those days are no more? What if I can no longer lean in and kiss your little face? I know this had to come and I welcomed it but I would be lying if I didn't say I miss those days with such passion. I hope you always remember that you're my baby no matter how old you are. Remember that you can run into my arms and I will gladly keep you there. I love our time together while your baba naps. I love that you still snuggle with me and kiss me and just make me feel like you need me. I love you my love and I will forever be your best friend. I hope your still tell me "tauntie, you're my best friend". You are so smart and may you never forget that

To both of you,
You are my world. May you never forget it. You make my world a perfect place and I love  you to the moon and back.

How time flies

It is hard to believe how fast time flies:
Olivia, you are already a two year old and full of that adventurous spirit. These days, you sport a bruised nose and two scraped knees...being a toddler is what you do best! You love watching Doc McStuffins and have become quite the little doctor yourself. You love your little brother and especially even more now that he is walking. You have decided sharing with your baba is fun although you do have your selfish moments.

Paul, well this week started with you taking walking as a full time activity (both you and your sister walked before your fist birthday). I can not even believe that your first birthday is right around the corner and you are showing the ambition and craziness of a one year old. Before we know it, you will be just like your sister and full of signs that you're an active little person. You still have trouble at night but that doesn't stop you from being a super adorable little man. You love playing with your sister's toys and you especially love opening her door in the morning so as to be the first to greet her.

The truth is, you both are perfect and I wouldn't trade the hard or easy days/nights for the world. I love you both and I hope you always know that.

Love, Tauntie

Happy 8 months baby boy

With all of the days chaos I let your very important day go by unnoticed. Baby boy you turned 8 months old yesterday 4/26 and I treated it like any other day. In fact, it is not like any other day. The 26th of each month is a reminder of your special day. A day in August that we first got to meet you face to face. As you near your first birthday my heart breaks a little that my baby is growing up. You are so loveable and happy. Your smile is so infectious and those cheeks…..Oh my gosh, those cheeks.  You roll over now with such ease, you army crawl yourself over to all your sisters toys (much to her dislike) and you love to stand up and bounce around. You love your sister and thankfully she is warming up to you. Recently you both have decided that bath time together is much more fun than apart.  You both are so cute sitting in the bathtub while daddy tries his hardest to wash you both between laughter and playing.   Happy 8 month birthday my little Paul Maximus. You make my heart skip a beat every time I see you smile. Love, mommy

There's these moments

There's these moments that hold a special place in my heart that can/will never be moved. Such as the first time I saw my little man, the first time Olivia saw the Disneyland Christmas parade, the first time it snowed( at Disneyland) when I was holding Olivia and she just smiled and hugged me, the first time I rocked my Paul to sleep, the first time I saw Olivia give her brother a bath, the look of Olivia in boots, a diaper, and sunglasses as she was ready to go out and play.These and so many more memories will fill my heart. So here is to lots of great memories and a lifetime more to come


Love, auntie

oh boy

oh little boy, why oh why do you refuse to sleep?

love, your tired family

Little Boy

Little Boy,

These past 7 months have been an adventure. Never could I have imagined loving another little person as much as I loved your sister. Amazingly, God makes our hearts big enough to love over and over again. I fell in love with you the first time I saw your little heart beat on the ultrasound but months later, this is a new kind of love.

I love your smile and your laugh, especially when you see your sister do something so silly. I love your chubby baby cheeks and baby toes.  I love that little place in your baby neck that smells just like a newborn. I love the way your head fits on my shoulder when you are tired. I love the way you grab your toes, I love you , I love you, I love you.

Although sleepless nights have plagued us since the beginning and through tired eyes we have stayed up way past everyone else’s bedtime, I would do it all over again and again.  You are the perfect addition to our little family.  Thank you for your patience as I try to parent two little people with such different personalities, thank you for your forgiveness as I try to remember this stage in babyhood, and thank you for letting me love you so much!

love, Mommy

Baby Boy

Little Paul Maximus is here and the house has been a beautiful and chaotic place

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Olivia- The beautiful

Olivia riding the carrousel...she cried when it came time to take her off

Her favorite thing--sitting in the car and honking the horn

Olivia playing with her sand

Did I mention- Olive is the lead singer..yea she rocks

cuteness

Warning: this is the face you get when you take away a big stick from an adorable toddler

PS...Baby Paul will be here soon!!!!! yay..I can hardly contain myself

I wonder

The time is fastly approaching when my nephew will be here. I can't help but stop and think about how different it is going to be. Olivia will no longer be the only child, she will no longer have us ALL at her disposal. I know that she will never remember her time as the one and only but I always will.

It amazes me how much all our lives will change within the next month but we are ready and willing to have him come at any time. So Baby Paul feel free to meet us at anytime because we are all waiting for you, especially your sister, She is ready to plant kisses all over you.

Oh my olive, how much fun she has coming her way and she doesn't even know it yet :)

It's Love

Sweet Summer Love

I love this picture of Olive in the pool. Those blueberry eyes sparkle in the sun.

I am entering this photo in The Paper Mama's photo contest...yay!!!!

15 months

Dear love,
It is hard to believe that it has been 15 months since you graced the world with your presence. 15 months seems so little, yet I have known you since day one and now you are, well-- YOU. You are the epitome of beauty, silliness, sweetness, and love. I can't believe in just a few short months, your brother will be here with us and I cannot wait to see how you are with him. You have grown so much since your first birthday and do so many new things these days. Here are what you are up to these days:

-you know how to say buh-bye,go,kiiiy for kitty
-you put on your purse and wave goodbye to us, you can walk down the steps(mostly without help), you know how to tell us "shhh" when the kitty is sleeping, you run , and boogie to the sweet sounds of music. You climb your chairs, sit in a booster seat, you climb everything in sight, you love to vacuum. You know the sounds of a cow, monkey,and puppy. You stop to say hi to every puppy on our walk.
-you cuddle all your animals like babies and have recently started cuddling with us. You love to grab your binky from the freezer and walk to your room to point to your crib. You love Gertie.
-you like to color, love to be startled,love the sound of your own stomping on the kitchen tile, you love dirt and exploring the outdoors, you love stroller rides. You love sitting in boxes for some reason. You love playing ball. Bathtime is your fave. You love toy story3 and tangled.
- anything that isn't yours, must become yours. You love sitting at the sink and brushing your teeth. You know how to give besito and make kiss lips. Spaghetti and watermelon are your choice of food.
-you are cute and there is much much more.

I love you, lovebug and I look forward to a million more months of getting to see your personality grow.

Love,
Auntie

It's times like these

There are days when I can't get enough of Olive and these past few days were those days. She was just adorable in her Cinco de Mayo dress. She is the epitome of perfection(in my eyes). Today, we sat and watched Toy Story 3. She sat on the floor with her water and cheddar bunnies while I laid behind her with my arm wrapped around her waist. It was a beauty to lay there and just relax with her. She let me massage her cute andouilles aka her toes. We sat there forever, Me with my arms around her just absorbing all her cuteness, her smiling as woody and buzz try to get back to Andy. It was pure perfection. Its hard to think, that someday, faraway, she will be an adult and our time like this will be a thing of the past. That's why the ending to toy story made me tear up. Spoiler: the gang sits there and waves goodbye to Andy as he drives off on his way to college. I realize that is going to be me someday. I will stand there and wave to her while she drives off to start her new adventure.

So I laid there with my eyes close, just feeling her breathe. I don't know of any auntie that has had this experience and maybe I am just one of the lucky few. I thank my sister and brother in law for this opportunity. For the opportunity of watching a newborn become an infant and then a toddler and so on.

So it's times like these that make me realize how much I love being an auntie to the little girl that sits there so sweetly and let's you cuddle...and also to the little girl who yells at you for not giving her the watermelon...it's love

Easter and an iphone

On Saturday, I received the greatest gift ...an IPHONE!!!!! I couldn't believe i was am the new owner of an iphone....pinch me I must be dreaming! That was my Easter gift from my niece, sister, and brother in law. Oh how marvelous it is but on to the talk about our Easter day. We went to visit my parents and siblings where we had the most delicious prime rib...yum! I made creamed spinach which was much easier than I thought and hid the eggs for everyone to find. This hiding of the eggs is harder than it seems. I mean you need to be really smart about where you hide them. We, of course, threw a few on the grass for Olivia to find since she cant really climb trees yet.

 Uncle Gabes was serenading Olive

 Everyone was impressed that Olive knows what a mic is, believe me, she belted out those tunes

Here is Sir, he is our old kitty. He decided to stay away from all the action

 She was mad that she couldn't go check the other neighbors yards

Ahhh, the things I do to try and get her to eat.

Gertie and Tangled

Lately, Olivia has been in love with the movie Tangled. She can sit and watch the entire movie if we allowed her to. I dont know what it is but she acts like everytime is the first time she is seeing it. We tried giving her variety and putting on Charlotte's web or Yo Gabba Gabba...but sadly no one makes her smile like Rapunzel. Maybe we will take her to Disneyland soon enough where she can meet the actual Rapunzel.

 

and as promised....a picture of Gertie!

Snap! She's awesome

This post is going to be mostly pictures. Lately, Olivia's little personality has been shining through and I can't help but LOVE it. She is such a squeaker!!!!

Birthday Fun!

classic Olive

Wisteria Lane and Nathan Fillion

Desperate Housewives. Probably one of my favorites shows ever. It has drama, drama, and even more drama.  Well, on Friday my sister surprised me with tickets to A Block Party on Wisteria Lane. We arrived Saturday, at Universal Studios (where Desperate Housewives is shot) and were taken on a tram to Wisteria Lane. On the Bus sitting next to me, Desiree, and Michelle was Nathan Fillion. He was so cute, tall, and muscular . We all drooled just a little bit. So began our uh-mazing night . We toured all the houses which was more fun for me and Desiree. (Michelle was there for only one reason: Nathan Fillion. ) The night was spectacular and so were the house. They look just like they do on tv. Eva Longoria's (Gaby's) house was so beautiful  and it was open for us to go inside. The most amazing of all the houses was Dana Delany's house in the show. I had a blast and was glad that my sister gave me the opportunity to walk on the set of the show. I acted like a total nerd most of the night and squealed with delight at the sight of every house. I got to meet, Dana Delany, Marcia Cross, and a few other celebrities. To say Desiree and I embarrassed Michelle is an understatement. We yelled like schoolgirls. I dont care. We had fun and Michelle got Nathan Fillion's autograph. Oh such a beautiful night to be among the  celebrities.