Mateo's 1st Birthday

Well we had Mateo's first birthday on Sunday, October 19th. We had about 30 people at the house. We didn't really do any games or anything, those will come at later nirthday parties. I will however post a couple of the pics. He got a few presents...Stacking alphabet/number blocks, a infant baseball toy, $10, Nike sneakers and some small dollar store items from children.

His big cake was Diego, couldn't really plan for anything else quick enough, and he had a small chocolate cake w/ chocolate frosting for himself. We had pizza and chips......

The Big First BDAY

My baby is going to be A YEAR OLD in 13 days and it's so depressing, why does time have to fly by??? He is walking, talking, and he is quite the little climber, and he also likes to play with his big brothers kid size soccer ball(but, of course, he's mexican so FUTBOL is in his blood)...

A list of some words he says and his pronunciation real word will be in parantheses. Mama, Dada, Brara(Brother/hermano), Dio (Tio), Dayo (Teo..his name), baba (bottle), Mih (milk), Agee (Paige, his cousins name), Nigh Nigh(nite, nite). I have been working on him saying Te Amo (I Love You, in Spanish), he says the Te part. He also claps his hands when we say Yea Teo!!!! or When Dada says Bravo!!!. When he sees someone coming or going he waves, he did it today while we were walking down the street to a neighbor we don't really communicate with regularly. He is getting sooo big and I can't stand it.

Pablo, my big boy will be 4 in December and he never shuts up...He says small palabras malas(bad words) like fat ASS, SHIT pants and he says COPsucker luckily the last one isn't too bad since he deosnt say it right. He is quite the little terror though (un diablo). He is trying really hard to be out ofhis pull ups and in underwear. He now has 2 money collection jars one at home and one at his Aunt Toochie's (My sister Moochie..a nickname) He is told every time he uses the potty he will get money in them and when he fills them up he will have enough to buy his Handy Manny Truck that is like $55.00 at WalMart, so he has been doing well with it between the two houses he has like $20.00 of it already.

Tomorrow he is getting a chance to go to the Topsfield Fair in Massachusetts. It has animals, Games, Rides and Much Much more. He enjoyed Deerfield Fair last weekend so hopefully he likes Topsfield Fair. If you are not from around Massachusetts or New Hampshire these fairs are mainly Agricultural and full of Animals, more for learning than playing. But he gets to do both each time....We normally hit a third Fair too Called Rochester Fair which is in New Hampshire also, that one is the coolest one because they have Bull Riding Competitions unlike the other too, it's awesome, he really enjoys himself, but then he is a kid and he LOVVVVVVVVVVVVES ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big Time, he does have a pet dog, her name is Luna Llena(Full Moon) and she is 75% WOLF (Lobo) and 26% Husky (un typo de perro). Thats is it for tonight Enjoy the blog. Hope to hear back from someone anyone I know on here. TTYAL (talk to you all later) Bye for NOW....Hasta luego, Adios.

Sorry, it's been over a month

I can't believe I haven't posted in over a month. Well I have been busy between mom duties and school who has time for anything else. I have been in classes for a months now, I had 1 test and turned in an essay thats a test grade......My medical language test was last week, I will find out tonight how I did. 2 weeks ago I handed in my first Essay (a test grade in English Comp), it was about a remembered event in my life...Great so many but I chose to srite about my first time giving birth, I got a B, before I handed it in two girls in my class read it, one of whom is pregnant and all she could say after reading it was I hope my delivery isn't this scary...lol Poor girl.....

Mateo has been sick, he has about 3-4 teeth all coming in right now and his birthday is 2 weeks from Friday he will finally be 1....

We went to Deerfield Fair in New Hampshire over the weekend and it was Mateo's first Fair he loved it, especially the monkeys in the zoo tent, he couldn't take his eyes off them and he got scared when we got near a Nubian Goat from Africa they are quite "tall".......

My husband might not go to Mexico as planned , he can't seem to save the amount of money he wants to in order to leave....So that I will have to update people on....

Other than that nothing special has been going on, hopefully I remember to post again soon...

4TH TOOTH

Mateo's 4th tooth came in tonight now he has the two front teeth on bottom and on top....My husband is due to leave in early to mid november for Mexico. Hopefully everything works out the way I'd like it to for myself and my kids. I will keep updateing those who know and those who care to know.

Finally!!!!!!!!!!!! and then some

Well it's been awhile since last but....Mateo got his first teeth on May 1st and May 13th..He was 6 months old....Well finally with a few days to go before he is 10 months old his 3rd tooth popped out and the 4th is following suit. I have been waiting for what seems like forever for him to have more than 2....and Finally he's got 1 more and 1 coming in SOON!!!!!!!!

As for myself, I start college classes on September 3rd. I am planning on getting a certificate in Medical Billing and as I finish classes working on 2 other certificates..same idea but all 3 mean good paychecks hopefully. The other 2 certificates are going to be Medical Coding and Medical Transcription. My first 2 classes start the 3rd they are Spanish between 1215P and 130P and then that night between 6P and 840P I will be doing Business Accounting and Bookkeeping.
my other two courses set to start that week are English Composition and Medical Language.
My sister will have her hands full 3 nights a week, she will have my 2 boys and my brothers 2 kids(ages 9 and 11) since he works at night. Then well Spring semester comes hopefully I have all day time courses.....

In other news, Juan Sr's father is sick, but not deathly that we know of and he might be planning to go into the Mexican Consulates office to get what he needs to fly from here to Mexico..since he's still illegal. But then comes the part of how or when he will get back here. Im hoping he makes me apply for a visa and doesn't choose to try and sneak back across the border...I hear all kinds of stroies lately about people having trouble applying and receiving visas if they had originally been here illegally, so Im hoping it's not too hard...But hopefully some of my dads rich friends have some pull somewhere..btw Dad has a good friend inside the Immigration Departments walls so hopefully the legal way isn't as hard for me as it has been for some. Wish me Luck with everything and I will keep whomever reads my blogs posted on the situation....Enjoy the remaining days of summer everyone they are almost over for the year...Will post agin soon

Nothing Special Once Again

It's been a while since I wrote but let's see if I can speed through the last couple of weks. Only things significant really is Juan Pablo got ma at Mammy and Grampa last week they took off to Maine for a week and didn't take him. He told me he wasn't going to talk to Mammy no more.....They called the night before they got home and he DID!!!!! talk to Mammy. They brought him and Mateo home some stuffed bears that said West Quaddy Lighthouse, Lubec Maine...it's way up by Canada, actually five minutes away from where they were staying. Yesterday we went to a wedding, my dad's cousins duaghter Kelly married her boyfriend of maybe 6 months. So now she is a wife and step mother. I asked her when she'll be adding to their small family she said hopefully soon, so we'll see if she gets pregnant soon or not. That's it for now.

He can SWIM!!!!

Juan Pablo now swims without water wings. My sister bought him a pair of goggle that block his nose and he now goes in the pool without help and knows to close his mouth as he swims around the pool. He swam from the middle to the ladder about 9 ft away. the pool is 18 feet around. Then he proceeded to keep swimming back and forth between my sister and cousin and me. And Mr Mateo he got a new float its shaped like a crab and has a sunshade on it to keep the sun out, even though he wears sunscreen and a bathing suit set that keeps the rays off him.

July 3-6 Weekend of fireworks and fun.

So we went to fireworks in 3 different places this weekend and then just had some good things going on at home. We saw fireworks in Haverhill, Massachusetts and Salisbury Massachusetts, we also saw them at Canobie Lake Park in Salem New Hampshire. On Sunday we had a cookout at my parents. We swam most of the time. Mateo did some interesting things today here are some shots of that and a couple of firework shots. The first one he was just standing and the second he did a quick walk to dada on the bed, the other three shots are of the fireworks we saw one pic from each location.

Happy 4th of July, 2008

We went to the firworks nearby tonight(actually the 3rd) and here are some pictures I took of the boys and some of the fireworks. Mateo actually wasn't paying attention at first so I drove right across from the stadium, and then he saw all the pretty "lights" that went boom and smiled. By the time the finale came Mateo was asleep and we were 100 feet away and he slept right through the MEGA BOOMS. Pablo was excited to be closer this year at the sma eshow than he was last year.

Pool Fun

Well, yesterday my cousin Stacy came up with her two oldest kids and her brother Matt. So we went swimming in the pool even though they had actually planned to go to a nearby pond, but I talked them out of it because it was like 6pm and they would have paid 15 dollars for 2 hours. We ended up in the pool til a little after dark. It was them, myself bpth my boys and my niece and nephew. Mateo was in his boat float for about 2 hours before I had to take him out and put him to bed because he got tired, Juan on the other hand, once he gets in with his arm floaties forget it, in a about a week I will stop letting him use the floaties for long periods of time, at the end of last summer at 2 1/2 years old he was doggy paddling his way above water without help(the pools 4 ft deep when full.) With LOTS OF close eyes on him. I was loving that I was swimming above water at 3 he beat me by almost a year. Stacy's two kids don't swim alot so Tyler (2) didn't do much but get dunked then he played on the swing and bikes. Savannah (3 1/2, shes 3 weeks older than Juan) was pretty much sticking to the ladder, unless her Uncle Matt was holding her. But eventually the little kids and I got out, then Matt and the big kids (ages 9 and 11) tossed out the ladder and started making a whirlpool, after about 20 minutes Juan was in helping them make the whirlpool. So my next swim mission is to take photos while the kids are in the pool and post them. Posting again tomorrow. Bye for now.

Long Road Trip, Never doing it again

Well yesterday we drove one hour to my BIL's house from there we drove another hour and 15 minutes to 1 30 minutes away to a birthday party at a friends. It was my husband and kids in my car plus me and my sobrinos, we followed my BIL his wife and their baby. We were on Route 2 in Massachusetts for what seemed like FOREVER AND A DAY before we reached our end point which is a little city called Fitchburg which is in the middle of no where I think. I told Hubby it felt like I was driving in MAINE with farmlands all over the sides of the highway. I thought it was going to be a quick drive, so did he, we were wrong and don't plan to drive there again, we'll see our friends and their son when they come into our neck of the woods.....We seriously went through or by like 20 towns. It might have been quicker if we went from my parents than if we had gone from where we did. On the way bac to BIL's house it was me, my SIL (who doesn't speak ANY ENGLISH) and the 5 kids, my husband and BIL were in the other car. My husband drove because BIL was drunk, he took 2 wrong turns and we were back to the house before them...I pointed out the first mistake and he missed the highway exit we needed to take the second time, but I called him and told him what exit to take off that highway and he'd be in the right town and know where to go after that. Like I said Not planning that trip again ANYTIME in the near futre or far future.

Small Road Trip

Well, we drove an hour tonight after downpours all day to pick up daddy at his brothers. My boys got to see their tios(aunt&uncle in spanish) and their primos (cousins). Juan spent the whole 3 hours we were visiting running around the apartment with his primos Gavino, and Diana while Mateo took turns with his primo Andres in the walker, they are 3 weeks apart, Andres being the oldest of the two. My sobrino (nephew) Andres has this really wild hair that is everywhere just like Juan jr did when he was an infant. The kids all get along good together even the babies but they dont know any better anyhow. My brother in law Gavino and his wife Cecilia are Juan jr's Parinos (god parents) and they slipped him a twenty while we were there and his Padrino Gavino told him to spend it on dulces (candy) Great hyper active 3 year old when we finally go to the store. Just kidding Ill let him get one candy and one toy with it and the rest will go into his Dinosaur Bank. Mateo was slipped a ten and 3 ones, that will go directly into his teddy bear bank since he's only a baby and won't know what to get with it......But that was a round up of today, will try to post another with pictures tomorrow.

Father's Day Gift finally done

Well, as we all know Fathers Day was the 15th, my sister picked up a T-shirt for Juan from the boys for Fathers Day, but she didn't get it to him or I before the day came so unfortunately I didn't get to put the boys handprints on it before he was given the shirt, so we finally got the boys all dirty and are ready to give "Papi" the finished version this weekend. The red is Mateo, you can tell because he was very impatient with his first hand, and thegreen well obviously it's Juan Jr's . Besides that we haven't done anyhting in particular today. At 4 we went into Walmart to get my sister from her job, both boys left with a new toy. Juan Pablo is obsessed with anything that flies (airplanes, jets, choppers..mainly) so he got an airplane and Mateo as an infant he is easy, he got a "keyring" toy with colorful little shapes hanging off and it's handle was shaped like a monkey.

Later we went to my foster sisters house and Juan spent his time running around like crazy with my sisters nephew, when they get together forget it, I don't see much of him except when I check on him in her backyard (thank god for fences).....

In other glum news, I was supposed to babysit my cousins little ones for her brothers wedding, but she had arranged for another sitter just in case, and that sitter got back to her first. Well we were talking and she saw recent pics of my boys, and it upset her to see how big Mateo got. Her daughter Caoimhe, (pronounced Keeva) would have just turned 6 months on the 13th, but she grew wings at 16 days old, due to complications of RSV. So when she saw the pic and realized how big her daughter would be getting it upset her, she was crying on the phone talking to me...Which in turn made me cry. But we were both ok before we hung up.

Mr. Mateo has been a little wild today, I let him feed himself TUBS of babyfood today, this was the first time he fed himself anything that wasn't finger foods (ones actually meant for toddlers) he wore it, his high chair table top wore it, somehow he even managed to get it on his feet. He loved it and the mess, it was blueberry, pear and oats, it was a little thick because it was 2nd foods. He was adorable even though he was all messy, I just wished I had taken apicture of him with my digital camera or even my cell phone, and was able to put that on here....Maybe the next time......Well until the next ime, see you later.

Nothing Special

Hello, this is my first blog but it's nothing important. I will basically post blogs to rant and rave about things in my life and of course the things my kids do. I love them both dearly, I am very greatful to have two boys, girls would have been a problem for me, I know how I was growing up and I don't ever want to see it repeated in a daughter of mine, so I guess it was a good thing I got boys. My oldest son Juan Pablo likes to tell "Stories" whether real or not and if he gets going forget it, he'll never stop. Mateo on the other hand I don't have to worry yet all he ever says is ma ma ma ma ma or da da da da da or mum mum mum...Nothing big with him yet and if I am not mistaken he tries to say his brtohers name too...When Juan jr is bad I tend to scream Juan Pablo at him and Mateo says what sounds like PaLo at times he only misses out on the B.....Which is fine, the two most important things to say he does at his age. My daily life consists of seeing and dealing with my boys. In the afternoons I transform into a taxi because my 29 year old sister hasn't got a license yet....So I get to bring her home from her job, mind you I drive 10 minutes to her work and 15 minutes to her house so by the time I get home it's been a little bit over an hour ride......My kids are easy, Mateo isn't into anyhting special yet, but once he's on the floors he's gone and Im constantly chasing him. Juan Jr he likes to watch certain cartoons but loves to be outside playing with his WOLF dog Luna or riding his bikes/rideons he's got like 10 of them, maybe a little less. They both also like to go in the pool in the hot weather fortunately we live in New England so it's not an everyday/year round thing. My husband is a workaholic, he spends his weeks Monday through Saturday at his landscaping job(really good at it and into it) On Saturdays afternoons after working all day and on Sundays he's hard at work making our yard look nice(Well my parents yard in New Hampshire). He likes to sing with Mexican music and he's actually got a really good voice to do it with. I am american and he is mexican. We have been together for 6 years and married for 4 come December. That's it for now, a little background on me and the Family.