play time

Jesus and Esmeralda have learned how to play very well together they still fight sometimes but i can now trust them to play alone without to much fighting going on.

Esmeralda does the playing because Jesus still wont touch the screen


And Jesus will say when they are done with that game and its time for another game.


This is a new toy and before Jesus felt confident enough to play with it alone Esmeralda joined him in showing him how its done. Esmeralda puts in the cars and Jesus makes them go by pushing on the lever


i put Jesus inside Xavier's crib because he likes to play in there and Esmeralda decided to join him and you all are lucky this is not a video because they were yelling really loud.


Xavier was wondering why they were in his crib yelling ;)


also some outside play


Its so nice to see them getting along so well i cant wait to have all three kids playing together :)

going forward :)

jesus going down the slide

i know i'm no good at making videos :)

Road Trip

I decided to take the kids to visit family back home before Esmeralda starts school. we have no family around us and since my hubby is deployed it gets kinda lonely sometimes we hopped in the car and i drove us the 9-10hr drive :)

Our trip started of with therapy Jesus had hippo therapy and he does so good and gets so organized that we could not miss it.


he even did some walking


he was so proud of himself


i have no pictures of our actual trip because it was more important to drive than be taking pictures however i can say that the trip down we made it on schedule with about 4 stops to put gas and eat.

Esmeralda lost her first tooth at the age of 4.8yrs, her tooth was so loose it fell while eating a sandwich and she ended up swallowing the tooth. she has one more tooth that is also loose.




Jesus Enjoyed some swinging
at the park


and also in Xaviers swing he just needed the extra stimulation with being somewhere new.
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We had Erics Birthday party he is now 7yrs old :)




we went to the pool but my camera died :( and i forgot to take my charger with me...
The kids loved the pool Xavier stayed out of the pool he is still to little but Jesus stayed in the whole time as well as the rest of the kids it was a fun outing :)

My sister took the 3 older kids to the zoo and got there face painted Esmeralda loves to get butterflies


We then returned home and on the way home we just did one stop yes all kids behaved enough for us to do it all with one stop. we got home and unpacked and went to sleep. we had a fantastic time but now its time to go back to reality.
Then this morning i got a great picture of Esmeralda and Xavier (i have been trying to get him to smile but for a picture but every time i pull out a camera he stops smiling today at 2months and 4days old i was able to capture a smile :)

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Meal time

We try to have meal time together every meal even now that daddy isn't home we try to keep this time as family time so here is what its like i make the food and Esmeralda helps me set the table, Jesus enjoys eating yogurt so his meal is yogurt or pudding. i sit him down in the high chair and feed him, he is still not feeding himself actually if i put the bowl or spoon to close to him he will fling them and make a huge mess. then in the middle of eating or sometimes in the beginning Xavier realizes that he isn't part of our meal time so he starts crying so if you can imagine me with my 3 kids trying to listen to all the things Esmeralda has to say, trying to Feed Jesus and have him not make a big mess while i nurse Xavier and try to eat all at the same time. yes its hard and yes i sometimes feel overwhelmed and yes sometimes i feel like crying.
I miss having my hubby around and having an adult to talk to and basically there are times when i don't feel as strong as people say i am...

2hr drive

I know what your thinking a 2 hr drive one way with 3 kids under the age of 5 must not be a good idea however it was not as bad as i thought it would be actually it wasn't bad at all and the reason for the 2hr drive was so much fun that we will be doing it again (when we all have the time in our busy schedule)
we went up to visit with Kathleen Lee and her very precious son Joshua (Jesus's RTS brother)
first we went to eat i didn't get any pictures during this time i was to busy changing diapers from the long trip and eating and talking that pictures were forgotten then we went to bounce, here i did take pictures here are a few...

Jesus exploring


Joshua showing me how his toy works


and getting super excited about it :)


i couldnt get the boys to stay still enough to take a picture of them together


Esmeralda sliding


and even Kathy joined in on the jumping




we had a great time! cant wait for the next time :)