Scissors, and paper and tongues OH MY!

 

We decided we needed to make some of those Christmas countdown chain links so we could keep track of when the big, Jolly guy would be visiting us.  We didn’t have any green or red paper so the boys scribbled some color onto printer paper and got to work.  Marco has not become a master cutter, but Joaquin is still working to perfect this skill.  On a normal day, doing normal activities J’s tongue is in his mouth about half the time.  Put some scissors in his hand and the tongue is in about 5 % of the time.  This sure made for some funny pictures. 

Just getting started= very concentrated, but tongue stays in.

 

Quickly the tongue comes out and will remain that way for quite a while

Low and behold, I find that it is a brotherly trait they share.  Although Marco must be growing out of it, because it is less frequent with him.

This one is a classic.  Both tongues out and I’m not sure what Joaquin is cutting, but does look a little dangerous to me.  Maybe that is why my pictures stop here.

Camila 10 Months

 

 

This makes me think of old man, bitter beer face.

 

Her expression here screams, “Yeah, what are you looking at?”

I’m a pro at getting up and down.  I think I had to put a pillow on the ground for the boys at this stage.  She can stand on her own for a few seconds before dropping to the ground, but after a few times, she won’t even put any weight on her legs to stand.  I think it is her way of saying, “no thanks, I’m good right here close to the ground.”  I don’t see her being an early walker, but then again, none of mine were.

Look Mom, I can do the splits.  I’m pretty sure I was NEVER able to do the splits, even at this age.  Hell, I’m still working on getting the cartwheel down.

Thanksgiving 2011

We made our annual trek to Brady this year, but this was the first time we have ever taken a picture of this sign in the town square.  My friend Molly just had a baby boy and named him Brady so she requested Hector break the law by taking one of the Welcome Brady signs posted outside of town. We told her maybe next time, and will this picture do for now?   

The boys had a good time hanging out with Tio Felipe and Tio Oscar.

The boys with their tios and Tito and Tita

Sometimes the only pics I get of me are when I take them myself. 

My little Braves

Both boys had a Thanksgiving program at their school this year.  Joaquin had a Pow Wow complete with dancing and singing.  The funniest part was after each class sang, the kids did their best Indian war cry, and EVERY time Camila grabbed my shirt and buried her head in my shoulder.  You would think that after the first 3 or 4 songs she would know what was coming, but nope, each time was like the first time all over again.  Thankfully she never actually cried, but I sure thought she was going to.  At Marco’s school they had a feast at the end of the day, and a feast it was.  It was like carb-central, with their plates filled with chex mix, a giant roll, popcorn, pumpkin pie and pretzels.  Oh, and there was a bit of apple sauce on the side, but I don’t think many kids touched that.

The Annual Boys’ trip to Lubbock

Dallas Cowboys fun

Joaquin yelling “Go Cowboys”

This picture had all of us rolling with laughter in our seats.  Marco took the picture, an d the whole time I thought it would be a nice one of me and Joaquin.  Oh, its nice alright.  HA!  It still makes me laugh everytime I see it.

 

And of course, after laughing at the first pic the next objective seemed to be staged crazy self photos.  So the boys entertained themselves for all of the 2nd quarter with this.

Man, I’m never going to get a shot of everyone smiling, am I?

Halloween Fun 2001

 

Our pumpkins.  Marco picked the bat design and Joaquin the screaming ghoul.  And guess who was the lucky one to do all the carving…. yup ME!  The best part was eating the seeds after a light toasting in the oven.  YUM!

Joaquin at his Halloween parade at preschool. I didn’t even think to have him take the mask off while his class performed their song.  Oh well, I could tell he was singing under the mask because he was doing all the hand motions. 

Camila as Tigger.  This Halloween was a bit warm and all her other costume options were too hot.  Thankfully, all of them were hand me downs and can be used next year.

And she’s done with all the picture business.  Apparently chomping on acorns is more entertaining.

Marco and his neighbor friend Audrey.  Not that anybody said this, but Marco states “She is NOT my girlfriend!”

And this is only about 1/4 of the candy they got this year.  Thankfully they are still at the age where I can combine it all into one pile and they don’t fight over it. 

Too bad for her, she only got to “taste” it through the wrapper.

This year the boys would  mispronounce 3 major candy brands.

1) Reeses has become Reesas

2) Snickers is Sneakers

3)Whoopers is now whoop-ers (rhymes with Coopers)