Halloween

This was such a fun evening for us! What a difference a year makes! We were invited to my friend Angie's annual Halloween get together again this year and Elena really had fun. Elena was a butterfly and she loved her wings!

Getting ready to go

I'm ready!

Friends

With temperatures in the mid 70's lately, we've been enjoying trips to the park. Here's Elena getting dirty in the sand with Josiah and Dean. I think this is one of the few times she's really wanted to get in the sand. Perhaps she needed some boy influence.

Zoo

We finally made it to the zoo. We were waiting for tolerable weather and we got gorgeous weather. I'm also glad we waited because Elena was the perfect age to go. We went to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco, and we really enjoyed it. We felt it was very interactive, we didn't have to look hard for the animals in their exhibits and it was just the perfect size for a toddler and a pregnant woman.


Although, Elena loved this exhibit it made me much too uncomfortable to watch her so close to this carnivorous animal. The glass between them didn't convince me to feel otherwise. Was it my motherly instinct?

Pio, pio, pio, pio (peep, peep, peep, peep)

I don't know how but sometime ago Elena developed a love for chicks or as she likes to call them--"pio,pio." Maybe it happened during her first year when we took her to the A&M Poultry farm where Omar works on his research experiments and where we showed Elena chicks for the first time. Since then however we haven't been back until now, but nevertheless Elena often talks about chicks. She asks that we draw chicks on her Magna Doodle, she asks to listen to the Latin lullaby "Los Pollitos Dicen...pio, pio, pio..." (When the little chicks say peep, peep, peep), and she brings me the book with the song in it so that I can sing it to her. The song is also on her new bilingual Leap Frog farm magnetic fridge toy, and she presses the button that plays different songs but she presses it like a fast foward button until it gets to that song and she begins to sing "pio, pio, pio." She also has a Peep stuffed animal--you know those Easter marshmallow candies--and of course she plays with it repeating "pio,pio,pio..."

So I figured we must embrace this obsession, and I anxiously waited until Omar gave me the news that he'd get new chicks at the farm again. He did and so we went to visit the chicks. Again, I don't know how her love for them started but when we got there she must have said pio, pio 500 times!! She adored them and hesitantly pet them when we held them for her. I know she is particularly fond of chicks because when we went to see roosters, hens and turkeys she wasn't too interested. On the way home, she was so sad that she cried: "wah, wah, pio, pio, wah wah..." So her wonderful Daddy decided to loan us 3 little chicks to keep at the house until of course they start turning into chickens. Here's some footage of Elena at the Poultry farm.




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Baby Shower

Rachel, Melissa, Julia, Carie, Megan, Me


Learning to use a Moby Wrap


32 weeks pregnant

Last week my good friends hosted a baby shower to celebrate Baby G's arrival. I had a wonderful time! This shower compared to my last was different because we talked about some of the expected things about motherhood, and I even learned how to use a Moby Wrap (very practical!). Baby G received lots of gifts and I am now feeling closer to being ready for our new bundle of joy. Thank you ladies! I love you all!!