October 14-15

Christian and Luisy are doing just great! We've been having a fantastic weekend. Today the Stanley Steemer guys came and cleaned our sofas, and Luisy's little armchair. After they left, Luisy took it upon himself to use anything that could be used as a pretend vacuum to clean everything in sight! He had fun pretending that he was steam-cleaning the couches.

We played outside today quite a bit - today was the first day that we can think of this season when the entire day was nice... never got too hot!

Luisy has been keeping us entertained with his tantrums and his logic/problem-solving skills lately... here are some examples:

Threw a 45 minute fit because he wanted a Vanilla Wafer in the car, on the way home from daycare. Didn't get a Vanilla Wafter... Stoped said fit to get washed up for dinner, sat down at table and then demanded Vanilla Wafer. Did not get cookie. Took bath... just standing there, not playing or enjoying himself... then decided to resume fit. After much contemplation... he said to Mommy... "I think that I know where the cookies are hiding behind that other box in the cabinet!" How could Mommy resist... so, Luisy goes searching. Finds cookies... and says, "Yeahhh, yeah."

Luisy wants the windows down in the truck - but mommy explains that we can't have the windows down because we're driving too fast, and there will be too much wind on Christian's face. So, we slow down to stop at a red light a while later and Luisy reminds Mommy and Daddy that, "we're going slower now. Can we open the window?"

And... today at the lunch table, 'Mano' was playing with Luisy (Mano is daddy's hand - "mano" is the Spanish word for hand - for any who didn't know) and, just for the record, Mano only speaks Spanish - well, he translates sometimes to English... Anyway, Mano asks Luisy, "Quien es el?" (who is he?) referring to Christian, and Luisy replies, "that is Christian Boy..." and thinks for a minute, and then adds, "my cutie-pie." Oh, mommy's heart melted.

And... not to be forgotten, Mr. Christian is working hard at becoming just as crazy and smart as his big brother... He learned how to pull himself up onto the sofa today... without standing on something else for the extra inches. So, mommy and daddy were in the kitchen talking and cooking dinner and Christian and Luisy were in the family room playing, and all of the sudden, Christian in ON the sofa, ON TOP OF the boy kitty... smiling and squealing and laughing (not Boy Kittty, Chistian!) Oh... poor kitties.

Christian loves to give the best hugs now... This is one of mommy's favorite stages... he'll just walk over to you and climb up in your lap and put his arms around your neck and lay his sweet little head on your shoulder and HUG. Sigh. It is too cute for words.

Well... we hope you are all great... We have pictures at Walgreen's being developed now, so hopefully tomorrow or Monday we'll get some new ones up!