Happy 5th anniversary

It seems like we have been married forever and at the same time like it just happened yesterday. In 5 years we have: made 2 kids, bought a house, moved across the country, adopted 1 dog and 1 cat, bought a "family car" aka mini van, killed 1 fish and unimaginable amounts of bugs and we have loved every minute of it (or at least smiled like we did). Thanks for the best 5 years of my life, Te quiero mucho!

Called on a Mission

Our primary is having a missionary activity this Saturday so they passed out mission calls today. Olivia was called to the Romania Bucharest Mission and is to report to the MTC this Saturday. She told me that is sounded boring but I'm very excited to have a missionary in the family, even if it's for only an hour and half.

Spring Break

We had Logan for his spring break and Tomas took Wednesday off so we took the kids to the science museum in Dallas. The kids enjoyed the exhibits, especially the dinosaur room. Down stairs is a kid section, all hands on and the kids really enjoyed looking at bugs, playing in water, dressing up as firemen (Olivia kept yelling, "Fire in the Hole", I guess she thinks firefighters say this?) and there is a play barn with ride on tractors and a cow to milk.

Which one is which......can you tell?

Bunny Hop

Malaki has been getting up on his knees and rocking, more and more as he gets closer to the all important crawl. His latest addition to his moves is once he's up he hops on both knees. I'll try to get it on video because its hilarious.

7 months

Our little Malaki is 7 months today. What a little character he is, he loves to laugh, gets excited when he sees his family and always has a pat on the back for his dear old mom. What's exciting to me is that for the first time I have a kid in the 50 percentile in height, in fact he's worn out the toes of one of his pjs. He's also sitting up and I've caught him getting up on his knees a time or two, I'm sure he'll be crawling in the next month or so. Still no teeth but he's working on it, his mouth is a facet and he always has his hands in his mouth.

February....

February isn't one of my favorite months, it goes by too fast, is still too cold and it's over before I know it. But I do love Valentines day and this year we had a dinner at the Angeli's and I made a yummy strawberry cake with white chocolate frosting and yes I dipped the strawberries in chocolate and made them into little tuxedos (I know, I'm talented...LOL). Another reason this month passed so quickly is that I had my turn teaching preschool. 7 kids including Olivia for 3 hours, twice a week. Our curriculum is based on the ABC's and I had X, Y and Z. For x, we talked about x-rays (I'm so impressed that Olivia knew all the body parts that I had x-rays for, maybe she will become a doctor???), we drew our own x-rays, made x's with our bodies (jumping jacks)and for a whole day we were pirates (x marks the spot). For Y we did yoga, yodeling (we watched Julie Andrews on the Muppet's singing "The Lonely Goat herder" with the Muppet's)and yo-yo's and of course we ate yogurt. This week is my last week and for Z, we are going to learn about Zoo's, zippers and zebras.

Olivia: keeps me on my toes and my whole day is her either driving me nuts with her stubbornness or making me laugh with her silliness. She continues to be a budding photographer and is a great big sister to Malaki. Her latest funnies is a) she refuses to touch anything in the bathroom because she doesn't want her hands to be dirty and b)(as she's petting the cat) is counting off the ways to love a cat- 1, scratch her under the chin, 2, scratch her belly, 3, scratch between her ears, all demonstrated while talking. Speaking of talking, this kid talks a mile a minute and notices everything.

Malaki is getting bigger and bigger and I know this isn't impressive to some of you tall folks out there but he's in the 50 percentile for height, that's huge for my family of short people. Just this last week he's pretty much sitting up (doing the tripod sit) he just prefers to play and be on his tummy. He's not crawling but wiggles backwards (many times I find him stuck under a chair). He saw the cardiologist today and his echo shows the same numbers as he had 3 months ago, so she's pretty confident that it's not going to progress any further and we have our next check up in 6 months. He has really perfected his M and H sounds and quite often as he's babbling in his crib we hear "mama" and "ha".