15 months

Malaki just had his 15 month check up and I happened to find Olivia's stats from her 15 month.

Malaki: Olivia:
weight 20.2# weight: 21.9#
height: 283/4" height: 291/2"

I'm sure I'm going to miss a few but here a few things that Malaki does:
blows kisses & gives kisses
claps and says "edwin" (the cat)
climbs on everything
puts and pulls things from the garbage (even lifts the lid)
same goes for the toilet (grosses mom out)
runs away and laughs
only sits still and lays his head on mom's shoulder when he's either hurt or super tired.
still sleeps great! (mom's favorite)

The joy of dressing yourself.....

This is how Olivia left for school this morning...The best part was when she said,"I hope I don't look "rediculish" aka ridiculous

Happy Halloween

For a few short hours, we had an extra kitty and puppy at our house. Not "fur" real but just for Halloween. Olivia was a black cat and Malaki was a brown puppy. Malaki started the night out grumpy but once he learned that we were going to go for a walk, he was very happy. That was until he found out that kids were walking all around him and he had to join in. He didn't get the whole asking for candy thing but he liked walking up to the door and people handing him things, which he gladly gave to daddy until someone gave him a box of nerds that made lots of noise for him. He kept that one for himself.

We joined some friends to walk around and Olivia declared that every house was "haunted" and that Halloween was "awesome"! We had so many tricker-treaters that I gave most of her candy away after we got home. It was a great night for the Mendoza home.

Cute Face

I just love this little face

Pumpkin Patch

We had a very cold, wet and very muddy trip to the pumpkin patch yesterday. We learned that Malaki can climb in and out of the wagon and Olivia is getting to the age that she's not such a compliant model for Mom and Dad anymore. Oh, by the way, Malaki is pretty much walking, has been for the last week. He still gets down and crawls but he can stand up from the ground and walk, which added to the messy day!

Unwanted visitor

We live just into the country and we have a greenbelt right behind our house which has given the wonderful opportunity to be one with nature (not) and the nature I'm the least thrilled to be introduced is the snake. Especially since we do in live in an area that has poisonous ones. Since moving in 2 years ago, we have had 2 snakes in the house and 2 in the garage and 3-4 in the yard.

We have had a week of raining and the creek behind us was pretty high, so I'm sure this is why this little guy was up near us and I've never seen this one. By my research, I think it's a Texas Rat snake, if I'm wrong, I don't want to know. But it was on our outside wall climbing (I'm sure from the dogs). Tomas of course grabbed the camera and it actually got away before we could help it out of the yard. We now have snake repellent around the outside of the house.

Monkey boy

Malaki has many nicknames but one that is used often is Monkey Boy. Malaki has been in a hurry to get some where since he was born. It started at him rolling over at 2 1/2 weeks and he hasn't stopped. Almost everyone that sees him crawl comments on how fast he is. He's getting braver with the walking and has almost started running, almost like if he goes faster, he'll stay upright longer. So far, it hasn't worked really well for him Recently we bought a slide for the kids at a garage sale and it's a big hit for both kids. Malaki especially likes the freedom to climb and slide down. He crawls up the slide and then when he gets to the top, slides down on his belly. If he tumbles, well that's just something that makes him laugh even harder. The best $1 I ever spent at a garage sale.