I love orange!

We went to celebrate Miss J's birthday today at Kiddie Acres. When we got out of the car Nicho screamed out with excitement, he loves Kiddie Acres. He rode all of the rides but we noticed that he picked only the orange rides. It is so funny, the boy loves orange...future Longhorn should I say? Mommy would prefer a Notre Dame little Leprechaun ;)
Happy second birthday J, we love you!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there and to all of my special amigas! I had a wonderful Mother's Day with my two men starting out with John letting me sleep in this morning and taking over with bear. They both made me breakfast and it was so yummy! We went to church after wards and then came home and all took naps. We went to the park when we all woke up and then had another yummy dinner. We finished up the evening by reading LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch to my favoritest little boy in the whole wide world and put him to bed. I love being a mother!

Where The Wild Things Are

Last Wednesday was Sophia's birthday. We celebrated her birthday today. She had a puppet show birthday party. The kiddos made sock puppets and after wards were read Where The Wild Things Are by a puppet Goblin. I thought for sure Nicho would be scared of the puppet but did well and so did the other kiddos. Happy second birthday Sophia!

Nicho taking a break for juice

Nicho's sock puppet, he picked out the eyes and the hair

He loves story time

March of Dimes

Today we joined Paul, Carla, and Sophia, along with my in-laws for the March of Dimes walk. Sophia was born premature exactly one month before Nicho. She was originally due for mid July 2007. She weighed 3 lbs at birth and stayed in the NICU for a little over a month until she gained weight and was healthy to go home. This walk is very special to Carla and we were very happy to walk with her and all the other families who also hold a special place in their hearts for premature babies and honor babies that didn't survive.

John's Parents aka "Granny and Grandpa", Paul, Carla, Sophia, Me, and Nicho

Nicho and his Granny

Picture time with the HEB Buddy bag of groceries

Nicho and Grandpa

Nicho bear had a blast walking and running on his own.

On daddy's shoulders :)

Grandpa carried Nicho for a bit

Stopping to give a "high five" to the bee

The Grandparents pushing the kiddos

One more month...

And my baby will be two! I can't believe in exactly one month we will be celebrating my Nicho bear's second birthday!! This month will go by so fast, I mean we are already almost in mid May! I am so looking forward to spending the summer with Nicho and doing playgroups, morning walks at Lady Bird Lake, swimming lessons, visits to ACM, and so much more!

Mine,Mine,MINE!

Nicho's new favorite word is mine. He says it all the time: when I give him his paci for bed or nap time, when he looks at books, when I give him his juice cup or milk cup, when he is referring to himself...he puts his hands to his chest and says "mine" (in place of me) and my most favorite time when he says mine is when he gives mommy the biggest hug and says "mine" :)

Berry Picking Fun

This afternoon we took a Hill Country road trip. Our first stop was Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls,Tx. We love Sweet Berry Farm, we took Nicho to their pumpkin patch last fall and again had so much fun. We thought it would be a blast to take Nicho to pick some fresh strawberries. Nicho had so much fun running in the big open field and picking one of his favorite foods, strawberries. After we were done picking berries we ventured on to Llano,Tx for some yummy barbecue from Cooper's. John and I both love their brisket, it is so delish. Nicho did awesome in the car and did alot of dancing in his carseat :) He was so exhausted when we got home that after his bath he went straight to bed and fell fast asleep. This was one of our best ideas yet, we can't wait to go back next month and pick blackberries!

Our very first hand picked strawberry

My busy little bear picking berries

Nicho and Daddy picking the perfect berry

Daddy and Nicho...Nicho is ready to eat that strawberry

His hands were full of berry juice!

Mommy and Nicho

Taking a break...eating some yummy berry berry ice cream

Our full basket of berries...over 3 pounds worth

On the way home being silly in the car...reaching for a toy...

He found his Cat in the Hat

My sweet Angel