Happy Birthday Baby

Happy Birthday Baby! I hope this next year brings many joys and pleasure your way. I love you so much.

Felicidades abue!

Feliz cumpleanos de parte de todos nosotros, que pases un buen dia y nos vemos pronto!

Sitting up and Elena's visit

Here are some recent pics of our little ones, as well as some of us and Elena (a very good friend)
Thanks for coming, we'll miss you a lot!

On the go!

Happy boy.

Sitting up

Handsome boy.

A race on the hallway.

A good pic.

Going out with Elena

Good friends.

6 months!

Our little Scarlett just turned 6 months last Thursday, she's starting to eat solids, sit up and crawl and be noisy too (we don't really like that part) but so far she's a very easy baby.

Derek is doing good with his potty training and has basically no accidents anymore (that is a great victory), he's talking is getting a bit clearer, though it seems that he only speaks English and not Spanish. We don't have so many pics this time, we've been kind of lazy on this aspect, but here are some.

Happy in her johnny jumper...

No longer than a few minutes, ha!
Jimmy taking care of both while Sarai does her exercise, he'll be a great daddy.

No hair!

Well, at least we tried let's see what happens! Some people say that if you shave your hair off it comes out thicker and better and I guess Scarlett is being our guinea pig, poor honey!

Kathy (of Ben & Praise) holding little Scarlett

He just loves cars!

Clara took this pic of Derek watching a video, I'm guessing it was quite funny.

FELIZ CUMPLE HERMANA!

Pues como no sabemos exactamente donde estes y como por seguro estas muchas horas adelantada. Donde sea que estes (Autralia, Nueva Zelanda, India, etc.) Te deseamos un feliz cumpleanos. Mis papas me dijeron que tambien te felicitara de su parte.
Esperamos ansiosos tu visita y esperamos tengas un dia muy lindo.
Te amamos y extranamos muchisimo!
No olvides llamarnos un dia de estos!

Intentamos tomar una foto donde los dos salieran bien.

Pero Derek queria sostener el letrero y arruinarlo y eso le causo gracia a Scalett. Pues bueno al menos hicimos el intento!

Ja, no pude encontrar una foto mas reciente, pero bueno el detalle es lo que cuenta!

Vacations

This year due to so many things happening in the home, we had a 3 day break only. We spent two days in Rosarito and one day at home, since someone took Derek for the day and Scarlett for a few hours TYJ!
We also attended a special dinner in Ensenada and were able to see all the sweet people of the area, we had a good time there!
Here are some pics.

FOTOS PARA LOS ABUELOS!

OUR BIG BOY!

Derek is turning 2 years old today and since daddy had to go working, we decided to celebrate it before the actual day. He ended up having two celebrations, the first one while we were in Ensenada and another one during our last family day. We are so happy to see him growing, he's such a cute little boy, WE LOVE YOU DEREK, HAPPY B-DAY!

As you can see, there was a problem with the cake, but it was really yummy!

Derek loves clapping, at least he was happy.

He looks really cute in white, just like an angel!

Daddy helping to blow the candle.

Enjoying his presents.

The second cake!

The b-day boy!


Clapping again!Eating his cake and ice cream.

The proud mother!

Derek & Robin.Derek & Ryan.

Opening one of his presents, eager to get it out.

Daddy helping with Scarlett, I think she found the party too boring and decided to take a nap.

Posing for daddy.
A close up.

BBQ in Ensenada and random pics!

Cinderella lost her shoe!

Carissa inviting Derek to swim, but he refused!

Derek trying to wrestle Scarlett, though she's not up to it yet.

Posing for the camera

Derek jumping and Scarlett a bit worried about it

Daddy trying to put Derek to sleep and teaching Scarlett to surf the internet

Maria & me and Manny giving a taste of watermelon to Scarlett

James being happy during the bbq

Sam, our wonderful cook!

Derek devouring the good food.

We had lots of fun in Ensenada, thanks guys for having us, WLY!

FELIZ DIA DEL PADRE!

No pudimos hacerlo ayer pues salimos, pero esperamos que hayan tenido un dia magnifico, y nos referemos a los abuelos David y Henry.
MUCHAS FELICIDADES y muchas gracias por todo su trabajo y ayuda.
Les amamos.

Happy Birthday Dad

Its a day late, thanks to the annoying internet problems we have here, but Happy Birthday Dad. Hope you had a great one, and hope the next year brings tons of happiness, excitement and fulfillment. Thanks for all you've done in raising us.
Well here are some recent pictures of the kiddos and some of the things that have happened.

Of Pics

Here are some recent pictures taken during May and late April. Well I'm feeling at a loss for what to write at the moment so I'll let the pics do the talking along with a small blurb for each.

Our first family pic...

Derek concentrating...

One of Scarlett's priceless faces...

A chip off the old block, heheh...

Derek's school...

More concentrating, gotta love it...

Another priceless look...

After she got her ears pierced...

Closeup...

Earrings, courtesy of her grandma...

Derek wrestling with his favorite uncle "Yim"

"No fair using headlocks!!"

FELIZ DIA DE LAS MADRES!

Bueno pues creo que es mi turno de escribir algo en este blog, he decidido hacerlo en Espanol para que mi familia entienda, especialmente mis padres, quienes adoran a nuestros bebes. (A todas las personas que hablan y escriben espanol, una disculpa pues este teclado no tiene todas los caracteres necesarios para una correcta ortografia.)

Feliz dia Mama, espero estes teniendo un dia muy especial, te queremos mucho y espero disfrutes este dia, gracias por todo el tiempo y arduo trabajo que invertiste en criar a mi hermana y a mi! Gracias por querer tanto a Derek y Scarlett, ellos tambien te quieren mucho y te desean un Feliz Dia!
Since this post is also for grandma Robin, we want to say Happy Mother's day! We pray you are having a very special day and thanks a lot for all your work raising 6 kids, including James!
Derek and Scarlett are very happy to have such a nice grandma!
Por cierto, Scarlett cumple 2 meses hoy!

Miscellaneous

Well here are some recent pics of whats been happening. Yes I know its been awhile since the last post. Hopefully there will be more pics coming soon as soon as I can get it off a friends camera. Scarlett is doing pretty good, quite a happy baby. Derek though is entering his terrible twos with full force. But besides that they're both very well. For those who might have been wondering about the whole swine flu in this neck of the woods. Its been basically unseen here, besides people worrying and wearing face masks. I think there have been only 4 cases here in Baja California, though I cant remember for sure as some places said it was one, others 4 and others none. But oh well alls well that ends well. And here are the pics

1 Month

Well a month has come and gone, boy that was fast. Scarlett turned a month old yesterday. She's doing pretty good, still doesnt sleep by herself the whole night but she doesn't cry much so that's good. Here are some pictures of the last month, of Scarlett and Derek. Sarai started to do "school" with Derek, flash cards, pre-writing exercises, etc. So here are some pics of that. Don't mind the underlined text for some wierd reason the blogger set it like that and I havent been able to change. Well without further ado here are the pics, hope you like it.

Sleeping...

Well Scarlett is now two weeks old, thankfully these last few weeks have been pretty good. She sleeps soundly pretty much for at most of the day though she hasnt got that down pat yet at night. She sleeps pretty well at night so long as she is next to Sarai so that means mommy doesn't sleep so well. But on the good side she doesn't have the colic like Derek did. Well are few pics I took of her while she slept.

Daddy's Girl

Well here are the pics I promised. Mother and baby Scarlett came back today. Its nice to get out of those hospitals. That particular one, I'd been there three times. Twice for when our kids were born, and once for my knee surgery. I don't have a lot of time to type a blurb for each pic as Scarlett's going to bed as I type. So without further ado, here she is....

Here She Is.....

Well today was the big day! Sarai had the C-section and everything went well and Scarlett was born. She was 50 cm. and weighed 3.2 kilos. This post won't be too long since I'm here briefly to put Derek to sleep before going to back to hospital to be with Sarai. Pictures will be forthcoming soon. If all goes well Sarai and Scarlett should be coming back Thursday morning so please keep them in your prayers. Thanks so much

24th...

Well here we are again, I'm making progress in shortening the length of time between posts as well as taking more pictures. Funny thing is both me and Sarai are not picture people, we quite often forget to take our camera out with us and when we do take it, we plum forget to use it. Ah c'est la vie. Here are some recent pictures I took yesterday.
That's the view of the toll road going south, the 60+ mile stretch between here and Ensenda has some particularly magnificent views as it passes by the sea.

Sunset over the Pacific, took the picture outside our room on the terrace

Himself....

Enjoying one of his favorite pastimes....

Trying to climb with both hands full... gotta love it.

The assent..

Fixated by the flying whales in Fantasia 2000

Lost....

What you looking at...

Such angelic sleep....

Sleep in heavenly peace...

Well that's it for the pics now, will be posting more when Scarlett makes her debut. Please continue to pray for Sarai as Scarlett is just about ready to come. The doctor said she's already engaged, Sarai hasn't been able to move about too much now, probably due to that. The delivery is scheduled for the 10th but babies are notorious for not following schedules, heh. So until then.

Sheesh, I can't believe I'm turning 24 today, seems like yesterday I was 21 ha!