Our Princess!

I have been posting so many things about Danny lately, but I feel like a post about our princess is a must! Nessa is so adorable, her smile is so contegious! she loves to cuddle! I wake up every morning looking forward to it. She is growing up so fast, it doesn't feel like she will be 6 months old soon. She is still a little baby to me, so cute and petite! Ok guys, Vanessa is so CLOSE to crawling! she is just as amazing as her big brother when he was little, always so active, always so quick to develop physically. She has been sitting up really well for a month now. She is so quick to grasp anything that is close to her, and of course, everything she grabs goes to her mouth...like brother like sister! Oh just thinking of her makes me want to wake her up and cuddle with her in bed.

*Abuelita Ana playing with Nessa

*Abuelito Gerardo loves to take pictures with Nessa

* You will not believe this: I was playing with Vanessa in the living room, and Danny comes and brings me the basket where Vanessa's diapers go, I tell him: "Danny that's Vanessa's", "Ne?" he asks. "Yes, Ne" I told him. So I go to his room to see where he had hidden Vanessa's diapers, because when ever the basket is empty, he usually hides the diaper in his drawers, under his bed, or in his closset. I come back, and I don't see Vanessa. At first I thought she probably rolled to a different part of the apartment (she seriously does that! it's hilarious, she goes from her back to her tummy and so on until she hits a wall or the couch and can't go any further), but I still couldn't find her, than I thought, oh! I probably set her down on her crib and just couldn't remember, I start walking towards my room and I realized that I knew for sure I left her on the living room floor playing with Danny.......DANNY!! I called Danny's name and he runs towards me with a huge smile on his face, I said: "Danny, donde esta Vanessa?", "NE!!!" he screams with excitement and runs to the kitchen and bring me.....Vanessa! sitting on her diaper basket! He had, some how ( he is so strong) got her on that basket and pushed her to the kitchen and left her there. I couldn't believe it, part of me was speechless, but I also couldn't help to laugh! what in the world?! I don't even understand how he could do all of that so fast, I wasn't gone for that long at all. And Vanessa was so good and content the whole time, enjoying her ride. Moral of the story is: Don't leave Danny in a room for too long.....as in, no more than 50 seconds. I had to run and grab the camera, I wanted to make sure I always remembered this experience. And I want to show them the pictures when they grow up!

*EXTRA PICTURES:

The CUTEST almost two year old boy in the world!

Want to get to know Danny a little more?

Danny knows he is not allowed to kill flowers. I guess he figured that since these are not "flowers" it would be ok to teach them a lesson for being on his property.

Danny knows the bouncer is only for Vanessa. And now you know why the bouncer's seat touches the floor even when Vanessa is not in it.

Is funny to remember how Danny hated naps when he was younger... Now a days we have a hard time getting him to wake up sometimes.

Oh Danny..

Perhaps there are some parents that think this would be funny or "cute". I hear people saying all the time to enjoy these moments because they grow so fast. I will miss my babies being little...I will not miss the mess. This isn't a complain post, it's just me sharing one of those " oh Danny" stories....and believe me I have plenty of those. Imagine trying to carry him to the bathroom and noodles are falling out of his sleeves, pants, hair, feet, Vanessa is screaming because she is hungry, I have orange spots on the carpet, plus a very nice orange/red greasy floor. I leave Danny in the bathtub for not even 30 seconds to get Vanessa and next thing I know, the floor is completely wet.....no, not wet, flooded. I know Danny likes splashing when he is in the bath tub...but I didn't know he could make waves! Anyway, I thought some of you might get a laugh out of this, so enjoy these pictures of our Danny

Please click on the pictures to see how wet the floor really is..

*Oh Danny.....I love you. Good thing we did laundry the day before so there was plenty of towels to clean up the floor with.

All about Danny

This month is all about Danny. I just can't stop posting things about him, I still can't believe he will be turning two this month. He is so fast at running, so perhaps he will do track or cross country later on in life....., Daniel would love that because he did both sports in high school. Danny is also a very good big brother. Lately he thinks that Vanessa is old enough to play rough.......she doesn't appreciate that very much. But when ever she cries or wakes up from a nap he is the first one to let me know : "Ne Ne Ne Ne Neeee!" It's funny how that is the only part of her name that he wants or can say.

He is still a little dancer, his favorite cartoon is Yo Gaba-Gaba, because the whole time they are singing and DANCING!

My sweet boy loves to give me kisses, even when I am too busy to bend down for him to give me one, he insists that I must let him give me some love. I think it's great, it makes up for when he was a baby and never ever wanted to cuddle with me hahaha.

Our Danny boy

Our baby is turning two on the 31st of this month! It's crazy how fast they grow. For the past two weeks I have been trying to teach him how to pray, so I would say a prayer before each meal and at first he would just look at me, but yesterday he finally understood what he needed to do when someone is offering a prayer. I am so proud of him. We are having an indoor pool party for his birthday, we have invited some of his little friends, but it will mostly family. I really think he will enjoy it.

..He couldn't wait until the prayer was over......do you see him chewing on something in this video? haha

My sister Melanie and Danny

He is all grown up :)

Happy Mother's Day!

I am so blessed to have my two babies in my life! I love them so much. Happy Mother's day to all the moms in the world! Our jobs are not easy, but we sure LOVE it!

Families are so important

Loosing a family member is always hard. My Brother in Law Mike past away a couple of days ago; Dan, Vanessa and myself drove to Colorado for the funeral ( Danny stayed at my parents house...he doesn't travel well in the car) I was glad to see so much family there, some drove for many hours to be there. Even though the reason why we were all there was not a happy one, I was able to meet more family on Daniel's side. Here are some pictures of our trip

*Cousin Hallie meets Vanessa for the first time

*Enjoying each others company

*Flirty Nessa

*Grandma LOVE

* Meeting Grandpa Wynn for the first time

*Meeting my husband's Grandma!

My Brother Michael

Early this morning I found out that my brother had passed away ... words cannot begin to do justice in describing the feelings and emotions we experience at this time. Michael was a good man. He was always willing to take time to be with his family. He made us feel important, but most of all he made us feel loved. He shared a very special connection with his nieces and nephews and loved playing with them. Many are the good memories I have of my older brother. The most recent was the Vincent family reunion this past summer. We were able to get together for the first time in years and tell stories of the "good ol' times." A couple days later, Mike and I went to Garden of the Gods to go shooting bringing about 12 6-packs of root beer as target practice. That was by far the most fun I ever had with my brother. It was a perfect day. The sun was shining, there was hardly a breeze, the temperature was ideal, and we found ourselves in the seclusion of the forest. Being in each other's company for those few hours was very enjoyable. As we drove home I knew that would be an experience I would remember for the rest of my life, but little did I know it would be the last one on one time that I would have with him. At the time, my poor wife was 6 months pregnant and taking care of our very active son, Danny. Had she asked me to stay with her and take care of Danny, I might not have been able to share that experience with my brother. However, being the amazing woman she is, she told me to go and enjoy my time with him. I cannot begin to express my gratitude for my wife. Thanks, Jess, for giving me that moment with my brother. You has been such a support to me through some of my biggest challenges, but this has by far been the hardest for me to cope with. Jess, I love you and cherish all that you do for our family. To my brother, Mike, you will be sorely missed. I am a better man for having known you. May God be with you 'til we meet again.

Shopping at Target

We went to Target yesterday to get some new pillows that would match our couches, but as always Danny wanted to try on a hat. Some happens to our little boy when we combing Target and trying on hats that makes him do the cutest poses ever! Anyway, enjoy!

This was the very first time Danny hunted for Easter eggs

Danny didn't need any help with what to do once he found his eggs

Danny loves ranch dressing!!!

Danny will go to great lengths to get a little ranch dressing

Danny's thinks his mommy is hilarious

THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

We went on a date yesterday to a beautiful restaurant called La Caille, here are some pictures:

OH MY DANNY...

Here are some pictures of my precious wild boy. He has the cutest smile!



* Danny LOVES the movie UP.....here he is in this video looking for "snipe" haha. But you have to turn up the volume to really hear it.

NESSA GIRL

Here is Nessa girl playing with daddy. Daniel has been coming home at 8 pm because of his second job, so we LOVE it when Daniel gets home early. Nessa LOVES her papi so much!

MY BROTHER KEVINI

My Brother Kevin had a Birthday on the 19th, I can't believe he is already 17 years old! I still think of him as my baby brother....he hates it when I call him that. Kevin is such an awesome brother, he is always willing to help when I ask him to help me out with the kids, he laughs at my jokes! ....I mean, who doesn't though right? I am hillarious! He LOVES it when I call him Dimitry (that his nickname I gave him) No one can make Danny laugh as much as uncle Kevin have. Which reminds me that next time I take the kids to a photo shot I will take Kevin...Danny doesn't smile for photo shot sessions, at least not for us. Soon my brother will go o his mission, even though I know it's good for him and it's the right thing to do I will miss him so much! But that's in two years, so we still have lots of time to hang out. YOU ARE THE BEST LITTLE BRO.!

KEVIN'S BIRTHDAY DINNER

Vanessa always wakes up happy from her nap.

Our kids keeps us busy

Nessa girl is 3 months old, she has the cutest smile ever! Danny loves his baby sister, he is often given her kisses, and when she cries he runs to her and dances for her and tries to calm her down haha, what a sweet kid. But as we all know he is almost two and YES, I do believe in the "terrible two" because he is more wild than ever and he will be turning two in May. I hope to be blessed with more patience when that time comes. This week has been a wild one so far.... he kept taking things out of the dishwasher, broke a cup (scarry), grabbed three big knives and was swingig it everywhere! ( I still have no idea how he got those) almost broke the blinds from his room and livingroom, threw Christmas decorations out of the balcony into people's heads.......they had to run to get to their apartmet! I took him to the park and he kept throwing rocks at a special Ed guy that lives in our building, when it was time to go back to our apartment I but him on the stroller and he screamed until we got to our door, then I unbuckled him and he runned to the parking lot and started dancing and spnning all over, a couple of cars had to stop while I tried to hold Danny AND Vanessa at the same time. He screams when I change his diaper, he runs super fast so sometimes it is hard to chase him. Just reading this post makes me feel physically tired, but I love being his mami, Danny needs lots of love, attention and patience, and I enjoy being able to give him all of that, he is my "terrible boy" who I LOVE VERY VERY MUCH. My life would not be complete without him. He knows when he is in trouble and he comes and gives us kisses when he knows he did something wrong, although sometimes he thinks that just because he gave us a hug and a kiss we will let him to whatever it was that he was getting into. Silly guy.
So if you were wondering why I don't post often, you know see why.....my life is not exactly an open book. He really needs to be outside playing, drainning all his energy outside haha, when he turns three I will start putting him in outdoor sport activites, soccer or maybe a ballroom class......although I think soccer will work better for the kind of energy he has. We will see.