Happy Halloween!

Danny is going to be Woody from the Toy Story movie for Halloween! I am so excited for us to take Danny trick or treating for the first time. We probably won't be out for very long since he is only one and he will probably get a little tired after going to a couple of houses but I think it will be a fun experience, and we will take lots of pictures so he can look back at them in the future. We are still working on helping him get use to his hat.

31 WEEKS PREGNANT

For some reason when I tell people that the baby is due in December it still feels like it's far away, but when I say that she will be here in two months...that makes it seem like it's so close! I am so excited to see what she will look like. This pregnancy has been great but recently I have not being able to sleep well at night, I guess I am at that stage when my body is so uncomfortable that I cannot sleep until 2 or 3 in the morning!....I sure need my rest though because the next morning is just as busy as the day before, hopefully I will start sleeping better but I am thinking that won't happen until Vanessa is born...and even then it won't happen because she will be waking up several times at night to eat...I guess it's all part of being a parent. We truly are so grateful for the wonderful blessings our Heavenly Father has given us as a family, having another child is a HUGE blessing for us and even though it will come with many challenges we are so grateful that we are able to go through those good and bad experiences together as a couple.

The Toddler Laws of Property (DANNY)

1) If I touch it, it's mine
2) If I want it, it's mine
3) If It's yours, it's mine
4) If I look at it, it's mine
5) If I think it's mine, it's mine

Late Update

I has been a while since I posted something on this page, my life has gotten busier since we moved to Utah, first we had to do all the packing, then we unpacked, shortly after we had to pack again for our family trip to Colorado, then we came back to Utah and 2 weeks after my parents bought a house and we had to pack and unpack all over again. Their new house is great, it has three floors so as you can imagine Danny has me going up and down the stairs all day long, and of course the bigger the house the more messes I have to clean up. Danny sure loves the big space though. He still doesn't talk much, his new favorite thing to say is "evin!" (Kevin-my younger brother) I think Danny thinks of him as his best friend and brother. He gets really excited when Kevin comes home from school. It has been really nice staying at my parents house, it's great having the extra help when needed.
For those who have met Danny you know that he almost never stays still, now that he is getting older he has more energy than ever and has found plenty of ways to let us know when he is happy or upset. He laughs more and he can actually entertain himself a little better now, I can tell that his imagination in growing. He also loves to shout across the room any sounds he can think of making. Sometimes he will yell something and find it so hilarious and he just laughs and laughs, it is so funny to watch him do things like that. I love seeing him grow and learn new skills, he can run pretty fast now, I remember a while back that a day or two after he learned how to walk he was already trying to run! I couldn't believe it. I think most parents don't want their kids to grow so fast but I am glad that Danny is getting older and exploring more and I think that he has more fun now that he is able to climb big rock and run really fast and go up and down the stairs. It is impossible to keep our babies from growing but I do try to be the best mother I can be for him everyday. I love being a mom and I am so excited to become a mom of 2!
So after our last visit to the doctor we are now for sure of the due date.....December 24! I can't believe I only have 3 months left, I am getting a little nervous but at the same time I just want to hold her and love her. We are seriously thinking of getting induced a little earlier but we will see what happens as we get closer to the due date. I guess I should mention that we are naming her Vanessa Hinkson, no middle name, unless we think of a great one but we don't think middle names are that important.
Also, Daniel started student teaching a couple weeks ago and he loves being there and he is enjoying his internship, I am glad he picked the career of his dreams and that he has no regrets.
Here are some pictures of Danny and my growing belly.






*BUSTED! I found him eating chocolates that my cousin Carlos brought us from Peru.


*He loves baby sister's bassinet

Daniel's Graduation Day!

Today has been a great day for all of us, but specially for Daniel. He is a hard worker that has many goals and ambitions for his life; there are so many things I love about Daniel but one of them is that he loves learning and he is excited to finally start working with his degree. We are all so happy today....HE GRADUATED FROM BYU IDAHO!..... so we went out and took some pictures at the school garden, after that we went home to get changed and went to the water park! it was so refreshing to touch the cold water because today is a really hot day! Once we were done at the park, we went to get some yummy ice cream at coldstones to celebrate Daniel's graduation. We wished we could of shared this moment with all of our families but that's why we took plenty of pictures, for everybody to see a little glimpse of how happy we feel today.
*DANIEL I AM SO PROUD OF YOU MUAH MUAH MUAH! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH*

Daniel's BIG DAY


Father and son, don't they look adorable?!


Family picture


Daniel looking good!




Danny and mom


We are a happy family!


This is me trying to look good like Daniel


Daniel and Danny playing at the water park

Our lives right now:

Well as many of you know Daniel graduation is this Thursday July 23rd! Of course we are so happy that he is finally done with school(at least for a while), and I am excited to get out of here! although I made great friends here who I will miss lots, the country life is not my place to live. Daniel comes from a much bigger state (Colorado) and I come from a much much more loud and more exciting kind of place (Peru of course!) So you see, this is not our comfort zone, yet we have learned to make it our home and we did enjoy the calmness and the friendly people we met in Rexburg. It feels like we have been here for so long that I started to think that it would be fun to grow things in my garden (once we get a house), well now I think it's crazy, I wouldn't know the first thing about taking care of a plant! I will leave that to amazing people that have that kind of dedication and talent. But honestly, we think that Rexburg is the perfect place to go to school, the spirit was always strong on campus, and there weren't as many distractions, I would of love to finish school here, but that will have to get done somewhere else now that we are moving.
Danny is more active than ever, he is almost always in a good mood, but he can be a little dramatic sometimes, which even though we don't usually like it when Danny throws a fit for small things we can't help to laugh sometimes, "what a little character" as Daniel would say. He is starting to be more vocal, thought I can't make any sense of what he says, but he is starting to reply back to us... in his own way of course. He does growl less, which is a good thing, people were staring to think that he didn't like when others talked to him because every time someone came up to say how cute he is he would just growl and them. I was starting to get tired at explaining that he wasn't mad, it's just the way he "talks".

Now onto baby #2: Well, he/she is moving tons! I cannot believe it, with Danny I felt his first kick/move when I was 5 months pregnant with him, but with this baby I felt it as soon as I got in the 4Th month. Which made us wonder if this baby will be more active than Danny.....NO, IMPOSSIBLE!!....RIGHT?! ha ha but in all seriousness we are so excited to find out what the sex of the baby is, I think that the ultrasound will be done next month but it might be in September, for sure my mom will be the first one to know, after Daniel of course.

*We are moving into my parents house for a couple of months until Daniel is done with his internship, after that we will see where the Lord takes us, which I am very nervous about. But we are so grateful for the help that my family is giving us, we are excited to move in with them and for Daniel to get to know them better. Danny will have NO PROBLEM adjusting because he LOVES his abuelitos! He also loves his aunts and uncle Kevin. My brother room is Danny's favorite place to play at my parents house because uncle Kevin has all the cool stuff, playstaion, gamecube, gameboy, guitar hero, controllers, an electric guitar, cables, a computer....everything a child like Danny dreams of touching and playing with!!! ready or not Kevin here he comes!

Coco's wedding

Last week Danny and I attended my cousin Coco's wedding in Utah, some family from Peru came to the wedding and it was so great to see them! Coco and Elizabeth are a beautiful couple, here are some pictures of our week in Utah.

*Coco and Elizabeth
















*My sister Melanie and I at the reception










*Four months pregant- next month we find out if it's a girl or a boy!






*My parents










*Danny loves to play in Grandpa's room.

WE LOVE FATHER'S DAY!

This morning Danny and I got up before Daniel did, I had completely forgotten to buy a Father's day card so I thought we would do it in a different way:


Daniel got woken up by this little naked guy with a smiley face on his stomach. We are so grateful for Daniel, baby Danny loves to play with his daddy and loves having him around. Thanks for being a great dad Daniel!

Remember when he was little?

I was looking at all of the pictures we have of Danny in our computer today, and it made me feel like crying by looking at pictures of him as a newborn. He has grown so fast, I never thought I would like it but lately I am loving the fact that he is growing and maturing (as much as a year old can) and being less fussy, and being a little more independent; it makes it so much easier now that he can point at what he wants. People always talk about "the terrible two's" but we had to experience "the terrible one!" A few of days before he turned one he had become extremely dramatic and fussy and he started to hit a lot!, good thing that ended about 4 days ago, thank goodness!, we are still working on not hitting other babies or kids at church, we are not sure where he could of learned that, it's not like he is around other kids a lot, and in our Spanish branch we haven't seen kids who do that. The other day I was watching a 7 mo old baby, he started to fuss and Danny just stared at him and as soon as he started crying, Danny threw a toy at his face, a couple of toys actually, I had to run and save the baby from my own child. It makes me laugh thinking about this because if "the terrible two's" is a lot worst than this, then I am not sure how I will handle it.....good thing we have quite a few months till then. But he is not all wild, he is a very loving baby: he gives me several kisses everyday, he loves to hug me, sometimes I will be in another room for a couple of minutes and when he sees me again he acts like he hadn't seen me for a long time and runs to hug me. He laughs a lot and he loves it when we pretend that he crashed us with his little push along car ( one of his birthday gifts from Grandma Judy). He likes watching baby Einstein clips online while sitting in our laps, and he LOVES eating fruits.

Danny turned one year old

We want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes, gifts, and for coming over to celebrate his first birthday with us. At the beginning of the week Danny got the stomach flu and our poor little guy was sick all week long, but during the weekend he felt much much better but still he was a little fussy. We had some family and friends over for cake and ice cream after chuch, and with the help of my family (thank you!) we put some decorations up and got the little party together. I love it when family comes over, we wish we lived closer to them and we are so greatful that they were able to come celebrate with us.



*We are sorry we are not posting more pictures of his little birthday party but our camera run out of battery at the begining so everyone else took some pictures with their own camera, I will post more pictures once they email me the ones they have!
*Here is a good video of Danny walking:




*But it looks like the chocolate cake and ice cream got Danny pretty hyper after everyone had left. It was so funny seeing him laugh so much, we didn't really do anything but anything that my brother Kevin did made him laugh. We were very grateful for uncle Kevin because that wore him out and he slept like a little angel all night long.



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There was a point were Danny was laughing so hard one of his eyes started twiching!haha

1st Hair cut/11 mo old pictures

Today Danny got his first hair cut! don't worry everybody, he still has plenty of hair. Now that the weather is becoming warmer and warmer Danny and I play outside more often, and his poor head is often hot and sweaty, even thought we thought he looked so precious with long crazy hair, he needed a hair cut, and he looks adorable with short hair! After a nap we took him to the garden at BYU-I and took some pictures. Next Sunday he turns 1 year old! we are excited to have some family and friends over for cake and ice cream.

BEFORE

AFTER

UPDATE

So we have a great update for the family, Danny is now walking! (he accomplished this about a couple of days ago, perhaps a week) He takes about 8-10 steps on his own and I am sure he could do more but he prefers it if we give him our finger or our hand to hold on to, he is a sweetie! So I guess we could say that he started to take a couple of steps at 9mo and started walking at age of 10mo old! And now he is 11mo old..WOW! We will have a little birthday party for him this month, it's going to be great!

Saturday Morning

This is what we did for fun Saturday morning: we played outside, took some pictures, Danny had a blast making a mess but hated it when mom discovered what he did and she put all his "toys" away and said "no"... that really made him upset and his new thing is to lay on his tummy when we say "no" and fuss for a little bit. we also went on a walk, read some books, made more messes, Danny made a lot of lion noises, screamed papa pretty much all morning long and my favorite part is when we both went for a nap!

He loves to play outside





BUSTED!

BABY #2 ON THE WAY!

I don't have enough words to explain how happy we are about having another child. We have been so blessed since we got married and this is a BIG blessing for us, to be pregnant again, to give this baby lots of care and love. Danny has changed my life for the better, he has made me a better person, a more patient and loving women, my love for my little guy is so big and so endless I am not sure how i will share that with a new baby, but I am sure that when I have our new baby in my arms I will feel the same love, and I will feel like a more complete person. Daniel is beyond excited about me being pregnant again, I don't even know were to start....his eyes are filled with joy when we talk about it, he even bought a few things for the new baby already...pink stuff I might add, he really wants a girl, and we both do, be would love a baby girl but at the same time we would love to have another boy so him and Danny can have more things in common, but no matter what the sex of the baby will be we will receive this baby with open arms and with a big kiss. When Daniel and I found out I was pregnant again it got me thinking what a miracle it is to be blessed with children, what a miracle it is to hold a human being in my body for 9mo. So far my pregnancy symptoms have been wonderful, I just feel some cramps once in a while and I am a little tired, I love it! when I was pregnant with Danny I always felt sick, we hope that I am able to feel this great throughout the whole thing, I started going to gym before trying to get pregnant again and I have kept it up so far, I go 3 times a week, and by just doing that it gives me more energy through out the day.
We are excited for the summer, for afternoon walks, for playtime at the park with Danny, for picnics, for going to the lake, to wear cute pregnancy clothes, we are specially excited for Daniel to graduate!......and let's not forget....DANNY'S BIRTHDAY NEXT MONTH!! May 31st, the day that Danny was born and brought more joy to our life. Our little guy is not walking on his own quite yet, he has taken a couple of steps by himself like I mentioned last time, I can't believe he will be one year old soon, he already has 8 teeth, a ton of hair, nice chunky muscles, loves to say papa (actually he usually just yells when he says it: PAAAAPAAAAAAA), he got checked a couple days ago and his Iron level is great, he is a very content and loud boy, everybody is always telling me two things: that he is handsome and that he has a very boy deep voice for a baby....I am guessing they say that because he is usually making some kind of loud noise no matter where we are haha.
So here is a picture of me pregnant with Danny.....em I ready to be this big again?...I remember feeling at this point that my belling button was going to pop out.

Yay Danny!

Danny learned his second word today: Mama! of course it made me so happy to hear that word from his little mouth, I love you baby boy!

Danny’s first word: Papá!

Bravo! Danny finally said his first word, before he would just say: wawawa..and then scream WA! In rare occasions he would try to say something with an M, but he has gotten his p's down for a while so I figured we might as well work on the word papá! Daniel had an hour break from work so he came to eat dinner with us, after we got done eating we were all playing on the floor wrestling my big teddy bear that Daniel got me for valentine's when we were dating, anyways so then I said: "Danny di papá"...and sure enough he said it perfectly with the accent on the last pá! and every time I asked him to say it he would look at Daniel and say papá or papapá. By the time we got it on our camera he was way to entertained with the teddy bear to pay us much attention, but on the second video he almost does it like he did it the first couple of times, so we hope you enjoy a short clip of our smart and adorable little son!

How blessed I am to be a mother

I don't have enough words to describe how blessed I am to be a mother. Danny brings so much joy to our home, he has made big changes in me. I love Danny so much, and I wish he wouldn't grow up so fast, I want him to be my baby Danny for ever! and to need me for almost everything. I found a song that says exactly how I feel about Danny:
CONTIGO: MAITE PERRONI
Contigo el cielo se vuelve mas claro, se pintan las nubes de blanco y el sol vuelve a sonrreir. Solo contigo el tiempo cobro un sentido y hoy que estas aqui conmigo.. se bien, mi vida nacio contigo.
Contigo las horas se pasan de largo, tus hojos me llanan de encanto y la luna brilla porti. Solo contigo mis risas tienen sentido y hoy que estas aqui, comingo... se bien, mi vida nacio con tigo.
Y se que tienes un corazon valiente un alma fuerte y se que caminaras sin miedo entre la gente, y se tambien si un mal llega a sorprenderte no temas porque tendras porsiempre...mi amor para protegerte.