A Person is a Person No Matter How Small

Yes, we saw Horton Hears a Who. Maya and I had a girls day on Sunday. We went to church (the whole family). Then Maya and I went to lunch at Cici's (yes, she chose pizza of course), the toy store, book store and then to the movies. We had a great time together, it was so much fun hanging out with my little girl. She loved the movie and I really enjoyed it as well. She gets so into movies it is kinda funny. Throughout the whole movies she was asking me questions. When Horton was trying to get away from the buzzard she was yelling at him to run away and kept hiding her eyes. Then in the sad part when they were going to throw the flower/spec into the boiling pot of water she started to cry. I had to hold her in my lap and tell her everything would be okay and to just watch. I am amazed how emotionally attached to the characters she becomes. We watched the Fox and the Hound the other night and she just couldn't understand why Todd had to go to the woods and why he got a new friend, Dixie. Guess in her eyes friends are friends forever.

Isaac came back home on Monday!! O how I missed him! It seemed like he got so much bigger in that week he was gone. He had lots of fun. He had the chance to hang out with his cousins that he doesn't get to see that often. He and Ben hung out together and got along really well. On top of spending the days playing outside on the trampoline playing circus he went to two museums, the movies, soccer and softball practices and visited a TV station. My mom did tell me that Dolores had to take him out of one of the museums because he got too scared. Apparently they have some type of holograms that depicted gun and arrow fights between the Native Americans and settlers. It was just too scary and loud for him, yes he is the sensitive type. I think he was happy to come home and he was so excited to see his sister and Daddy.

Sam is sick, yet again! I took him into the doctors this morning and he has an ear infection in both ears. Poor little Sam, just when we thought the days of being sick were over with, for a while that is. He is on some antibiotics so hopefully he will be feeling better by this weekend. We plan on going to Dallas to spend Easter. The kids are all excited about hunting for eggs. We went to Target this morning to look for some baskets and buy some candy. I bought Maya a basket, but didn't find one for Isaac. In his words to the pharmacist "my mommy said they are too expensive here". Yes, he had a whole conversation with the pharmacist about Easter and hunting for eggs and how his mommy wouldn't let him buy a basket. What a mean mommy I am! Above are a couple of pictures of Maya's week of fun. One is of me and little roo and the other is of Emeril Daddy and Emeril Maya. On the weekends Josh usually makes breakfast for us and he puts a hat on and plays Emeril Daddy. The kids love it and are often right along side him with hats of their own.

 
 

Picture of Sam

I just realized that I don't have any recent pictures of Sam on here. Poor little guy, already being overlooked. Here is a recent picture of him, isn't he cute??!!

We got them in!

We finally got our passports in the mail! Our last hurdle to travel to the far off land of Mexico. I feel like we should plan other international destinations in order to get our money's worth. The kids were so excited to see their passports, now they can't wait to go far far away. Isaac is going to Abilene with my mom for a week and he was so excited because he thought he would get a stamp for his passport. We had to break the news to him that Abilene isn't considered far enough. Funny that it will take longer for them to drive to Abilene than it will for us to fly to Cancun. We are set to leave for Cancun on May 6th and come back on May 13th, I can't wait! We still haven't told the kids yet, it has been more of a ' maybe one day we will fly far far away and go to a beach, and you can get a stamp for your passport'. Isaac and Josh were looking at the map yesterday and Isaac said he wanted to drive down through Central and South America then take a boat to Australia. Not so sure I would like to drive through Central America, but I would love to visit all those places some day.

Maya's newest thing is to end every word with a "y". She calls things milky milk, juicey juice. It is kinda cute coming from a 3 year old, but when I start calling things stopy stop you know something is wrong. She has also acquired something that I can only call an accent. I am not sure where it has come from but there are certain words that she seems to draw out. Like, "over there", it sounds more like "over theya". Samuel is still stuck on dada and mama, but not to me and Josh respectively. Though I think maybe he is catching on to dada for Josh. He loves his daddy. Every time Josh comes home Sam gets super excited to see him and if Josh doesn't pick him up right away he gets upset. Sam is also cruising along trying not to get tackled by Isaac or super hugged by Maya.

Easter is coming up in a couple of weeks and the kids are learning about it at school and here at home. Maya impressed my mom the other day when she was able to tell her what Easter was all about. My mom then had to tell her RE (religious education) class of 2nd graders that her 3 year old could tell her what Easter was, they were all very impressed. On Saturday I went to a fashion show with my mom and sister Virginia at their church. We had a great time, only problem was that now I want some new clothes. While I was there we sat next to a lady that taught me and Josh our NFP class. Her name is Barb and she loves to talk, it was so nice seeing her again. Her husband and her co-taught the class. She did give me some hope when she told us that one of sons is about to be ordained a priest in Rome and one of her daughters was a nun in Mexico City. When I asked her about their childhood she said her son was a handful or as her father reminds her, a brat and her daughter almost didn't become a nun because she didn't want to wear a dress. She then said that her boys never played "mass" but instead built forts and such with Lego's and played war and loved to blow things up. Maybe there is some hope for my kids. Though I don't think it is the dress part of being a nun that would deter Maya, I think it is more the fact that I don't think there are nuns that have sparkles on their dresses. I know my mom is continually praying for one of her grandchildren to be a priest or nun, my kids may be her last hope. If God is calling any of them to the priesthood or nunhood (I don't think that is what it is called) I pray they listen to that calling. We continually tell the children that they can become anything that God wants them to be.