Budding Artist

Isabella really loves doing art projects. I have mentioned before she loves to color on her easel. She has added painting and gluing torn paper to the her crafting experiences.
I thought I had a picture of her doing the torn paper, but I guess I don't. I basically draw a shape on paper and put glue on the inside of the shape. Then I tear some paper and she places the paper inside the shapes.
We are going to need to come up with some other ideas because she is starting to request to do crafts of some sort as soon as we come home from school. It is also great because she is occupied while I cook dinner. Maybe we will try gluing some macaroni next.

Happy Birthday Papi!

Last Saturday was Ed's birthday. He turned the big 31, man that's old. Shhh, don't tell him I said that, but if you look close you can see a few gray hairs. Which if you ask him he will tell you they are a from his two girls, but there really there from old age.

We had a blast that day! Our great friends Byron and Janelle were getting married that evening in Houston. Isa Stayed with her grandparents in Alvin and Ed and I celebrated the entire day. We started with a toast at Cheesecake Factory and then headed to the hotel to meet with some friends and off to the wedding were we partied till 2 am. We even got to sleep in the next day till 10:30am. We didn't know what to do with all the energy! Of course we rushed back to my parents because as much as we love dancing till dawn and sleeping in we love our Isa more!

ELMO!

A few weekends ago we took Isa to see Sesame Street Live. We knew that she loved Elmo so we thought it would be a hit. Plus I have wonderful childhood memories of my parent taking my older sister and I to see Sesame Street Live when I was a kid. She had a blast. She was so into the show and when Elmo would come out she would point her finger and exclaim, "ELMO!" She danced, clapped and had a good time!



On of many times we saw Elmo


Picture of the family before the show


Dancing in Mama's lap



The smile says it all

Happy Valentines!

We are not big Valentines people, but we had few errands to run at the mall so we dined at the Nordstrom Cafe. Isa was a little cranky so on one of Ed's trips walking her around while I finished my lunch Isa discovered Build a Bear. With a promise to come back, Ed came and got me and we decided to have her build a stuffed animal.

We let Isa look at all the options. We'd ask her if she wanted this one or that one and her reply was, "No, No" Until Ed held up a dog, she grabbed it out of his hand and started kissing it. We knew she had found the one.

She went through the process and did really well. We were really surprised that she did all of this. She is not a big stuffed animal fan, but was all about this dog. It was so fun watching her smile as she stuffed her dog and kissed the heart before they sewed him up. She even got in the tub to wash the dog, haha!