Who Dat say they gonna beat dem Saints?

The Saints are Super Bowl champions and nothing could make me and my family prouder!

We started off the weekend with a visit to Houston to spend a little time with my family. I wish I had not forgotten the camera, but we had a good time. Saturday we went to Herman park and had a little fun riding the train and playing on the playground. If any of you remember my last experience with a train at Zilker park where I lost my wallet, we had to top that. Ed not only lost his wallet, but Isa also lost a shoe. All were found thanks to the lady behind us who returned Ed's wallet. Finding the shoe was a little harder. We had to walk the train tracks because we had no idea where it had fallen off. Ed finally found it just as he was about to run out of track. While Ed looked for it, I had to endure lots of bad mommy looks while I let Isa play on the playground in her socks. I couldn't expect her to sit in her stroller while her cousins got to play. So I decided since the ground of the play area was turf it would not be that bad. She had a good time and about half way through playing Papi returned with her shoe. Yeah for Papi!

Sunday we left bright and early to prepare for our party, but not before I posed for a pic with my sister in all of our Saints apparel.



For the party I made Fluer de Lis cookies.



Here we are posing as a group. I had asked everyone to wear black and I gave everyone black and gold Mardi Gras beads as they entered the house.



Here is Jess and Jamie enjoying the game.



Here are Ed and I. Notice I am trying to cover up the logo on his hat. I should have banned him from the party since I had just found out the he donated his Saints hat to Goodwill the week before. What's up with that? At least it wasn't a Colts hat!



Tess and Adrian



Me saying. "Of Course they were going to win! Who Dat Baby!"



At last here is Isa saying Who Dat!

18 months

Isabella is 18months now. It is hard to believe that she will be 2 in just 6 short months. The time has flown and she is growing up way to fast. The amount that she learns in a day and the new things she shows us she can do grows at lighting speed.

I am soo happy that she is a happy child. Today I had the joy of spending the whole day with her just me and her. We read Dora books, drew together, played tea and many other things. You should have seen the living room when we were done. I was engrossed with her. There are not many days that I get to just be with her and not think about anything else. Today was a blast!

Here are some pics and videos from our day:

Yeah Christmas! Good food and fun.

Merry Christmas!!! We had a rocking day here at home with my parents visiting. It all started off with opening gifts and then Jessica preparing a wonderful french toast breakfast casserole. So yummy, Isabella ate it up and then was found laying on her new Backyardigans chair (thanks George, Scarlet and boys). Funny she was rubbing her belly and picking on her belly button (see video).



We pretty much just chilled at the house playing with new toys and keeping our bellies full. Isabella was being hilarious, check out this video of her running. Jess told me they practice "ready, set, go!" at school. I did not know I had a child preparing for the olympics.




Last, but not least we had a wonderful dinner with all the works and ended it with some singing of "Feliz Navidad" with Isabella dancing! Next Dancing with the Stars?




We truly hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and that the Lord bless you this coming New Year!

Shapes and blocks, oh what fun!

Isabella's been sick this entire week, yuck! The good thing about it is that I have gotten the chance to hang out with her as I am now officially on vacation for the rest of the year. Well not really vacation with a sick kid if you know what I mean. Regardless, we have had lots of fun moments that I wanted to share.

Isabella absolutely loves to play with her shapes and has become very good at recognizing them and fitting them in the box. If you listen to the video she can say "circle" (english) or "circulo" (spanish) and "ella" for estrella which means star in spanish. Triangle (Triangulo) is close, but sounds a lot like circle.




Now this one is hilarious (well maybe at least to me). Isabella loves to build tall structures from her blocks. I swear she makes it a goal to build them at least her height. In this video she does just that, but I am cracking up because she has no fear of it falling as poor of a structure as it might be. Maybe we have an architect in the making. Oh and mid-way she decides she wants to throw the ball to me too! I had to edit the end of this video as Isabella decides to work on another project (aka poop!)




Last, but not least! All I can say about this last video is "Baila!"

Isa’s 1st haircut

Today we took Isabella to get her very 1st haircut. Waking her up in the mornings reminded me of cousin Itt from the Adam’s Family since I could not find her eyes! She has been blessed with a full head of hair since birth, but it was different lengths throughout and needed a trim. Our good friend and stylist Kelly who cuts all our hairs did it at her salon.  She did great! It helped that we brought her DVD player, but she did not fuss one bit. Check her out!

Animal sounds and much more, super cute!

Hey everyone, so I know Jess and I are very bad about updating the blog; but we think we have a few good posts to make up for our absence. Isabella is super cute and growing so fast! One of the cutest things she does right now is imitate animal sounds. We have so much fun asking her in Spanish:

- “Como le hace le chango?” which means “What sound does the monkey make?” She is super cute with her noises and she even lifts her hands over her chest and head.

- “Como le hace el leon?” which means “What sound does the lion make?” She responds with a single “roar”.

- “Como le hace le perro?” which means “What sound does the dog make?” She responds with several barks. Super CUTE!!!

We are really proud of her! Some other neat things that she has picked up:

- Isabella can point to most of her body parts when we ask her and she always claps at all her accomplishments!

- Isabella loves to flip the light switch or close the garage.

- Isabella loves to feed her doggie Snoop which she calls “Noop Noop" or something like that.  Oh and also terrorize him by chasing her around the house with her baby stroller.

- Some words Isabella uses are Momma, Papa, Yogurt, Agua, Cracker, and Bye! And her favorite at the moment is “Oh No!!” Cracks us up every time.

- Isabella loves to wave and blow kisses!

- Isabella loves to color and play with her blocks! Building tall structures. However she really isn’t into her stuffed animals.

- Isabella loves to kick the soccer ball and slam dunk her basketball.

- Isabella loves shoes! She passes up any toy for some pretty shoes! Just like her momma.

Picture taken at 16 months while visiting Great Grandma Hogan in Foslom, LA this Thanksgiving.

Fun day at the park!