HALLOWEEN

Halloween was pretty mellow this year. Since the Phi didn't come, Chone went trick or treating with her Dad, step Mom, step cousin, and little brother, who was a boxer. She was Herminie from Harry Potter, but I didn't even get a picture of her.

Lili was a Bee (Chone's old costume)

Felix was a giraffe (Phi's old costume)
Cheese!
Cheese!
I like the stinger and tail on the costumes
Tio Miguel and Tia Mary were all dressed up, too!

We even saw Susy in her work appropriate costume.

The twins ate a little bit of candy, they got sticky from lollipops. As you can tell, Felix did not want that hood on.

Here are our pumpkins. Lisa made this one for the party...

I made this one for the party
I made this one for Halloween night.

The boys next door (my cousins Bubbs and Mikey) carved pumpkins with me. Bubbs and Tia Mary made a wolf howling, and Mikey made bats with a bell house. There was one big pumpkin left, but Luis didn't want to carve it. Maybe we can carve it for Thanksgiving.

Nice Shades

My cousin Mikey, who dressed up as a girl for the party, left his glasses at the house. The kids had some fun with them.

Felix, super happy!

Lili, super confused!Chone, super posing!

Then we returned them before we broke them.

Halloween/30th Birthday Party

for Lisa and Patty. It was a lot of fun, and everyone dressed up.

Here is Lili as mini Frida Kahlo

Felix was a 50's cool guy in his leather jacket Chone was a pirate, then Frida, then Herminie from Harry Potter (yes, she changed three times)
Here are some of the guys outside. It rained, but they didn't care.
Here are some of us inside
and some more (my Mom is the hippie)
It was a great party! The altar contest was great too. My Mom made one for Elaine's "dead" car, Chone made one for her hamster, and other family members made some for family members and even for the murdered women in Juarez!
We had a great time!

We met Dexter!

Mom, Elaine, and Dexter came to watch Chone's soccer game and hang out. We finally got to meet the little Dexter. He is so cute! The twins liked him. He would chase them around as they crawled and bite their shirts. It was funny. He seemed to like Chone a lot. (We were going to a Costume B-day party, that's why Chone is Minnie Mouse)

He's so cute!

Here is Lili in her costume, a bee!

And Felix, a giraffe, but he wouldn't leave on the head/hood part.

After nap time

One of the hard parts of the day is after nap time. One will wake up and cry, so the other wakes up too. I go in the room and can only pick one up first. So I get whoever is crying harder, and the other one cries more. Sometimes I get them both, or sometimes I put one down to get the other. And of course whoever I put on the floor screams cause I put them down. I some way eventually get them both to the living room and have to hold them both until they calm down.

Then when they feel better and are all the way awake, they get down and go play with toys or something and I can get back to whatever I was doing. But only for about 5 minutes, cause then they realize they want a snack after that long (yeah right, a full hour if I'm lucky) nap.

When Luis cuts the grass...

The twins like to watch him from the window.

They wave at him...
And then they get dressed and raid the fridge before we go out to the store.

New Cousin

Felix's Nino Mikey has a baby boy named Andrew. We went to Bakersfield to visit and meet him for the first time. He is about 7 months old and soooo cute! It was wierd to see a baby smaller than the twins. I've known Mikey (he is Luis' cousin) for about 12 years (a lot longer than I've known Luis), and it is so wierd to see diapers in his room.

I wanted a picture of the babies together, but Lili cried as soon as we put her on the bed. So this is what I got. Don't the twins look huge next to him.

She don't seem to mind...

Lili's gums have been swollen for a while. Now she had a bump/blister on her gums. I thought it was the tooth break through, but it's soft. She doesn't like it when I touch it. I tell her to say "Ahh" and she shakes her head no to me with her little mad face. It's so funny!

Wait a minute!!

The twins love to play with all the stuff they can get into in the room, like their shoes, socks, pjs, hats, and blankets. Felix wouldn't leave his cap on, so I put it on Lili and put Lili's on him.

I thougt Lili looked like a boy, Lalo.
Felix is so precious :)...do you think he'll be mad at me when he's bigger?

I guess this would be Felicity.

In-N-Out

We got some In-N-Out for dinner and the twins usually eat fries, but they saw Luis dipping his in ketchup and decided to do it too.

Lili was pretty messy, but she loved it!

Felix liked the cheeseburger animal style, or as Luis would say robot style or monster style.

Happy Birthday Layzer!

Since Micheal got back and it was his birthday, Walkin and Jaime had a party for him at my house with family and some friends. It was nice to have a lot of the cousins together.

Elaine was even here in her neckbrace. Micheal and Meno thought she looked so cute!

The kids were up kind of late, and Felix liked Walkin's cool hat.

Woman and Gio showed up after her birthday dinner. So we got to say Happy Birthday to her in person!

This is why we call him Chango!