Christmas

Christmas Eve was spent at Nana and Tata's house, as usual. Tia Angie brought cookies for the kids to decorate.

Santa came and Felix was shy with him.
Lili was terrified and cried.
Once Santa left the kids had fun playing with Sophia. Angelica spent Christmas Eve with her Dad and family.

This is our metal tree we have been using. Hopefully next year we will get a real tree.

We picked up Angelica Christmas morning and headed out to SB.

My parents tree with all the presents on Christmas morning.

We woke everyone up to open presents...

Later we stopped by Tia Elaine's work. The twins liked playing office.

December at home

December we got ready for Christmas and did things at home.

Lili's hair is getting long.

We spiked Felix's hair and put Angelica's Harry Potter glasses on him and he looked like Chicken Little.
Felix invented a way to tow a scooter.
Angelica is getting better and better at the violin.

The kids played together.

And even made a gingerbread house together. Lili was most interested in eating the candy.

Birthday Parties

On Saturday we went to our nephew, Angel's birthday party.

The kids had fun with a clown that made balloons and face painted. I stayed far away with my back turned to him durning his show. Felix was surrounded by girls.

Cassandra and Angelica were cats.

On Sunday the girls got ready and we went to a birthday party for one of my best friend's niece.

It was a princess party and Celeste turned 3.

My friend, Lucia, being the great Tia she is, dressed up as Snow White and entertained the girls

Caught in the rain

Today Chone had a soccer game at 8am. In the first quarter she almost got 2 goals. She was so close! In the second quarter it started to sprinkle with lightning in the distance. I started to take down the banner just when they stopped all the games. As soon as I got everything and everyone packed up it and started walking to the car, it started to POUR! We all got soaked! By the time we got to the car the twins were both crying and me and Chone had water dripping down our faces! Once everyone was buckled in and all my stuff (banner, chair, stroller) was in the trunk, it calmed down and turned into a sprinkle. If only it would have waited 5 more minutes for us to get in the car. The rest of the games for the day were cancelled. We were just one of the lucky teams who got to play at 8 in the morning for not even half the game. The picture is what Chone looked like, except with ribbons in her longer hair.

Halloween

We went trick or treating around part of the neighborhood. The twins had fun, but were to shy to say trick or treat, even though they were saying it at home.

Lili was a scarecrow girl.
Felix was a scarecrow boy

Chone was another Harry Potter character this year. She was Moany Murtle.

Swimming Lessons

Chone started swimming lessons at the YMCA. After her near drowning experience at Bass Lake last year, it was time. There is only one other little girls in her "class". Her teacher is very nice.
By the second lesson she was swimming on her own!

Fun Weekend

The whole family went to Lisa & Joey's for Lisa's Birthday weekend. We had dinner at a mexican restaurant in Palm Springs on Saturday night. Happy Birthday Lisa!!!On Sunday we went to a pumpkin patch. It was a nice hot day and there was lots to do there. There was even a monkey shaking hands and taking money!

The kids played on games, climbed the haystack, and Phi even rode a horse.
Me and Lisa watched as the guys took the kids into the petting zoo.

It was such a fun weekend the girls crashed on the way home!

Arts & Crafts

I let them get messy with some paint and cars.

Monkey See, Monkey Do

Lili like to do everything Chone does...

Feel the Love

huggie

Super Smart

Chone does flash cards to study math facts as part of homework. Of course the twins hear and see her saying numbers to me as I hold up cards. Today I found Felix going through the cards and saying random numbers with each card he picked up. It was so cute!

Lili in Photos

For some reason I don't have a lot of pictures from this month, but from the ones I have, there are a lot of Lili. So here are some pictures of my middle child.

This one was in response to a picture of Day-day on Lisa's blog.

Who gave her candy?
Good Job!

No wonder Felix is so skinny!
She likes tomatoes!

She is exhausted from being so cute. It takes a lot of energy!

Husband Birthday

Happy Birthday Luis! I still can't believe I'm married to someone younger than me.

Visitor

Cousin Day-day came for a visit today. We got out lots of toys so the kids could play. The twins are starting to play with day-day now instead of just looking at her or following her around.

I heart boxes

Why is the best part of the gift for a 2 year old is the box the gift came in? My parents got them an awesome sand and water table that is perfect for the backyard. Of course they couldn't get enough of the box!

Chone's turn

Chone decided she wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday dinner too. She brought along a cousin.

She had running around and playing games.
She had cake and presents at home to finish off the day.
Happy Birthday Chone! You are very special to me and everyone you are friends with. Keep up the great work in everything you do, except keeping your room clean! :)

Party Time!!!

Since Chone's birthday is only 3 days after the twins', we had a triple birthday family party. My sister, Elaine made a cake for each birthday boy/girl. They came out SO awesome! We had a spongebob themed party and it was lots of fun! Thanks for everyone who came to celebrate with us.

Felix didn't touch the flame this time!