You're running out of time, Lucas!

My 19 month old only child

My baby is on his way to becoming a 2 year old! Time is flying by much too quickly! I can't believe that this is the last month he will be an only child too. It seemed like yesterday when I found out I was pregnant (Father's day weekend), and now we're going to be a family of four on Valentine's!

 After church, we decided to go get some Philz and eat at Sancho's Taqueria (a family fave). Hopefully, baby girl will grow to love Mexican food like the rest of her family. (btw, BEST fish tacos ever!!!) If I don't make it to next Sunday, this will be our last after church family meal with just the three of us. Exciting and terrifying at the same time...

We went to a birthday party this weekend and this was the very first time Lucas ate a whole cupcake on his own! He was quite the hyper one afterwards. Good thing he listened to me and ran around for a while. I'll admit, he's a pretty happy sugar-high guy. However, I did not want to take him home and deal with his crazy hyperness during this late stage in my pregnancy.

A Different Kind of Valentine's

This year, Valentine's day will be different... quite possibly for the rest of our lives! If all goes well and baby girl does not want to come out early, we will be celebrating a different kind of thing every Valentine's day from here on out! (All Mommy is hoping for is to watch the Super Bowl in the comfort of her own home and then baby girl is free to come out early if she pleases.)

All the laundry's done, room is ready, everything is prepared to the best of our ability. Right now, we're just playing the waiting game.

Extremely empty pink room... waiting to be used. Any day now...

Creeper

You see this beautiful mugger? He doesn't look scary at all in broad daylight. But when you turn around in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and you see this child just standing there, staring at you, whether it be 2am or 5:54am, it's a bit creepy!

For the past week, homeboy has woken up in the middle of the night and walked to Mommy's side of the bed and just stands there for who knows how long, and stares. I'm not really sure what this is, but the most logical hypothesis would be sleepwalking. Once I wake up and notice him there, I walk him back to his room and tell him it's still "night night" time and he goes back down without putting up a fight. His brain and legs still knows what I'm talking about... but it's just a tad bit creepy turning around and seeing this beautiful child just standing there looking at you.

Hopefully this is just due to the cold weather.

Happy Friday With Mommy

Since Mommy is super pregnant and has gotten extremely lazy with a consistent library time or other classes, this new year has started out pretty lax. On a Friday when play dates are cancelled and there is no way in heck we're venturing to CDM thanks to all the field trips, there's no better way to spend a few hours than to hang out at Almaden Plaza (where everything is free).

 Not really related to our day out... but this is what Lucas looks like when Daddy puts on his jammies. Can you say wedgey?!

 

Starting off our adventures at BBB. Homeboy refused to come out of this little house thing.

 Next up, checking out the SW figurines (Daddy is proud).

 Spending some time at the train table...

 Then the superheroes area to look at Spidey and Batman.

 And lastly, venturing off to Petsmart to look at all the animals there and wave bye to every single one of them.

That my friend, is how you kill 3 hours before lunch time. Happy Friday!

2013 - a new year!

Three years ago, we were a little younger... a little skinnier... and a little more energetic as we embarked in this lifelong thing called marriage. Not really knowing what we would get ourselves into, we began our journey as a family of two. 

 

Three years later, we became a little bit older... a little bit chunkier... and with much less energy left in us, our family has nearly doubled in size. Not only does our crazy, but precious boy turn 18 months today, but in roughly a month, we will be welcoming our little princess into this world (if our princess turns out to be a boy, we're in for quite the surprise).

 

For another sorta anniversary gift, we went to the final game of the season. And what a game it was! Go Niners! I want a Kap jersey.


Lucas got a chance to see all his cousins on Christmas day. Imagine being in a house full of kids less than 4 years old. If that's not crazy, I don't know what is...



So what's up with Lucas lately? He's quite the adventurous runner (sometimes it scares Mommy a bit when she's not able to chase him down), jabbers up a storm about who knows what, likes to go to his parents' room when he wakes up in the morning before venturing around the house doing whatever mischievous thing he does, and is still quite the bookworm and Elmo lover.


 He's also learning how to drive 14 years earlier than expected.

With the craziness that goes on around this household, we still wouldn't trade our crazies for anything.



Here's to a great 2013! 

Happy Birthday Mommy!

This was my second birthday as a mother as well as my second birthday without my mother. Ever since experiencing the joys and pains of birth and raising a child, I have decided to pay tribute to my own mother and visit her headstone to start off my birthday celebration. 

Afterwards, we went on a mother/son date to Chikfila since it's Mommy's favorite fast food joint. 

And we topped off the day with dinner at Cheesecake factory (we suck at taking family pictures, so there are barely any with the three of us). 

Since Mommy has everything she could ask for in life and more, it's hard to surprise her with a present. Daddy didn't surprise her with anything, but did buy her quite a bit of things that she liked/needed. But who needs materialistic gifts when Mommy is blessed with these two dudes?

Oh, and we survived the apocalypse. Wewt!