Baptism

Our little Santiago was baptized! What a great occasion to bring family and friends together. Here are abuelos with their crew. 

The parents and godparents. 

Our family!

Godfather and abuelo. The best combo!

The aunts came in for reinforcement! Even bought and prepared all the food. Love you guys!

Regroup

Stay focused. Eye on the prize. What's the goal? What do you want long term?  How do you want things to turn out in the long run?  Big questions that get lost easily in the every day. The holiday season is coming to an end and the energy is winding down as well. The flurry of activity has thrown our family off in terms of sleep, health and routine. My goal is to get us back on track in the coming week. The baby and I have been sick for over three weeks. We are now both left with a big cough and lack of sleep isn't helping anyone. No fun. Last two nights have involved late nights of the baby being awake and talking (he loves talking to the Buddha head on the table) and him being so fussy you can't even put him down when he is sleeping. It has been five days since I left the house and had time, even a half hour, away from my kids. Not good self care. Trying to get better at that too.  For now it is a time to regroup and reflect on the next year's goals. To be continued....

Baby Jesus

Baby Jesus bought mommy a tablet!! Here's the first picture I'll post from it:)

It doesn't get much better than that!!

Merry Christmas

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!  We are so blessed this year to be surrounded by our three beautiful children and so much love.  Last year I was eating McDonald's because I was so sick with the pregnancy. This year we have our beautiful baby boy and two ever growing big boys.  Merry Christmas!!!

Back

Santiago is back to sleeping in our room. He is almost five months and getting so funny. Such a smiley, happy baby. He no longer likes laying down and wants to be up and seeing the action. His cold (the reason he moved back to our room) is almost resolved so we are just about back to sleeping through the night. He is getting bigger and I have started donating the baby clothes. It's sad but they are mindfully going to good places. I continue to look at my family with amazement and joy. So beautiful. 

Tree Trimming

We (Angel and the boys) ventured out to Ace Hardware to buy our Christmas tree. I stayed at home with the baby because it was so cold. It was frozen so we had to blast the Christmas music and decorate it the next morning, which was somewhat brutal because the baby didn't sleep well. :( But we made it and I could smell it all the way back in our room. Delicious! In the middle of the night I took the baby out to see it but his little eyes stay closed after filling up on warm milk. I just love this time of year!!

Crib

Last night Santiago slept in his big boy crib in the room with the boys. It was hard for me and I missed him terribly when climbing into bed. Having him close set me at ease. With him in the other room I worried about everything. His position in the crib. Was the blanket placed okay on his body? But then I drifted off and so did he and we reunited as we almost always do at 1am for some warm milk. 

Don't want to forget

Things I don't want to forget:

Ignacio saying that he wanted to live with me forever near the woods so he could hunt our food 

The baby's sweet smile and small hands and luscious smell

Emilio's alligator tears

The smell of their heads

The feel of a baby pressed against my chest. 

Ignacio's smile and desire to make me smile. 

Their warmth especially when sleeping

Big 4

Here's to being four months! Talking, sucking on fingers, playing with toes and rolling over...did I mention drooling?

Big 6

Ignacio turned six on Friday and it was the first birthday he wanted to celebrate at the exact time he was born. He kept asking all day what time it was and then I figured out what he was doing. He had his annual physical (with the same doctor who held him when he was 2 days old) and passed with flying colors and orquestrated our day all the way through bed time:

Lego Time

Chinese for lunch

Target to look at toys

Pizza party for dinner

It was a fun day although Emilio struggled with not being the special birthday boy all day. We sang him happy birthday at night. My big boy!!

It was actually a birthday weekend with presents and singing each day of the four day weekend. It wrapped up Sunday with a small birthday party that turned out to be just as relaxing for the adults as it was fun for the kids. 

Keep growing Ignacio!!!!