A Star is Born

Lately Tristan has really been into music. He got instruments from his Grandma and he is into singing and dancing. Usually he sings, "The Wheels on the Bus," or "Old McDonald," but tonight he made up his own song. He asked me to help him find his microphone and once he had it he began to sing about anything he saw. It went something like this, "Oh, cars, or racecars, or elmo, or animals... It was so cute, he swayed back and forth while he sang. He's my little star on the rise.

Edgar has started teaching Noah how to sing too. He'll be singing before he can talk:)

Winter Wonderland

Last week it snow a TON here in Denver but it was also VERY cold so we didn't get outside much to play in it. By the time we did get outside most of the snow had melted, but Tristan did have fun making snowballs to throw at me.

The Newest Member of the Diaz Clan

While I was in Mexico I got to meet the newest member of the Diaz clan, my niece, Ana Maria. She was such a sweet, happy, little lady and she let me take a TON of pictures of her. I have over 70!! Here are my favorites.

Christmas at Mariana and Yeyo's

After opening all the presents that Santa brought to Abuelito and Abuelita's house we went over to Tia Mariana and Tio Yeyo's house to see what Santa brought the boys there.



Noah also received presents from Santa (Mariana and Yeyo) but the little guy slept right through the opening of the them.

Christmas Morning

This post is extremely late but better late than never, right? When Tristan woke up Christmas morning he didn't remember on his own what day it was but it didn't take much reminding for him to be up and ready to check the tree for his presents. Boy did he make out good! And this is AFTER he already got presents in Denver before we headed to Mexico.

The night before we left cookies and milk for Santa.

Tristan helped Noah open his presents.


Then he ripped open his own which were mostly....
you guessed it, CARS. (He isn't hard to shop for.)

Noah enjoyed is stackable cubes.

We didn't have a mantle to hang the stocking on but that didn't stop Santa from stuffing them.



After playing with his new toys for a few minutes Noah got distracted by the spice rake. So much for spending money on actual toys, ordinary objects are just as much fun.

Look at all their loot!

And more...

and more...

and more..


My goodness and the Three Kings still have to come in a few days!

Smile

This week's photo challenge is Smile:) I had to use this photo of my boys smiling together. They have so much love for each other.

The Simple Things-Clouds

While we were in Mexico Tristan and I went jumping everyday in the trampoline. One day after jumping (and falling and rolling) we lay down in the trampoline and looked at the clouds. It was a rare quiet moment with Tristan. He looked up and told me, "I want go up, up, up the clouds mommy." I told him that in a few days we were going to get on the airplane again and we would fly up with the clouds. But he told me, "no, I want touch the clouds." I told him we couldn't because they were far, far, far away and he said, "I get ladder and go up, up, up. I touch the clouds." I told him that a ladder wasn't big enough, that they were REALLY high! He relied, "no a ladder." I left it at that. Maybe one day he will touch the clouds:)



This picture was the best I could get of our jumping session. Every time I picked up the camera Tristan told me to, "put it down mommy!" Some moments are better without camera in hand.