Halloween 2014

Halloween was a week long of events.  Zuri was in heaven.  She got to wear her Super Girl costume multiple times over the week.

The week started off with "Trunk or Treat" in our neighborhood.  Followed by "Trick or Treat Street" at Arvada West HS

 and then finally the real thing of trick or treating!

The kids did great and the weather was comfortable.  Avi slept off and on through the whole outing and was passed out by the time we got back.  Zuri was busy eating lots of candy with Grey and Ashby.

Family Photo's 2014

We needed to have some family photos taken so that we can have something to put on the walls of our new house.  I didn't feel like putting up photos of just one child would be very fair.  But also because we don't have any photos of us as a family.  We have a lot of photos of the kids but almost none of Pedro and I with the kids.  The pictures turned out pretty well.  Avi, our happy child, didn't seem so happy or smiley in the pictures but that is ok!  At least we didn't have any crying!

This one was when they said to look at each other lovingly....ummm??!

Zuri was squeezing me

Avi being squished!

Aviela 5 Months!

Avi is 5 months old.  It seems so far away that she was so tiny and curled up in my arms.  Now she seems so big!

She has a pretty happy personality but it can go downhill quickly if she is hungry or tired.  She is eating a bit better now, but I am giving her bottles since it is hard to keep her attention with so much going on, even when we try to eat quietly in the room it doesn't work because Zuri inevitably needs to come up for something.  Nap times are up and down.  Some days I end up waking her from a 3 hour nap, other days it is 40 minutes.  Nothing very consistent.  

She loves with Zuri growls at her and has fun watching her.  She also LOVES her jumper right now.

(This picture was from awhile ago.)

Trying to take a picture of them both ended up in this series of events!

We have tried sweet potatoes and are still learning how to eat.  Sometimes she shivers other times she seems to like them.

During her last month she went on another basketball trip with me to California (she has now been to Kansas, Oregon, Chicago and Anaheim).

We have rolled over a few more times from stomach to back

And we LOVE bath time!

And we are working on our sitting skills!  

Too Sad For Words

Grandma "Topper" passed away on September 19th, 2014 around 9:10pm with Kurt and Sylvia (care giver) at her side.  I am glad that Kurt was there so she had someone with her when she passed.  Pedro told me she was just waiting for everyone to visit and about an hour before everyone in our family had visited her.  We thought she would pull through as she seemed to pull through most things.  She was 94 years old.  No matter how old she was, she still passed too soon for me and my family.  I loved her very much and we had a lot of great memories together.  From her serving me breakfast for dinner, heavenly hash ice cream, baking together, playing cards, watching the price is right, going with her to get her dogs, licorice candy (gross!), splitting gum in half, going to church together, working on memorizing things for wednesday night class, making me memorize everything for church even though I had set up a system that each person memorized only a few things so that nobody had to memorize everything, teaching me my times tables, watching wheel of fortune, eating tea garden together, Zuri loving her, Zuri sharing her toys with her, Grandma worrying about me while I was working and pregnant,  how happy she would get to see the kids, how excited she was to hold Avi, Zuri wanting to tell grandma topper goodnight and love you and so many more things.....

We visited Grandma at the hospital in the afternoon on the day she died.  Before we left Zuri wanted to tell Grandma good bye and gave her a kiss and said quietly, love you.  I had to YELL it to grandma because her hearing was so bad.  But I am glad we got to see her before she passed and I am glad the last memory I will have is of Zuri telling her that she loves her.