Feet!

Baby M finally found her feet. It took her a while but she found them. Both my other kids found their feet way before 6 months. Dee used to suck on them, Ky did too but not as much.

Our 4th of July by the lake

Usually, on the 4th of July we go to my brother's house to see the fireworks from the stadium around the corner.

This year, he decided to have a little getaway and we did too. Well, not for a whole weekend but a day. :)

We went with hubby's sister and her boyfriend's family. We had a day full of baseball (we didn't play...we're not into sports) BBQ (with no lighter fluid or matches) and a beautiful day by the lake.

The kids had so much fun. Especially K when she stepped on the wet grass and her legs got splashed with mud. She started crying so much because it was "icky". lol
Never mind that she was playing with a worm two hours prior to that.

New haircut for K

She finally got her short haircut. She is in love with her new haircut. It's a drastic change but a good one.

As per her request, I have to keep making hair clips for her. That way nobody confuses her to a boy.

School's almost over

I need to start planning some activities for the kids this Summer. Last day of school is Wednesday, finally.

I'm thinking beach :)
The park
and maybe the beach again

I'll probably be going with my sister since hubby's using my car for work. Other than the beach, I have to keep it local.

We'll see what else we can do.

Until then, here's a pic from one of our beach outings.



Even beach barbie hangs out with us. She's chillaxing!

Grand Opening!

I finally opened my store, Lil Besos Boutique on Etsy and Hyenacart. I tried to stock as much as I could. Of course I have baby and that took all day. So I'll be adding more in a few days.

Foggy Field Trip

There's nothing better than spending time with your child. Even if you have to share it with another 20 kids the same age in the school field trip.

I had to follow the school bus. Which was not good since they took off and I was not able to catch up. But since they were going to Liberty State Park, I didn't need to follow. I took my own route and found it.

The kids had a great time, since they spent all their time at the playground. I took a little walk and took some pics.

The New York skyline was like a blur. Too much fog.

This was about an hour later. Almost completely covered.

After the kids had lunch, we left home. But we had to make a quick stop to see the Statue of Liberty.

The fog was going away by this time but it started to get a bit chilly.

Ms Liberty...

Cinco de Mayo!

Yeah, I'm Spanish...but not Mexican. But we still go out and celebrate Cinco de Mayo. It's an excuse. Ralphy called out from work because I was sick, but we know the real reason ;)

Early afternoon we went to Kyla's school. The had a little Cinco de Mayo celebration. She had to bring in chips and salsa. Ralphy, Mia and myself went and as soon as we got there all the little kids were like "Hola! Aww, look at the baby, it's Kyla's baby". They all know about the baby because Kyla made sure she told everyone her little sister was coming into this world on February 12th. We had to sit on those little chairs, pretty uncomfortable with our big booties lol. They all had painted newspaper sombreros they made in class. They played some games, pin the watch on Dora's arm and of course a pinata.




After that finished, we dropped off the baby at my mom's house so we could go get dinner. We decided not to bring Mia this time. She was a little cranky plus we wanted to enjoy a little time alone with Darius and Kyla without Mia crying during meals, like she always does. We went with the kids and Maria & Iso. Of couse, we went to Cheeseburger in Paradise. The main reason we go there is for their Teriyaki Chicken Wings appetizer.

They were having a little celebration themselves (we knew that already lol) They even had a mariachi. And....$3.50 Margaritas!!!! WooHoo! So guess what we had....





As you can see, my sister is having fun. We're not lushes. We just like to take advantage of a good deal on drinks. We didn't have that many since the kids were with us.


We all had a good time. I came home and went right to sleep. I was tired. I don't get much sleep at night.

Good times, good times!

This time last year...

...we were getting ready to leave to Puerto Rico. We spent Mother's Day there which was pretty cool. We had so much fun. Especially since the kids went with us for the first time. They had so much fun. They ask all the time now, "when are we going back". We went to the beach almost every single day. Big help that our hotel was a block away from the beach. Whenever we were hungry we walked to the town. There was this little spot where we went to get breakfast. It was good and cheap compared to the restaurants in the tourist section. And that's where we found....mayokechu (mayonnaise & ketchup). They mix it up and just put it in a bottle or you can buy it mixed already. Yeah, it's a simple mix but it's so yummy especially with tostones. Now I want some.

We took a long drive to the west side of the island to visit Ralphy's parents and grandma..and aunt and uncle lol. A long ride but we had so much fun. The kids stayed with my in-laws and drove back to San Juan. This time we took the other way so we basically drove around half the island and cut through the middle. Does that make sense.

One of our stops was Boqueron. It was a weekday so it wasn't busy at all. We had lunch at one of the restaurants which leads out into the water. Everyone else had seafood except me. As tempting as everything was I was still not going to eat it. I think I had the chicken or pork mofongo, don't remember. All I remember is having a nice Margarita...yum!


I can go on and on about this trip, but it'll take forever. And I'm tired and have to wash diapers.

Our next trip is in December. We'll be spending New Year's in Puerto Rico. Can't wait!

Zoo fun

Since Kyla was sick almost all week and it was raining for the most part, we didn't have time to do anything with the kids during Spring Break. Well, I decided Thursday night I'll take the kids to the Bronx Zoo Friday with or without Maria. At the last minute, Maria decided she would go.

Our plan was to be at the zoo by 10am and leave around 2pm so Iso can make her softball practice. We didn't leave the house until around 10:40am. We get to the GWB and there was some traffic. We get to the Bronx and there was traffic. I'm guess half of NY decided they wanted to go to the zoo as well because there was traffic everywhere! There was traffic two miles around the zoo. We decided to just look for parking "locally". We parked two blocks from the zoo which is not bad. We got there around 12:30pm. So much for leaving at 2pm.

It was so nice out. The zoo was packed! I couldn't believe how many people were there. We only got to see half the zoo. We wanted to see the gorillas and the elephants but by the time we got there it was closed.

Kyla wanted to go see the butterflies, of course. It was so nice there. That's where I took the most pictures because they were so close. There was no purpose of me taking pictures of animals that were too far away.

This was my favorite pic

Funny how the most interesting was the smallest in the zoo.



I drove back home. And of course, more traffic. We left at 5pm didn't get home until 7pm. We were so tired. All we did was eat then fell asleep.

For more pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cinca/sets/72157616868469063/