Neighbors

I really miss our neighbors from Chamber Ridge Townhouses.

We moved in with my parents the last weekend of October. We plan on buying a house in Stapleton in April or May and in the meantime we are staying in Parker with my parents. We rented our townhouse out.

The weekend before Christmas we took some cookies to our old neighbors and Eli sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas". They all really appreciated it and it was nice to be back in the old neighborhood.

I missed having my annual Neighbor Dessert Party, but this was our substitute for this year. Hopefully I can have another party next December in Stapleton.

Diego at 21 months

Diego is 21 months now and talks more and more each day. Here are some of the words he knows:
car, truck, bus, boat, mommy, papi, po-po (for a dirty diaper), pee-pee, milk, more, please, bowl, cereal, juice, apple, honey, pop-up (for toast or waffle that pops up from the toaster), candy, cookie, Greta, Ivaras, no, yes, ka (for thank you), ball, book, Melmo (for Elmo from Sesame Street), cho-cho (for train), bird, moon...
I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

Diego has done really well in nursery in our new ward. He doesn't cry much and is happy to go have his snack and play with toys.

He cries, or rather complains, a lot. He knows what he wants and lets me know when he is unhappy. It is quite annoying and taxing day after day, but I try to have patience.

He is still a good napper and sleeps around 2-3 hours in the afternoon. He goes to sleep at 7 p.m. (same time as Eli) and they both sleep until 7 a.m. He likes to take baths and doesn't not like to get his diaper changed. He likes to brush his own teeth and doesn't like it as much when we try to help him.

He loves Thomas the train books. Each time we go to the library he picks a couple of them out to take home. He also likes watching Elmo and go Diego go on TV.

Diego loves playing with cars.

Halloween

On Halloween night we went trick or treating with my sister and her kids. It was a nice night and not too cold. Eli and Diego had a nice time and even Diego enjoyed saying Trick-or Treat and thank you in his own little way. We did miss trick-or-treating in our old townhouse complex though and seeing all our neighbors.

Playing in the Leaves

Autumn this year has been really nice. The leaves are so pretty and colorful. The boys have enjoyed taking walks and crunching the leaves with their feet. Eli likes to make leaf angels (like snow angels). It seems kinds of uncomfortable to me, but he likes it. The other day some neighbor girls raked a big pile of leaves and invited Eli and Diego to play with them.

Eli's Friend Birthday Party

Eli had a Nick's birthday party this year. We live right across the street from Nick's Garden Center and each October they have a fall festival all month long. His friends came over and then we all walked across the street to Nick's. It was a really warm day- hot actually. It was super busy at Nick's so it was a challenge to keep all the kids together and not loose any. Thank goodness my sister and mom were there to help Cesar and I. My dad was a big help too because he stayed at home with Diego while he napped. Eli invited four friends.
They loved the train ride.

We all had fun playing the games they had there.

I made Eli a big chocolate chip cookie cake.

Eli's Family Birthday Celebration

Cesar made another amazing cake this year! He has done such a great job with Eli's cakes.

Eli smiled so big when the family all sang happy birthday to him. He was so happy!

Eli's Birthday

Eli turned 4 on October 10th. Cesar took the day off from work and we all went to Monkey Bizness. We went once in March for Diego's birthday and Eli has been talking about it ever since. They give free admission on birthdays.

Eli is such a sweet, funny, handsome, smart, cute, nice boy! I love that he is my son. He likes playing games on pbskids.org and the friend magazine website. He likes riding his bike outside on the sidewalk. He loves saying hi to our neighbors especially Bill because he always gives the boys Popsicles or candy. Eli likes playing with friends and he really enjoyed preschool. Eli is a nice brother to Diego. He out of the blue tells me and Cesar that he loves us so much. He says nice prayers all by himself. He loves looking and "reading" books and can spend over an hour just sitting down looking at books. He knows most of the letters and can write some too. He has been waking up at exactly 7:30 in the morning lately. He comes into our room and climbs into bed with me. I ask him to look at the clock and tell me the time. He always tells me the time backwards. If it is 7:32 he will say, "It is 2, 3, 7."