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this is a blog i did before we left mexico and didn't get a chance to post before we left for arizona......



This last weekend we kinda had "ants" in our pants.......getting excited about making the trip home to arizona for the holidays. Just wish we could "blink" and be packed, house cleaned, car ready, and on the road! But, we did keep ourselves busy......doing laundry, the kids and Erik washed the jeep and Erik and I went to dinner saturday night with some of our friends at our "favorita" restaurant here in Guadalajara....I Latina(e latina):) YUMMY! We kinda made it our "tradition" before we all leave for christmas break~well, ok this is only the 2nd year we've done it, but 2 years in a row can be called "tradition", right? Anyways.....it was a lot of fun! Stay tuned for how our LONG car drive goes~not looking forward to 24 hours in the car! Pray it all goes well and we get there safe and sound!!!

My little "mexicans"

This is what the kids looked like today when I picked them up from school~

Que Linda! They looked SO cute!!! Being that monday was Dia de la Revolucion Mexicana, and there was no school monday, they sent home a note yesterday saying they wanted the kids to dress up today, friday......The note was in spanish, of course and there were a lot of words I didn't know....so thanks to the "trusty" translator I typed in what the note said and had it translated to english:) It said the boys were supposed to wear jeans and "sombreros" and the girls were supposed to wear skirts and braids in their hair......I thought...hhhhhmmmmmm..... So, I called my friend Yari because her little boy goes to the kids school and she's puerto rican so spanish is her first language. She told me it was the mexican skirts and pants......which we don't own any of those~so my kids went to school in their "standard" uniforms and came home all decked out!!!!!!!! I loved it!



So, I had to wikipedia Mexican Revolution so I could remember what it was all about:

The Mexican Revolution (Spanish: Revolución mexicana) was a major armed struggle that started in 1910 with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Diaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements.

Over time the Revolution changed from a revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war. After prolonged struggles, its representatives produced the Mexican Constitution of 1917. The Revolution is generally considered to have lasted until 1920, although the country continued to have sporadic, but comparatively minor, outbreaks of warfare well into the 1920s. The Cristero War was the most significant relapse of bloodshed. The Revolution triggered the creation of the National Revolutionary Party in 1929 (renamed the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in 1946). Under a variety of leaders, the PRI held power until the general election of 2000.

Car doctor

Tonight is the second night Erik has had to work double shifts at the hospital, and the kids and I were REALLY missing him tonight when we sat down for dinner! This is a little bit of the converstation we had:

Halle: "I really wish daddy didn't have to go to that school anymore"

Me: "Well, honey he has to finish school so he can become a Dr. and get a job to make some money. That's how we pay for things like, the house we live in, our car, food to eat. eat.

Costa: "Well soon I'm going to be a Dr. so I can work on your car"

It was pretty cute! Gotta love 3 year olds and the way their little brains think:)

Butterflies

My Halle girl.....last night when I was putting you to bed you started to cry and told me you had a bad day at school! I started asking you what happened and was trying to understand you through the tears~It broke my heart to hear you SO sad:( You said that while you were making an art project at school you accidentally put something on the wrong way and then all of a sudden both your arms, legs and tummy started to "shake!" I was trying to make sense of it, and was asking you things like..."were you hungry?" "did you guys already eat lunch before this happened?" "did you feel sick?" and then it CAME to me! You had your first case of BUTTERFLIES in your tummy! You were NERVOUS~and the feeling of it scared you! I explained to you that this is normal, and you will get these feelings sometimes when you are scared or nervous....you just need to take a DEEP breath and say a prayer that it goes away quickly! I know we will have MANY more talks about bad days, but I just wanted to remember this conversation with you about your first BUTTERFLY experience.....I'm so happy you told me about it!!!!! XOXO

BaCkYaRdIGaNs

This last monday was ANOTHER holiday here in mexico, this time it was for the Dia de la Revolucion Mexicana~so Erik and the kiddos didn't have school. This is like the 4th holiday we've had since school started.....GEEZ louise, Mexicans sure do LOVE their holidays!!!! ........I love my kids dearly and our weekend time together, but they get pretty antsy and are usually ready to go back to school on mondays ~they LOVE school! I must say, though.....they were SO awesome entertaining themselves sunday AND monday! Erik called them our little "backyardigans"......SO funny, they were in the backyard for HOURS using their imaginations and having all kids of little adventures and didn't complain at ALL that they were bored! We LOVED it! They were cleaning my outside table and chairs and making a swimming pool for Halle's ponies......they did get a little carried away with the water and were SOAKED at one point, but Erik and I decided they're having fun so we let them be:)
Sunday night Erik and Halle, he calls her his "little chef"....made us spaghetti dinner and my was it delicious! It's so cute to see Halle get excited to help her daddy cook. This is something he started with her when she was probably 2 years old! It's SO special.......I LOVE it! He's so patient and really tries to teach her all about cooking. She told me..."Mommy.... I made these noodles ALL by myself!" SO proud~
We ended the weekend by making a "fort", and watching the movie UP. The kids get SO excited to make a fort with their daddy~he's the PROFESSIONAL fort maker:) I love these special things that he does with them to make memories!

EXCITING phone call

Last night we got a phone call from Dr. Dinowitz, the orthopedic doctor Erik worked for before medical school. He said Erik will be able to "scrub in" on surgeries while we're home in arizona for christmas break! He will be an employee while working there so their insurance will cover him! He will actually get to assist in ACTUAL surgeries, this is pretty big!!! WHOOOOO HOOOOO!!! I love seeing the EXCITEMENT and JOY in my husbands eyes as he's realizing all this HARD WORK is going to actually pay off and can see it ALL coming together! I fell in LOVE with him all over again last night......he is such a HARD worker and deserves all of his DREAMS to come true!!! I am SOOOOO happy and EXCITED for you, babe~you have done SO well and I am MORE than proud of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE you with all my heart....................MUAH!!!!!!!!!! ~your wife

Pajama party!

My sweet friend Yari invited the kids and I over for a pajama and movie night tonight. She told me about it the other day so I went and bought the kids some new "fun" pajamas! The other day when I picked them up from school I told them I had a surprise for them.....I love the excitement in their voices when I tell them I have a surprise! I made them close their eyes and wait for me to get their surprises....They were SO excited when I showed them the superman and sleeping beauty PJ's I had bought for them! I told them about Yari and Gabriel's party coming up in a few days and that they had to "save" these PJ's to wear until the party.......Of course, Costa doesn't know how to "wait" for things....he had to try them on and actually ended up wearing them to take his nap that day!

All the kids looked SO cute in their pajamas~we had 2 buzzs, a batman, a superman and of course our little sleeping beauty.......oh, and my friend Stacie had her baby there too!~Easton, he's so sweet....he's 9 months and is the cutest thing EVER.....I LOVE this age and it makes me kinda want one.....hhhhhhmmmmm:)! The kids had fun playing with their buddies, eating their "fav" pizza and watching Ice Age 3.....of course, they actually only "watched" the movie through eating popcorn and ice cream(total of about 15 minutes!) but after that they wanted to play!!!!!!!!!!! Um, hello? FOUR 3 year old boys! Trying to keep them still to watch a movie? NOT happening! It was WRESTLE time! They had SO much fun together! It's SO good for Costa to get in some good boy play time.... he got hurt a few times and it broke my heart! My little boy, I NEED to let him get hurt and be "tough" and know that it's just part of being a boy:)

THANKS Yari for having us over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had fun:)

Breton, Easton, Boston, Gabriel, Costa & Halle