The ‘baby whisperer’ arrived at our house on Tuesday afternoon, bearing bags full of gifts for all three kids (much to Emilia’s delight – another baby doll, some books, and a new tea set) and her incredible ‘baby whisperer’ abilities.
That’s the nickname we had for my Tia Marga (or, as Emilia calls her, ‘Tia Manga’ – which is funny because ‘manga’ means ‘sleeve’). My Tia is a NICU nurse in Northern Virginia and has, as one can imagine, mad skills with little babies. Kids in general love her – she’s the kind of aunt who will do the wacky crafts with them and will let them go wild with the glitter – but babies – man does the woman know her way around some babies – my little fellas included. Below are some shots from her stay (since Tia is in the witness relocation program, there aren’t really any pics of her :)
Not only did Tia Marga bring gifts but she also brought her cooking skills (crema de apio here we come!), her wealth of knowledge about all things baby (who knew they were born with important ‘brown fat?!’), but also…
…her talents as a spa technician (the baths that used to leave Emilia screaming are a thing of the past – who knew I had the water too cold and you can swaddle them in the tub too!),
emilia supervising.
javier (don’t you love how he stuck his little foot out!)
andres – looking rather grumpy.
…her mad swaddling skills (really, if you think you know how to swaddle, you have no idea – holy baby burritos!),
post-spa-body wrapping.
…and the craziest (but most effective) baby burping method ever (not for the faint of heart).
lovin’ on javier.
Today (Sunday) was another beautiful Fall day here so we took advantage of the very mild weather and took the boys on a short stroll through the CW ‘hood.
the ‘captain’ was in charge of pushing the stroller.
looking for leaves (and acorns, and calabazas/pumpkins, and bugs) – in short – a nature walk.
we only took their caps off for the picture – javier in front, andres in the back.
los hombres c – and a not-so-fond goodbye to marcus’ ‘vacation beard’ – it’s finally gone now.
2 comments:
Tia sounds like a diamond in the rough! Dang Denise you look good! were there really 2 babes in that belly a mere 1.5 weeks ago? I kinda like the beard on Marcus!
can't get past the vacation beard! ha!
ummm, ok. enough is enough. gotta meet these boys asap. will be in touch to schedule a time.
so it's andres that looks like emi right?
this woman is amazing. is this A's sister or what?
love all of these shots. precious. cool bracelet in focus one.
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