not the post I intended

So I have this post in my draft section all about our ‘nueva realidad’ – the new reality we’re entering – that I’ve been meaning to actually post… but it’s not finished yet.  Yet I’ve gotten quite a bit of flack (ahem, Nana!) that I haven’t put anything up recently and so I give you a hodgepodge of randomness.

feel like you’ve seen this outfit before? that’s because you have.  it’s pretty much all she wants to wear around the house… a constant request for ‘playing dress up’.  the only thing that changes are the accessories.  it makes me nuts and I really really need to get over it.  please note that baby Jesus’ burp cloth is, of course, a cleaning rag.  sadly I didn’t get a picture of her ‘feeding baby jesus from my tummy (aka breastfeeding).

listen boy – mama’s gonna take a bunch of pictures now.  brace yourself.

my handsome boy.  you can’t tell it here, but his eyelashes curl upwards.  such a cuddle-bug.  (and please ignore the spit up on his collar.  I could photoshop it out, but really, do we want more delays?)

this one is t.r.o.u.b.l.e.  I imagine he’ll be the one who steals my car in the middle of the night.  mischievous.

sure javier’s got spit up down the front of his shirt and andres is already in his jammies in this picture.  it’d been a l.o.n.g. day because, what’s more fun than getting your passport picture taken?  getting two baby’s passport pictures taken at the same time.  it was an exhausting process that made me feel like I had run a marathon.  thank God Emilia’s is still good for this year. but my boys are both smiling in this one and that’s what matters.

 

a crap picture but look at how happy my girl was to be outside last weekend in the beautiful 70 degree weather.  we spent a good long time at freedom park enjoying our picnic and getting some energy out running around the lake.

Part of our new reality is that when one gets sick, everyone gets sick.  I’ve been to Dr. Walker’s office twice this week – once with Emilia and Javier and once with Javier and Andres.  All down with RSV and general icky-ness.  Interestingly enough, Dr. W checked her notes and it was exactly one year ago almost to the day that Emilia last had RSV.  Keeping track of the meds and who gets what and when was proving to be a challenge, so I had to make myself a chart.  Sadly, I didn’t even put all of meds on here – the boys get Albuterol 3 times a day and Emilia is still doing breathing treatments every morning.  Fortunately she’s a million times better already, Javier still sounds icky and Andres’ eye is no longer draining yellow goop.  Now of course, Marcus is sick.  He’s on his own.

oh yeah, and the passport applications are still sitting on my desk because I haven’t felt like dragging all 3 of us to the passport office yet.