1st Birthday Part 1

Our Ofelia is 1! Mama and Papa bought her a new carseat! She was very excited, and Sofi seemed happy to have a forward facing buddy.

That evening we went to Wash Park for a very last minute gathering. Mike's mom, brother, and Aunties showed up along with LT and family to celebrate and have some cupcakes. LT and Sofi were put in charge of sprinkles.

LT learning who the "Master" is.

Cute chocolate faces.

Ofelia with Izzy.

We didn't let her dig into a cupcake the traditional way due to the park setting, but she definitely ate her share.

Where did our baby go? Only 14 more years until they're both with the National Team.

Snow!

The week before Halloween it snowed. This is what our "backyard" looked like.

This is what our older daughter looked like.

Sofi was so excited to play in the snow. Ofelia had no idea why we were stuffing her into a snow suit.

Mucho nieve!

Ofelia lasted as long as it took me to take these 2 photos. She wasn't much for sitting in cold, wet snow. Sofi stayed out til her jeans got soaked. We had to go throw the nieve again later that afternoon. She can't wait to go sledding.

Halloween

Sofi definitely understood Halloween this year. She was wearing her Abby Cadabby (see Sesame Street) costume for weeks. Papa was prepping her for all the running door to door. It was really fun watching her excitement. Can't wait for both of the girls to be running up and down the street together.

We started off with Abby and our little bee doing some warm up trick-or-treating on Tenn Street. All of the businesses were handing out treats that morning. Sofi was rarely without candy in her mouth and Ofelia had her share of lolly pops too.

D-train was Sofi's right hand man that morning. She made sure he was close at all times. Here they are with the fake dog.

The blow up witch.

Another Abby?!

After 2 hours of trick-or-treating my little bee crashed out.

Between the morning and evening walks we collected quite the stash.

Pumkin Patch

We took the girls to a pumkin patch the week before Halloween (yes, this is late). Lots of Sofi's little 2 year old buddies were around to play with, but Sofi has a thing for "the Gunnar". Gunnar is her older friend... he's in kindergarten. They walked all over the place hand in hand.



Gunnar showed Sofi the different animals.

Here's one of the more playful ones they saw.

He showed Sofi that it's more fun to run and jump on top of the hay maze than to go through it.

More hand holding. Who does this kid think he is?!

Playing on the train.

Swinging on the rope swing.

Ofelia flying with Elizabeth. I think Ofelia will like the patch more when she's walking.

Tire swing.

Very serious on the rings with Doug.

Don't eat what?

We never actually made it to the pumpkin part, but the kids had a great time. Somehow Gunnar lived to tell the tale... Mike? Weren't you supposed to have the 'shotgun and a shovel' conversation with him?

Pumpkin Carving

A couple weeks ago (yes we were early) we got a few pumpkins.

Sofi loved them very much.

One night we decided to carve them. Ofelia wanted to make the evening more festive and put on her costume.

Bzzzz!

Eeewww! Guts!

Ofelia is not sure what all the war cries are for.

Girls war cry on 3! 1, 2, 3!

More guts.

Two pumkins and two near naked girls.

Random Cuteness II

New Curious George beenie.
Jumping on the couch after bath time.

Hugs in the hallway.

Our newest challenge is trying to get Ofelia to go to sleep at night. I guess this works.

Crib jumping.

Mike with his 2 chicas.

Mike with 2 almost sleeping chicas.

Sofi combing Ofelia's hair.