Andres' Christmas

Andres was SO excited about the whole christmas and presents thing.... We were not sure he was really getting the idea that Santa was bringing the gifts, but he did !!... We opened his gifts in three stages (well 4 if we count the one he opened on the 23rd). On the 24th beofre we put him to bed he opened some gifts then on Christmas morning and some others that night.

He liked them all a lot, the toys, the boots, the clothes... everything.

Take a look at the andresohara video link on the left to see his new videos.

Christmas celebrations

We were going to have dinner by ourselves on christmas eve but we found out our neighbors, Holli and Ricardo were not traveling so we invited them over. We had a great time, eat together and then played a game. On the 25th we invited Cynthia, Carolina, Shruthi and Ceci (with their repective families) over to a late lunch. We were 10 adults and 8 kids.

Here are some pictures:

Anniversary !!

On the 23rd Jorge and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. It was snowing all day so we stayed home in pijamas until 4pm I guess... Andres managed to convince us (by hugging and crying) to open one of his christmass gifts. It ended up being a great idea as he was entertained all day with it.
Cynthia came over to watch Andres at night... and we went to have dinner at Biaggi's, dinner was pretty good and we had a great time.. !!!
So in love after 3 years !!!!

Paneton !!

The week of Christmas and New Year, we use to eat back home pannetone. I found a store that sold Peruvian Pannetone and we gave a little bit to Andres for him to try it and he LOVED IT !!... I think so far he has eaten more Pannetone than me !!

Oops !!

As you may have noticed I haven't written much last week... We didn't do much anyway... we were trying to get all the things for Christmas ready. One nice thing we did was going to Minneapolis to the Nutcracker exhibit at Macys, we went with Shruthi and Aarohi and we spent the whole morning there.. after the exibit we walked around and had lunch and then head back home.

Holiday get together

On saturday we had a holiday get together at our place. We had it on saturday so dads could come too. We had a very good time and we ate a lot too, not to mention all the cookies each of us took home... Michelle brought Dominic (who is only 1 week !), he is so cute and tiny (compared to our "little" ones).

Before anybody left we took a group picture, where of course not all the kids were looking or smiling, but at least we were all there !

Playdate at Roshin's

On friday we met at Seema's and Roshin's house. The kids (GReta, Aarohi, Roshin and Andres) had a great time. They played for a while in the basement and then went to Roshin's room to play in the crib. While Seema was preparing them some lunch Andres and Aarohi couldn't stop staring at the tree with the little train going into it that they had in the kitchen. Thanks Seema, we had a great time !!!

Crafts

Today I got some of Andres "art" from school... and as I can't show it to you in person I took some pictures.... I love the bookmark as I started reading a book and was using the ticket as a bookmark, of course he only draw some marks on it... but anyway...

Family picture at Ridgedale

On Saturday we went to Ridgedale mall and Qwest (a communications company) was taking free polaroid pictures. We got one and Andres looks SO cute !!!! I scanned it to have it in my computer.

Winter landscape

Today when I opened the blinds I couldnt believe how nice the landscape was. For some reason, all the trees (ok, just the empty branches of the trees) where white, covered with a thin coat of snow/ice. It looked so nice !!... I took a couple of pictures and couldn't convince Andres to actually be in the picture so it is just landscape. As it is sunny today (COLD, but sunny), it already dissapeared... I'm glad I took some pictures.

Potato Head

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

All done

Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo Books

August Rush

Jorge and I went today to the movies... YES, ONLY Jorge and I.. Andres stayed at Aarohi's place (THANKS SHRUTHI !!!).
The movie was so, but so nice... I cried almost half of it (well... pregnancy had a lot to do with it anyway). The soundtrack is amazing, and I love the main character, Freddie Highmore... for some reason I think Patrick will look like him... who knows...

Here is a link to the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Hiw5TFgvY&feature=related

Christmas Tree

Over the weekend we put together the Christmas Tree. In Lima, the 8th of December is a holiday so most of the people use the day off to set it up. Andres helped a little bit and is still struggling between touching the ornaments as we have repeated a million times that they are not toys... lets see how much time it will go by until I go down and find everything all over the place !

Look at me Dad !!

Lately, Andres has been trying to imitate everything Jorge does, using his shoes, his tie, spraying cologne, trying to put deodorant on, etc...

Today while we were getting ready to get out, he put his dad shoes on and of course couldn't move a bit, he just enjoys so much looking like his dad !

Bath time

Some nights it takes a lot of time to actually get Andres into the bathtub, he will find any excuse not to get in... but... once he is in, he LOVES it... we loves to paint with his crayons, lay in his back and splash until he is sure everything is really wet !!!... Take a look at the pictures...

New videos

Take a look at http://www.dropshots.com/andresohara I just posted some new videos of Andres singing in spanish and saying please !

More snow

This week it snowed again and we went out to play on thursday, Andres is getting much better in the snow... As we was already "bundled" I took him for a ride in his little car... He has been asking to do so for a while and was pretty happy when we actually went out with it.

And the belly keeps on growing

When I was pregnant with Andres we took a picture of my belly every month to see how fast it grew. That time we decided to do it in a different city every time... Now that I started putting together Andres photo Album, I am so happy I did it as those pictures bring back many memories.

This time, with Patrick, we are doing the same, but the pictures are always in the same place (our deck). We thought it was going to be cool to see the changes of the season with the change in my belly. Of course I will be freezing on the next 4 !!!... Here is the last picture we took yesterday...

El vocabulario de Andres

I will be writing this note in Spanish as it is about Andres vocabulary which is 99% in Spanish.

Andres ultimamente anda hablando como un loro... todo repite pero obviamente muchas de sus palabras a su propia manera... aqui va una lista de algunas de sus palabras:

Tetchis: Leche
Cugo: Jugo
Mano mami: Mami ven conmigo y dame lo que necesito
Peta: Puerta
Piuquilla: Pelicula
Pinguino (lease SIN dieresis): pinguino (lease CON dieresis)
Caisit: Car-seat
Caj: Carro (sigue sin decirlo correctamente y eso que fue una de las primeras palabras que aprendio)
Queti: Galletas
Bajo: Abajo
Esi Anes: Ese es de Andres... osea deja eso que es MIO !!!
Ico: Rico
Neyi: Nieve
Una a ciello: Luna en el cielo
Calle: Calle... usado cuando quiere salir, o cuando quiere irse de algun sitio
Tia: Toda mujer que ve en la calle... sea o no sea la "tia", todas las personas a las que saluda son las tias... y lo mismo aplica con los hombres... asi que se la pasa saludando a todo el mundo en la calle diciendo tia tia... tio tio...
Holla: Hola
Papau-All done !!: Ahora no solo dice papau cuando termina algo o simplemente no quiere mas de algo, no necesariamente comida sino cambiar de juego, etc... sino lo dice en los dos idiomas... papau - All done... algo aprendio en el nido.
Piyu (con acento en la u): Peru.... en respuesta a a donde va ese avion ?? a piyu... donde esta la bebe Sofia... a piyu.... etc... Tambien lo usa para decir casaca porque le dijimos que en una de sus casacas decia Peru y ahora piensa que es el generico para casaca... tipo : Papi piyu papi poni.... osea Papi ponte tu casaca.
Gobo: Gorro
Ganti: Guantes
Cotiro: Helicoptero
Tis tis papi: Papi ponme colonia... porque su papi hace como si le pusiera su colonia a el y le hace un sonido tipo tis tis tis...
Quello: Cuello
Titi: La tia Zinka... por alguna razon decidio que asi le iba a decir y ella no es la Tia Zinka ni Tia ni nada mas que titi.
Maici: Su primo Marcelo
Papaian: Brian
Catrick: Patrick (su futuro hermanito)
Quiquillas: Cosquillas
Puma: sus zapatillas Puma
Dididas: Cualquier cosa que tenga el logo de Adidas... CUALQUIERA de los logos de Adidas... todos se los conoce.
Papaif: Hi - 5
O-ot: Robot
Anja: Naranja
U-eis: Blueberries
U-as: Uvas
tabajo: Trabajo
Ficina: Oficina (a donde esta su papi durante el dia)

Y bueno, eso es solo unas cuantas de sus palabras...las que me vienen a la mente ahorita sobretodo las que dice "diferente" porque ya palabras tipo avion, ventana, tren, papi, mami, cuna, tele, los nombres de los animales, etc... los dice casi iguales...

Lo chevere tambien es que ya arma "frases" y no es solo una sola palabra tipo: Mami, peta bajo tren, lo cual significa Mami abre la puerta para ir abajo a jugar con el tren o, Peta cugo nanja ico que quiere decir abreme la puerta de la refri y dame un jugo de naranja (que le parece rico).

Solo queria compartirlas con ustedes para que se lo imaginen diciendo sus palabritas...

At last healthy and eating !!

I can say now that Andres is not sick anymore... he has been with no fever nor with a bad mood for the last 4 days and he is eating for all the days he has not... My little boy is totally back !!!
I can't blame his behavior and lack of sleep and hunger after having roseola and a cold, but we all survived and the best part is that neither Jorge nor I caught any of both !!

It's starting to feel a lot like Christmas !!

I have to accept that I am little bit like the Grinch, I don't ADORE Christmas like most of the people, but after yesterday's snow and all the decorations all over the place, you can feel that Christmas season is already here. We have already sent our Christmas cards and have taken Andres to visit Santa... He was fine waiting in line and he even was excited watching Santa across the room... such a different story when we actually got there he didn't want to be next to him and started crying out loud... so no picture with Santa to share.

As mentioned we had our first snow storm yesterday, we only went out in the morning and stayed home all afternoon, thanks God to our huge basement !

At night we went out with Andres for him to start getting used to it... he went out and fell a little bit funny walking on the snow... I guess he will get used to it and by the end of the winter he will be asking to be outside all day.

Finally he said it !

I have to admit that Andres has started saying a lot of new words lately... but no matter how hard my mom tried to convince him to say "Zinka" (her name) there was no way he was saying it... He did know who she was... as soon as he hears her voice over the phone or in the computer he will say Buella !!!! (Grandma is abuela in spanish) but was in total denial with the name.
Finally, last thursday he said it !!!... I was going through the family cards and he knows almost everyname and we got to hers and I said what is your grandma's name... and he said ZINKA !!!
Of course, I got it in a video and showed it to my mom, she couldn't sleep that night and I guess she has seen the video a million times !!!