More Pictures/Family Update

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

We have been having so much fun this summer going to SixFlags. The water park is the greatest. Since it opened days, we've been there sometimes three times a week. Emma gets more brave each time I think. She copies me. If I'm a chicken and don't want to get wet, she won't either. A few times Emmanuel has gotten off work early or taken the day off and those are the best times we have there. Emma knows when she sees the landscaped waterfall at the entrance of SixFlags that we are going to the waterpark and screams, "wa-loo!" (water).

Emmanuel's ankle has been healing slowly, but it has been healing, otherwise we wouldn't be able to go anywhere! Since he's had it supported by a brace of some sort for weeks now, it's a little weak on it's own, but he should make full recovery by the end of the year. Other than that, he has been doing a great job at work and at home. Emma loves him to peices. They have their own dance moves together and games they play, and if Emma wants ice cream (believe it or not) Papi is the one who takes care of that. Yesterday he came home with a pizza in hand and Emma almost jumped out of my arms in excitement to see him and the pizza haha. He is exactly the Dad I imagined he'd be years ago when we were first talking about marriage.

I have been very busy clipping coupons and watching sales at the stores (to save $ for the new house!) as well as cooking and cleaning of course. This morning Emma "helped" me make bannana muffins. I try to suck it up that we're making a HUGE mess and just let her experiment and have fun. The baby is growing a lot now by the look of my tummy, and I'm 6 months preggo already. I can't believe it. I feel great and have had very few complaints. I've been doing a lot of reading about the labor process. I am trying to prepare my mind as much as possible for what's ahead. It is a big change of thinking to go from a c-section in a hospital to a natural un-medicated birth assisted by midwives. But I know I can do it or else I would have switched to and OB/GYN by now!

The foundation for the house should be getting poured any day now. It takes them 3 months to construct, so we are still on schedule for October, but I hope they start soon so that closing doesn't overlap with the arrival of our new baby boy.

Emma is talking in sentences, playing pretend, and is just plain growing up! It makes Emmanuel and I so happy to see her enjoying new experiences like the wave pool at Six Flags and getting stuck in the rain and getting all wet. If she sees a puddle in the parking lot after it's rained, she'll go right to it and sit in it haha. On the indoors she likes to play with blocks and stickers and watch Barney and Dora the Explorer. The other day we went to WalMart and they had Dora's backpack and she recognized it and didn't want to let go of it. We had already decided to buy her a xylophone, so we swtiched it while singing songs or something so she wouldn't cry.