sábado, 25 de agosto de 2012

this week...

...Elvis's schedule got changed again and we now have Fridays and Saturdays off together! Almost like a normal family! 
...so we went to the beach with our church for a fun day/bonfire

...Suzy was silly like usual with her friend while in the other room, all the toilets in our apartment were overflowing...I think they are imitating our faces when we realized they were overflowing...

...we went to Kelly and Brian's to make yummy sushi!!...

...we ate aforementioned sushi and loved it....

....I finished up my World Vision practicum and Elvis took us out to a Cuban bakery to celebrate! Nothing says "a job well done" like carbs!!

...guess who took that bite out of the pastry you saw in the last picture!

...we went to IKEA and Suzy tried out alllll the kiddo beds and all the toys

It's been a week full of excitement! 

viernes, 17 de agosto de 2012

this birthday wish is brought to you by a mermaid

Today I want to give a very special bday shout-out to Mom and also to Anderson who is a little new to the whole birthday thing, being that he was born this morning!!! Congrats Tyler and Chris and happy birthday Anderson! We can't wait to meet you. 

On this special day for many loved ones of ours, Suzy went to her last swim class. Here are some highlights below....She was the only of her class to volunteer to jump off the diving board at the end of the class! But after standing up there for a few minutes, decided it wasn't such a great idea. But I'm so proud of her for even getting up there! 



martes, 14 de agosto de 2012

beach day

In addition to swimming classes for Suz, we have been looking for other ways to beat the heat this week. It's the hottest it's been all summer this week- up to 100 degrees on Sunday. Thankfully our apartment has central air, so i basically haven't left the house other than absolutely necessary, partly because of the heat but also because I have been sick for almost 2 weeks now- non-stop fever and terrible coughing and now 4 days of random hives that I can't figure out what it's coming from.

Anyway, despite feeling pretty bad, we decided to head to the beach on Friday b/c it was one of those few days this summer where both of us were free all day long. Elvis dropped me off right on the beach, and I sat in my chair in the cool shade of the pier alll day long while Elvis and Suzy played in the water and built sand castles and other more active activities. It was a perfect day, despite being sick. 

We got really excited when she acted like she was actually going to take a nap on the beach. This lasted for approximately 2 minutes. 

Suzy learned to really throw a frisbee!




lunes, 13 de agosto de 2012

swimmin' suzy

today was Suzy's first day of swim classes at the nearby community center! I thought they were going to be one-on-one, but turns out the professor had a handful of kids which to be honest, made me pretty nervous at first. I was the worried mom lurking by the poolside while Suzy waited patiently on the steps for her turn to kick around the pool with the professor. But Suzy did not want us hovering...she wanted her space! She would tell us to go wait over on the steps with all the other parents, then shoot us assuring thumbs ups and huge grins and wave hello to us from her pool perch. And she did great! She kicked and moved her arms like the other kids and wasn't afraid to put her face in the water. So proud of her! And proud of us for relaxing a little too =)






miércoles, 8 de agosto de 2012

a juicy nugget of wisdom from Henri Nouwen

"I say this with great compassion: we are living in an upwardly mobile society, a society in which making it to the top is expected in some degree of all of us. And aren't we tempted to use even the Word of God to help us in this upward mobility? But that is not the way of God, the Father, the Son, and Spirit. God's way is not the way of upward mobility but of downward mobility. You know, as well as I do, that they question we will finally hear is not going to be: "How much did you earn during your lifetime?" or "How many friends did you make?" or "How much progress did you make in your career?" No, the question for us will be: "What did you do for the least of mine? What did you do for the lonely in your cities, the prisoners in your country, the refugees within and below your borders, and the hungry all over the world? Have you seen the humiliated Christ in the faces of the poor?"

                                           - Henri Nouwen, "Prayer and the Jealous God"

domingo, 5 de agosto de 2012

conversations with suzy...

A: "Come here and snuggle with me"
S: "Mommy, I a peacock...I didn't know peacocks snuggle..."

This is a popular answer (just like the "No, it's my favorite" answer), and it applies to many situations...

A: "Hey Suzy let's paint your fingernails"
S: "I a peacock, I didn't know peacocks have fingernails"

S: "Mommy how you?"
A: "I'm good"
S: "No you're great!"

on the toilet....
A: "Suzy you all done?"
S: "Not quiet" (not quite yet)...."I'm working it..."

(Me pretending to cry for some reason...)
S: "Mommy no crying! You not a baby, you a person!"