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For Mother's Day, instead of going on the fun picnic Elvis had prepared for me and eating the yummy southern breakfast he had cooked for me (country ham, eggs, english muffins, grits, grapefruit, cappucino), I was in bed (and in the bathroom) with food poisoning. Not my favorite way to spend Mother's day! Although, i did get to do some things that haven't been very possible since becoming a mom, such as sleep all day, read a book for fun, watch a movie during the afternoon, and not have to worry about anything except making it to the bathroom in time! Ha! I didn't go to work on Monday b/c i was very dehydrated, and then Tuesday we were off b/c it was the Salvadoran Mother's Day. Elvis stayed home to help me recover and we enjoyed the day with Suzy just hanging around the house. Not the most exotic, adventurous mother's day ever, but nice to just be with my 2 favorite people, the ones responsible for me being a mom in the first place =)

In Suzy news, she has been busy making friends in the neighborhood and playing with her BFF Pacita and her cousins as well. Here she is with Pacita...they hang out every wednesday afternoon together and at the nursery at church. And here she is with Dinora (Di-Di as she calls her), helping make lemonade.
We've noticed that Suzy is starting to pick up more Spanish, although her list of english vocabulary is still longer than her spanish one. Her favorite word right now is "luna" and loves to point at the moon at night, and find any crescent shapes in books and say luna. She also loves saying "gecko" whenever she hears a gecko in our house (which is very often), identifying parts of the face (in english), and saying "hola" to everybody. Oh and singing Elmo songs. She's a great singer! She also has started letting us know when she is going "pee pee" or "poo poo" and likes to wipe her teddy bears when they apparently go "poo poo" as well. I was nervous about her picking up both languages, but seems to be doing well. The other night when i told her we were going to wash our hands, she promptly said "mano mano!" And in other big news, she had her first ponytail last week! big girl!
In other news, I've started going to latin dance aerobics classes lately. They meet monday-thurs in a community center within walking distance from our house and i've LOVED going. I guess it's basically like Zumba and it's a great exercise and stress buster for me. But man oh man last night we had apparently the most flexible, energetic, hip shaking instructor you've ever seen (and believe me, i've seen some pretty amazing ones in central america! i'm thinking of one particularly funny experience in Guatemala with Nell Stiff and a very flamboyant male aerobics instructor) I think she purposefully speeded up all the CDs b/c i have never merengued so fast in my life. I was spell bound just watching her dance! The fun thing is that there are all ages in the classes- families with teenage boys, moms, even several 70+ years old men that attend and do their best! So cute! Maybe i can sneak a video one day....that's all the recent news for now!