Happy 7th Birthday Sophia!
12 years ago
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
On Sunday, we headed over to Wabun Park/Picnic Area to celebrate Louie's 2nd Birthday (actual birthday is tommorow!). It was an absolutely beautiful day and the kids had a lot of fun playing at the park. After eating and watching Louie open gifts, we headed over to the splash pool. The kids had fun there too but it was pretty cold! But not too cold to eat ice cream from Dairy Queen afterwards! Louie got some pretty cools gifts - a Fireman's jacket, a cool bike/scooter from Creative Kid Stuff and we got him a bit Tonka recycling truck. I think he had a good day! Happy Birthday Louis Daniel!!! Here are some photos from the day:
Uncle Dan, Emily & Louie came over last week to pick up Paul's bike. They bought a Burley bike trailer so they could take the kids over to Wabun Park/Splash Pool, which isn't too far from their house. Since Paul's bike has be collecting dust, we figured it might not be a bad idea to let Dan borrow it so it got some use! They ended up staying for lunch and Uncle Dan spent some time getting Lorenzo to smile/laugh.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Maria & Bella had their first sleepover at a non-family member's house on Saturday night. Maria's classmate, Anna, wanted to have them over for a girls night. She has a younger sister, named Abby, that is 3 years old and she & Bella always have fun playing together. Maria's classmate, Jada, was also there but wasn't spending the night. The minute we walked in the door it was ALL GIRL! They were already putting on play makeup and fingernail polish. I helped Bella with her nailpolish and while I was doing that, Maria asked "when are you leaving mom?" Geez, she's only six years old and she already wants to get rid of me!! Hehehe.
Jada applying lipgloss................. Little sister Abby
Nicole (mom) putting nail polish on Anna
Maria and Bella getting beautified
The three first graders (can you believe it?)!
Paul picked the girls up on Sunday morning and Anna's mom, Nicole, said they had gone to bed around 9:45pm but didn't fall asleep until 11pm. That would have been all good if Maria hadn't woken up at 6am and decided to wake up Bella too! Needless to say, no one got much sleep that night and we had a couple of tired girls that couldn't tolerate much that day! Thank goodness we had Marisa's baptism so they got to spend most of the afternoon playing with their cousins. They were in bed by 7pm that night!
One of Lorenzo's favorite things to do is to lay on his butterfly and look at the toys above. A few weeks ago he started reaching for them, grabbing and batting them around - it's kind of funny and cute to watch. We noticed that he always reaches up with his left hand and of course, Paul's first reaction was "you won't be able to follow daddy's legacy as a catcher if you're a lefty, you'll have to be a pitcher"! I surely hope that baseball is a passion for Lorenzo like it is/was for Paul!
He's even wearing his Twins outfit from The Nepstad's - definitely a future baseball star ;)
Silly picture of the kids!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Birthday wishes from the Ramos girls!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
On Tuesday night, the YMCA in Eagan had their annual carnival. Paul had to work in Maple Grove that day so he drove straight from work to the Y. The first thing the girls did was ride ponies! We were lucky to get there right when they were getting set up and were the second ones in line. Last year, the line was so long that they weren't able to make the cutoff to ride them.
The pony that Maria rode was named Bubbles, Bella rode a pony named Fredo (as in Alfredo sauce). They both loved riding them!
They also had horses there from the police force. Maria was brave enough to pet them but Bella was too scared.
They also went for a train ride, of course they didn't want to ride together!
They had two or three different jumpers for the kids to go in and that's what the girls did for the most part. Bella played a game where you toss rolls of toilet paper into a toilet - she made all three shots! She might be our future ball player :)
Last Friday, Lola invited us to Mystic for dinner at the buffet. She also got a room so the kids could hang out and go swimming. We got there and ate right away - most everyone else was already done so Auntie Ree offered to take Lorenzo up to the room with them so we could eat and he could take a nap. After dinner, Paul & I took the kids to the pool (no, we didn't drop them off Uncle Matt.......hehehe) so they could swim. Maria & Bella had fun swimming with TJ and Anthony.
Bella ended up having to wear a waterproof bandaid on her forehead because on Thursday night (approximately six hours after her stitches were removed) she decided to place her fingers on either side of her cut and pull it apart. It started to bleed right away but not too much. I kind of freaked out because I really didn't know what to do. I called Lola who told me to put steri-strips on it but we only had regular bandaids and Paul was at softball so I had to make due with what we had at the house. She told me to push the cut together and essentially 'tape' the skin back together so it could heal. All the while, Bella was hysterical - probably due in part to my reaction to her doing it. Poor girl - she said "I don't even know why I did that" and then later when I was laying with her for bedtime she said "I'm so mad at myself for doing that". I reassured her that everything was okay and mommy was sorry for making her scared but that I had been scared too - I didn't want to have to take her back to the doctor. She was fine the next morning and the skin had pretty much healed back up but it will probably leave more of a scar now........ oh well!
After the kids went swimming, Lola watched all of them in the room while Paul, Tom, Marie & I went downstairs to the casino. Paul, Tom & I played blackjack for about half an hour or so, which is the amount of time it took us to lose our $50.00. Mari-Lou had written down her 'numbers' for Paul so he wanted to go play keno for a little bit. He ended up winning back most of the $100 we lost! Those are good numbers Lola!!!! Thanks to Lola once again for her generosity!
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