Books, Cars, and Toddlers

The last few weeks have been nice. We've had some beautiful weather (sure it's mid-January, but luckily southern California gives us winter days in the 70s and 80s). I prefer our warm winter days to our ridiculously hot summer days. It's been perfect for playing outside and getting frozen yogurt.

Elena loves to go in her room and shut the door so she can play without Samuel messing up things she's set up. Sometimes, though, she actually wants him to go in there. He usually just empties the bookcase and takes each book onto her bed to "read" for a few seconds.

They even read together. Love these moments.

Her room's usually a disaster by the end of the day, but I really like that she enjoys playing in there.

Here's Elena playing with her figures (she carries around Little People figures, Little Mermaid figures, and a bunch of toy fish every day and plays with them nonstop).

She looks so different than she did when she was a baby, it's hard to believe how big she is now. 

 

She loves to go to "Daddy's bed." I don't know why it's called that since I sleep there, too.

 

And Samuel doesn't look so much like a baby anymore, either. He looks like a toddler. Where did my baby go?! And I love, love, love his chin! Both kids got Jorge's chin.

 

Getting ready to go out for frozen yogurt.

One of my favorite things to watch him do is play with cars.

 
And he's always trying to tell me something. He's going through the phase where I hear "EH, EH, EH!!!!" all day long.
 

And he's so lovable.
 

Elena is in a club at a nearby church. This is from their Crazy Hair Night. Although I have to say that her hair looked crazier after I took out the twists.

Most days I put makeup on when Samuel takes his first nap (on the days I actually put it on. Since having kids some days I just think it's not worth the trouble . . . ). Samuel's nap is getting later, though, so on this day I put it on while he was up. Most of the time he won't stay in one place, but he was totally amused by taking out all of Elena's hair ties and playing with them on the floor. And I was fine with that because I was able to get ready. It was kind of a pain to pick up all of the clear ones after . . . still worth it, though. And Elena joined in, too.

It's amazing to me how children can resemble their parents at different stages. Elena looked just like Jorge as a baby, and she's looking more like me now, even though she still looks like him. Samuel still looks just like his daddy to me, especially in Jorge's baby pictures.

So far, we've had a good start to the year. I can't believe the last year went by so fast, but I think every year will be like that with young children.