let's go fly a kite

went to seaport village today because micah said it was a good day to fly a kite. it actually wasn't too windy, but it was windy enough for our kite from the dollar store to stay up for quite a while.

malia ended up flying the kite while micah played with a toy gun that shot planes into the air, also from the dollar store. micah flew the kite for maybe two minutes.

honor roll & gelato

i left work early to make it to malia's award assembly at school yesterday. they didn't tell us what award she would be getting. it turned out that she got on the honor roll again. very proud of her and hope she keeps it up because she looked very proud of herself as well.

afterwards, she wanted to eat gelato at the mall. only she and i share this love for gelato, roel and micah would pick something else. so it was our her reward for getting on the honor roll. she looks old in this picture, must be the angle on my phone. i saw it and told her not to grow up.

sometimes kids just have the best solutions for little things.

me: i'll be right back, i have to take my medicine.

micah: why, are you sick?

me: no, it's for my blood pressure.

micah: where is your blood?

me: it's inside my body. everyone has blood in their body. it gets pumped by your heart and keeps you alive.

micah: do i have to take medicine?

me: no, you have good blood pressure. mama's blood pressure is not so good.

micah: (smiles) you can use mine.

oh how i wish it were that easy.

this is my boy

this is my boy sleeping in his bed, with his eyes a little open (like i do), in his favorite snowflake jammies, with his baby mickey sheets, his star wars pillow, cars blanket (on the side), and of course his garbage truck. nice.

biking at the park

went to the park today so the kids could ride their bikes. it was micah's first time outside on his new bike from santa. it was 80 degrees today, the little boy's cheeks were pink all day.

when we got home, malia insisted we make cupcakes in honor or martin luther king jr's birthday. no argument from me, i was happy to do it. and eat some too.

credible-in john's

that's what micah called john's incredible pizza at first. we went because malia earned a voucher for a free child's buffet. she earned it in class for good behavior. lol, was there a sub that day? anyways, i kinda like that they show cartoons while we are eating so it allows parents to actually eat. at least malia eats a lot now. micah ate half a breadstick, two bites of his pizza and frozen yogurt with sprinkles. we went early so it wasn't crowded at all in the arcade.

you can tell by her hair that she just got off the bumper cars

we'll be going back to credible-in john's when she earns another free buffet.

our disneycation

on malia's last week of vacation, we had originally planned to go to vegas, but we decided to go to disneyland instead (jan 3-5). we stayed for 3 days, and we've never done that before. so it was nice to take our time. we got lucky that they had extended the holiday festivities for one more day.

we got to watch the christmas fantasy parade twice and up close, we saw small world light up, and micah was able to stay awake for the fireworks. of course i was crying during the fireworks. watching the fireworks with the family at disneyland and hearing our wedding song (remember the magic), what more could i ask for? disney is so magical!

on our second day, we went to krispy kreme for breakfast so the kids could see how the donuts are made (since they don't make them fresh in eastlake).

when we got to the park, we spent a lot of time in toontown. but our mission for the day was to be early for the jedi training academy. every time we usually go, we're always late for it. i even dressed them in their star wars shirts. so it turned out to be the highlight of our trip because both m&m were picked to be padawans. it was awesome!!! and both of them were picked to duel darth vader. it was micah's dream come true! malia was chosen to do the force push on the stormtroopers.

on our last day, we spent the morning in california adventure before we headed home. it was not crowded at all. we walked in to playhouse disney live and the monsters inc ride. we also saw a bunch of characters.

i could have stayed the whole week. but the kids were missing their beds and their toys, it was nice to go home.

christmas 2010

santa came early christmas morning, bringing presents to celebrate jesus' birthday. malia woke up first and was trying to wake micah up because we have a rule in our house that the kids have to go down together to see what santa brought. malia liked her unicorn pillow pet the best. and of course, micah liked his recycle truck the most. we exchanged gifts with each other after that. the kids gave me some cute mickey earrings that they wrapped all by themselves. micah gave malia crocs and malia gave micah a snuggie. daddy got coke pj pants. we gave the kids some wii games we could play as a family.

then it was off to grandma & grandpa's house. micah got a huge blue garbage truck from his ninong ray and tossed all his other gifts aside. the kids did karaoke (jingle bell rock & feliz navidad) and grandpa gave them money.

the following day, m&m exchanged gifts with their cousins. micah got the toy story garbage truck. so he is just on cloud nine with all of his garbage/recycle trucks. i think he has 10 total now.

i was really proud of malia this year. she didn't keep asking for more presents. and it was a lot of fun with all of her new questions about santa. my favorite one was, "how come santa only eats junk food when he visits people's houses?" maybe next year we'll give santa an apple.

christmas eve will find me...at urgent care

the kids were filled with joy when they woke up and i wished them a merry christmas eve and told them that santa was coming very soon. we had a pretty relaxing day. then we went to 4pm mass at st. rose. after that jos and i, with all the kids in my car, headed out to our cousin's house in rancho bernardo. but first we stopped to look at the christmas lights at 'christmas circle' in chula vista. it's so cool when an entire neighborhood gets all decked out in christmas lights. toward the end of the street, malia said to me, "my ear hurts." i asked her if she thought it hurt bad enough to go to the doctor and she said no. for the past week she had a cold/allergies, so i thought that maybe her ear was just plugged. during the 40 minute drive, she said a couple more times that it hurt, but she fell asleep. when we arrived at my cousin's house at 6pm and she woke up, she started crying because it hurt so much. poor thing, that's when i knew we had to go because she had an ear infection. thank God i found a rady's urgent care that was in escondido. she and i got back to the party at 9pm. she felt a little bit better after all the meds, but still wasn't her usual cheery self even when she was opening presents.

at least micah still had a ton of fun on christmas eve. he was singing christmas songs and dancing and playing with his cousins. he only had a 30 minute nap that day and still managed to stay up until midnight.

micah's 1st performance

last friday, micah's school put on a christmas show. it started off with a video of linus (from charlie brown) explaining the meaning of christmas. then each class performed a couple of songs. we didn't really know what to expect from micah. i was laughing and crying at the same time. little kids are hilarious. we could really pick out his voice. i especially love his posing. his performance was such a great gift. just don't ask me the words to the first song.