The Flores Family: August 2011

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Oh the things he says....

My Ipolito is quite the talker. He says some of the funniest, cutest things in the world. I don't know how often Jose and I just look over his head and smile. I mean, where does he learn all of this?! Unfortunately/fortunately, he looks like his Papi & acts like his Mommy!

I figured I better jot some of the things he says/does/likes before I forget.

His "Mario race car" game is his favorite!
He loves "dinosaur" snacks aka fruit snacks. They are Welch's brand not dinosaurs. He just started calling them that one day and it stuck.
He loves fruit and vegetables and would it eat them all day everyday if he could. We always have grapes, berries of some kind, melon, bananas, and apples in the house.
Speaking of vegetables: Ipolito loves corn on the cob!
He loves chicken nuggets and french fries (doesn't get them that often).
He loves peepa (pizza) & sketti (spaghetti).
When Papi works (Weds-Thurs) he LOVES to sleep with Mommy to protect her (That's what we tell ourselves).
He is so affectionate - he showers us with many hugs and kisses!
He says "I love you!" many times a day.
He wears size 3T/4T (wearing clothes in both the toddler & boy departments -SAD)
According to Ipolito, his Papi works "to make money to take me to Chuck E. Cheese & buy me a Mario race car backpack"
He goes to Chuck E. Cheese with his Papi every Monday night while Mommy goes to Zumba
He is still rocked in a rocker before bedtime.
He loves to read stories. He even reads them to us after I have read them to him and he is quite accurate.
He loves his cousins Mateo, Maya, & Max.
He calls his Tio Sergio - Papi Sergio
He loves Rice Krispy treats - when gets a chocolate one he laughs and says, "haha...choccite?!"
He loves to sing and dance.
Since I have been typing this he has kissed and hugged me about 3 times.
He loves the Bubble Guppies, Ni Hao Kailan, Fresh Beat Band, Mickey Mouse, & ThunderCats (thanks Papi!)
He is a little over 39" tall and weighs 33 lbs.
He wears a size 5 diaper - Pampers only!
Make that 5 times for hugs & kisses!
He crosses his arms across his chest and makes a mean face when he doesn't want to do something.
He says no quite a bit more these days!
He still has amazingly long eyelashes!
He does not care about being wet or sitting in his poop. He often lies about having poo poo in his diaper.
He has a Ceasar haircut & has it redone every 3 weeks on the dot!
He still sleeps in a crib.
He loves to rationalize everything and does so well in public because we talk about what we are going to do.
He can count to 20 in English and 15 in Spanish.
He knows his ABC's.
He is very inquisitive.

Well, that is all I can think of now. My Ipolito is light of our lives. I wouldn't trade him for the world!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Museum

A few days after the Ranger game we went to the museum because it was too darn hot outside to go to the zoo. We decided to take Abuelo and cousin Emily as well. The museum had been renovated a few years ago and it looks very nice. It is quite smaller than I remember it (I haven't been since I was in elementary school). Ipolito liked the dinosaurs but really loved the do-it-yourself & learning stations. He really enjoyed building things (an engineer like Papi?) and the children's museum trains. This day was a success as well!

Ready to go in

Cheese Mama!

Cousin Emily

Getting in trouble from Papi!

My serious train boy!

Yea we made the ball roll down!

Building something with Papi

Making the cups go up the vortex!

Wow!

Riding the horse

First Texas Ranger Game

Like I have said previously, I have been so busy this summer finishing my Master's degree. With that being said, I haven't had time to do anything other than take lots of pictures and write myself little emails.

Earlier this summer we were able to take Ipolito to his first Texas Ranger game. He was really into baseball at the time (still is) so we decided to get pretty good seats. We sat on the first base side, 12 or 13 rows up. Ipolito & Papi took their baseball gloves and were ready to catch a ball. Honestly, we didn't know what to expect. We just kind of hoped for the best but knew that Ipolito was the boss. We had no idea how long we would be there. Much to our surprise we stayed the ENTIRE game!

About two days before the game we started talking to Ipolito about seeing the "big boys" play baseball. He, was of course excited. For the past couple of months we had been cousin Marcus' biggest fans. We rarely missed one of his games and his team was name the Rangers too. I think he thought we were going to see them play. Ipolito had also been wearing this Texas Ranger hat I bought him everywhere! He LOVED it and was rarely without it (so long Elmo hat).

Walking from Six Flags with gloves in hand!

Papi & Ipolito

The day of the game we ate dinner and were off! We parked at Six Flags (season parking) and walked over to the Ballpark. Ipolito was very excited/confused because he thought we were going to Six Flags at first. He did amazingly great at the Ballpark. He didn't get bored or complain. He loved cheering for the Rangers, trying to catch the balls, and of course eating! He ate popcorn, peanuts, and a Strawberry Chill. At one point when the people selling the goods were yelling out, "POPCORN" "SODA" "BEER", Ipolito decided to join in too. He started yelling, "BEER!" We were laughing of course and everyone around us turned around and smiled at him. My cutie was stealing the show once again.

Mommy & Ipo

Family picture (can you tell Ipo is excited about picture time?)

Papi & Pito

Finally I get a smile...sort of

Watching the action

Cute!

Ready for a ball

Later on in the game, when Jose & Ipolito went to the bathroom someone said, "Excuse me!" I turned around and a couple of ladies told me they were "absolutely in love with my little boy!" They thought he was so cute, well behaved (oh they don't know the real Ipolito), and loved his eyelashes (who wouldn't?!). All in all our trip to the Ballpark was a success. On the way home he told us, "Pito have fun." That says it all.

Exhausted

Sunday, August 7, 2011

San Antonio - Day 4

Day 4 started a little later (I was slowly getting more sleep). We all woke up slowly, packed & headed out to Mi Tierra to eat and walk around the Market Square. We had lots of fun and Ipolito got his first toy gun. Man, is it loud. I got a spoon rest and a little ceramic dish to hold my bobby pins & rubber bands (I use quite a lot on my bee hive). Then it was time to come home. We had been on the road for 10 minutes and Ipolito was out. He slept over 3 hours! I am not ashamed to say I also took a 2 hour nap! Coming home was bittersweet. I hated leaving our vacation but was ready to sleep in my own bed. I can't wait for our next vacation. We had so much fun and our little Pito Pocket is growing up so fast.