Nico is 9 months old!

I can't believe my baby is 9 months old. Nico loves to eat. He hates baby food but loves "real" table food. The ironic part is that he is underweight! He is such a happy baby. He wakes up smiling and he laughs at almost anything. He continues to find his brothers funny. He laughs hysterically when his brothers play with him. He is eager to join his brothers when they are playing. They are definitely the three musketeers.

Here's a pic of Nico and his cupcake. His brothers enjoyed licking off the frosting! The orange is as big as Nico's head.


Nico is ready to dig in. Nate and Noah are lucky to enjoy the cupcake before the celebrant.


Nico loves to ride the Thomas rider. It's a good thing his brothers are willing to share.


Noah enjoys his popsicle in the backyard.


Look at all my roses in bloom! I don't have a green thumb but I didn't do too bad.

Nate catches a trout

Every year City of Santa Clara sponsors a fishing derby. They place hundreds of trout in the City fountain. Kids line up to go fishing. This year both Nate and Noah waited in line. Parents aren't allowed in the area therefore Noah at the last minute backed out. So Nathan went fishing by himself. He was so excited that he caught a trout. After the event, he wanted to go crabbing in SF!

Discovery Kingdom

To end our Spring Break vacation, we went to Discovery Kingdom. It was a very hot day...thank goodness for the shows. Nate and Noah loved Shuka the whale. Here are some pics of them feeding the birds.

Discovery Kingdom continued

I just love this picture of the boys. They are great friends but also worst enemies!




I'm such a bad mom. Noah was begging me to ride a real elephant and I really didn't want to. After all the whining, I gave in but it was too late. They closed the ride. So he had to settle for the dumbo carousel ride. Poor guy!

Celebrating Noah's bday at Disneyland!

On Noah's actual birthday, we went to disneyland. He got in free and they gave him a "happy birthday" button. He had a blast. Everyone wished him a great birthday. During the parade, the characters stopped to greet him. He was so proud to say that he's three! Noah's favorite ride was the jungle cruise. We must have rode it 4 or 5 times. Nate's favorite ride was "It's a Small World." Nico did really well too. He was fascinated by all the lights. Their mom had a great time too! Mickey Mouse is still her hero.

More pics of disneyland

For the longest time now, we've been trying to go to the Rain Forest Cafe. So we decided to have Easter dinner there in downtown disney. We thought the boys would love it since they both like animals. We were dead wrong. They were so scared! We sat next to a gorilla that kept making noises every 5 minutes. The boys were freaked out. So I didn't enjoy dinner with the kids begging to go and both of them sitting on my lap!

The Grove

One of our favorite stops when we're in LA is the Grove. It has a double decker bus that shuttles people from the mall to the Farmer's Market. It's a great entertainment for the boys while Mom goes shopping!

Easter celebration at Central Park

Every year City of Santa Clara does an egg hunt and hundreds of families attend this fun event. They rope of areas of the field by age level and the kids have a ball picking up eggs and chocolates. Nathan scored. He was pretty quick. Erdy could barely keep up with him. Noah strolled along the field although he got a lot of eggs from playing games. It all happened so quick that I didn't get any pictures of them egg hunting. Plus, with hundreds of kids there Erdy and I had to keep an eye on them. So many kids were lost after the egg hunt! The event also included carnival games, a petting zoo and of course, a picture with the Easter Bunny!

Noah's 3rd Birthday

Noah celebrated his birthday several times. Here are some pics of his 1st celebration.


Noah wanted a chocolate cupcake Diego cake. I ran out of time and didn't get a chance to look for a Diego cake. So here is what I came up with. I'm glad Noah didn't mind and he was happy with it!





Noah had a great celebration. He is currently into jungle animals, especially elephants. So the majority of his gifts were something to do with elephants. He wanted to go to Africa for his birthday but I was hoping he'd settle for disneyland!

Nathan's Easter Party

I volunteered to help with the preschools' Easter party. We had to resort to Plan B when rain was in the forecast. Nevertheless, the kids had a great time.

Nate looks for eggs in the library.

This is Nate's 8th grade buddy Matthew. He totally adores Matthew. Each preschooler has been paired up with an 8th grader since the beginning of the school year. It was neat to see how caring the 8th graders were to the preschoolers.


Look at all the eggs Nate found!


The kids also got a goodie bag. Boy, were they sugar high!


Here is Nate playing with bubbles.


What a neat and cleaner way to color eggs!

Nico is 8 months old...

Nico is 8 months old in this pic. He is pulling up and he is cruising along with the help of furniture. Oh and did I tell you, his first word..."mama!" I was very excited to hear him say mama. Nathan's first word was dada and Noah's first word was Erdy (I know...weird huh?) so hearing mama as Nico's first word was such a nice surprise!

My goodness...more cupcakes.

We had to lower the crib mattress because Nico was pulling up and we were afraid he'll fall over.

Current pics of the boys

How did they grow up so fast?