Flash Update

I got creative and freezer stenciled a shirt for Lina to wish her Abi (my MIL) a happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Abi!

Then she crashed after church. I love that she goes to nursery. She has so much fun there and then usually falls asleep before we even make it home.

We were at church with my family for Josue's farewell and it was the cutest thing because Lina kept on pointing across the aisle to the other pew and calling out "Charlie". 

My sister gave Lina her son's power wheels that he's outgrown. We decided to not get a battery for it yet because Lina's not big enough yet. And a little bit because I am lazy and don't want to commit to sitting out in the back with her helping her get unstuck every 5 seconds. At any rate, she loves it despite it's immobility. She puts her Dora toy in there, closes the door and pretends to drive around in it. It's super cute, and certainly requires less effort on my part than the above mentioned option.

There's this stinking toy at the park that every time we go she insists I get on it with her. She won't let anyone else! I love it and hate it at the same time.

This is a picture of Lina being a brat. I have evidence. Yes, she certainly has turned on her brat factor. She threw sand at me when I told her to turn around for a picture. I wish I could say that things have gotten better in the last few months.

Back in the day...

 I used to update my blog regularly....now I find myself putting it off and so today I went through my pictures and decided to just run through them and post them real quick. It can't take that long, right?

In March we went to UT to visit my friend Jill and her new baby Wes. Of course I don't have a single picture of her or her new baby (I am such a good friend I know it).

Lina's first airplane ride where she got her own seat! It was totally by accident because it was a "full flight" but it worked out great. She played, ate, watched some Dora, and then we were there! She kept on trying to get the guy next to her to play, she even tickled him a couple of times.

We went to this awesome McDonald's with a play place bigger than my house. Lina had a melt down when we left after being there for an hour.

In UT it's cold in March. Weird. So Lina borrowed some winter clothes and of course found some bigger kids to go play with.

And we discovered an indoor jump park. It would have been nice if Lina would've gone done the huge slides herself.

This was one of the jump toys that she could be in by herself because it was age appropriate and of course she only spent 5 mins in there and begged to get out to go to the big ones.

Lina's Friends

Some of my friends from church came up with the idea to switch off babysitting once a week for institute. There's a handful of us who participate so Lina gets to have her friends over every few weeks. Basically they watch Diego, eat snacks, and run around like kids fighting over eachother's toys. She loves it and is genuinelly sad when they leave.

From left to right Max, Bryn, Lu, Sofie, Lina. We were missing a couple of kids this last week.

Shower Duty

Lina's favorite part of her shower routine is getting tucked into our bed right after her long shower.

She snuggles under the sheets with no rush to get dressed.

She takes her time and eventually she lets me get her dressed.

Then right back under the covers she goes.

This is what Sunday night looked like at my house.

Cousin Time

Yes, we celebrated Christmas!

Lina was selected to play Mary in the Henriquez nativity this year. It was an ambitous goal.

This is what Joseph and Mary looked like as they announced the birth of the Savior. 

Charlie made such a perfect angel. She played her part just as expected.  

The next morning we were off to Grandpa Alan's house...

At some point we had Christmas morning at our house with Lina...I think we did this Christmas Eve morning.

She got a lot of new books.

And yes, she did get at least one Dora book. And yes, she made us read each one to her as she opened them.

It was fun this year to see her start to put together a little of what is going on. She was a party animal for the most part and it took a few days to get her back on schedule. I am so grateful we all got to be together this year for Christmas. I know we are blessed in so many ways, and having family close is one of them.

update with pictures

It's December! This dress has been hanging in her closet for a whole year now...just taunting and teasing me...finally it fits. Thanks Abi for thinking ahead and getting this for her last year!

Lina is hooked. She loves slides.

And for some reason she loves this ride where I have to do all the work and she just gets to sit there and enjoy.

When did my little baby grow up?

Papi in a suit.

Lina in pigtails.

Papi at church with us.

This was a day that I didn't want to forget!

Lina thinks that this quad belongs to her.

She was so nice to give Grandpa Alan and Hunter a ride on it.