Vive...rie...ama

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Spring sing with our best buddies!

Tonio came home early for the last family concert of the year at the kids' school. Vivi wanted to wear her fanciest dress with her glitter shoes (any excuse to get dressed up!:) and so we jazzed up Tonito as well. Sitting on the gym and watching the teachers show picture cue cards, we jammed with the 3 and 4 year olds to a little boom box blasting Steve and Greg and other great early childhood hits.

This is Tonito's good buddy Tyler (Giorgi already left to spend the summer in Georgia):

Vivi's best, best friends: Danielle and Ana Maria. I don't know how she is going to be this summer without them! Every day when she comes home from school she tells me how she played princesses or animals with them, and she is so sad on the weekends when she can't see them- they are SO silly together, hugging and giggling the whole time. She even wants long, black, straight hair like Danielle and asks me to comb out her curls so she can look more like her. Then I remind her that Ana Maria has curly hair and that is pretty too, and she is ok with the curls. These are really her first best friends- she was even asking me if there was going to be a Danielle in Houston that could be her friend. She loves them so much!!!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Packing, cleaning, packing, cleaning, packing....

I am trying to figure out what to bring with us to temporary housing- obviously kitchen things, sheets, towels, summer clothes, and TOYS. We are going to fit as much as we can into the rooftop carrier, and the minivan (but the dogs get the back of the minivan and we have 3 carseats....)- then other boxes we will ship. So far I have packed medicines/vitamins, an arts and crafts box, and 2 boxes of toys to come with us. I packed a huge box of kitchen supplies and another of sheets and towels to ship, and we will ship the pack and play (for Maya's bed), and some office supplies for Tonio. I still need to pack the photo albums and baby books, and pick out which important files will come with us. The problem with packing when you are still selling your house is the mess! Oh, the piles. I got a roof rack put on our car so we can carry the big old Excargo, which hopefully will fit lots of our boxes! I'll be so sad to say good-bye to our beautiful house:(.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

My little sister graduate from high school!

I can't believe that 18 years ago (almost to the day) I was in Peru meeting Emily for the first time, and now she is graduating from high school!? I don't want to say anything cheesey, because I can already feel her rolling her eyes through the screen, but it is amazing how fast time has gone, and what an incredible young woman she is. And now we'll have the full circle when my kids come and visit her at college and play on the quad, run through her dorm halls, and thoroughly embarrass her in front of her new friends:).