Marcos had his cast taken off...

Marcos had his cast removed on January 23rd. The x-ray tech had to take Marcos back and get another x-ray to make sure it was healed. His name was Joe. I wasn't able to go into the room, because I had Isaiah with me. The room was right across from the waiting room, and the door had a window so you could look in.

While in the waiting room, Isaiah managed to pull out one of the palm tree plants from its pot by the root and get soil everywhere! I tried to repot it, but there was no disguising it.

While I was repotting the plant, I heard a loud roar of laughter but didn't know where it was coming from. Joe came flying out of the room red faced and histarical! He said, " did you hear that?"

Me: No

Joe: Your son is so funny! He made my day!

Me: Oh great... what did he say?

Joe: I asked him if he could hold really still for Joe, and he said.... Oh yeah like Jo- mama!

Marcos: smiling and ever so pleased with himself!

We had a few house guests! Yay I love that!

Randy and Bri at Red Robin before they left to go home!

Randy and Bri came out for a mini vacation. I got them addicted to a few of my favorite shows, we ate yummy frozen yogurt, shopped and listened to Isaiah cry for the first 4 days of their stay. When he decided Uncle Randy wasn't so bad, they had to leave! :( We had a good time just hanging out. When I say hanging out, we didn't really get to do much. Between getting Marc off to school, and nap time for Isaiah our day was almost over before it began! They were able to see how uneventful my days can be! I do however think that there was one highlight! ....
We went to the "Castle Park" (If you notice we do not call any of the parks by their real names). There were some little wooden bicycle spring toys, that the kids get on and rock back and forth. We were standing around watching the kids when out of the corner of our eyes, we caught a glimpse of something strange! This little Asian woman was sitting on one of them for a long time. Rocking back and forth in slow motion! She had on one of those Rice hats that they wear while out working in the field. It looked so funny! We laughed and said that it looked like she had just walked around the field for the first part of her work out, and decided to end her work out on the ab machine ....aka the wooden bicycle. We joked about it and said it was going to be the new exercise that everyone was doing. We said that when her friends asked her how she dropped three dress sizes, she replied it is a new ab machine they have at the park. You should try it!
Wouldn't it be funny if you were walking up to the park and notice a line of adults waiting to ride the wooden bicycle!? Haha
Needless to say I had a great time with them and was very sad to see them... and Randy's awesome cooking abilities go!


Bri stopped to visit her Aunt in Ontario before they got to my house. She gave her this bag of tamales that Bri carried around just about everywhere with her! I think she was afraid that I was going to hide them or eat them! Haaha just kidding Bri!

Rachael and Victoria stopped by for a visit before Randy and Bri arrived. They were on thier way to Disneyland! I love you Rachey!

We call it " Rock wall Park!"

Marcos wanted to show me that even though he had a cast, he can still climb to the top of the Rock wall!

Isaiah in desperate need of a hair cut. He thought this little rocking seat was cool.

The weather in January was bizzare. One day it was like summer, the next like winter. We took full advantage of the summer days!

Almost 17 months... time is flying!

We went out to Riverside last weekend to visit Nana and Papa. Whenever we go there, you cannot keep Isaiah inside. He loves to go in the back yard to play with the dogs, and feed them treats. Papa whistles and the dogs come running. He taught Isaiah how to throw the treats high enough in the air for the dogs to catch ! Another one of Saiah's favorite things to do outside is pick.....I think that is the Mecham in him! (He hasn't even attended one of those pool parties at Kim's so I don't know where he got it from!!haahaa) Papa started planting a garden a couple of years back with Marcos, that was "thier thing." Now that Isaiah is old enough, it is a boy thing. He loved going in and picking all the tomatos and chiles. He doesn't care if they are green tomatos or red. At the park, he would rather go and pick berries off the small plants, then play on the toys. I guess that is his simple pleasure, and he looks so cute doing it.

Words that he is saying now are:

1. Mom

2. Dad

3. Doe Does (for Marcos)

4. car (say it like your from Boston and you'll sound just like him... Pronounced Caw)

5. bus

6. money

7. mumps

8. more

9. Papa

10. Nana

11. Bella

12. dog

13. no no

14. cheese/ banana

15. hello/byebye and many more.

Animal sounds he knows:

1. cow

2. monkey

3. dog

4. cat

5. pig

6. frog

He knows his body parts and thinks his boogers are funny.

I don't think his tiny legs stop moving unless he is sleeping. He is always busy going!

His two favorite things are Elmo and his three blue blankets!

What a great gift you are to our family! I love starting my day off when you yell from your crib "MMMMOOOOOMMMM!" I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I wish you would sleep in for 30 min. longer.... but I love seeing your happy little face, it makes getting up super early worth it! You are getting so big, so quick! I love you so much! xoxoxox Mom

Marcos' arm....

This is called the sugar cane splint. When the orthopedic took it off and left the room, Marcos put it back on. He started tearing up. He said," I don't want to throw it away. I like it! " After I told him he could keep it, the tears stopped but he refused to take it off!

He picked blue! He says his muscles look big in it! (notice the cool spider web on the elbow! Gangsta)

The story of Marcos' arm......

Most of you know it, but for those of you who do not, enjoy.

The day after Christmas we drove from Riverside. What was suppose to be a short 3 hour drive, was a 5 hour drive. When we reached state line, I got a call that my mom was having the "all boy cousin sleep over" that night. Marcos was so excited! We drove to Mindy's house got all the boys and dropped them off at Grandma's.

The next day I got a call from my mom, saying that Marcos had fallen and needed to talk to me. He was crying and was hurt. He had fallen off of a Teeder Totter that Kobie and Kavin had made a couple of weeks prior. He said that his arm hurt soooo bad. (He is always drama, but he was doing the " I am really hurt cry". So we met my mom at the Burger King on Rancho. Marc was looking homeless! I had put a pair of his old Pajama bottoms on under his pants to keep his legs warm. They looked more like kapri's . He had been playing outside in the dirt, so the white shirt he had on was now brown and blue from what ever he had eaten and now sucked onto his shirt sleeve! Dirt on his face... let's just say it looked like I found him on Rancho homeless!!!

I went straight to the UMC urgent care on Rancho and Craig. Marcos asked what they were going to do too him. I told him they were only going to take pictures of his arm. He said oh.. I thought they had too operate! They took us back in 5 minutes. That was really nice. They took x- rays of his elbow and upper arm. The doctor told me before x-rays that he thought it might just be nurse maids elbow. So, after x-rays the doctor came in and said that it doesn't appear to be anything wrong, and that he wants to see if maybe the elbow is out of socket. He has Marcos try to pop it back in. Marcos cried until he fell asleep. I asked again, are you sure there is nothing in the x-ray? He says No... The doctor asked if he wanted medicine. I said yes. It never came, so I just had them discharge us! We were almost back to Mindy's and the dumb doctor calls me on my phone. He said that we needed to come back and get a splint and sling... the x-ray tech said that there was a fracture! I was mad! We get back, and he puts us in a room. Marcos woke up crying again. I walked out and asked the Dr. for medicine. He said he would bring it right in. 5 min. goes by...no medicine. I walk out and he is still sitting on his a@#!! This time I had to yell at him. I told him... we have been here long enough! We would like the medicine now! We got it way quicker that way! I think I would trust somebody who has never studied the human body, before one of the doctors at the urgent care! He looked like a deer in head lights when Marcos would let out a scream!!!

We got back home Tuesday and Weds. he had a appointment with our regular doctor, who wanted to see how many co-pays she could milk us for. She said it's really swollen still, so I would like to see him back on Monday. Friday night we went to the store and he fell out of the truck, when he was trying to get into his carseat. He fell backwards and onto his arm again! Co-pay # 2. Yep... it's still swollen, I will send the referral to the orthopedic today, and you will need more x rays. So after he got out of school, we went and got more x-rays... I couldn't go in the x-ray room because of Isaiah. So when we took our new x-ray to the orthopedic, he said he couldn't really tell, because THEY DIDN'T TAKE OFF THE SPLINT!! ARE THEY DUMB???

So poor Marcos had to get more x-rays. All that radiation, no wonder he was glowing when I walked into his room!;) It only took 12 days to get the cast, but he got it and he thinks it is cool!

Decorating the Christmas Tree....

Marcos and Isaiah helped decorate the Christmas tree. Marcos placed all the decorations ever so neatly all on the same branch, and all around the bottom half of the tree. It turned out beautiful! Isaiah undecorated every branch aboout 100 times and broke half of the bulb decorations! He was just trying to help!;)

Christmas Day

Marcos gets a new nutcracker every year. For some reason, he really loves them.

This is as close to getting a dog as we have ever come! The kids loved it.

This is everything Marcos made off with. He must have been a very good boy!

Isaiah opened all of his own gifts this year! I loved just being able to sit back, watch, and take pictures from time to time!

All of Saiah's stuff!

If that dog pee's on the carpet one more time!!!;)

Isaiah and his new Tricycle to take to the park. He really liked it.... for about 5 minutes!

All the Santa's sitting around relaxin'.

I am so thankful that we were able to have such a great Christmas. Watching the sparkle in your kids eyes, the magic of Christmas and all of the joy that it brings. It makes all the crazy shopping and running into rude people worth it! Being around family for me is really what it is about. I am so greatful for everything that we have. Thank you Mando for all of your hard work to make it all possible! I love you.