Spring Break at the L.A. Zoo

Antonio, Marcos, Isaiah, and Mari, at the L.a zoo.

I like this picture.

My little baby is growing up!

Marcos and Antonio looking at the snow tigers.

They had so many giraffe's. I don't know why they had all the baby giraffe's except for the youngest seperated from the rest of the herd.

This gorilla was huge! He came up to the window and picked little pieces of nuts and berries! It was so cool! Isaiah was facinated and making monkey noises! Marcos and Antonio were going nuts!

Are zebra's black with white stripes? Or .. White with black stripes?

We sat at the Tiger's cave forever. It was sitting under the tree, and all the sudden it got up and started roaring and pacing back and forth. I thought for sure it was going to jump up and grab someone to eat!

They had these cool little look out bubbles to watch the cute little critters eat!

Marcos' Field Trip to Home Depot. They learned about wood in their Wood Science Unit at school.

Marcos and his buddy Luke. They like to play Lego Star Wars together.
Funny story... Luke came to play for the first time and wanted to play one of Marcos' games. I said that was fine but any messes that they make, they would have to clean up. Luke put it back and said " never mind I don't like to clean up!"

Marcos' class listening to a lecture on different types of tree wood, and how you tell how old a piece of wood is. At the end the man asked questions about what he had just gone over, if they answered right, or were good listeners they got a piece of candy! Wood is really not an entertaining lecture for the poor Kindergarteners!

Next the appliance section. The guy was telling them about all the diffrent things they can put in there homes. When he got to the tub section he asked the kids what this was. Answer: a TUB! Man: What else can this be used for. LITTLE GIRL : It's a spucuzzi! MAN: Your right and they are very affordable, so tell your parents to come on down here to Home Depot and we will help them get one! I don't know what economy this guy is living in, but apparently if you work at Home Depot right now, you are RICH!

Marcos and his iend Haylee, she helped her mom make bread one day and asked if she could please bring Marcos a loaf. It was sooo delicious!

Diane, Marcos, and Jasmine. Diane was in our group for the tour. She is from Korea and speaks very little English. At the beginning of the year she spoke only Korean. She has come a long way. I think it must be hard and frustrating and confusing for these kids not to know the language. Jasimine is Marcos' very good friend. Her mom is Japanesse and her father is Phillipino. She always has a smile on her face!

Marcos and his best friend Antonio having a snack at Castle Park. Antonio is in the morning class and Marcos is in the afternoon. They have class on Wedsday's together for one hour. I feel bad for there teacher!

Peyton and Marcos. Peyton is a twin, her sister Riley and her look identical. They came over and played once. Who knew little girls ate so much! I thought it was the boys who could eat! They remind me of Melinda and I growing up. Always trying to hang out with the boys and beating them at most of the games that we played!

I haven't been able to help in the classroom this year, because of Isaiah. I don't have anyone to watch him, and even if I did I don't think he would stay! Mando's mom retired 2 weeks ago. She came out to watch Isaiah for me, so

I was able to go on the field trip. I missed being able to help, and see Marcos around different groups of kids! He is so funny and smart!

p.s. I don't know if it is at every Home Depot, but I heard that the first Saturday of every month, they do a free craft. You may want to call first and ask!

What's been going on in January now that February is almost over!!!

Fluffy

Marcos was picked to bring Fluffy home this day. He is the class bear that loves to read, do homework, and play games with you! (Shocking how much you can get them to do with this magical bear!) We took him out to the park and Marcos and his friend Jasmine played with him.

Jasimine mom met us at the park behind our apartment.

On our way back through the apartment complex Marcos and Jasmine decided to run ahead of us and hide! We got to the end where we thought they would be and they were no where in sight! I freaked! I whistled and called his name... nothing. Jasimine's mom called...nothing! I looked everywhere. I ran back to the park, I ran to my house I looked in the bushes, Jasimine's mom went to her house.. 5 or 10 minutes passed and still nothing. I called Mando because now I am losing it. My heart was racing out of my chest and I was scared. Marcos never hides this long, and always comes to my secret whistle. Mando works on site, so he hopped on the golf cart and went cruising around looking for the two runnaways! (Keep in mind they are both wearing brown!) They were hiding in the bushes right where we were. Quiet like a mouse and still as a statue! The only reason they were found was because they came out to switch hiding places! They went so far back into the bushes that their brown clothes made them blend in!

One of the scariest days of my life!

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!