So, everyday after lunch I like to sit down and watch my favorite tv show called FAMA a bailar.. a reality based show about dancers.. Anyway, everyday during the one hour show, Marco and Bella are usually screaming at each other, yelling, crying, hitting each other, running in front of the TV, asking me for a snack.. you get the picture.. I can’t relax..

But today, today was different.. yes, they went in to their playroom and closed the doors.. there was silence, and I know that is not a good sign, but for those of you who have kids, you will understand that a little peace and quite now and then is what is needed, specially when you are trying to work, get something done or just simply trying to relax..

So, even though I knew the silence was not a good sign, I sat back and enjoyed my one hour show..It was great.. When it ended I got up and opened the doors not knowing what I was going to find.. And the little voice inside my head was right.. they are up to something.. 

And, Yes, Yes they were, they got a hold of a marker and decided to make a road for their cars.. with painted cars as well.. At that point I figured I had 3 choices, kill them, cry or take a picture for the blog.. and as you can see I opted for number 3.

And guess who’s idea it was???

Every year the end of the school year the kids do their little dance and song number depending on what activity they have been in all throughout.. In our case ballet for Bella and Judo (got his green/blue belt) and Guitar for Marco (not to forget Soccer). So this past month between rehearshals, costume changes and a little nerves the kids got up on stage and showed us what they had learned.

You can see all the pics HERE. as well as a couple of videos you will enjoy…

Many of you know that Marco is one of the sweetest little boy around. He was a great baby an even better toddler and is a great boy now.. but.. all good boys sometimes do bad. and well, Marco last night did not come up when I yelled at least a donzen times out the window at aobut 10 pm to come up!!

He loves to play soccer with his friends downstairs but most of them are much older than him and have a different curfew, so he doesn’t understand why he has to come up first..So his first punishment ever was no to go downstairs for one afternoon. But Matt  my dad thought I was being too strict so I decided to post a voting to facebook, and little Marco got to go downstairs for a little while..

Tell me about some of your punishments…

Video speaks for itself.. Although, does anyone know how to turn it the right way?? I took it with my phone.. Oh well.. Enjoy

I’m really late in posting all our activities, but as last week, the kids were sick and stayed home from school, so I have not been able to get anything done. I will try to recover slowly. Kids are feeling better but it all started around Carnaval which was last weekend so we did not do all the things we had planned..

Bella and Marco had a festival in school where they had to dress like something from the universe, Bella as I told you in another post wanted to be a star, and Marco ended up being a mix between and alien and who knows what. Anyway, they had a great time in school with their friends, and Bella had a Carnaval birtday pary the next day.. So then her birthday the next day..

I leave you with some pics..

Today is Marco’s 7th birthday and we are having a little merienda at home with some friends. But his real party was on Sunday where more than 30 kids showed up to celebrate his big day. They had a blast playing a soccer match, girls running after boys, eating and so on.

Marco had a great time and got lots of cool gifts he is enjoying..so Happy Happy birthday to our little boy who is not so little any more…We love you and are very proud of you, with every year that passes he surprises us more and more..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARCO…..

to view all birthday pics click HERE…..

Marco loves soccer. He lives, breaths, talks, watches, plays, dreams and sweats soccer.  He is improving everyday and you never know he could be the next Ronaldinho but I won’t hold my breath.

Today his soccer team they had their first match of the season and they lost 7 to 1...why did they lose? Well, I’m not a soccer specialist but as Matt pointed out here are a few of the reasons: Their goalie is the size of Bella, the coaching sucks, the kids didn’t know what position they were playing and the other team was double their size…

There were a lot of kids who left crying their eyes out, luckily Marco is a good sport and enjoys playing, which in the end is what is all about. So I’m proud not only of his participation in the game but his sportsmanship and positive attitude..

I will keep you updated on the season and see where they end up in the leage….

My little boy is growing up! I went to pick him up from judo class on Friday and he handed me his tooth, I said what the heck do you guys do in judo? But, I knew very well that his top tooth had been moving for a while and today it finally decided to fall off. He was so proud staring and smiling at me with his sort of pumpkin smile…

The first thing he said was that he wanted to make sure Ratoncito Perez was coming to leave him someting under his pillow because the Tooth Fairy was for girls..I already went over this whole dilema in an earlier post. I assured him one of them would come and leave him a little something.

I know I say it all the time, but time does go by very fast.. The tooth falling thing is a passage of time, it is a transition into adulthood, it reminds us we are all getting older everyday, and that we need to cherish all these wonderful moments we are having, knowing that it all passes by way to quickly.

It is a bittersweet moment that I’m sure many of you have been through, thanks for reading and letting me share these special times with all of you.

Yes, it’s time Marco and Bella learn to blog.. (well, Bella is just learning the alphabet so we will wait a bit on her but Marco..) They always see me attached to the computer and wonder what the hell I’m doing.. so I tried to explain it to Marco and he said “that sounds cool, could I write one”, and I said “Ok” so here goes Marco’s first post…

Today I was walking Precious and I step in a snail. I was sad, really sad and I got home and I watched pasapalabra. Mama tried to cheer me up and now I’m not sad.

Ok, I guess he didn’t have much to say today.. I will elaborate a little more on what he just said. I picked him up from soccer practice and he was so excited that his coach said that he had improved a lot from last year, then he got home and was even more excited when he found that his Nintendo DS was back from the Nintendo “hospital” (the kids had dropped it a couple of times and the screen went caput..but Nintendo was nice enough to not only pick it up from our house for free but repair it and send it back for free, via messenger). Anyway, he played a little, then did his homework and then said he wanted to go walk Precious with me. We had a nice walk, we talked about school and things and on the way back just a few feet in front of our front door to our building he stepped on something that went crack and skishhhh…. He looked back and saw it was a snail…You would not believe how sad he was, he started sobbing uncontrollably and felt so bad he had killed a snail….He couldn’t stop crying and even refused dinner!!!! Anyway, we talked and he is better now so I told him it would be good to write about it..Hence this post… Oh and Pasapalabra is a game show he likes to watch with my mom.. Until next time..

When can I go swimming? when can I go swimming????? That is the only thing we have heard for 4 days now!! Poor Marco can’t take it anymore, so finally tomorrow he will be able to go back in the pool after his swiming pool cut incident. The poor thing has been a good sport about it, eventhough I think it has been the hottest days of the summer and all his friends were yelling for him to just jump in….

It has been more of a punishment for us than for him, let me tell you.. Anyway, the picture above was done with a new cool photo website called slide.com where you can convert your pictures into really neat slide shows.. I made a quick one to test it out and its in the header as you can see.. If the music bothers you, you can simply turn it off in the left top corner.. Tell me what you think??