Sunday, November 28, 2010

When You Were A Kid


"Did you live in this house when you were a kid?" Maya asked me yesterday.

"No, I lived in a different house," I answered.

"OK, tell me what your room looked like," she said.

"It had yellowish/gold carpet and I had a white and yellow bedspread with flowers and a doll on it," I answered.

"Where was your bedroom?"
"Upstairs, first door on the left."
"Which way is left?"
"This way."
"OK, tell me about your house. When you first walked in the house," Maya asked. "What did it look like?"
"You were in a foyer and you could either go upstairs or downstairs."
"If you went upstairs, what did you see?"
The living room was this way, the dining room was this way and then you could enter the kitchen. Or, you could turn the other way and go up another set of stairs, where the bedrooms were."
"What did the upstairs look like?"
"The first door was the bathroom. If you kept walking, ya ya and grandpa's bedroom was at the end of the hall."
"Wait, which side of the hallway?"

And on and on and on, she asked questions, just like a reporter. :)

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thanksgiving

Our Thanksgiving started with a Kids Fun Run (not with the adults 8K because I wasn't up for it) and ended with us watching Pokemon on the big screen at our house. In between, I went for a run, Will, Maya and I cooked and baked (maya made cute little pumpkin pies), we all ate a wonderful meal and I introduced my kids to Elle Woods. Maya adored her. Guillermo liked the story, well, just a little bit, he said. (To be fair, it was Legally Blonde 2, definitely the lesser of the two movies). It was a perfect day. And, I'm now fired up to run the 8K next year.

Go Guillermo!
Showing off their ribbons
Maya with the two pies, apple and pumpkin, that she helped me bake. Her little pumpkin pies were in the oven.

Guillermo chose the leg. Since we had just bought a turkey breast instead of the whole turkey, we decided to buy legs just for Guillermo, and then we made a "Medieval marinade" for them. The legs turned out pretty good.

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Once There Was a Boy


Maya found an old baby photo album, the soft, padded kind you give to babies, from when she was a baby. It was one we gave to her. Unfortunately, we had put only a few photos in the book even though it held up to six. I do remember taking one out for something so by the time she found it tonight, there were only two photos. She wanted to know where the other photos were and when I told her we had lots on the computer, she decided to make up a story using the photos in the book. Here it is:

For the first photo of just Guillermo: "Once there was a boy. His name was Guillermo. One, he was good. Two, sometimes he was bad (hee hee, hee)"

For the second photo, with Guillermo and baby Maya peering over the couch: "He met a girlfriend. Her name was Maya and she was a little tiny baby. He took good care of her and that was when Ya Ya and Grandpa and mommy and daddy were there."

Then, she turned to a blank page: "And then they died."

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Nice Leopard


There was a lot of dancing and singing and acting at our house this weekend.

It started Friday night, when Will came home for work. He started spinning on his new DJ table and we turned our living room into a dance floor and the kids took turns dancing and spinning.

Later, Guillermo found the box under his bed that I use to store some of his artwork and some school papers from the past several years. In it was his popsicle stick set of the three pigs and the big bad wolf. So, we all took a character and played, four rounds, so each of us could be each pig and have a chance to play the wolf.

Tonight, Maya promised she would perform her ice cream dance after eating her Sunday sundae. As we were cleaning up, she and Guillermo came up with a play. It started with Guillermo pretending to be an ice cream cone. Then, Maya came on stage and started to try to lick him (this after today she somehow pinched the frenulum of her tongue in the bathroom door, causing it to bleed and really hurt. And please don't ask how that happened. I have no idea why she had her mouth in the door in the first place.) So, when Maya tried to lick him, the ice cream cone came to life and ran across the stage and the chase was on. Maya danced and Guillermo performed some martial arts moves.

They were so excited about their performance, the did two more for me after Will left for work. The first, was called "The Leopard and the Princess" and the second was called "The Bear and the Princess." And they both featured a princess walking through the forest and finding an angry animal who tried to attack her and in the end, knocked her unconscious. They loved it.

They already are planning their Thanksgiving show for us. And, they let the title of the upcoming performance slip: "Underwear, Underwear and the Princess."

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Athletes

The whole Vizuete clan competed in races this fall.


G and M with me before the Ramblin Rose Triathlon

Will and the kids before the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness 5K

Maya taking a tennis lesson. This picture was in the local newspaper.

Maya showing off her medal from a fun run. Guillermo ran it too, but he wouldn't pose for a photo.

Fall Festival

This fall was extremely busy for us. Between the election and co-planning the Fall Festival, it was a little crazy around here. But, helping organize the festival was fun, and the festival was a great for the school community and raised quite a bit of money for the PTA. Here are a few photos to show how much fun the kids had. Well, maybe the photos just show how much they love donuts.

This is their favorite game at the festival.


She couldn't wait to try the donut game.

Celebrating at the festival

Catching up

I've been MIA. I apologize, but I've got a lot of photos to post and a few things to tell you about but I thought I would start with these photos. Aren't they sweet?



Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween

Maya went from this last year, a bad butterfly:



To this, this year, Belle in the golden dress."


"Don't you want to be something scary?" I asked her when she told me she wanted to be "Belle in the golden dress, mommy."
"You don't have to be something scary to get candy," she told me.
She really wanted to wear the golden dress.

Guillermo wanted to be a ninja again


And, I got into the act this year, too: