Ready for Santa!!

Our house is officially Santa ready :)  We decorated the house last night and it looks great!  We had to rearrange A LOT of furniture, but it all worked out in the end and the girls loved the tree when they came down this morning!!  Now I just need to actually buy some gifts and we'll be good to go :)

I know it's leaning a bit...we fixed it this morning.  We also don't have the tree skirt yet...I ordered it and it hasn't come yet!

Future Dancer :)

The girls both love dancing, but here is Isabella showing off her skills.  She was SO funny.  The girls were having a dance party, so I turned on dancing with the stars to show them some moves and Isabella tried to emulate everything they were doing.  This was the second or third dance she did this for.  It was hilarious!!

Randoms...

Even though I haven't been putting stuff up here doesn't mean I haven't been my normal crazy picture taking self!  Here are a few random pics.  The first couple are from our first Ledo's lunch since a couple weeks before we went on vacation!

Finding ways to keep busy until the pizza came

We walked to Ledos and by the time we came out, the temperature had dropped significantly...so the girls got to bundle up in Daddy's jacket!

Leah going down the slide at our playground.

First of all...Grandma should NOT watch this video!  She thinks it is HORRIBLE that we let the kids run around in this parking lot.  It is the parking lot to the doctor's office complex across the street.  The girls LOVE the "zeebo" and always ask to go over there.  So...when the offices are closed (or most of them are) I walk the girls over so they can run around...

The video is nothing special...just thought it was cute because it shows how they play together.  They talk to each other and play together ALL the time and I LOVE watching it.  Also, at the end you will see them pointing to things (the moon and the light..stop lights).  They LOVE the moon and sun for some reason and get so excited when they get to see them!!

Fun with Grandma

On Saturday, we went to Olney to visit Nana and afterwards stopped by Grandma's house to play for a little while.  The girls LOVED playing in the leaves...just wait until they are teenages and are forced to rake all these leaves...not quite as fun :)  But for now...they had a blast with G'ma!

Jump, Jump, Jump

They did this last night for 45 min. straight before bed...they were so tired afterwards (yay!).  I had to video it today because last night they were naked when they were doing it (which made it even more funny...but not acceptable for the internet..he he).

The End...

So, as awesome as our trip to Ecuador was...the trip home and the following week were equally  NOT awesome!  Franklin, Nancy & Daniel were so kind to get up a the crack of dawn to get us to the airport by 6am.  We got there, got checked in (after Leah was randomly selected to have her bag searched so Mom had to go back downstairs for that...kind of a pain, but not a huge deal).  So we got on the plane, were still getting settled and my biggest fear of traveling happened...Leah threw up ALL OVER!  All over the seat, all over the floor, all over herself.  Lovely!!  Poor baby..she had no idea what was happening and just seemed so scared.  So, we changed the seat, put paper towels over the floor (gross) and changed her clothes.  She did OK for the rest of that flight and then, on descent...it happened again! This time...it was all over my shoes, my arm, her clothes (again!) and the seat.  So, we got to the airport, cleaned up as quick as we could, and ran off the plane to get through customs.  We got through (after some hassle with the stroller) and had to literally SPRINT to our next flight (completely across Houston airport).  We JUST made it to the airplane and got settled.  The rest of the trip was puke free (but I was READY in case it wasn't...I had the barf bag in my hand the ENTIRE flight..ha ha). 

Didn't get many pics of the way home..this was on the bus on the way to the car at BWI.

Leah demonstrating what she had done on the plane :)

I was SO excited to get home and have life return to normal...ha ha ha. So..Friday went pretty well...I had to go to work (ugh) and then we had a normal night. Saturday morning around 3am I woke up to Bella crying. When I went into her room, her crib was covered in vomit! Yea! Fun stuff. So, we finally got cleaned up, went to bed, and woke up to Isabella throwing up about 15 minutes later all over the floor in the kitchen. About 5 min. later, I changed a very nasty diarrhea diaper from Leah! Uggh! That was pretty much how our day went...Isabella threw up a couple times, Leah's diapers were all nasty and we ended the day with Bella throwing up all over the floor of their bedroom as I was putting her down for the night.

Sunday was pretty normal...we just bummed around the house as both girls had diarrhea.  Sunday was day light savings day, so our schedule got thrown off once again.  So, Monday morning, the girls were up and ready to go at 4am...and I was SICK!  Uggh.  I guess it wasn't the water that got the girls sick...it was a virus of some sort that I apparently caught.  So...I had to call into work (which SUCKED because it was the 6th day of the marking period and I had only taught my kids ONCE).  But...luckily, Heidi was able to come over and spend the day with the girls and then wonderful Grandma came over to help me that night!  Thank goodness for Grandma (as always!).  I went to bed early and felt better on Tuesday and everything seemed to be getting better....

The girls slept ALL through the night on Tuesday night and I was up showering feeling excited that things seemed to be getting back to normal...when...at 5:30 the house phone rang.  The house phone NEVER rings except during the day when telemarketers called...and I was pretty sure that even the most annoying of telemarketers wouldn't be calling at 5:30am.  It was Heidi!  We had apparently given her the wonderful virus that we had been passing around!  I was in a panic.  I felt bad that we had gotten her sick AND I could NOT take the day off...so, I called Grandma at 5:45am.  Uggh.  I HATED doing that, but i had already called a few other people and no one could do it.  So...of course..she graciously came over to watch the girls (even though she was really supposed to be driving down to the beach).

AGGHHHHHH.........

There was more drama...like the next day I had parent conferences and Heidi was still sick at 7pm and I had NO idea what I was going to do about childcare...but, I am sick of writing this so I am SURE you are sick of reading it. 

In the end, Cesar got home Thursday, and the girls slept ALL through the night (with no morning phone calls)!  Things were getting back to normal.  Yay!

Survival Mode

So, sorry I haven't put anything up here in a while...I have been in survival mode the past couple weeks...life without Cesar home for the week was far more dificult than I hand anticipated (I have a post planned on that, just haven't gotten to it yet)...and then right when life was starting to return to normal, he had knee surgery and life became very dificult all over again...needless to say...the blog was put on the backburner behind sleep and sanity.

I am hoping to have some free time to work on the blog this week (I have lots of videos and pictures to post)...but in the meantime..here are my little beauties at the grocery store saturday morning.  They INSIST on "own cart" whenever I even mention going to the grocery store now, so we go early morning when they have less people to run into!

Wednesday in Ecuador

Wednesday was another fun day.  Cesar's brother Daniel bought us an awesome tour around Quito through the company that he works for.  It was perfect.  We went around in a bus for a while and then got out and walked through some of the most beautiful areas/churches in Quito.  The girls were awesome during the whole trip and even took a nap for a while as we walked around.  This was one of my favorite things we did while we were there!!

Chattin' it up with the tour guide.

Looks like they are standing in front of a picture..but nope, it's the real thing.  We could see the entire city of Quito from up there!

G'ma and Isabella on the bus

This church had so much detail...Pope John Paul visited here and they put up a statue of him.

The equivalent to the "White House"

After the tour we stopped to get a coffee (or water) with the tour guide.

Nancy bought us these cute little "people" breads

Daddy...the human jungle gym

eating soup for dinner...

Cesar's good friend Diego stopped by right before the girls went to bed to say Hi.