Randoms

The girls and I went to the mall the other day and I forgot to bring a snack, so we went to Subway for chips and apples!  

Every night between dinner and bath, the girls and I go on a "walk around the neighborhood."  They will NOT let me get away with skipping it...even if it is raining, they want to go.  I took this picture because they were SO brown from spending the morning at the pool.  Hard to see in the picture, but it is crazy how dark they are getting.  I am VERY jealous!

I cleaned out our entry closet the other day and put all of the girls winter clothes in a bag.  They discovered their boots and now won't wear anything else on their feet.  We went to Giant like this one day...ha ha ha...we got some funny looks!

Dancing!

Silly videos

Here are a couple silly videos of the girls.  So, the first one is a reenactment of a situation that happened two minutes before I took the video.  Leah was sitting on Cesar's lap...she put the hat on...and said exactly what she says in the video.  She comes up with the most random things... 

This one is just the girls eating snack the other day...they were just talking away while I was checking my email on my phone.  They didn't notice when I switched over from email to recording them, so I was able to actually get their conversation.  Usually, they notice when I pick up my phone and get so preoccupied with what I am doing that I can't get a good video...but not this time!  Yay!  I win!

This is an example of what happens when you try to take the girls shopping.  We went to The Children's Place to pick up a few things and this is what the girls were doing while I was shopping!  Don't judge the fact that I let them where random hats.  Kinda gross...but oh well!

Mermaids

Seriously...they might start growing gills.

Father's Day

We had a laid back father's day this year.  Cesar didn't want anything special, so we just had a normal day hanging out as a family...guess that is really what it should be about anyway!  We started the day taking Daddy to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast .  Then went to church and then stopped by the farmer's market in our neighborhood for lunch (and some very yummy blueberries!).  Family nap and pool in the afternoon, and we had a pretty fantastic day!

We ran into our neighbors Jen & Alan and their sweet boy Caleb.  The girls just LOVE him!

Amanda, David & Baby Quay

My good friend Amanda is pregnant with her first child (a boy!) due in August.  She asked me to take some maternity pictures of her and her hubby.  I am nowhere near a professional photographer...but they are so darn photogenic that they made it pretty easy :)
I took over 300 pictures (not that that is a big shocker...I always take too many pics) but here are some of my favorite!  So excited to meet this little dude!!

David doing a great job embarrassing his wife :)

can't really see the belly in this one...but I thought it was cute anyway :)

Such a pretty girl!!

Being Silly :)

David was such a good sport with this one :)

Painful

OK, I think I am mentally able to write a blog about this finally.  So, last year around this time, we knew Kelly was leaving us, but she had basically found us a new nanny to take her place!  Whew!  It was so easy...then the new nanny bailed on us in July!  So...we were stuck trying to find a new nanny again.  It was very stressful...I wrote a post on it HERE. The end of my post was positive because we had found an amazing nanny!  And...she proved to be just that...amazing.  She is great with the girls, they LOVE her, she is firm but gentle, easy going but doesn't let them get away with nonsense, loving, caring, sweet, dependable, I could go on and on and on. She takes them to fun places (story time at the library and book store, Bounce U, "rides in the car,"  walmart, giant, and the ice cream place just to name a few).  She pretty much single handily potty trained them for goodness sake!  That in itself is worth hiring her for.  She has really become a part of our family.  SO...about a month ago, I came home from school one day and Cesar and Heidi both happened to be there (that usually doesn't happen because she leaves when one or the other of us get home from work).  Heidi sat us down and told us that her fiance' Jason had been hired by a new company...great opportunity for him...but that he was being transferred to PA!  I don't have any idea how I reacted...I am sure I acted like it was OK...but really, I wasn't OK!  Uggh!  We had found the perfect nanny for our family and she was leaving (in one month!).  I seriously cried for four days straight...straight...straight!  I just couldn't even fathom the process of finding someone new, trusting someone else with our kids, thinking about how sad the girls (and their mommy) would be when Heidi moved, the thoughts in my head went on and on...(I am crying writing this and I have known for at least a month now!).  The tears have mostly stopped but my sadness is still here.  Heidi's last day is next Wednesday.  I don't know how to handle it with the girls...saying they are going to miss her his such an understatement!
Thankfully, there is a small upside to the sadness...after interviewing about 15 people for the nanny position, we finally found someone we liked and could see fitting in with our family!  So, starting in July, Miss Sabrina will be our new nanny.  She seems like she is going to be a perfect fit for our family.  She is young and energetic, got rave reviews from all of her references (and some co-workers that I spoke with that she didn't give us as references), she likes to get out and do things, has good experience with kids and has her 45/90 (childcare certificate), and she works for a cleaning company (that can't hurt, right?!).  I have to admit that I am not as excited as I was with Heidi, but that has nothing to do with Sabrina...I am sure she will be great...I think it is just because having Heidi leave is still a bit of a shock...
So...here we go again with a new nanny!  Hopefully next summer I can write a post about how much we LOVE Sabrina, how grateful we are that she is able to stay on for another year and we don't have to go through the nanny search all over again, AND...how excited we are to go visit Heidi, Jason and baby Sealy in PA...ha ha ha!

Soooo going to miss this girl!!

Random things that make me laugh...

• I come downstairs for church in a dress.  We are getting ready to walk out the door and  I put on my red shoes to match my dress.  Leah says, "mommy, those shoes make your outfit."  I asked her to repeat it to make sure she actually said that...and yes, she did.  No idea where she got that.
• Yesterday at the pool, the girls learned to plunge themselves underwater and shoot back up to take a breath.  The did this OVER and OVER for 25 minutes straight before I forced them (kicking and screaming) to take a break.  Then we did it again 5 min. later.  They are CRAZY for the pool!!
• They are really obsessed with "names" right now.  They are always asking what people's names are (especially Grandma...they ask at least 10 times a day what Grandma's name is).  Yesterday, they re-named Heidi, "Heidi Paredes Henderson".  They seem to think everyone has "Paredes" somewhere in their name.  They also ask what random objects names are."  Like "what's the tree's name?  What's the clouds name?  What's the street's name"?  When we are in the car it is a game we play constantly.  It has been a good way for me to sneak in a little spanish vocab...I just tell them all the "names" are the spanish words...so like, The tree's name is arbol.  They have learned quite a few words like.  Yay!
• Saying our goodnight prayers tonight as the girls were going to bed. They usually just repeat after me and then say AAAAMEN! Tonight...Leah wouldn't say Amen. She kept saying something I couldn't understand instead. So, I walked over to her crib and asked her to repeat what she was saying. "Thank God for Poooool Mommy, for Poool!"
• We had a nanny come interview the other day (not something I am willing to write a post on yet...I am still too sad to accept it!) and as she was leaving, Isabella said, "Hey..thanks so much for coming."

With the girls' vocabulary growing, they are becoming more and more entertaining!  I love hearing what they will come up with next!!  I keep forgetting to write the funny things down, so I am going to try to be more diligent about putting it on here!