cousins...

When I looked through pictures from this weekend, this one just really stuck out to me.

Cousins..pure and simple..having fun!!

With all the beach/fun/food we had this weekend, for some reason this fountain at The Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey had the kids attention the most!!

You can see it in Lilly, Aaron & Ivan's faces, they are having just plain fun!

I will post all the pictures of the Pajaro Dunes/Monterey weekend soon, but I just had to post this one now....it is very 'blog worthy'...lol...:)

Dancin' with Yo Gabba Gabba

So the babies are soooo into Yo Gabba Gabba right now. Especially Aaron he is totally addicted.

They know all the words and songs by heart. They even have the dance moves memorized.

This is their favorite episode, it has Jack Black in it and it's pretty funny if I say so myself.

They love this song, I'm not sure of the name of it, but they love to sing and dance to it.

Please excuse Aaron's terrible eating manners, he doesn't quite understand why he can't eat and sing at the same time :-)

Stitches...

On Saturday Gerardo was trying to be nice and take us all out for a nice lunch. We decided to go to a new diner that just opened here in Madera.
The kids were so excited because the 'theme' of the restaurant is country with bears. When we walked in they had so much neat stuff to look at and they had the most beautiful, delicious strawberry pies, which we were all excited to taste!!


Then...just as we were starting to sit down, Aaron tried to pull out his own chair and sit down...and then it happened.....

All I heard was a blood curdling scream and saw Aaron lying on the floor and next to him was the big wooden chair that he was trying to sit in. I jumped up, grabbed him and noticed blood pouring from his chin. I rushed him to the bathroom where I tried to wash him up, but the blood seemed to be pouring from his face! It looked like a scene from a horror movie, I had blood dripping down my neck from him clinging to me, he had blood all over his face...it was all I could do not to faint right then and there.

Well, after we got the blood to stop rushing, we could see a big gash on his chin. To me it looked like he might have bitten all the way through his lip to the outside of his chin, I had seen that on an episode of Jon & Kate plus eight..and I was just sure that is what happened.

After a frantic phone call to Kaiser and speed-driving across Madera county to Fresno Kaiser, we made it to the doctors office. At this point Aaron was actually in good spirits and had quit most of the crying....

Until, that is...he saw...the doctor...

That's when screams in a decibel I had never heard before began! And he screamed.."mommy", "daddy".."mommy"..."daddy"....for the next 2 hours.

The doctor said he would need stitches and he was taken to a surgery room. He was wrapped up 'papoose' style so he couldn't move and then his face was covered with a sterile drape. This made our baby boy cry even more and yell out to us for comfort. Which, of course, made me cry just about as hard as he was!!

In the end, he fell asleep while getting the stitches. He got 2 stitches, which he will get removed this Thursday. The doctor was actually really wonderful and patient. He did a great job with the stitches...even though Gerardo and I kept looking at each other and praying he would hurry up...we are glad in the end that he took his time because the last thing we want is a big, ugly scar on our cute boy's face.

So, like Noemi says...there is ALWAYS something happening in the Chavoya-Flores household...and I don't see it slowing down anytime soon...lol!!!

Aaron the Photographer....

This is what happens when your 2 year old gets a hold of your camera....

Flores Family Father's Day Celebration...

For Father's Day we decided to go to Bass Lake to have a Flores Family Father's Day Celebration!!



It was sooo much fun!!

We had such a good time, we ate and ate, had good company and good food.

We all got great hairstyles from Tia Delores...You are the BOMB by the way...luv ya Dee...

All in all, it was one of the best Father's Days we have ever had!! Thank you to the whole Flores Family for making in happen. We have been spending more and more time with the Flores Family...and we LOVE every minute of it!!!

Click here to see all the pics and make sure to turn up your speakers!!!

Happy Birthday Ollin....

Just a note to say Happy 2ND Birthday to Damian Ollin...We love you! Have a wonderful birthday and we wish you many, many more happy birthdays to come....

Love, your Nino (Nano) G, Tia Amy, & cousins Jacob, Lilly and Aaron....

In a Circle, In a Circle, I'm going in a Circle....

Aaron recently discovered all the joys of 'spinning' around and getting dizzy!!

It is so funny to see. He spins around and around until he falls over. We try to get him to stop, but he just loves spinning around!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY SUNSHINE BOY!!!

Happy 2ND Birthday to the Cutest Little Red-Headed Toddler that I know!! I love you more than words can say!! I am so blessed that you came into my world 2 years ago! I wish you so many more wonderful birthdays filled with love!! Today my 'baby' boy turned 2 years old!! I can hardly believe it! He has grown so much in the last few months he is a lot of fun,,,, and a lot of work too!!

He is a total handful...just plain 'bad' is what I say, but Gerardo would disagree...LOL!!

But, he is a joy! He is very, very smart! Has great language skills and the funniest little personality! It is so wonderful to see the dynamic between him and his siblings!

I will post later all of the words he says and funny things he does. For now I just wanted to say:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!! I LOVE YOU, DADDY LOVES YOU, YOUR BIG BROTHER JACOB LOVES YOU...AND EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T ADMIT IT ALL THE TIME, YOUR BIG SISTER LILLY LOVES YOU TOO!!!!!!!!

"Small but Powerful" ...(quote by Tinkerbell)

Last week I took Lilly into her new school to have her tested for Kindergarten.

Since she will go into kindergarten at only 4 years old, they wanted to test her to see if she is ready. Because of how her birthday falls, she will start kindergarten at 4 years old and turn 5 years old 3 months into school!!

She was SO excited that she was going to school. She got up, took her bath, got dressed in a cute new outfit, got her Dora backpack & was ready to go!!

When we got there was a little bit of a different story. She had a semi-worried look on her face. She wasn't quite sure if she wanted me to leave her or not. She kept asking me to go with her to the classroom.

But, her teacher, Mrs. McCourtie was very reassuring and gentle with her. I am actually very happy that she is getting this teacher for kindergarten, she usually teaches 3rd grade & has been Kimberlyn's teacher. She is one of the nicest, most patient, wonderful teachers that I've seen in a long time! So, she told Lilly that it was okay, and she was going to take her to her classroom and that her mommy would be there to get her when she was done. So, Lilly was off!!!

After Lilly was done with her testing her teacher took us to the kindergarten classroom to look around. Lilly was excited, but very calm. It was interesting to see her reactions to the whole situation.

The results of the testing were that Lilly is completely ready to start kindergarten in her teacher's opinion. She said Lilly can recognize & write 9 letters of the alphabet. She can count to 20. She knows all of her colors. And she knows all of her shapes (except oval). Mrs. McCourtie said that was very good being that she is only 4 1/2 years old.

She also said Lilly was very sweet and also very curious & eager to learn. She said if Lilly didn't know the answer to a question, she would say "I don't know. What is it?"...which is very uncommon according to the teacher, she said most children will just say that they don't know & that's it! Her only suggestion was that we keep working on letter & number recognition during the summertime.

We have already been doing that, we got Lilly some flash cards & she does really good with that. I'm pretty sure she already knows more letters of the alphabet than she did even last week. When we walked into Wal-Mart she told me "That's a 'w' & a 'a' & a 'l' & a 'm' & a 'a' & a..what's that one?"...lol...eager to learn Lilly Flowers! Kindergarten...here we come!!!!

It's almost here....

Save the date: We will be celebrating Aaron's 2ND Birthday on Sunday, June 7Th!!!

Invitations will be sent out soon! It should be fun....we can't believe he's already going to be 2!!

Just a little update on our big, huge boy....if you haven't seen him lately...

• He weighs 37lbs (Lilly is 4yrs old & only weighs 41!..Just to compare)
• He is wearing size 4t clothes...(yes & technically he's still one year old!)
• He wears a size 10 shoe (Lilly wears 10 1/2!)

So, yes, we have a very big 2 year old on our hands...and yes, he's a handful!!