Every day goodies

 Oscar is obsessed with our playroom seesaw right now and the girls are gentle and great with him.

 

The girls hang out on this window sill these days.

 11 month old photo shoot. I'm obsessed.

(In this picture, you can see Maya's speck of light light brown in her left eye, it is so pretty.)

Potty training update:

She was pooping in her undies every day. Also pooping on the potty every day, but somehow always saving some for later :).

Now she poops in her undies once every 3 days or so. I thought we got over it, but she surprises us every few days, don't you worry.

She peed at the Target. So yeah, she has pee accidents too. 

But really, she is doing great. Amelia rarely had accidents, so this is throwing me through a loop. But I feel like Maya understands when she needs to go, just would rather play instead sometimes.

She wakes up with a dry diaper every morning. Like out of 2 weeks, she has peed in her diaper once during the night. Yay!

 Bike rides through the neighborhood.

 Amelia is obsessed with coloring. (I am the one that colored that castle, don't want to misrepresent.) But she is becoming more conscious of staying in the lines and mimicking me by coloring all in one direction and I love seeing her progress!

 We go on beautiful walks around Round Rock.

 And play at our favorite parks.

 I know Oscar is looking down in this one, but I think Juan looks so good so I had to post.

 Amelia requests daily to have a picnic with our Halloween blow-up Mickey. And dresses as Elsa. And this super head tilt, the only time I've ever seen it. 

We went to the pumpkin patch with our friends Amanda and Brian. We have known them since our Provo married ward at church. 

  And now Lexi and Amelia go to preschool together!

 This buddy constantly stood up on the edge of the wagon like this, but never got the guts to jump out.

 Cutest babies in a wagon!

 Family picture time! One with sunglasses, one without.

 Oscar spends his time lounging on this stair when the girls are upstairs.

 He periodically lets out a yell to them, hoping that someone will come play with him. I love that he misses them.

 Here is an example of Amelia's drawings right now. She is always drawing or coloring these days and I love that she can sit and entertain herself for long periods of time. I especially love her colorful skirt in this one. And when she draws me, she adds earrings that are a pop of color and that makes me so happy that she knows me. And her name, she is used to writing her name in all caps, and this was her trying to practice doing the first letter A and the rest in lowercase. She's been practicing her "e" for a while. She never did get all the way through her name here :)

Peek-a-boo

Oscar is 11 months. I don't even want to write about it because I don't want him to grow up. This boy just makes us so happy. His developments this month:

• Zooming up the stairs when we forget to put up the gate and hysterically laughing the whole way. Like he can't catch his breath he is laughing so hard.
• Refusing to eat everything suddenly: no bread, no turkey, no cheese, no veggies. Basically he eats yogurt, grapes, oatmeal, bananas, muffins. 
• Dancing to his favorite song: Taylor Swift, Shake it Off. He also likes to sing along in a hoot hoot noise.
• Copying sounds that we make. He tries really hard to say milk. 
• Saying ooooo for moo, he loves when we hold up a cow and say moo. 
• Wrestling with his sisters and Maya cannot stop herself from knocking him over when he is standing beside the couch or just sitting in the middle of the floor minding his own business. She has a problem.
• Messing up anything that resembles order. Dvds on the shelves, little people set up in a dollhouse, cars lined up in a row, he will swat at it back and forth until everything is crazy.
• Waving good bye and blowing kisses consistently.

He is sooooo good. I make sure he gets enough sleep, but a lot of time he gets pulled out of naps after only 45 minutes or gets put down early so he can catch up from a missed nap. He rolls with the punches, never gets fussy. He is so chill, I love this boy so much. 

Our Disneyland Trip

I am going to go ahead and quote Maria Von Trapp on this one. "Somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good." Sing with me people.

This trip, it was a dream. I mean, as much as a dream it can be with 3 tiny children and all. There were normal stresses, but the kids were absolutely fantastic: well-behaved, Oscar hung out in the stroller for 10 hours straight, the girls lit up with each ride or character sighting, better than I dreamed. And the girls did some major bonding or something, because ever since we've been home, they've been playing pretend and always coming up with new ideas and rarely fighting. Miracles happen.

So are you ready for 80 pictures? Sure, why not.

Juan dressed all suave because we stopped in at church once we got to Anaheim.

Maya- her first time flying with her own seat.

No squirms that licorice doesn't solve.

Snuggles with brother. On the flight home Maya said to me when I sat Oscar by her, "Mo-om, I'm not the mom yet." As in, stop trying to get me to take care of him for you.

 Sweaty, sleeping baby. It was H O T. Really hot. But it didn't stop us.

 Oh you know, when he poops all up his back and I'm not a prepared mom so we have to wash out the shirt on-the-go and let it dry in the sun.

 We started the trip with Ariel's Grotto where they had breakfast and met Ariel, Belle, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. It was the greatest start to the trip!

 Oscar and my crazy eyes were there too.

 Toy Story Mania! This was one of 4 rides that we waited about 30-40 minutes for. That was it, otherwise the lines were short or we did fast passes.

 I love Amelia's face in this one. And my mom in the background with Maya (not pictured). Juan doesn't love to go on these teacup-like rides. He gets queasy. 

 "Okay I'll smile now mom" After the rest of the family has moved on.

 Inside THE castle. Sleeping Beauty's castle so a lot of Maleficent and scary images. But they did love actually being inside a castle. And Amelia, she's fearless.

 Dumbo! Oscar is thrilled.

 Waiting for the parade.

 My mom and dad got scooters that they were on and off all day. We didn't get to cut lines because my parents could park and come and stand in the lines. So we were honest :) Besides, we really didn't do much waiting.

 Sweaty people at the parade.

 Our first Mickey sighting! They were so thrilled. I wish I got video of Maya's big wide-stretched arms as she ran in for a hug with each character. This was so much fun for her. 

 Oscar was out for the night.

 Train

 Winnie the Pooh

 Oscar got to go on a lot of rides, at least a dozen. And I always wondered if he was sad or scared, because I couldn't see him or hear really! So I snapped this picture with a flash to check out his face.

 This happened. We waited 50 min just to get the reservation for later in the day, and then came back and waited 15 more min until we got in to see them. Not so bad. I wouldn't have done it, but Amelia just kept talking about how she was going to meet Elsa so we just had to put in the time. And it was all worth it.

 Milk face.

 We used the parent pass on a few rides so I was singing Slippery Fish to them as we waited outside Radiator Springs Racing. Let me just say, they were troopers. They were so good. I am amazed.

 Classic picture with the grandparents.

 On Pirates all together!

 Minnie's House. I loved Minnie's house, and Mickey's. It is the cutest thing to walk through.

 I love Minnie Mouse cuteness.

 Oscar waving hi from Mickey's window!

 And Mickey again, who doesn't love Mickey? Today we watched Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Amelia and Maya were talking about the characters like they were old friends. They've met them now afterall.

  Goofy was the most fun character to meet. He was tickling them and they were just delighted by him.

 I snuck in to meet Woody. They cut off the line and so we just waited until he was done meeting everyone in line and then the girls ambushed him! And of course he was so happy (the smile is painted on, can't lose there).

 Mike!

 Oscar clapped through the whole parade.

 Buzz Lightyear!!!

 Woody and Jessie!

 Amelia was fearless. She did Tower of Terror, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain (twice), Matterhorn, Thunder Mountain Railroad. She was game for anything. I looked over at her during Tower of Terror and there was 100% terror in her eyes, but afterward she would always say, that was fun! She'd tell us her stomach was doing flips and after each ride she'd show us how her legs were still shaking.

 Maya was our sensitive one. She didn't like the darkness in the rides. While we were waiting in line for Peter Pan, she begged for us to leave, in fact she tried to escape from us and leave the line by herself! Once we got on, she loved it, and just hid her face into my shoulder on the dark parts. 

What wonderful memories. It was worth putting off a van and not painting our house and Juan working 2 jobs for a bit and every other sacrifice we made to get there. 

Disney, you were good to us.