Love letters

Two days after I found out I was pregnant with Santi I started writing him letters. I wrote through my whole pregnancy and then since he was born I have continued to write about the fun things he is doing or learning. It is fun to look back and see what I was thinking and what he was doing what seems like forever ago. I have no idea when I will actually give him the letters. Maybe I will give them to him when I am old, or maybe Ill give them to his wife, or child. Who knows? But for now its fun writing just for me.

Todays entry.
April 8, 2013

My little love,
As always, its been way too long since I last wrote. You have become such a fun, funny little boy. You aren't a baby anymore. You are huge! Not only are you tall, but you have man-feet! You wear a size 8 or 9. You are so big! We got rid of your highchair last month. Now you eat at the table with us only using a booster seat.

You think big trucks, buses, tractors, and airplanes are the coolest ever! Oh, and bomberos too.

Cars 1 is your favorite movie and you ask to watch it every other second. Mater is your favorite. You have a little Mater truck and Lightning McQueen car and you basically carry them around everywhere.

You are such a happy child. You wake up smiling, brighten total strangers days all day long by smiling and waving at them and you even go to bed with a smile. I have never known a happier child. Papi and I and Nana and Granddad marvel at how happy and smart and funny you are. As you play we watch and laugh and love!

You dance and sing. You copy cat. You adore anything with a ball. You are amazing with a soccer ball. You can dribble, drop kick, and even bicycle kick while laying down. You mix Spanish and English (you mainly say either the begining or end of a word, but I mostly understand everything...others dont normally). Right now your new word is "keke". You learned that because of my birthday.

You utterly adore your Papi "Pa"! He rules your world. The second he walks in the house from work you scream and run to show him what you have been playing with.

A normal week:
Sunday: church (maybe lunch with Nana and Granddad at Garcias) home fellowhsip group at our house every 1st and 3rd Sunday. Sometimes a soccer game for Papi.
Monday: wake up at 8, breakfast, play, maybe grocery store, lunch at home with Papi 11-12, nap 1-3:30 or 4, 4:30 Papi leaves work to come home, 5:30-6 dinner, play some more, bath at 8, read books, 8:30 bed time.
Tuesday: same morning. I have Spanish class at FCS at 1:05. I take you to school and Auntie brings you home for a nap while I teach. I come home at 3. Same evening.
Wednesday: same morning, Auntie comes over after her work at 12:30. We hang out while you nap. Same evening.
Thursday: After breakfast I take you to Nanas. I pick you up after my Spanish class. Same evening.
Friday: Sometimes we go over to the Raymonds or they come here. Same afternoon and evening.
Saturday: Papi has off so we play all day or take you somewhere fun. Now that it is FINALLY warm outside (as of 2 days) we will be able to go to the park more and soon enough the pool!!

In a few weeks you will take your last free flight (under 2 years old) as we go see Papis Aunts and Uncles in Ft. Lauderdale. W will get to go to the beach again! Then at the end of July we will go with Nana and Granddad! This is going to be a great Spring and Summer!!

Words- (I won't be able to remember them all Im sure)

Español:
keke
chao
agua (aga)
mas
media (meme)
zapato (tapa)
leche (le)
bombero (bombom)
no ma (no mas)
bien
luna
luz (lu)
tractor (tra)
dame (dam)
pie
helados (lala)
Mama ven & Pa ven
Tio
Abuelo (lelo)
Abuela (lela)
celular (lar)
pelota (lota)
amo (amm)
casa (caca)
caca (also caca...they are said the same, but you do know the difference)
hielo (lelo-same as abuelo, but also know the difference)
bebe
gracias (gra)
tu (you say this while pointing at yoursef!)
llama (llam)

English:
bird (bir)
bear
duck (du)
car
bus
light (lie)
bye bye
more
no
Barnabus (Barn)
battery (bat, specifically for your trains)
NaaNaa (Brianna)
cup
block (bla)
buckle (buu)
diaper (die)
nose
brown (bown, for Brown bear book)
fire (ire)
play (lay)
ball
Elijah (Lie...said over and over and over...)
trash (tra)
ipad (pad)
Tom (for the Talking Tom cartoon)
Nana
Granddad (dad)
Joel (dol)
chair (chai)
clock (lock)
door
spoon (poon)
toy
slide (lide)
shoe
choo choo
T (auntie)
toes
night night (nigh nigh)
bed
yeah (you say this for EVERYTHING)
bar (for a cereal bar)
star (tar)
Matt (our next door neighbor who is 6 and you think is the greatest!)
OH NO!
boot (boo)
love (luu)
bee
book
mall (because of the play area)

You dont really like putting your toys away, but when you do, you do it perfectly! You like things to be exactly as they are supposed to be! Example- you like all the blocks and letters facing the same direction. Im a little scared!

As I write this there is a house being built out our front window AND our back window! The amount of tractors, dump trucks, and cranes is unbelievably wonderful for a little boy. There is always something exciting going on! Surprisingly none of the crazy construction has woken you up!

Auntie taught you how to make a "grouchy face". You look down at the ground, then keep your head down, but look up with your eyes! Hilarious!

You have ALWAYS kissed me and Papi every time we ask for besos, but now every once in a while you roll your eyes or run and throw yourself on furniture. Im terrified of you becoming a teenager! If I think its bad now, what will it be like then?!

I never knew I could love another human being so much! You are my world! My everything! Please stop growing up so fast! Im not ready to be the "mother of the groom"!

I love you to the luna and back!
Te amo SIEMPRE!

Mama

Some pictures of us!