Pumpkin time!

We had a blast carving our pumpkin tonight! We bought pumpkins last year, but with a 5 month old we didn't end up carving them. BUT, this year we were back with it and had a blast.

He was quite adventurous and stuck his hand right in!

AND HATED IT! Notice the spread fingers in utter disgust! Yep, thats my son!

Eventually we were able to convince him to help us throw away the innards.

He really wanted to help carve.

The finished product. He was in awe of how it lit up!

Play-doh fun!

I was looking for something new to do with Santi this morning. Instead of going somewhere, I decided to bring out the play-doh for the first time. He LOVED it...just like every kid who has ever played with the stuff! And, he did exactly what every kid who has ever played with it does, stuck it right in his mouth! After deciding that it really doesn't taste that great he played and played and played. What a blast!

It is so fun watching him discover things for the first time. And its always a plus to see him sit in the little blue chair I had as a kid and play at the table I used for my dolls.

Auntie

Auntie is one of Santi's favorites ever of all time. She is a constant in his life and he honestly loves her dearly! She has been wonderful to me in watching the little pants during one of my two classes a week, so she spends even more time with the little guy.

Here are some amazing pics she took of him this past week.

This may be my favorite picture of all time!

Apparently he went from a baby to a little boy over night!

The Auntie with the Pants.

Why do Papi's have to work?

Santi's favorite person in the whole entire world is Papi. When Papi leaves for work or even attempts to put on his shoes Santi freaks out. In a perfect world, Papi would stay home all day and play soccer and feed ice cream to the little man. Sadly, it is not a perfect world, so Papi has to work.

This morning was for some reason a little harder on the pants than normal. Santi cried real tears and was genuinely sad for a good amount of time. He waved out the window even after Papi's car was out of site. Like I said, its always hard to watch him leave, but it wasn't the normal upset, it was real tears and crying. I felt so bad for the little guy.

I was able to distract Santi long enough to get him to stop crying. But almost immediately when he stopped crying he ran over to the rack of shoes and got out Papi's sandals. If Papi wasn't gong to be home, Santi at least wanted to play with something of his. He was actually able to get one sandal at a time on and walk around the room. Cute little boy.

It takes a couple tries to get the sandal on!

Notice the concentration with the open mouth!

Thank goodness Papi is coming home for lunch!! And even better, tomorrow is Saturday and the boys can play ALL day!

For Nana & Danddad

My parents have been on a MUCH needed sabbatical for the month of September. Santi and I were lucky enough to be able to go visit them with some free sky miles we had. But heres the thing.  A month is too long! They need to COME HOME ALREADY! The one thing I can think of to temp them with is a little pants named Santi. So, mom, dad, eat your hearts out!

Santi now moo's like a vaca (cow)
neighs like a caballo (horse)
says bom bom bom for bombero (fire truck)
says bird
points to batman
wears batman rain boots with just a shirt and diaper
wears cowboy boots with shorts
And is adorable....and yall are missing it!

Come home!!!

Cheesy smile, batman boots, diaper, school bus puzzle piece, check, check, check, and check!

Gotta smile for the camera!

I LOVE his leg rolls!

Its all about the boots

I teach Spanish on Tuesdays and Thursdays each week. As I was getting dressed I decided to wear fall-ish boots since its getting a little cooler outside. Our kitchen is laminate, so my boots made all kinds of fun noises when I walked in there. Santi immediately noticed how amazing the boot noises were and followed my every move. 

Going back 12 months. In September of 2011 I found these beauties (where else but Goodwill). 

At the time Santi was only 3 months old, but I knew that every little boy needs a good pair of cowboy boots. I learned about boys and cowboy boots as a child when my brother renamed himself Cowboy Bob. I thought Santi would be 2 or 3 before he could wear the huge things. Little did I know at the time that I would be raising a GIANT MAN! 

So back to yesterday. I knew the boots would be too big, but I thought he could at least try them on and click around on the kitchen floor. Sure enough the boots are too big, but they aren't too big to stay on. Like I said, the kid has huge feet! Oh what joy I brought to the little mans heart. He cluncked around on the floor with great happiness. He thought he was soooo cool! He would look at my feet, then his, then mine, then his. Never did they fall off. Something tells me this is going to be a boot kind of fall for the little man.

I bet you didn't know Batman was a cowboy! He is!

Santi got to bring joy to his Great-Grandmother later in the day with the boots too! Being from Texas, she was overjoyed to see the littlest wearing boots!

Mamas cute boots and Santis cool boots!

Rain and giant puddles

Yesterday was the day I had been waiting for ever since Santi got his batman rain boots. It rained and rained and rained. I watched as the puddles got bigger and bigger and bigger. I kept waiting for it to stop raining so we could put on our rain boots and stomp. It never happened. So I did what any mom would do who wants to get out of the house. We put on our rain coats, boots, and hats and went to the park in the rain and stomped in puddles. Well, maybe not what any mom would do. We were the only people there, but man did we have a blast. You know the little man had fun because I had to dump water out of his boots and strip off his pants before getting back in the car.

Pre-puddles!

He was still pretty dry here, so it had to be near the beginning.

Starting to get the hang of it!

We got so much energy out running back and forth and back and forth!!!

That face says it all!

Mama and baby boots.

Back home. The boots are still drying out!