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Sunday Morning

Asaya and Matisse's early Sunday morning reading. Something interesting on t.v. breaks their concentration for a minute.
Back to reading (looking at the colorful pictures)!

The snacks look so real that Asaya was tempted to eat the goodies! Matisse just observes little Asaya and her silly antics.

Then of course, he tries his own taste testing!!

Not as tasty as it looks.

Yeah, I agree!

Enough reading...Let's dance!

Our Little Buddy

Snoopy stayed with us for 10 days while his family was visiting Spain. We loved having a couch that was just our size, an automatic vacuum cleaner w/ mop included and a little buddy that let us hang around him like two little monkeys without biting us back.

Wii

This video was shot in january '08 ...

Texas Twins

These pictures were taken in January, which shows you how far behind mami and papi are with updating the blog. This day Lito was in town and Matisse and Asaya were playing dress-up with his boots and hat.

Little Helpers

Best Friends

New pool... how cool is that?

Sharing the memories

We shot this video last night. Asaya and Matisse are growing so fast... just wanted to share this moment with our family and friends.

Single Trouble...Double Trouble

Matisse: Thanks Machan for the comfortable seating, but at the next commercial break let's do a check-up.

Matisse: Okay let's see...you don't have any extra skin to pinch around your waist like mommy does. Looks good.
Matisse: Now let's talk about this hair.
Now Asaya is here for double trouble!

Machan: Well what else am I suppose to do with these little gremlins!

Reminiscing

Matisse crawled into this laundry basket with his osito and stayed in there for a long time. I concluded that he was reminiscing his time with Asaya (the osito) in mommy's belly.

hEad BanGerS!!!

Asaya's New Adventure

Picture of Asaya's reaction to getting out of her little pickle.

Not a happy camper. See below for her little adventure...

As you can see Asaya got herself in another pickle. She pulled herself onto her walker, however, was unable to align her body properly and got her head stuck in the bucket seat!

besitos de matisse

Since when are car seats considered furniture?

Asaya: Oh I love this. I feel like I'm in the car because I'm sitting in my awesome car seat, but I'm really in the house because my car seat is not in the car, but in the living room. I could sit here all day and think about cool baby stuff, watch the Spanish baby channel, take swigs of my milk, and I can even sit crooked if I want. And if I really want to be a rebel, I can sit here without my seatbelt straps and in my nappy!!! Whoo! This is great...

Asaya: ...Oh mommy, what do you think? Can we keep our car seats as furniture for the house? You see we can lounge around in them and the brown even matches the carpet!

Matisse: What's going on here? Mommy why are you sitting in my car seat?

Asaya: .........

Matisse: Those girls are driving me crazy!!! I can't listen to them anymore! I just don't understand why they can't leave the car seats in the place they belong...the car!! If they ask me (which they probably won't), I prefer the more modern purple Bumbo as lounge seating.

The Forbidden Zone

One little hand and a set of twinkle toes begin this little story.

It's Asaya. What do you think is going on here?

One little hand and a set of twinkle toes.

And now a teary eyed Asaya behind the forbidden gate?

One little hand and a set of twinkle toes.

A teary eyed Asaya behind the forbidden gate.

Little hand number two is stuck behind her back with nowhere to go.

"Mommy, can you please help me? I got myself into a pickle."

Poor little Asaya. She got herself stuck between the wall and the gate trying to squeeze her way towards the forbidden zone...the fireplace. She wasn't yelling or screaming her head off. It was more like a puppy dog whimper and those sad, sad eyes! She's got skill...those poor boys don't have a chance.

"I know! I know! I learned my lesson. Just get me outta here," whimpered Asaya

First Birthday

Our cool first birthday cakes made by Auntie Sayuri.

Matisse is chasing the little duckie

Gotcha!!

Asaya showing off her birthday card...while Matisse is chillin' in what he thinks is his first birthday "King's Chair."

Do you like the tattoo Asaya got for her first birthday?

Riding around with Tristan and Mathis in our new ride...say bye bye to the CB Cruiser...we upgraded to Radio Flyer!

Up to this point she looks pretty clean. However, a few seconds after this picture Asaya smeared a huge clump of pink icing in her right eye! We have it on video but not print.

I'm thinking of joining the circus as a little clown...what do ya'll think?

We had so much fun with Obachaan, Tio Tommy, Auntie Sayuri, Tristan and Mathis. Tristan and Mathis helped us blow out our candles :)

Ms. Ursula and Mr. Cesar came to celebrate our birthday with us. We can't wait to finally meet the little baby in Ms. Ursula's belly!

We are in our wagon that Mami and Papi bought us for our first birthday! Chao folks, we hope you enjoyed our first birthday party!

Hanging out in our first "CB Cruiser" (Cardboard Car)!

Mommy and Papi gave us our first car (CB Cruiser) early in life! Although we don't know how to drive just yet, we were able to ZOOM up and down the Matsumoto strip (our hallway). Mommy got a great workout pushing us back and forth while we took in all the sights and let the breeze caress our hair!

Here we are posing in our new CB (cardboard) Cruiser!

Matisse: I look cool in my new ride! I have to keep my arms hanging out of the side of the box and be sure not to smile or even look mommy's way! I love all the advertising, especially "free wipes inside"...NASCAR here I come!
Asaya: I look TOO cute in my new convertible! I love all the sassy colors and there's enough room for me to stretch my legs.

Matisse and Asaya: Mommy can you please push us some more? We know your buttocks are burning but we are bored and want to burn some more cardboard!

PLEASE...POR FAVOR...ONEGAI...

We'll be little angels for the rest of the day...we promise

We had to wait a while for mommy to recover.

Asaya: I guess I will just tap my toesies while I wait

We're still waiting

Matisse and Asaya: Mommy are you okay? You don't look too good. Do you want us to call Papi so he can push us around?

5 MINUTES LATER....




Matisse and Asaya: AH!!! That was a blast!

Matisse: NASCAR here I come

Asaya: I love this chupon