Hey, everyone. Nothing major to report. Just wanted to post these cute pictures of Jada's teeth (she has 2 on top and 2 on bottom) and a picture of Joli and her hair! Jada is a crawling fanatic - she's at that stage where she'll crawl up to you and tug on your pant leg to have you carry her. So sweet! Joli's been hilarious (see the previous posts) and just being all around silly.

Mari and Gavin are heading back home in a few weeks -- boo hoo! The good news is that she is done with treatment and doing well, but the bad news is that we'll miss everyone!

My stomach hurts from laughing....

For posterity sake, I have to write these stories:

I'm currently in the hallway, Joli is on the potty, Jorge is sitting in Joli's bed.

Joli: Mom, I have to poop.
(pooping occurs)

Joli: Mom, the poop are not going to the poopie party today. They are going to the poop store.

Liza: Jo, what are they buying at the store?

Joli: (sigh), well, poop toys of course.

(giant poop occurs)


Joli: (sigh.. of relief) Ahhhh.. that's a nice crap.

Liza: runs to get laptop to write about it in the blog. goes to sit in the hallway.

Joli: Mom, why are you in the hallway? Does my poop stink?

Liza: Yes. yes it does.

Joli: Well, if it's too stinky, you can go in my bedroom. Oh, wait. Dad is there. He farts. Maybe you'd be safer in your room.

AND..... TODAY AT 6:30AM, JADA SAID "Mama" and "Dada!!" and then she giggled!

9 months and 42 months

We missed a month of the "tigger/grover" pictures, but here is the latest one of the gals at 9 months (Jada) and 42 months (Joli).

We spend our Saturdays drenched in the pool (check out the cool new bikinis!). Jada has 4 teeth (did I write that somewhere already) and is hilarious! She is officially a crawling baby now! She likes to wreck the television set and the DVDs -- yes, payback for having the most angelic baby for 9 months! She babbles non stop, unfortunately can sit and watch tv quietly, and is eating just about everything a baby could and would eat.


Joli's hair is outrageous these days - today, she put 3 clips in her hair, and I had to feel all around her scalp just to find them! She's got herself a great solid afro puff!

As of today, we also noticed that Jada's hair is starting to curl in the back! Wow!

Today, Mari/Gavin, Jenny/Mia, Joli and I went to a "play gym". It was so fun! It was great seeing how much Joli and Mia look out for each other, and how much Gavin wants to basically run and destroy everything in site! :) AND, check out the fact that Joli kept her glasses on the whole time!! (Of course, the minute we hit the parking lot, she took them off!).


Here's Mia with her crazy static hair!


After we paid all that good money for Gavin to go to Scaliwags, he decided to play with the toy kitchen -- which he could have done for free at Lola's house....

So Fresh, I didn't Know What to Do!

I admit, sometimes when talking to our dog, Jorge and I aren't the nicest nor the most polite to poor old Gordon. Oftentimes, when he's scratching at the door or barking to go out, we say things like, "Alright already, Gordon!" or "Knock it off, Gordon!" or even some slightly more harsh phrases.....

Today. Joli and Jada were in the bathtub and Joli was calling for Jorge:

Joli: "Daddd! Oh, Daaaaad!"
Liza: "Joli, Dad is doing something right now."
Joli: "I was talking to Dad, Mom. Now, shut up already...."
Liza: "gaaaasp!!"

Yet, it was one of those moments where I wasn't sure what had just come out of her mouth... did she REALLY just tell me to "shut up already???" I went to tell Jorge and for some crazy reason, all we could do was laugh. Not in front of Joli, of course. But, we just couldn't believe our ears!

Earlier that evening, Joli said the funniest thing while she was on the potty (yes, I'm sure she's going to be absolutely horrified when she's older that I'm writing this).

Joli (on the potty): "Mom. The poop is ready."
Liza: "What???"
Joli: " I said the poop is ready."
Liza: "What's the poop ready to do?" (said with hesitation)
Joli: "Well, you see. The poop is ready to go down the butt slide, splash in the water, and join the other poops in the potty at the poopie party."
Liza: "Excuse me?"
Joli: "Yeah, and then they'll allllll go around and around and have fun on the flushing roller coaster."

Jada-da-da-da

Thanks to Tita Mari who has reminded me that I have to work every day and am missing out on the limited time that my children are little.... no, really. No guilt there....

Here are some cute pictures of Jada standing, which, yes, I am missing....
Jada is almost 9 months old, has 4 teeth (gosh!), and is waking up every hour at night whimpering as her teeth are hurting her. Poor little bugger.



also, congrats to Mari who has her LAST RADIATION TODAY!! Big up, sista!

Sorry! I forgot to add the video feed of the girls in the morning. Hopefully you can all see it!

Also, my family keeps reminding me how little I have been documenting Jada's progress and changes... I had pretty much journaled every single thing Joli had ever done in her life, and they all feel that Jada is getting the short stick!

So, Jada is in crawling mode already! She isn't quite doing the traditional crawl, yet. She sort of arches her back like a little tent and then projects herself forward! Pretty cute! She also has 4 teeth now, is eating just about everything, still is breastfed 3-4x a day, and is still quite independently playing. She does cry when she's left alone in the playroom and all her cousins are running around, though. Her favorite toy is this little yellow egg that seems to be filled with rice or something rattle-like. She loves that atiqnge32`1 (that right there was Jada grabbing my keyboard and trying to add her own blog entry!!) toy like crazy!

Today we're heading to the pool, so I'm sure we'll have more cool pictures. The girls both have little bikinis (which, is simply for functional reasons - much easier to change a diaper when a baby is wearing a bikini than a full suit!).

Can't wait for Cousin Mia to come back to the East Coast! She's been away with Jon and Jenny at Grandma Laura's wedding!

A typical morning....

In my desperate attempt to get to work on time each day, I thought I'd put a snippet of what our morning looks like (and why I'm perpetually late for work).

Once I finally get the girls in their coats (which you'll notice Joli does NOT have on because she decided she had to go to the bathroom just as I locked the house door and if I didn't let her go she said she would pee in my car), it's still a struggle to get them both into their car seats. I'm sure our neighbors get a chuckle out of us in the morning. Hey, we're better than any morning talk show!

Here's Jada's new thing -- she doesn't want to get in the car seat. Usually I can count on Jada to be smiling and giggling once she gets her pink coat on, and she usually loves the car seat. But, now, Jada is doing the "straight as a board/fight the power" move when I put her in. This morning, I let her stay "straight as a board" in the seat while I reached down to get Joli and lift her into the car(and, for some reason, she has lost her jacket since leaving the bathroom and today's temperature is all of 41 degrees...). I stood straight up and then saw Jada leaning over the car seat and facing the front of the car. Urghh....

Then, I finally got Joli into the car and she decides to ask over and over and over again for "treats" (aka chocolate).

Now, on most days, I would have lost my "cool" and gone nuts...

But, today, I joined the masses of amateur journalists and grabbed my laptop to document the wild and crazy times of our little family - all before 7:45am.

Enjoy!!

Party at MGH!
We had a great time at the MGH holiday party! Joli brought Jada and Gavin and Tita Mari along, too. All the kids got their caricatures drawn to add to Lolo's gallery of family caricatures, Gavie got a "bug" painted on his hand, and Joli had fun dancing around with Mickey Mouse and Frosty the Snowman. Thanks to everyone at MGH for a fantastic time!

Joli getting her nails professionally done! Woahh....


Gavin's "bug tattoo"

Gavie and Jada


Joli decorating cookies!

Joli having a ball dancing