Ricky's Christmas List

Last Week we went to target, just to hang out, that's what we do on weekends, hang out at Target. As we walked in I reminded Ricky that we weren't going to buy anything and he said that he just wanted to look for his birthday (December 7) so I decided it would be a great idea for him to make a Christmas list. He ran with it!! We went down every toy isle and he pointed out everything he wanted. I thought I'd be writing down everything, but he was surprisingly selective. The list is still long, but very detailed.



To tell you the truth I'd forgotten about this list, that I had decided would be sent out to everyone thinking of getting him birthday or Christmas presents, until Ricardo asked me yesterday if I had put a few items on my list. I said "what list baby?" - what a bad mom I am for forgetting his list already - and he said the one for my birthday, did you put...in it? And then I remembered.



So after the long explanation here's the list. All the items can be found at target (at least the one in Burbank, Ca), and I tried to be as detailed as possible (now if I only could read my writing):



1. Spike the Ultradino - Giant remote control dino that makes lots of noise, it's usually in a display case for trying out.


2. Little hard animal figurines from Schleich (there specific ones he requested):
2 Elephants - one with the trunk up and one with the trunk down ( he made sure I put both on the list)
Crocodile, Killer whale, and another whale that was labeled as a "right whale", but I think any other whale would do.


3. Dino rescue Mountain - Diego (not absolutely sure it's Diego, but I think so)

4. Imaginex Gorilla Mountain

5. Anakin Skywalker - Clone wars Action figure - Got for his Birthday (thanks to God Parents K&E)

6. Bashing Boulder Mine - Matchbox

7. Screaming Banshee - from the Cars movie - it's a Yellow giant car that eats little ones

8. Elefun Game

9. Spiderman's Hypersonic Spiderjet

10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mini Motorcycle

11. Handy Manny - Lets go to work - Fisher price

12. Pat Pat Rocket - Little Einsteins

13. Transformer - Any he doesn't have would make him happy. He has bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Megatron.

14. Diego Buildable megabloks underwater rescue (this one has a lot of small pieces so if you can put it on the bottom of your list, I'd appreciate it)


OOOps, I almost forgot: when we went through the bathroom isle there were all these children themed bathroom things and they had a whole jungle theme ....did I mention Ricardo likes elephants?

There was a cup shaped like an elephant that he made sure I put it on my list and it's one of the items he asked about yesterday. It's one of these Toothbrush holding bathroom cups.

Ok I think I got it all.



Now because we didn't want to leave Adrien out, we watched what he was drawn to and wrote some things down (much smaller list):



1. Walkie Talkie - phone ( he likes phones)

2. Any play phone

3. Starwars sword

4. Fisher Price Learning vaccuum - he spent some time pressing buttons on this one.



But I know he'd be happy with wrapping paper and empty boxes, so with that in mind, enjoy your shopping!!

PhotoHunt #11 - Lazy

So it's been a long time since I've done one of these, but it's ok.

The Theme is Lazy and Adrien certainly enjoys a bit of laziness on a hot summer day.

Enjoy,

About us

Ok so my cousin tagged me for this thing, I'm supposed to tell you 6 little known things about me. This blog, however is about the whole family, so I'll try to tell you things about all of us.

This is a difficult task because everyone who generally looks at this blog knows just about there is to know about us. But I will attempt to surprise you, here it goes:



1. Jean-Marc and I (Paula) are sorta gaming buffs. I grew up playing computer games, the role playing kind, these magical adventures. And until the kids showed up, I would spend hours on the computer and JM and I spent lots of time playing with our PS2.


2. Between Jean-Marc and I, we speak 5 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Haitian Creole. The boys unfortunately don't have grandparents around to speak with them in any of our native languages and only speak English. They do understand a bit of Portuguese, and some Spanish.


3. We love to travel. With both of us being immigrants, we have a traveling itch. And even though finances don't always allow us to go far very often, we still manage to travel with the kids.


4. We both enjoy Sci-Fi. Jean-Marc really likes Japanese Anime, and I'm more into the Sci-Fi Fantasy realm.


The last two will be specifically about the boys:


5. Adrien Loves to eat. He'll eat practically anything. Even if he's just had a full meal, if he someone having something else, he'll want that.

6. This one is very well known but it's about Ricky. Ricardo LOVES his dinosaurs!!





Hope you enjoyed learning a little about us, if you didn't already know.

Alphabet Photos - A

Ok so I'm not very good at following directions. The directions of this has to do with poetry and funny named poetry kinds, you can see the full directions at Creative Karina if you want to actually follow the directions, I'm just going to the picture part.

A - Apple. Ricky is eating an apple flavored icepop. Makes his mouth and area around the mouth all green.

And of course, I can't ignore my own personal "A" and that's Adrien, here he is getting washed up in the sink.

Lobsterfest

Today we went to Lobsterfest in the city of San Pedro. We went 2 years ago, but Ricky didn't really have fun then. This time, I think both Ricky and Adrien had a lot of fun. Of Course I had a great time; I could have used some more lobster and so could Jean-Marc but it was great, and it was yummy. Ricky rode on some of the rides, and we shared our afternoon with friends!! Here are some pics. Ok just one picture, had some trouble with the pics so I just gave up, for now...

PhotoHunt #10 - Beautiful

Ok so it's been too long, and I missed last week's photohunt. But here's a new one. I know I have a theme going here, and I'm sorry if you're tired of seeing lots of children, but if you haven't noticed yet, this blog has a lot to do with children.

My beautiful photo shows how blessed we are with all the children in our lives.

Our friends Karlyn and Eugene baptized their baby last week (he's the baby being held on the left by his oldest cousin) and these were all the children present at the lunch afterwards. From left to right: Langston(on arms), Kalil, Heidi, Jax(on lap), Kali, Adrien(on lap), Bleu, Kadar(back), Kaden, Ricardo, Kanye.

PhotoHunt #9 - Colorful

This week's photohunt theme, with which I'm late again, by the way, is Colorful! What's more colorful than children?? This was taken at Adrien's 1st B-day party. He and his friend Avari have birthdays 6 weeks apart and they had a party together. Enjoy: