Birthday, Rainforest, River and more!!!

~Diego is 24 months~

Happy 2nd Birthday Diego!

This pic was on his actual birthday, just us 3 and some cupcakes!

Now his B-Day party!!

He doesn't like the bouncy castle :(

---Tot-School----

"writing" on his chalkboard

playing with the stackable blocks

I'm trying to help him identify properly the animals...so far he knows only 5 (cow, lion, cat, monkey, and dog, although he doesn't say "perro" he says Toffee which is our dog's name :P )

Then he went for the first time to our National Rainforest El Yunque..we decided to hike to the highest part...a 2+ hour hike...he decided he wasn't walking so 2+ hours carrying him, it wasn't easy!! But he got to see various plants and waterfalls and flowers, he enjoyed it!

We saw many butterflies, Diego was thrilled! My sister-in-law told me this particular one is a Puerto Rican Ringlet (Calisto nubila), I had never seen one!

We also saw many different flowers.

Explored the fallen trees on our path.

We finally reached the peak!! It was very cold and very foggy, all you could see was white!

Diego taking a break as we went down.

We then went to a river... he liked it eventhough the water was freezing cold, he didn't even cry!

The thing he enjoyed the most was throwing rocks into the water. I guess boys will be boys!

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Tot-school at last...well, a little bit of it!

~Diego Alejandro is 23 months old~

The past couple of weeks have been quite crazy over here, so very little Tot-School occured. This is the compilation of what we did on those couple of weeks.

I bought this Melissa & Doug puzzle, he liked stacking them or putting them on a straigth line.

We read a couple of books, like Pez Arcoiris (Rainbow Fish), and this one ¡David huele!

(David Smells!) he likes them!

Playing with another Melissa & Doug puzzle, he finally put the dinosaurs where they belong!

Painting on the Aqua Doodle...likes it but only for a couple of minutes...he prefers sucking the water off the pen!!

Diego's great-grandma made this letter and number set for him. She painted a cardboard white and cut some tiles and wrote the numbers and letters on them, he enjoys them a lot!

We are trying to start potty training him...so far he has peed 4 times on it but no #2 yet :(

We went to the park on a very, very hot day, and he went on the slide by himself for the very first time!! He couldn't get enough!

Then off to my cousin's pool he had a blast! This kiddo LOVES the water!!

That's it for our Tot-School, I hope we can do more activities this week!

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Video Tot-School

~Diego is 22 months old~

Well for the past week I've been super busy with our church's VBS, so I didn't do a "formal" Tot-School or took pictures but I did manage to make a video of Diego saying the letters he knows already and some other words. Obviously we speak Spanish so the video is in Spanish, but it's fairly easy to understand. Hope you guys enjoy it!!

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Terrible Two's

I knew this would happen at some point, just not that soon!!!! He isn't even 2 years old and already is going through that phase. The last few days have been pretty rough around here, he's just misbehaving so much, I hope this won't last for long.  Any tips on how to make this easier for the two of us?

Tot-School at last!

~Diego is 21 months old~

Hi!!!!!!! It's been quite some time since my last post, things have been super busy here.

Well we did manage to do some tot-school activities and here they are. I've gathered some ideas from around the internet(can't remember exactly from where) , so I decided to teach him the letters and colors. I did a huge mistake at first because I decided to do tot-school in his room, which is filled with toys, not much learning happened that day! Then I decided to move to the living room and I got more stuff covered there, so I'll be sticking to the living room for now.

Here's my cute setup :)  Letter A, color: Amarillo (Yellow)

Here he is coloring his letter A amarillo... he also colored a bee (abeja) and a little chick.

He did this puzzle, it has the colors in English and Spanish.

On another day he colored the letter A  azul (blue) and he decided to paint himself blue too!

I'm so proud that he already knows how to say "azul" correctly!!! 

Here he is painting a rainbow (arcoiris). I put some drops of different finger paint colors for him to paint, but he decided to mix the colors with a crayon instead!! He also added "arcoiris" to his growing vocabulary, although it sound more like "coiis" but he knows what it is!!!!

Working with an "A" foam puzzle piece, I found the alphabet puzzle at Walmart for $1.00, it won't last that long!!!!

Painting the letter A anaranjado (orange).

Painting an ice cream scoop anaranjado.

And another one amarillo.

And finally i put some rice in this container and let him play in it for a while.

* If you have a cat cover the rice bin... It never ocurred to me to do so, so my cat used it as a litter box :(  Remind me to buy a closed bin! 

That was it for tot school. If you would like to see what others are doing for tot-school go here.

It's been a while!

I was quite busy for the past few weeks so I was no able to post anything here, sorry for that!
But we manage to do some fun stuff, so here is what Diego is been up to so far.

Doing artwork on the walls!

And eating the paint...it's non-toxic, thank God!

We went to the park, he played with leaves and sticks mostly.

Then he did some exercise.

He played with his cousin.

And helped daddy with the cameras :)

We played at the hotel.

And played some more.

(on a side note: that day we were filming the opening for the pageant we are woking on, and while daddy did that I took Diego to the playground that was so near to the pool, as you can see in the pics, well there was this kid playing with a ball in the pool, and Diego loves balls so he decided to walk into the pool to get the ball, luckily he only got his feet wet!)

Finally we went to the beach after almost a year. Yeah, I know we live on a tropical island and we are surrounded by beautiful beaches, but we just didn't have a chance to actually go and swim until this past monday. Let's just say Diego wasn't that thrilled with the beach.

See! He didn't liked touching the sand with his hands, or getting anywhere near the water, he was way more interested in getting a ball that some guys were playing volleyball with.

Then we decided to put this on him to go to the water, he looked so funny :) In the water I was not allowed to carry him, only daddy, if I dared to hold him, he would scream and cry, but with daddy he enjoyed the water for a bit.

running towards the water just to go back when the water was near his feet!

I guess we need to go more often to the beach!

Bye for now!