San Diego, Long Beach, PCH, Ventura

Our trip to California, in pictures:

Green Thumb

Jonas loves the whole gardening process. As soon as he spotted a huge pack of seeds at Target, that was all he could think about. We went back to return a few things that I had bought and he made sure to bring his money to buy his seeds. He also bought his own trowel. He wanted to make sure he was ready.

We picked a few spots for our flowers and began to plant.

"This is funner than playing video games because you get to watch them grow," he said while digging. Hearing this makes me happy.

He woke up this morning with flowers on his mind.

"Can I take a sunflower to show and tell?"

Of course, there were no flowers, yet.

I love to see how excited he gets and how motivated he is to grow his very own flowers. I remember the only time I planted something was in kindergarten. My mom didn't really have the gardening gene, hence my lack of planting. I often forget to water the few plants we have in the house. They rarely survive.

Jonas said he would remind me everyday to water them.

I'm glad I have him to teach me a few things.

Comfort

The boys were watching the Curious George movie the other morning. They switched seating often. They just couldn't get comfortable.

You are loved by all

Paloma, quietly waking up

Just about every morning, the boys walk or run into the bedroom to see the baby.

"I want to see sister," says Jonas. Angus says, "Aby, aby."

They smother her with love and kisses. They both get in her face and they both get told to scoot back. This never fails to happen. Paloma is learning, at a very young age, how to live with two brothers.

This is what it looks like:

Paloma Estefania Armenta

Day 1

Born January 29, 2011 at 1:22 a.m. 7 lbs. 12 oz.

Our beautiful baby girl finally arrived and our little family or I should say, big family, is now complete.

1 week 2 weeks

3 weeks 4 weeks

1 month

Friday Movie Night

We rented Robots and bought some popcorn. The boys looked so sweet together. I remember when it used to be just Jonas, now he has great company to watch a movie with.

Towards the end of it, Angus was getting a little bored so he decided to start throwing some the popcorn out of the bowl. Jonas wasn't happy about that.

Theses two are so funny together and so different, but they get along so well.

(No matter how cold it is, Jonas prefers to be in his undies and look at those chubby little feet on Angus.)

Love them!

Trick or Treat Toy Story Style

(Grandpa, Woody and Buzz. Baby 'Rias as a monkey. The Duo ready for some candy.)

They were the unstoppable duo of Woody and Buzz.

They seriously did not want to stop trick or treating. Angus ate so much candy that night. His pumpkin was fuller than Jonas' because every time they put candy in it, he reached out his hand and said, "little, little," and then everyone would hand him another. He'd try to bite into it right away, before grandma, grandpa, Miah or I could take it from him.

Jonas didn't really eat much candy, but this year he was ready to keep on collecting. Especially after his buddy, Philip, joined us. People would tell him what a great looking cowboy he was and he would instantly inform them that his little brother was buzz light-year. A big mean wolf scared him and grandma Stella. After that, he could not stop talking about it, even to the people who were giving him candy.

"Uh, uh, let me tell you something. A wolf scared my grandma at the spooky house over there."