Week 14/52 / Semana 14/52

Casi no llego. Semana loca, llena de trabajo. Jason en el campo. Auggie malito (ya esta mejor). Aqui lo poquito que pude...

I almost did not make it. My week has been super crazy, full of work. Jason was in the field and Auggie a little bit sick (he is doing better). Here the few pics I could managed...

Sebastian

Weekly pic: Sleepy beuty
Foto de la semana: Bello durmiente

Piscina / Pool

Les dije que era Mowgli / I told you he was Mowgli


Auggie

Weekly picture: Telling secrets / Foto de la semana: Te voy a contar un secreto...

Me lo comi TODO!!!/ I ate it ALL!!!

En el colchon/ In the mattress

Week 13/52 / Semana 13/52

Sebastian is doing great with his potty training, he is mainly using diapers only to sleep. We did not have enough training pants, but he is using his cotton shorts every time we run out of clean undies. He has also started call them "undis". These days, his vocabulary is expanding quite quickly, he keeps asking (in English) What is this? Who is this? with a very cute accent. He is also calling things by its names, such as vaca (cow in Spanish) instead of muuuu and pasta, and perro (dog in Spanish) instead of wow wow. He calls Auggie, baby Auggy and sometimes Augou.

He loves to play in the mud and in the water, he takes every opportunity he has to play with water. This morning he was in the mud at 6.30 am. His hair is very crazy, a friend of mine calls him Mowgly (like the boy from the Jungle Book)

I started a project taking pictures of the boys toys. So that when they are old, they will be able to remember the toys they played with. I started with the "special needs toys" (the ones without head, arms, legs, etc) that Sebastian still plays with and with the Toy Story gang. As soon as he realized that I was taking pictures of his toys, he come to play with them :). He is very funny, every time he plays with "Jessie" (the Ana Bolena from Toy Story), he sees her headless body and says Ohhh Noooo!!!

Auggie refuses to eat from the bottle. He prefers to drink his mommy's milk from a cup, which is great. He has been a little bit difficult this week with his food. So we decided to start trying solids with him. He seems to be ready. We fed him with rice cereal on Sunday, and he was quite happy. We first checked on Friday if he will be ok sitting on the feeding chair. He is a little bit small, but he managed to stay up. He is starting a month earlier than Sebastian. But I think he is doing very well.


Sebastian esta progresando muy bien con su entrenamiento para usar el bano. Ahora usa los panales principalmente para dormir. No tenemos suficientes calzoncillos de entrenamiento, asi que esta usando sus shorts de algodon cuando todos los calzoncillos estan sucios. Los ha empezado a llamar "Undis" (por calzoncillo en ingles) estos dias, su vocabulario se esta expandiendo rapidamente. Pregunta a cada rato (en Ingles) What is this? Who is this? (que es esto?, quien es?) con un acento bien rico. Esta tambien empezando a llamar a las cosas por sus nombres: vaca en vez de muuuu, pasta, perro en vez de guau guau. A Auggie lo llama Bebe Auggie y algunas veces Augo.

Le encanta jugar en el barro y en el agua. En cada oportunidad que tiene, se escapa a jugar al barro o al agua. Hoy por ejemplo, estaba jugando en el barro a las 6.30 am. Su cabello esta hecho una locura, una amiga lo ha empezado a llamar Mowgly (por el nino del libro de la selva)

He empezado un nuevo proyecto, estoy tomando fotos de los juguetes de los enanos. Asi, cuando sean grandes, podran recordar los juguetes que tenian. He empezado con los que llamamos : los chicos con necesidades especiales :), aquellos sin brazos, piernas o incluso cabeza, y he seguido con la pandilla de Toy Story. Apenas Sebastian me vio tomando las fotos, se acerco a jugar con sus juguetes. Es muy gracioso el enano, a Jessie (Nuestra Ana Bolena de Toy Story), cada vez que juega con ella y ve su descabezada figura dice: Ohhh Noooo!!!!

Auggie no quiere tomar mamadera, prefiere tomar la rica leche de su madre en vaso, lo cual es perfecto!! Esta semana no quiso comer mucho, asi que pensamos que ya esta listo para probar comida solida. El viernes lo sentamos en la silla de comer para asegurarnos que se sentaba bien, y el domingo empezamos con cereal de arroz. El enano es un poco pequeno para la silla, pero se sento bien derecho. Esta empezando un mes antes que Sebastian, pero le fue muy bien, y no tuvo ningun problema en aceptar la comida.

Sebastian

Weekly pic: Blowing bubbles
Foto de la semana: Burbujeando

Jugando con agua
Playing with water

Limpiando despues del juego
Cleaning after playing

Leyendo y haciendo sonidos de animales
Reading and making animal sounds

Mowgly y sus pelos
Mowgly and his hair

Jugando con Papa (Woody), Baby Buzz y Papa Buzz
Playing with Papa (Woody), Baby Buzz and Papa Buzz

Sebas' Toys
Los juguetes del enano

This is for Grandpa Rollie, so that he can see how big the pool is
Esta es para el abuelo Rollie, para que vea cuan grande es la piscina.

Auggie

Weekly pic: mmmm Rice cereal!!
Foto de la semana: mmmmm Cereal de arroz!!

Mira mami, me siento muy bien!!
Look mommy, I sit very well!!

Traiganme la comida YA!!!
Bring my food NOW!!!

Daddy, you are squeezing me!!
Papa, me estas apachurrando!!

Uy que rico, este piecito se ve buenazo!!
mmm, This foot looks very yummy!!

5to Mes / 5th Month

Auggie turned 5 months yesterday. He almost sits by himself and it is harder to keep him still for the pictures :)
Auggie cumplio 5 meses ayer. El enano casi se sienta solo, y es mas dificl mantenerlo quieto para las fotos. :)

Y asi es como sigue cambiando.... And this is how he keeps changing...

12/52 week / Semana 12/52

This week has been a little bit crazy, I could not take many pictures. Sebastian and I got sick with a nasty cold. Auggie was holding, a little bit congested but overall fine. I think his mommy milk was helping to fight the viruses that are around us these days. Our friend Matt was also sick. And Celestine got sick towards the end of the week. Sebastian missed almost the whole week of school. But towards the end of the week he was his old self, jumping, running and laughing as usual.

On Sunday after speaking with Grandpa and Grandma Hoke we went back home (we were at the office waiting for the electricity to come back to our house), bathed the boys and gave dinner to Seb. We left him on his chair. I was feeding Auggie and Jason was washing something in the kitchen. Next time I checked Sebastian, the poor boy had fell asleep on his chair eating his second serving of peas and rice (that is his weekly picture).

Auggie is 5 months today. I will take his monthly picture during lunchtime today. He is moving a lot, turning right and left, playing with his feet (eating them- see his weekly pic) and smiling a lot. He is such a good  guy. My friend Eliana who is 7 months pregnant tells the baby in her belly to be a nice boy like Auggie :)

 Esta semana ha sido un poco loca, no pude tomar muchas fotos. Sebastian y yo caimos enfermos con una gripe del mal horrible. Auggie esta resistiendo. El esta un poco congestionado, pero bastante bien. Creo que la leche materna lo esta ayudando a hacer frente a esos virus que nos atacan estos dias. Nuestro amigo Matt tambien cayo enfermo y Celestine lo mismo ya hacia el final de la semana. Sebastian falto al colegio casi toda la semana. Ya hacia el final de la semana se empezo a sentir mejor. Ya empezo a saltar, correr y reir como siempre.

El domingo, despues de hablar con sus abuelos paternos volvimos a la casa (estabamos en la oficina huyendo del calor hasta que llegase la electricidad a casa), banamos a los enanos y le dimos de cenar a Sebastian. Lo dejamos comiendo en su silla. Yo estaba dando leche a Auggie y Jason lavando platos en la cocina. Cuando volvi a ver a Sebastian, el pobre enano se habia quedado dormido en su silla comiendo su segundo plato de alverjitas verdes con arroz (esa es su foto de la semana)

Auggie cumple 5 meses hoy. A la hora de almuerzo le tomare su foto mensual. El enano se mueve un monton, gira de izquierda a derecha, juega con sus pies (y se los come - vean su foto semanal) y sonrie muchisimo. Es un bueno el Auggie. Mi amiga Elianana que tene 7 meses de embarazao, le dice a su panza que sea un buen nino como Auggie :)

Sebastian

Foto de la semana: Cansadisimo despues de un dia de harto juego y no siesta
Weekly picture: Super tired after a day of playing a lot and no nap

Auggie

Weekly picture: Auggie "eating" his foot
Foto de la semana: Auggie comiendo su pie

Divertimento del fin de semana
Having fun during the weekend

Fun during the week
Divertimento en la semana

Mas diversion con Cele y Feli
More fun with Cele and Feli

Sebastian el mono
Sebastian the monkey

Pobre padre, el mono no para!!
Poor daddy, the monkey does not stop!!

Mami y Auggie se van a cocinar (este coso es lo maximo, nos hemos convertido al Ergo baby...Gracias Cachito!!)
Mom and Auggie go to cook (this thing is awesome, we are big fans of Ergo baby now...Thanks Cachito!!)

I do not know what happened, or who took this pic, but it is funny to see the boys faces. And Auggie's crazy hair f course!
No se quien tomo esta foto, ni que pasaba en ese momento, pero las caras de los enanos son super divertidas. Y tambien las pelambres desquiciadas del Auggie!!

Auggie wearing the onesie his Grandma Grace sent to him. And the havaianas that his aunt Mariana Vidal gave to Sebastian and he is now using.
Auggie con el bebecrece que le mando su abuela Grace y las havaianas que le regalo su tia Mariana Vidal a Sebastian y que ahora el usa (al menos para la foto jiji)

11/52 Weeks / 11/52 semanas

Ha sido una semana intensa, el calor se ha empezado a manifestar con toda la fuerza de la epoca caliente. Los chicos ya empezaron solo a usar panal, porque el calor anda insoportable. Pero ademas de cambios climatologicos, hemos tenido muchos cambios en la casa… buenos cambios!!. El Domingo pasado alguien nos conto que habian reabierto la escuela primaria bi-lingue  que recibian ninos desde los dos anos. Nos fuimos al toque a averiguar, y era cierto. Despues de hablar con la directora, decidimos que valia la pena mandar al enano. Cuando llegamos a la casa, le dijimos a Sebastian que al dia siguiente iria al colegio. Se puso contento, decia ecul, ecul (school). Pero creo que no entendia bien que iba a pasar exactamente. En la noche,  sacamos del olvido su lonchera de Jorge el Curioso y su mochila de mono -Ambas usadas durante su periodo escolar en Peru-. Apenas las vio, se puso SUPER contento, agarraba su mochila y su lonchera y decia Ecul, ecul. Al dia siguiente cuando lo sentamos en el carro, -bien abrazado de sus aparejos escolares-, lo descubria de rato en rato con una sonrisa nerviosa en su cara diciendo yeee !!, yeee!!. Estaba feliz mi enano. Daba mucha ternura verlo decir yeee !!, cerrar sus ojitos y apretar su carita en una muestra de felicidad. Cuando llegamos al colegio, se metio al toque, tomo la mano de una de las profesoras y entro al salon (se acordaba muy bien de su ritual en Retama). Ya dentro, se sento y se puso a jugar. Pensamos que nos teniamos que quedar un rato, pero el ya estaba en otra. Le dijimos chau hijito ya nos vamos, y nos contesto con un fugaz chau mama, chau papa. Y se quedo feliz !

Auggie por su lado, tuvo su primera mana tranquila en casa, durmio larggggooo rato sin ningun loco bajito griton que lo despierte, comio muy bien, y fue el centro de la atencion de Celestine por unas horas.

Ahora nos tenemos que acostumbrar a una nueva rutina que implica salir de casa media hora mas temprano para llevar al enano al nido. Pero no importa, ver su cara de felicidad y saber que estara compartiendo con otros ninos es simplemente « priceless ». Para todo lo demas existe mastercard J

Otro gran cambio que trajo esta semana fue que Sebastian empezo a usar calzoncillos. Decidimos aprovechar el fin de semana largo (aca el lunes no mas es feriado pascual), y aplicar toda la preparacion que habiamos estado teniendo para empezar a dejar los panales. Desde hace como un mes, le leemos un libro que se llama « Todos hacen caca ». Al enano, -como buen Fajardo- le encanta el libro. Habla de caca todo el dia. De la caca de los animales, de la nuestra, dibuja cacas en los potos de sus dibujos. Caca, caca, caca !!! La preparacion valio la pena. Sebastian agarro el truco al toque. El primer dia se la paso haciendo pichi en su bacin y en el water. Todo un nino grande mi chiqui !! Sus papas, babeaban todos orgullosos del hijo que hace pichi en el bacin. El segundo dia, la cosa se complico un poco porque el enano agarro una diarrea pestifera, y tuvimos que volver al panal. Hoy que esta mejor ha vuelto a sus calzoncillos. La mama se las ingenio para que alguien le trajera unos calzoncillos de entrenamiento, que tienen una capa mas que los normales. Y nos va super bien. Ademas tienen dibujos de animalitos que a Sebastian le encantan J  

Para celebrar pascuas, hice unos gorritos de conejo para los enanos. Pintamos con Sebastian huevos duros (solo encontrar el tinte me costo como 3 semanas. Cuando ya tire la toalla un dia antes de Pascuas, un amigo me conto que el tenia). Y la afanosa de Carla encima hizo unos brownies en cascaras de huevo, que le costaron sudor y lagrimas (literalmente). Todo para que el chiqui tuviera un dia entretenido. Al final, Sebastian estaba tan cansado que no buscamos los huevos, y nos comimos los brownies mientras el dormia. Sin embargo puedo reportar que salieron muy buenos y que en el proceso nos divertimos mucho. Los gorros si fueron debidamente usados y requete-usados J

Sebastian

Weekly picture: Sebastian coming back from his first day in school
Foto de la semana: Sebastian volviendo de su primer dia de clase

Going to school for the first time (He will get one of those uniforms :))
Primer dia de escuela (Va e empezar a usar uno de esos uniformes :))

Proud father receiving the offspring after his first day of school
Orgulloso padre, recibe al retono despues de su primer dia de clases

Jugando con el piojo despues del cole
Playing with the little one after school

Piojos jugando despues de una manana lejos el uno del otro
The boys playing together after being apart for a morning

School makes me hungry
El cole hace que me de hambre

Mira mama, soy un leon  que usa calzoncillos
Look at me mom, I am a lion that uses underwear


Easter/Pascuas

Diego y Sebastian celebrando pascuas
Diego and Sebastian celebrating Easter

Los conejitos pascuales
Easter bunnies

Mas conejitos pascuales: En la segunda foto, Diego parece decir a Auggie: Esta bien Auggie, ya va a pasar!!
More Easter bunnies. In the second pic, Diego seems to be saying: It is Ok Auggie, everything will be fine!!

Auggie

Auggie weekly picture: With Feli and the heat
Auggie foto semanal: Con Feli y el calor

Calatos: La calorrr esta que arde: Antes y despues (Notese el calzoncillo de Sebastian)
Naked: Burning heat: Before and after (note Sebastian's undeerwear)

Ahhh, el bano antes y despues del shampooo!!
Ahhh the bath, before and after shampooing

Que grande que estoy!!!

I am getting sooo big!!!

It's been a busy week, the heat has begun to manifest with all the strength of the hot season. But besides weather changes, we have had many changes in the house ... good changes!!. Last Sunday someone told us that the bi-lingual primary school had reopened and that they were receiving children starting at two years. On Monday, we went to check and it was true. After talking with the director, we decided it was worth sending the chipmunk. 

When we got home, we told Sebastian that the next day he will go to school. He was happy, he was saying ecul, ecul (school). But I think he did not understand exactly what was going to happen. At night, we rescued from oblivion his Curious George lunchbox and his monkey backpack. Both used during his school time in Peru. As soon as he saw them he was SUPER happy!!. He grabbed his backpack and lunch box and it said Ecul, ecul. The next day when he sat in the car, he was hugging his school stuff. I discovered him from time to time with a nervous smile on his face saying yeee!, yeee!. He was soo happy. It was very sweet to see him saying yeee!, Closing his eyes and pressing his face showing how happy he was. When we got to school, he took the hand of one of the teachers and entered the room (he remembered well his ritual at the Peruvian School). Once inside, he sat down and began to play. We thought we had to stay a while, but he was already in another world. We said bye son and we left. He answered with a brief bye mom, bye dad. And stayed happy! 

Auggie, had his first quiet morning at home, slept for looong time without any crazy loud mouth waking him up, ate well, and was the center of attention of Celestine for a few hours.

Now we have to get used to a new routine that involves leaving home half an hour earlier to take Seb to school. But we do not mind, seeing his happy face and know that he will be sharing with other children is simply "priceless." For everything else there is mastercard!! J

This week, we also wanted to celebrate Easter. To celebrate Easter, I made some bunny hats for the kids. Sebastian and I painted boiled eggs (just to find the dye took me about 3 weeks. When I gave up a day before Easter, a friend told me that he had a new box of food dye). And because I am  a over achiever. I even made brownies inside eggshells, which costed me sweat and tears (literally). Everything to have a fun day with Sebastian. In the end, Sebastian was too tired to hunt for eggs, and we ate the brownies while he was sleeping. However I can report that the brownies were very good and we had fun during the process of making the eggs. The hats were properly used and re-used (as you can see in the pics)

This week also brought another big change. Sebastian began to wear underwear. We decided to use the long weekend, and apply all the preparation we had with Seb to start leaving the diapers. Since about a month ago, we read a book called "Everyone poops." The little chipmunk –as good Fajardo he is- loves the book. Talk about poop all day!. From animal poop, from our own, draws poop in his drawings. Poop, poop, poop!!! The preparation was worth it. Sebastian got it very quickly. The first day he did pipi in the potty training and the toilet. Such a big boy my little one!! His parents, drooling, all proud of the son who does pipi in the potty. The second day, things got a bit complicated because SEB got a stinky diarrhea and had to return to the diapers. Today he is feeling better and is starting again with the training pants. His mommy managed to get someone to bring him some training pants, which have an extra layer to keep accidents away. They are working very well. They even have pictures of animals that Sebastian loves 

Week 10/52 / Semana 10/52

Esta semana Jason se fue al este del Chad por trabajo, asi que el viernes que volvio, estabamos los 5 (Auggie, Seb, Celestine, Feli y yo) esperando desesperados al padre :). Los enanos felizmente se portaron bien los dias que nos quedamos solos. 

This week, Jason traveled to the east of Chad for work, so, Friday when he come back, the 5 of us (Auggie, Seb, Celestine, Feli and me)  were desperately waiting for him to get to the house. The boys behaved really well during his absence.

Weekly picture Sebastian: With Celestine, Felicite and Auggie waiting for his dad
Foto de la semana de Sebastian: Con Celestine, Felicite y Auggie esperando a su papa

Auggie's weekly picture: With Celestine and Felicite waiting from his dad
Foto de la semana de Auggie: Con Celestine y Felicite esperando a su papa 

Los chicos con su super guapa madre, esperando al padre :) Me encanta como me mira mi chiqui grande
The boys with their super gorgeous mama, waiting for their dad :) I love how Sebastian looks at me

Auggie

Auggie

Auggie  reads "The little hungry caterpillar"
Auggie lee "La orugita muy hambrienta"


Sebastian

This week, we gave Sebastian "Under the Same Moon", the book that his Tia Maria sent for the boys. It is a book that records the voice of a person reading the story in the book. Isabel (7 years old), read the story for Seb & Auggie. So that when Sebastian opened the book he could hear Isabel telling him the story. It was REALLY COOL!! to hear Isabel's voice. Sebastian was looking everywhere to find where the voice was coming from. At some point we have to take the book away from him, because he started touching the buttons and almost recorded over Isabel's voice. THANKS TIA MARIA!!!

Esta semana le dimos a Sebastian "Under the Same Moon"; el libro que su tia Maria mando a los enanos. Es un libro que graba la voz de una persona leyendo la historia en el libro. Isabel (7 anos), leyo la historia para Seb y Auggie. Cuando Sebastian abrio el libro, escucho a Isabel contandole el cuento. Fue SUPER BACAN!! escuchar la voz de Isabel. Sebastian miraba por todos lados el libro para encontrar de donde venia la voz. Llego un momento en que tuvimos que quitarle el libro, porque el enano empezo a tocar el boton de grabar y casi graba sobre la voz de Isabel. GRACIAS TIA MARIA!!!!

Buscando de donde venia la voz de Isabel, y luego haciendo sonidos de buho
Looking where did Isabel's voice come from, and then making owl sounds

Acarinando a Diego
Being nice with Diego

Ahhh, life is good on Sundays!!!
Ahhhh!!!, dandose la buena vida un domingo por la manana.