Family of Four!!!

Just wanted to announce the birth of our new little boy. He was born on January 2, 2010. He weighed 7 lbs even and was 20 inches in length. We named him Cael Jakob Herrera. He has got quite the head of hair on him with bright blue eyes (hopefully they stay that way). His big brother Max is so excited and loves to rub his head and give him kisses. Soon, we will post some pictures, just didn't get chance with all the commotion.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! The holidays were a fun and fairly laid back time here in the Herrera household. Max has been such a character. He is just talking up a storm...complete sentences, conversations and even talking back. He is not afraid to tell us NO! if he doesn't want to do something or he will pull the male selective hearing thing and totally ignore us. Baby brother has not made his appearance yet but we don't have too long to wait. I am being induced tomorrow morning. I am totally excited to meet our new little guy and especially to not be pregnant anymore. We will post more next week about our newest little edition!

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays. I usually really love this time of year but I am just too pregnant to care right now. Which is kind of sad. Baby boy Herrera has yet to make his debut yet. Although my doctor thinks that it will be any day now. I am hoping sooner rather than later becuase, even though it would be cute, I don't want to have him on Christmas and I would like to be home before Christmas. But, I guess I don't really have a ton of control about this. Doesn't he know he was supposed to be born in January! silly little guy. At least he was not as anxious as Max to get out (4 weeks early) Taryn would still have been in China. Taryn had the opportunity to go to China for work for about a week and a half and just got home Wednesday. Even though he is still trying to get over his jet lag I think that he enjoyed the trip. He got to work and then go and see some sites in Beijing. I will have to get his camera to post some of the cool pictures that he took. Max has been excited for Christmas. He loves to look at Christmas lights, redecorate our tree (the nice ornaments are up high so he can't get them) and he knows who Santa is but doesn't get the whole present thing. He also likes to play with the Nativity sets that he sees and rearrange them so everything is facing baby Jesus. It is so cute. Here are a couple pictures from earlier in the month.
These were taken at my parents neighborhood party. Max played in the snow, thought the fire was way cool and even posed with me for a picture. When he finally got cold and wanted to go inside he took off his shoes, socks and pants and then wanted a blanket and to watch a movie. I cracked up when he was taking his pants off.

Finally

I have been totally bad at updating lately. I blame it on working full time, pregnancy, and taking care of a 2 year old, husband, house and dog. It keeps a girl busy but I will try and be better in the future. So here is some of the stuff that we have been doing the last few months. We love to go to the Zoo. I bought a season pass and we went almost every week up until now. Max knows the names of pretty much all the animals at the zoo and what noises they make. His favorites have been the babies that are at the zoo. He especially likes the baby Elephant (which is sooooo cute) the baby Giraffe or raffe as Max calls it. He also likes the snakes and small reptiles and pretty much everything else at the zoo. He loves it all.

We also went to the Murray City Safety Fair a couple of weeks ago. Max loves lights and sirens. He saw firetrucks, ambulances, police cars, motorcycles and the swat truck. He decided that the swat truck was his and that he should get to drive it all night. He drug my dad around to everything and it was funny becuase all of the guys that my dad works with thought it was funny that a 2 year old was dragging the chief around. Whenever we took him off the motorcycles or out of the swat truck he screamed.

Max in the SWAT truck. He even tried to turn on the siren.

Trying to drive the motorcycle.

We also went to the circus. We were pleasantly surprised that it was actually entertaining. They did many Cirque du Soleil type of acrobatics. The Elephants and Tigers were the best and they also did some dog tricks. Max was mesmerized the whole time. And he even wore a hat! Which is very shocking becuase Max refuses (!) to wear hats

Max in his awesome hat...it came with the cotton candy. He was mesmerized.

The Elephants

We love the Arctic Circle and Max usually eats our Nilla wafers that come in our shakes but the last time that we went they made him one of those little cones. He loved it and actually wasn't too messy.

The rest of life is going pretty good Taryn is crazy busy with work. School is going good for me, I have a great bunch of kids right now. The new baby is still growing and getting bigger. We have not picked out a name yet...

Max says

Max is becoming extremely talkative. He jabbers on and on and you can actually understand most of what he is saying. He has said a few amusing things lately that I thought I needed to write down and remember:
At daycare his preschool teacher Miss Chelsea was having everyone color and then she was helping them write thier names on thier paper. Well since Max is too little to write his own name she said "Max, what does your name start with?" and he gave her this look and said "Max". Her response was "Yes, your name does start with Max". She thought his response was so funny she told me about this later in the day when I picked him.
Another time at daycare Max wanted to help clean up and help put the naptime cots away. He kept trying to pick up one of the cots and move it. Miss Paige (I think it was her) said "Max, that is too heavy for you" and being a stubborn 2 year old his response was "No it not!" and then he proceded to keep tugging on one of the cots to pull it to the corner. Once he got it over there he walked out of the room and went to play.
This last one involves me and I will admit that I didn't know how to respond to Max's statement. We were at the store and I was looking at Maternity clothes. I don't really like them and so I check them out often to try and find something that is normal. I found a really cute shirt and showed it to Max and I asked him what he thought. He looked at me and pointed and said "Cow, Moo!" The shirt was red, not even cow colors. Being pregnant I didn't know if I wanted to laugh or cry but I ended up laughing pretty hard.
Who knows what Max will say next...

Coming Soon

It's a baby!

The Herrera Family is expanding. I am pregnant and we are expecting our little addition in early January. I am currently 20 weeks along and everything has been going pretty good. Max is going to be a big brother and we talk to him about it all of the time but I am not sure that he gets it. I think that he will like the new baby especially becuase it is going to be a...baby brother! The two of them will be buddies.

Blonde hair and blue eyes, who would have thought. I wonder about this next one...

2!

Max turned 2 at the end of July. I can't believe it! He is so big and is just growing like a weed. Some of the things that he is in to are: Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, Airplanes pretty much anything with an engine that makes noise he loves. He also likes to jump on the tramp and be outside. Max talks constantly and you can pretty much understand most of what he says, he learns so many words everyday, we have no idea what he will say next. I just love being his mom and getting to spend this summer with him while I have been off of school has been the best, going back to school is going to be hard for me but I know that Max is looking forward to going to his school. He loves the teachers and the other kids that are there. Happy Birthday! We love you!