Disney on Ice

My mom took my sister, Max and I to Disney on Ice this past Saturday. Max was so excited to see Mater and Lightning McQueen. I was excited too becuase I had not been to it since I was little but I have fond memories of the shows and getting my snowcone in my collectors cup to take home (many of which my parents still have). After we parked we had to run through the rain and snow to get to the arena and once we got there I bought us some cotton candy and it came with a cute little mater hat. I had to buy a second bag later on to take some cotton candy to Taryn (his favorite) so we have 2 mater hats. Max loved the part with the cars. They really drove on the ice. My only disappointment was that they were only out for like 5 minutes. I realize that they don't do tricks like the skaters but Max and I am sure other little boys were totally bummed it didn't last very long. The lion king and little mermaid parts were cute but Max didn't like the Tinkerbell part. That one was long even for me. All in all it turned out to be a very fun outing.

Max was totally posing. It is kind of rare to get a picture of Max smiling. He is usually trying to come around the camera to see the picture before it is even taken.
The cars looked just like they did in the movie. I actually really like Cars even though Max watches it over and over and over and over...

The Boys

Here are some new pictures of the boys. They are both doing really well. Max is an amazing big brother. He is handling this change in his life so well. He loves Cael. He loves to hold him, give him hugs and kisses, give him his binky and tickle his cheeks to get him to smile. Cael responds well to Max too, except for Max's shrill scream that will set Cael off and good luck calming both of them down. Today is my first day back to work and I survived, so far... No things went much better than I expected but I am tired! My students were all really good and I am happy I have a good bunch of kids to come back to.

Max wearing Aunt Abbie "glasses".

Cael is so strong! He has been able to do this for a few weeks now. Pay no mind to the messiness behind and focus on the cute baby.

So Cute! The collar of this outfit covers up his cheeks wich are just so chubby!

Laying in Max's bed together. Note: Max had taken off his pj shirt in the middle of the night.

Pictures

I know it has been forever, or so it seems, so here are some pictures of Cael and Max. I am totally biased but I think that I have 2 of the cutest boys ever. Cael looks almost identical to Max but with darker hair and skin tone. Enjoy

Not the greatest picture of me but being the main photographer there are not many of me...that I like.

Taryn and Cael. So cute. Cael loves his daddy.

Max and Cael. Max is such a good big brother. He calls Cael his baby and always wants to see him awake and with his eyes open. He yells at Cael to open his eyes. So funny.

Cael had jaundice and had to be on Bililights at home to help out with them. They were blue.

New baby Cael at the hospital. Check out those long fingers.

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...