christmas eve and day

I found a post sitting in the drafts that never got blogged about. Here are a few pics from Christmas, only 8 months late! Vale looks almost the same to me, except her hair is longer now, and she has more teeth, and less cheeks, but other than that, the same :)

one point ten

Vale is potty trained....hoooray! It's taken a week but honestly there have been few accidents in that week and she is now able to run to the bathroom by herself! We've even taken trips to the zoo, grocery store, target, and park without any accidents. I'm keeping my fingers crossed she continues liking this new skill! She's still using a diaper during naps and at night just to make sure. Most of Vale's chatter this month is about food, zoo or potty training related! She's so proud of herself and has ALMOST forgotten to ask for the cracker with honey or nutella that I bribed her with in the beginning. Coming out of Vale's little mouth this month: "mas papitas papa please" "otra galletita" requesting more cookies! "afuera, chanclitas, bicicleta" wanting to go outside with her bike "hahaa, papa skyfari, hi" at the zoo, Kevin rode in the skyfari car ahead of us and Vale couldn't get enough of seeing her dad up ahead. "no no no goodnight moon" not wanting to read the last book of the night. "a ver, habre la boca" telling Annie, her potty training doll, to open her mouth to get her teeth brushed by Vale" "flamingo, peacock, AAAaaaaaa" her favorite animals to imitate "papAaaaa, Vale hiso caca en la bacinica" So proud of herself and summoning her dad to inspect. "Tia big P, seaworld, Shamu, habre, senor, caleb y Ivi" My sweet sis has taken Vale to Sea world several times and what inpresses Vale the most is Shamu and especially when it's being fed by the trainers. and my favorite phrase occured at the park the other day when she passed gas and after chuckling and assuring Kevin it was just gas, made up her very own song, it went like this.."pedo si caca no, pedo si, pedo no" Kevin and I shared a good laugh at our funny little composer!