FOUR TEETH

Our little Eric has four teeth now!!! Two on the top and two on the bottom. This is the only picture in which you can barely see the four of them (if you click on the picture to make it bigger you can actually see them). I thought I would share it with you guys since most of you haven't seen him with any teeth at all. I can't believe how much he's growing and how fast time has gone by. He'll be a year old in a couple of weeks, I just can't believe it!!!.

A children's museum without children

During Alan's winter break from school we went to the Discovery Center which is a children's museum that is five minutes away from our house. We hadn't been there in a while because Alan has been going to preschool, so we decided to go one morning and we got there and we were the only ones there. They actually had to turn everything on when they saw us coming in, so I thought maybe we had gotten there way too early (at noon), but no, they open the museum at 8:30am.

We were there for three hours and no one else came in, I still can't believe it and can't figure out why more people don't take advantage of this place. It is a really nice children's museum and it's super cheap; it was less than three dollars for both Alan and I to get in. Even though there were no other kids there, we had a lot of fun.

Alan loved getting on a helicopter and said he was flying to abuelitos's house. He drove a white "BMW electric car" that he absolutely loved and drove on the track for like an hour. Since there were no other kids there, they let him do whatever he wanted. They also had one of those pianos on the floor that you can step on; Eric loved walking on that too and listening to the sound each key made.



I tried to get Alan to build a house with some big foam shapes that they had, but he wasn't too interested in my project. He was more interested in driving a big boat by the water games, which were by the way Eric's favorite. He ended up being soaked, so we had to go back home to change him.





It's so fun to have kids and play with them and see them learn as they play. I thought having Alan at home again all day during winter break was going to be hard. But we ended having such a good time. Eric loves playing with Alan and misses him a lot now that he's back in school. We miss him during the morning, but at least we have him back in the afternoon.

Rain, rain and more rain!!!!

So, a month ago, the government of the country decided that they would pray for rain..... I guess their prayers worked (of course I think global warming had more to do with it than the prayers, but anyway...), a week after that we got so much rain. It was so fun, our street was completely flooded and Alan and Justin decided to have fun with it.

They put their swimming suits on and they were kicking the ball on the water, playing with Alan's boats and running all over the water. All of the kids here had so much fun, since it barely ever rains in the country. I felt bad for Eric because he and I just stayed inside the house watching Alan play outside, but the water was too cold for him to play. It ended up rainning for a whole week, it was really nice to have a little bit of a change in the weather, it was kind of like an oasis in the middle of the desert.