this is kermit the frog

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage month.....fun, fun, fun.

los colores

These days, Audrey has been learning her colors. We point at everything and say what color it is.

Today, after our run, we ran into a dog and his owner. Audrey stopped to admire.

I asked,"what color is he?".

Audrey answered, "poopie color".

See, sometimes we even point at her poop (sometimes it's different colors), and say what color it is (this doesn't sound cute at all:).
So, embarrassed as I was....

I really hope I covered it up well, when I said...

"You mean brown right?"

living after tragedy

I really want to see this. The Tiniest Place.
A documentary by Tatiana Huezo, a Latina born in El Salvador and raised in Mexico.

It's a story about how people find a way to keep living even after surviving a tragedy, in this case El Salvador's civil war, and takes place in Cinquera, a small town in the jungles of El Salvador.

What's the last documentary you saw? Do you love them as much as I do?

You can read more about Tatiana in this interview.

Jorge el Curioso

Curious George was one of Jeremiah's favorite books to read as a toddler.
There were so many giggles at how curious the monkey was and how he would always find himself in a new adventure.

I remember how excited we were when we found out about the Curious George movie... I have memories (2006) of my sister in law and I driving in Satellite Beach, taking the boys to see it.... Jack Johnson's Upside Down has been on our playlist ever since, and both Jeremiah and I always love singing to it.

I think that same year is when the Curious George show started on PBS. It was one of his favorite morning cartoons. One that I always approved of.

Way too fast, he got a little older... and left these characters, stories and shows behind....or maybe stored away for safe keeping. Picture books no longer as interesting to him, chapter books brought a whole new meaning to the word reading.

Then, there was Audrey.
Slowly picture books have filled our home again.

Every night she asks Jeremiah to read her a story before bed and every night Jeremiah does.

Picture books, characters and stories have taken over him again, not even realizing it, he's fallen in love once more. I think this is why we call them classics.

And just like he reads to her, he also sits with her on the couch and they watch their favorite shows together.


A new season (season 6) of Curious George premiers Labor Day, September 5th!
The new episodes include George learning about auctions, the opera, sculpting, photography and about being a detective.

PBS (very special people) sent us a DVD with 3 new episodes of CURIOUS GEORGE® Takes on the Arts.  Audrey has gotten a chance to watch all of them and approves!


They also sent us the book Curious George in Spanish... Jorge el Curioso (it's sitting on the bedside table... where our favorites always sit). 

PBS will also be re-airing 5 episodes, scheduled for the week of September 19th, featuring Curious George's Latino friend Marco in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month (see why I think they are so special :). 


Exciting right? 
A full month to celebrate our Latino culture and the arts...and our favorite monkey!


*Disclosure: A set of DVD's and a book were sent to Audrey. 
This post qualifies me to enter a random drawing for monetary compensation. 
All thoughts are my own, sharing my thoughts and taking part in this campaign because we love the monkey( :


*top photo credit: Curious George® & © 2011 Universal Studios and/or HMH. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. PBS KIDS (R) Public Broadcasting Services

reminding myself

A morning of lounging and an afternoon of cleaning house. 

Much deserved by all, I invited the kids out for a treat. 

riding in front seat and playing with phone

We decided on horchata's and cafe de olla.

 As we sat in the restaurant , laughing and talking and mostly listening to Audrey's most random and completely honest and perfect thoughts, I was filled with this everything is so good feeling. That moment is exactly what I want out of life. 

I wish I had a little alarm inside me, to go off whenever I need to stop and just enjoy the moment. To many days I'm on this need to get so much done, or what's next? or what did I forget?

So often, I completely miss out on my life. My miracles.

How do I remind myself to stop and enjoy?

One more week friends to enter the Pampers baby shower giveaway.
It's in celebration of our miracles (our little ones). If you know someone who is expecting and speaks spanish or if you are that lucky person, take the time to enter and share, it's such a great giveaway!

Culture Kitchen

via Pinterest

this is a cooking class... so wish I lived closer.... Immigrant women teaching how to cook authentic dishes. good stuff.

2008 and so in love...

with having a baby in the house again, I decided to start blogging and share all the changes (so naturally happening in our family) with friends and loved ones.

A couple of real life friends were blogging at the time and I was already stalking popular family/lifestyle blogs and thought the whole blogging thing was just really cool.

At the same time the hunger for culture, teaching the kids Spanish, and the need and wanting to find other mothers looking for the same was growing. 

I quickly found that I really liked sharing my stories 

(even if I didn't have anyone stalking my blog : )

and reading other's stories.

Right now, at this moment, I can honestly say I still feel the same way. 

I still like to share. 

and still like reading your blogs. 

It's never brought any real income...definitely not the one million followers needed for me to leave nursing and make that kind of income...and that's ok... because that's never been my purpose.

This blogging thing for me is a passion, a way to express myself, who I am and who I want to be... and sometimes... an excuse to avoid cleaning this messy house.

Because seriously, if you saw my house right now...you'd rather blog too. Seriously.

Blogalicious 2011 is in October.  That's really soon isn't it?

Although I haven't even mentioned it to Kip yet... I really want to go.

BlogHer11 was awesome yet left me with some need to feed on more women bloggers like myself. women of color, who as Americanized as we are, still go crazy for every picture, piece of clothing or slice of flan that yells Latina.

Isn't this what conferences do best? Join us together... to learn, to share, to have a good time. I want to hang out with my hermanas, learn how we can support each other, inspire each other, grow this beautiful blogger community and how not to ever let this color thing hold us back from succeding in anything we set our minds to.
This is the next level.

Dreaming Blogalicious ... and....

crossing my fingers that I win this conference pass... and...

off to clean the kitchen now. ( :

*this post enters me in a random drawing to win a conference pass to Blogalicious 2011.