Mas de nada...

Bueno, no tengo nada que decir realmente, estoy plantada aca delante del computador por el simple hecho de que no me quiero acostar todavia y no tengo nada que quiero hacer. Estaba hablando con mi querido esposo el otro dia de que cuando nos vamos a Chile a vivir voy a tener que encontrar algun hobby, porque si no me voy a volver loca. Deberia estar haciendo tarea o durmiendo, pero, no tengo ganas. He estado mirando los blogs de mis amigas, y me da tanto gusto saber que tengo amigas tan buenas, y que tenemos algunas de las mismas quejas de la vida, junto a las mismas alegrias al vivir... Tambien debo estar ecribiendo mis memorias de mi abuelita que fallecio hace un mes, porque mi prima va a hacer un libro para recordarla...
Creo que voy a acostarme no mas....

Nothing to say...

I was noticing that I really don't have anything to say, life is just moving along, as it always does... School started this week, I have three classes, a workshop,100 observation hours, and an internship, with a total of 14 credits, which I am excited about, as it is the least amount of credits I have had so far in my college life. It is really weird to think that I have been at school off and on for ten years already... I'm so close to being done, though!
The kids are doing awesome, I think that Alin will be able to speak better Spanish than Daniel will, as she copies everything that we say all the time. When she does, she has awesome pronunciation, which isn't exactly true for him. But they both do their numbers in both languages, which is cool to me.
We had some friends over the other night for dinner, which my dear sweet husband made and was fabulous, and we sat around talking and watching movies and listening to music until 4:30 am. It was amazingly fun, our friends are from Mexico and Argentina, and it was almost like being at home in Chile.
Marcelo is still home, work has been so amazingly slow, he has been off for a whole month now- but the wonderful thing about it is that the house is tons cleaner-- he would be an awesome house husband!
As we were talking to our friends the other night, they were telling us about something that they had been told by some Jewish people about the way to get ahead in their lives financially. It was interesting, because they mentioned that no one should ever have all of their businesses be related, or at all dependent on each other. We have been thinking of what else we are going to be doing in Chile, besides me working as a teacher via internet, and were thinking of maybe starting a mini-market, or any one of many other ideas...
I have probably rambled enough right now, without saying anything that is really important to others! Anyway, life is good, just plain good....

Remembering... Recordando...

So, it has been three years and two days since Daniel was hospitalized for his ruptured appendix, and I was thinking about it last night after I made him go to bed and he was up playing with his sister in their room until after midnight. It really made me thankful for modern medicine, and for the doctor that was willing to be woken up at 2 am and that had enough faith in himself to open up my little boy without knowing what the problem was and find it out. I feel so blessed that we still have him with us, and that he is such a healthy little boy. He is so inquisitive, so full of life, so helpful when he wants to be... I just love him!

Bueno, han sido tres años y dos días desde que Daniel fue hospitalizado porque le rupturó si apendice y estaba pensando acerca de eso ayer despues de que le hice acostar y él se quedo jugando con su hermana en su pieza hasta pasado la medianoche. Realmente me hizo agradecer la medicina moderna, y agradecerle al doctor quien estaba dispuesto a levantarse a las dos de la madrugada y que tenía bastante fe en si mismo que le abriría a mi hijo pequeño sin saber lo que era el problema y averiguarlo. Me siento tan bendedica que aún está con nostros , y que es un niñito tan sano. Es tan inquisitivo, tan lleno de vida, tan bueno para ayudar cuando quiere hacerlo... Lo amo tanto!

Potty Training!

Alin has decided finally that it is okay to learn to go potty in the potty... It is about time, if you ask me, because diapers are so expensive- but now I wonder if we will be spending that money on toilet paper, as she seems to go fifteen or twenty times a day! But, she started on Tuesday, and has had only one accident per day, so I guess we are doing well... And she stays dry at night... YAY!


Alin por fin ha decidido que está bien hacer sus necesidades en el baño... Ya es tiempo, si me pregunten, porque los pañales son tan re caros; aunque ahora me hace pensar que vamos a estar gastando ese dinero en papel higenico, porque parece que ella tiene que hacer unos quince o veinte veces al día. Pero, ella empezó el martes y solamente ha tenido un accidente cada día, asi que ya vamos bien... Y despierta seca en las mañanas... YAY!

A first tooth! El primer diente!

Gabriel's first tooth made it's way through! It's the bottom left front tooth, and I am just thrilled! (read partial sarcasm, as I am still breast feeding, and that means pain... partial elation, because that means that he is getting so big... which causes partial depression, as he is no longer my newborn...) Such mixed emotions, from something so tiny that it can barely be seen. And since Gabriel is my last baby for a long while, it makes me miss the little baby things.
I don't know how many people I mentioned this to, but after we move to Chile at the end of this year, we want to adopt two little Chilean kids- I don't say babies, because I am not sure how old our little ones will be, we hope to find siblings so that we can help a family not be broken up, so... After we adopt them and get things fairly established, then we want to have another one of our own, to kind of round out the mix, then we will be done.
I was thinking the other night about that, and it means that I will only get to be pregnant one more time... I say "get to be" because even though I whine and moan, I still love being pregnant and knowing that there is someone growing inside of me. And I think that I have fairly easy pregnancies, besides being nauseaus the whole time, and throwing up blood and all that junk--- but my labors usually last less then 5 hours when they get going, so it's been a blessing. Wow, I just digressed from the tooth! Oops!

Ayer le salió el primer dientecito al Gabriel. Es el de abajo, lado izquierdo, y estoy emocionada! Bueno, la verdad, lo digo un poco sarcastico, porque significa que me va a morder siendo que aún le estoy dando pecho, pero a la vez me da alegría, porque significa que está tan grande ya, lo cual tambien me da depresion, porque ya no es mi bebé chico. Son sentimientos tan encontrados, asi que no sé cómo me siento de verdad...
Dijé muchas otras cosas en ingles, pero creo que los voy a traducir otro día, los niños están peleando y deben estar dormidos, asi que les voy a hacer dormir...

I LIVED! Sobreviví!

Well, the first day of Primary was interesting, we didn't really get around to much of Sharing time, because I was so busy introducing the kids to their teachers, and explaining why some of the kids that were not in their classes before are now, and how this whole thing is going to work... It seemed to go okay, we started to learn our first song for the program in Spanish... It was interesting, because the gal that does the music is just learning Spanish, so she asked if the kids could translate the words to the song for her, and they really did okay. Marcelo was totally nervous because he is the 10-11 year old teacher, and he wasn't sure that he could do it in English, but he fell in love with his class and is really excited to teach them... Whew!

Bueno, el primer día de la Primaria fue interesante, realmente no llegamos a hacer mucho durante el tiempo para compartir porque estaba yo tan ocupada presentandoles los maestros a los jovenes y explicandoles porque algunas personas que antes no estaban en sus clases ahora si estan, y como va a funcionar esta cuestion. Me pareció ir bien, empezamos a aprender la primera cancion que tenemos que hacen en el prgrama sacramental en español... Fue interesante porque la hermana que hace la musica está recien aprendiendo español, asi que ella les preguntó a los niños si podían traducirle la letra, y realmente lo hicieron buen. Marcelo estaba muy nervioso antes de la clase, porque él es el maestro de los jovenes de 10-11 años, y no estaba seguro que lo podía hacer en ingles, pero le encantó su clase y él está muy animado para ser el maestro ahora. Yay!