A beautiful day at the Audubon Zoo

Yesterday Miguel and I brought Adan to the Audubon Zoo. For the first time, he really got to see and enjoy all of the animals. He was ooohhing and aaaahing over all of the big ones like the elephants, giraffes and gorillas. Every time he'd see a lion or tiger he'd say "MEOW!!!"

The weather was so pretty- I don't think it got much higher than 70ish all day. After the zoo, we stopped at the Haagan Daz and had some ice-cream. It really was a beautiful day.










He was very apprehensive about the monkey statues at first. Miguel was trying to tell him that they weren't real, but he was skeptical.





Touch and RUN!





He was impressed with the giraffes. Check out his expression:


Ok, I was impressed too!



Check that out over there!!!





YUMMYYY Ice Cream!!!




Telling Maw-Maw all about his day on the way home

Some new pics of Adan

We took these last night. He's getting so big. His new words are "fish" and "shoe." I bought a new pair of tennis shoes last week and for some reason, he insists on wearing them all the time. He even wants to wear them to bed. If I take them off, he gets upset, so I just let him wear them and then take them off when he's asleep.
What's really funny is that while I'm putting one shoe on one foot, he is frantically telling me that his other foot needs a shoe too! Maybe one day I'll master putting two shoes on at once HAHAHAHA

Adan's little brother finally has a name!

After 26 weeks, and in honor of Adan's 18-month birthday, Miguel and I finally agreed on a name!!
Without further ado:

Adan's little brother is:

18 month appointment

Adan won't be 18 months old until the 28th, but his 18 mth appointment was today. He's 33 inches tall and weighs 26 pounds. Good stuff!! He is ahead on all of his physical milestones, but we need to still work on words. He knows sign language and is learning Spanish in addition to English, so it's going to take him a bit more time with the speaking milestones.

Here are some recent pictures

Tumbling class!

Adan had his first tumbling class at the gymnastics gym in Lake Charles yesterday. Three of his friends are also participants, so it was fun seeing them there! At first he wasn't enjoying the stretching parts, but once he was climbing and crawling and jumping and rolling, he liked it. The next class is Wednesday. Hopefully I'll be able to take some pictures then. The class wears *me* out! It's fun, though.

Almost went into labor today!

Adan nearly caused me to go into labor today... well, maybe not for real, but it sure felt like it!!! I went outside while I was making a phone call. Less than 3 minutes later, I noticed the little booger laughing at me from the door. I tried to open the door and lo and behold he'd locked the deadbolt! I was LOCKED OUT and he was LOCKED IN!!! I kept asking him to 'open the door, Adan.' He'd reach up to the deadbolt, all the while looking at me. As soon as he'd reach the lock, he grab his hand away really quickly. Then he'd crack up laughing. Yeah- really funny!!! I called Miguel and he sped home. Luckily Adan was very interested in watching me watch him, so I kept sliding things under the door to keep his interest. He didn't seem worried at all. Poor Ollie was VERY confused and kept jumping up on the door, whimpering. In less than 15 minutes, Miguel made it home and saved the day. Adan thought it was hilarious. Now we know that he can lock and unlock doors, we're worried about him getting out on his own. Tomorrow we're going to install a chain-lock at the top to be safe. How in the world is an 18 month old able to do this??? And I'm gonna have another one just like him. Life is about to get interesting!!!!

Leaving Louisiana

Adan, Miguel, the dogs and I headed for Galveston just before Gustav hit. We had a enjoyable and relaxing stay at a friend's family's house there. We were so grateful that Nicole's family (who's only met me once) welcomed us with open arms. We left on Saturday and just got back today. Here are some photos from the trip:

Adan, on the way to TX



Some of the traffic we encountered:


What was left of Gustav: