Friday, July 27, 2007

Chillie & Dogs

So Hana's pet chinchilla finally has a name: Chillie. Chillie's main location of residence is the garage. She started off in Kevin's office but apparently chinchillas are nocturnal. Chinchillas also require a dust bath and the dust got everywhere. Also, many of her little 'pellets' ended up outside the cage. So our house remains clean and quiet at night if Chillie lives in the garage. But we do bring her in everyday to play with Hana and she absolutely loves it! Hana loves to chase after Chillie and pet her. Hana acts like she wants to hold Chillie but everytime we try to put Chillie in Hana's arms, she laughs and runs away.
Last saturday Hana accompanied us to a barbecue with some friends. Hana was the only child there but she had 4 dogs to play with. She loved all the dogs except for the one that stole snacks right from her hand!
Don't touch Bella's butt!


Saturday, July 21, 2007

Gymnastics

Hana has started climbing lately. She is able to climb and sit on her play table chairs all by herself. She doesn't need our help getting down from her chair anymore either.
I don't know where she got the idea of somersaults but she sure has been trying hard to do them.
She still needs our help completing a full somersault but we're sure it's just a matter of time. It's amazing how flexible kids are!



Thursday, July 12, 2007

Hana invades Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach

What a good life she has! Taking a pool break.
Her shadow looks so cool.
Hana & Momma are in this picture-can you spot us?!

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Welcome to the Family

As one of Hana's birthday gifts, we put her on the waiting list for a pet chinchilla. Her chinchilla was born May 29 (exactly a month after her birthday) and we were able to pick her up yesterday. Chinchillas are crepuscular rodents native to the Andes mountains who are hunted to make fur coats because their fur is soo soft. We have yet to come up with a name for her but hopefully we will come up with something perfect and easy for Hana to pronounce. Hana loves her little pet. When I first showed the chinchilla to her she kept saying "woof, woof, woof". Hana says 'woof' whenever she sees dogs and any other animals. She was so excited to have a 'woof' in her own house!
I let Hana run free in the house today while I prepared dinner. I heard silence for a couple of minutes so I went searching for her. I found her squatting down, 'talking' and reaching her arm in the cage, trying to pet the chinchilla-so sweet! Not to worry-the cage was closed when Hana was in there alone with her.




Monday, July 09, 2007

Family Vacation-Mexican Style

So we have arrived back from our vacation in Cabo. We had a terrific time and most of us arrived back in one piece (more on that later). The resort we stayed at was absolutely amazing and Hana had the time of her life. Below is the very first picture of the trip, taken right after we got to our hotel room. We are a little hot and sweaty but so excited to be there! 3 of the 5 pools had kiddie pools that were shallow enough for Hana to walk around in. So a few people referred to her as 'he' due to my choice of swimwear for Hana but I wanted her to have as much coverage as possible because it is HOT in Cabo.
Going on vacation with the grandparents is the best! We were so thankful for their help and I know they loved having Hana, their little entertainer, around.
Hana is obsessed with flowers and the resort had so many to tempt her. If she had her way, she would've pulled off every flower she saw but we limited her to just a few.

Our terrace overlooked one of the kiddie pools. One of Hana's favorite activities was to look over the edge and 'talk' to the other little kids. I think she looks like such a little lady in this picture.
Yes, Hana was very spoiled on this trip. So spoiled that she started throwing the angriest little tantrums when she wouldn't get her way. But she has been very well behaved after a little discipline ;)
Okay, so I was so worried about Hana's health and safety on this trip. My worst nightmare was having to take her to an ER in Mexico. Well she was completely fine. But someone else had to go to the ER and that was Kevin. Kevin, my brother, and my dad had gone down to town to ride jet skis while us girls stayed behind. An hour later I receive a phonecall "This is Dr. Sanchez at the hospital. Your husband is here in the OR. Please come ASAP." Needless to say, I was completely freaked out and the taxi ride to the hospital was the worst car ride of my life-I was so worried and imagining the worst possible scenarios in my mind. Turns out, Kevin had dislocated his shoulder and torn some ligaments after a hard crash in the ocean. The ocean is very strong down there and the waves break really hard,, as I had warned him several times throughout the trip. They had to put him to sleep and pop his shoulder back in and wouldn't do it until I arrived to pay. But thankfully, he is fine except for a sore shoulder. However, our bank account may not be since they charged us $4,000! Hopefully his health insurance reimburses some of that. So below is a picture of Kevin laying in the hospital, trying to come to from the laughing gas or whatever they gave to put him to sleep. (He was saying the oddest things!) Still traumatized, I just had to take a picture to show Kevin and hope that one day we can laugh at this!
Luckily Kevin's accident happened on the last day of our trip. However, one of the reasons we went to Cabo was to attend the wedding of our good friends Mike and Marie. We were out with the wedding guests the night before and all was fine and then Kevin shows up to the wedding like this. And of course, Kevin had to tell everyone the story and put up with all the jokes-a little embarassing!