Flash back!

Guess what?! Today at 9:00 a.m. we, as in the home, will embark on an adventurous trip! We're traveling down to Guanajuato!! Hooray! This will be the first time in the past 2 years that we go on a trip/"vacay"/ or simply take some down-time as a home! It's gonna be wonderful!! :) -- We'll be away from the 27th of Oct. to the 2nd of Nov. so if you're reading this anytime between those dates pray that our travels/trip goes well, for everyone to stay in good health, and most of all for it to be an enjoyable and memorable fun trip! Thanks!

Oh, I almost forgot. Happy 23rd Birthday (^) James! Hope it's a good one! (party)

The other day I saw a video clip of Dakota, Kenji's cousin, who is 10 months old walking! Yay! It was very cute to see the little guy attempting such a feat and it obviously brought back memories of when my sweet squishy was just as little and made his first attempts at walking too. Exactly 2 years ago, to the date, Kenji fully took off walking! :)

Wow, 2 years have gone by, I can hardly believe it!! This city/house we're presently in will always hold a lot of significance to me after all this is where he learned to; walk, talk, be fully potty trained, run, had most of his molars come in, had his first major accident/s, falls and cuts, had his 2nd birthday, learned heaps and heaps about the Word/Spirit World, how to use a computer, to read and count/simple addition, to ride a trike, a scooter, to play soccer, volley-ball, had his 3rd birthday, started going to Kinder, learned to stand up for his own convictions and sooo much more! I'm so proud of my handsome, sweet boy!

I love looking at older pictures and videos of Kenji from time to time. It brings back sweet memories and makes me so proud to see just how much he's learned since and how far he's come. I don't think I ever posted the videos of him walking so here they go now! And I threw in a couple more, heh. Enjoy!

This is a clip of his firs attempt at walking when he was 10 months old. He's far too excited which is why he kept on loosing his balance, ha! But he actually was able to walk for a distance of like 3 feet on his own before tumbling over.



And here is a clip of when he finally took off walking completely at 13 months old. The reason being is that he got scared of walking because some kids pushed and shoved him one too many times and he refused to walk until we got here to Torreon. I love how he stops himself -- looks as if he will topple over, ha! Awww, my sweet squishy 'turtle' love!



This clip is far too cute!! My little selfish Virgo, ha! The chips were a shiner prize for walking again!

His first e-mail note!!

Today, I checked my mail and to my lovely surprise I had a message, but what was even more surprising is that in this message was another little note directed to Kenji alone! Upon informing him of this and of the person whom the note was from his face lit up! He had had a phone conversation with this lovely person a few months back which consisted of none other than good and naughty dinosaurs and cockroaches -- of how he doesn't like cockroaches!! These topics, mind you, are biggies for him -- my little animal/creation lover. Heh.

Anyways, back to his special first note. He can read/recognize his name so I made him check out to whom the little note was directed and when he read aloud his name his face was in shock, ha! I read it to him and showed him the photos that were attached and he was overjoyed at the simple fact that he got a note from a far, far away place.

Here's the little note he got:

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM

To Suko and Kenji: A little note with a lot of love

Dear Kenji!

I love you! This is Grandma Margie and I am now in Canada, a long way away from Mexico, for 3 weeks! I saw the pictures of you with your new school uniform and you look so handsome and like a little man! I am so proud of you for going to school now and learning a lot of new things! I am sure you are a good little witness to all your friends and your teacher! I pray for you, that you will like school, have a very sweet teacher, and that you will be in good health so you can make a lot of progress in your learning! Here it is already cold, but the trees are many different colors... The Lord makes His creation so beautiful!

The other day, we went to the Niagara Falls which are some of the biggest in the world! I am sending you a picture so you can see how big and powerful they are!

I send you a big hug and lots of prayers,

Grandma Margie

So sweet! He loved it! And it was so funny to see him scrutinizing the picture, while saying; "where is she mommy, me don't see her?" Ha! Guess he expected to see her as well. Awww ...

Here is an older video (around August) of Kenji making mention of dinosaurs/animals. He really got into dinos after watching "Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaur," hence his comment about good and naughty dinos in the video. Heh. -- I love the facial expressions he makes half-way through the video!



Our room got so messy -- I don't know how, ehe -- that in the end I had more inspiration to move to the next room, then to clean up my previous room, ha! Seriously my room has never been this messy!

Oh, and you'll notice some of Kenji's photography talent -- or the lack of it, heh -- towards the end of the picture slide. Kenji wanted to take a pic of me, but I never thought he would take one of me in 'parts,' ha! Those pics were his very first try, I'm sure that soon enough he'll get it down a little better. :) He seems to have this thing for computers, phones, and cameras right now -- well actually more than ever as he's been maneuvering a computer since he was 1 1/2 and would have gotten his hands on the camera too, but that I didn't permit, heh.



Kenji put to good use abuelo's clean pair of socks! Ha!