Viva Mexico! Viva la Patria!

This year round we weren't able to take the kids out and about to celebrate "El 16 de Septiembre/Dia de la Patria," -- because just a couple of days ago Kenji came down with a high fever (39.8) and Angel was still battling with a lingering cough and cold. Thank the Lord Kenji's fever is gone now and Angel is doing a lot better.

What we did do, though, was let them partake of the festivites via TV. It was actually a lot nicer, in my opinion, because we got to see a lot of the traditional things that happen on this memorable day. They saw the colorful and beautiful typical dresses that girls used to wear as well as the attire men wore, sombreros and all! They also saw various traditonal Mexican folklore dances like; "Jarabe Tapatio, La Culebra, El son de la Negra" among many other plus a whole lot of Mariachis!

Oh, they also saw desfiles, Viva Mexico cheering, how people show respect to the flag and heard the National Anthem, charreria, a slew of different Mexican dishes and firecrackers go off and all! So all in all it was a fun and new experience for them, even if just from home! And I told Kenji that we would make a Mexican dish for dinner. He chose chicken flautas, so we made that and all the trimmings that go with that particular dish. We also had some meat empanadas that a friend brought. -- The flautas were delicious!! The empanadas were also good, but far too spicy for me. :D

Granddad and Steve are away on a trip. They been gone since Kenji's birthday and still have another 3 weeks to go. Poor Kenji misses his "sweet abuelo" as he calls him. Actually he misses him so much, that the other day he told grandma; "Abuelita ya no te quiero llamar abuelita, te quiero llamar abuelito, porque el no esta aqui conmigo." Awww, I thought that was so sweet!! He just wants his abuelo back, no matter what! Heh!

And now I present to you some video clips of our cooking and of my very own patriotic fanatic! Ha! I'll add some pics of the meal and stuff later.





Click here to watch the boys preparing the trimmings. -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u0CTvqehlc

Click here to see my little fanatic cheer for his country! Ha! -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2N9dsMiOsI