Is today Christmas?

Every morning when Mateo wakes up, he stops and asks, "Is it Christmas today?". He is so excited and the anticipation of Christmas and Santa are so fun to watch thru his eyes! We have and advent calendar box that he gets a small "treat" in everyday and he really loves that too... I mean what kid wouldn't. But I can see how hard it is for him to see presents under the tree and understand that he has to wait to open them, and that when we are at the store we are not buying any toys cause Christmas is almost here and I know he will get plenty. A little hard for a 3 year old brain to grasp. But today he is very excited to leave cookies and milk for Santa so we had to make a trip to Safeway to get ourselves prepared. And ooops, just realized I forgot the carrots for the reindeer... guess that means another trip out!

I realize my pictures havent been making it here but that seems to take so long when time is not what I have much of with boy little guys right now. But that is my goal before the end of the year.. update these sites to get them to current!~

Something new ~ Monsters

In the past week or so, Monsters have become real in our house. Mateo has been talking about monsters for a little bit but nothing serious. Then when we went to Disneyland, everyride started with "is it scary, are there monsters?". All from the little guy who last year LOVED rides with no fear. Funny enough most rides at Disneyland are dark, never really thought about it before, but Mateo was on top of it. He did well but was easily rattled. Funny too, he went on the Matterhorn and loved the speed but can only remember the red eyes at the top of the mountain. Poor little guy.

Forward to Monday. He woke up saying that he didn't want to ever go mimis again (to sleep) cause there were monsters. He had a dream that a monster washed him away and he was trying to kill him. All this from a 3 year old. So now the dark is a bad thing. And while I can explain to him that monsters are not real, I cannot guarantee and promise him that he will not have bad dreams.. ugghh. He talked about not wanting to go to sleep all day, but with reassurance did fine. Then Tuesday morning, the 1st thing out of his mouth when he woke up, "mommy, the monsters stayed away last night". Best news ever!!! We'll see how this monster thing pans out!

Mateo cuteness

Just a little something Mateo said this morning that I don't want to forget! So darn cute. He woke up and gave me a huge hug, then in his fun, surprised sounding kind of voice says.."uhh did you hear that? My belly is burping. I am really hungry~!" So freakin cute~~