Mommyto3babes

Annual Portraits!

2010-05-15T02:27:00.001-04:00

Is that time of the year again to take my babes to get photographed. I feel like I am doing this event in such a rush, because I have several things going on this month.

Several events that are happening this month are: a surgery that my DH is going to have because he has kidney stones, my sister is visiting, a lot of doctors and dentist appointments and a Children's Musical hosted in our Church in which my middle babe will be participating.

It was weird not having our usual photographer but the evening photographer was a delight and she tried to make the session fun and different.

My oldest babe looks so big. Big in the sense that she looks like a total teenager even though she is not completely in her teens yet.

My middle babe looks so tall, love her long hair (which she wants cut like yesterday) and her love of pink clothes still in her. It was awesome that she asked me for lipstick which ended up in her sister’s shirt while the lady was taking pictures.

My youngest babe was a ham. He loves the camera and this occasion was not an exception, but it was funny that in the last picture he told me: “I am done”; and he was. He refused to do anymore pictures.

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I love my babes. I love taking pictures of them. I love creating memories with them.

Zachary’s 4th Birthday!

2010-05-07T23:52:00.000-04:00

We are so excited about Zachary’s birthday tomorrow! We have plan a day of different activities:

Toys R’ Us has a free Crayola Day of Activity
Michael’s has a free decorating cookie
Joann’s a Mother’s Card made by the kids
American cookies for a free cookie for the Birthday Boy!!
Chuck E. Cheese to end the day with extra fun!!

These pictures were on taken on May 2006! How quick time flies!

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Yahoo!

2010-05-04T23:20:00.002-04:00

I am excited that youngest baby is going to be 4 years old this Saturday. He is more aware of his birthday and he is also excited that we are singing “Happy Birthday” at Church for him.

He has grown so much, he talks more and he is aware of the World.

25 things about Me!

2010-02-04T14:01:00.002-05:00

1. I love God and my faith is in Him, I am alive because He is merciful on my life. I was going to die (per doctors) and God has extended my life allowing me to see my children grow.

2. I met my husband while working for Cirque du Soleil.

3. My birthday is on February 24 and my husband's is on February 25. My Husband always kisses me at midnight between our birth dates.

4. I don't have a middle name.

5. I love taking my children to a theme park, even though they have been there before because it always feels like the first time for them.

6. My dream, hope and prayer is for my children to love God, serve God and to be happy.

7. I have a B.A. in Secondary Education in Biology, my license in Puerto Rico expired and I am not able to teach here in FL.

8. I am a Stay at Home Mom and I love it. My kids are my life. I love listening my kids play.

9. I played with Barbies' until I was 15 years sold, my girls don't like to play with Barbie's at all.

10. I graduated from High School a year earlier than I was supposed to. (Nerd alert!!)

11. I love Christian Music and right now I love the Morning show at my Christian radio station: the Joy FM.

12. I was born in New York and my parents move to Puerto Rico when I was 4 years old. I spoke English and the kids thought I was not OK since they could not understand me.

13. I love comedy movies, it relaxes me from a hectic day!

14. My Husband adopted my oldest daughter in Dec '04, she was very happy.

15. I have three small tattoos shaped in a dot, they were marks designated for radiotherapy treatment.

16. I love the color purple.

17. In Middle School I fell from a flight of stairs, it hurt a lot.

18. I love playing with Webkinz (my kids got me into it!)

19. When I was young (at Church in Puerto Rico) I was Youth President and Sunday School teacher.

20. I eloped in June 2002.

21. After I experienced Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy treatments I am very compassionate towards people who are going through the same treatments. Chemo and Radiotherapy are eye opening experience. I know how hard is going through these treatments.

22. When I was pregnant with my oldest daughter (in PR) I almost was part of an accident that would have killed me and my unborn baby, but I know that God deviated the car, I was in shock and it left a big impression in my life. I went to bed to rest after I witness the accident and I had a dream that I was in a room and the people in my dream told me: God wanted to let you know that He loves you!

23. When I was going trough radiotherapy I went to the bathroom at 2am and I was going to faint. Everybody was sleeping and I wanted to cry for help but I could not talk. All of a sudden I started screaming in my head the name of Jesus Christ and all of a sudden I was standing up. I didn't faint.

24. When I had my Quinceañera party (15 year old party) none of my classmates showed up.

25. I have two stepchildren that live in Wisconsin.

I feel blessed that I have my own family.

My girls are going to school today!!

2009-08-24T18:27:00.012-04:00

Cynthia and Stephanie are going to different schools for the first time. Cynthia is going to Middle school and Stephie is going to be a new student in an elementary that is near us.

It's so weird when your oldest child goes to middle school and all inside me gets concerned with the new challenges she might face. Who might be her new friends? Is she going to adapt quickly to changes.

For Stephanie is hard for me since I love the old school she used to attend. Is no longer in our area so I will have to adjust to her being in a new school. Worried that she might be teased or bullied by other classmates who do not understand her personality.

Besides that, I am looking forward to new homework folders and picking up the girls at different hours of the day!

Grizzly Bear!!

2009-05-28T00:29:00.007-04:00

Stephanie is learning this week at school about the Grizzly Bear.

When I am explaining to her about how the bear stands in the river and salmon comes in up in the river and he eats them she couldn't understand the concept.

Thank God, for mini movies on the Internet I was able to show her how amazing these animals fish their food! You can click on the link so you are able to enjoy the mini movie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tgPoi0hWjk

My visit to the Dermatologist

2009-05-22T11:15:00.008-04:00

I have Psoriatic arthritis (2 years) and plaque Psoriasis (for more than 10 years). I went to visit the Dermatologist today. I have been using Raptiva for 5 months and I had great results. I was able to see some Psoriasis spots disappear.

I was so excited until I received a letter from the company that makes Raptiva, that medicine has been recalled due to deaths related to the effects on some patients.

The doctor prescribed Enbrel. http://enbrel.com/

I need to inject two time a week for three months and once a week after the 4 month.

Hopefully this will continue working on my skin.

Cynthia's Inmigration Project

2009-05-19T20:24:00.010-04:00

Cynthia (my oldest child) has an immigration project.

Her "immigrant" is Kristi Yamaguchi. She is happy to be reporting about her is just that she is a second generation of immigrants. Cyn feels that she needed a person that traveled from their native country and establish their first generation after them.

For a class project, Cynthia had to fill up a pillowcase with objects that will help the immigrant in a new land, such as a picture of your family, a game to stay busy while traveling, a dictionary to learn your new language.

My hope is that she learns that we are blessed. Even though these are hard times we are living, that she is able to find compassion in the stories that her teacher is talking about immigrants in her class.

2nd Annual Polk County Science Olympics

2009-05-16T20:25:00.015-04:00

Cynthia was invited to participate in the Science Olympics in the Polk County Community College. It was a beautiful day with an excellent weather and "love bugs." Love bugs are insects that are attached to their bums and just try to fly at the same time. These bugs are weird, they don't bite.

fgfs

After the introduction in the auditorium, we proceeded to go outside in the green area and participate in the activities, including obstacle course, soccer kick, football pass and "how far can you jump." All of these outdoors events were measured in centimeters for competition. I know Cynthia loved the obstacle course and she completed it in 26 seconds.

Cyn doesn't like love bugs, so she was shrugging through the outdoor activities. Then we proceeded to the inside activities and they had measuring a gummy worm, measuring her head and how many marbles can fit in your hand.

When the competitions were done, at the Auditorium the Olympics had a Scientist fashion show that included Isaac Newton, Einstein among others.

It was a very interesting and fun day!

Happy 3rd Birthday Zachary!!

2009-05-08T21:46:00.001-04:00

Is just amazing how a year flows by!

Zachary is a blessing in our lives. I have seen my two older children love on him like you wouldn't believe. The girls are compassionate and try to understand everything he tries to talk to them since Zachary has Speech Delay.

When you have two older children who develop "normal" as people can say and all of a sudden you have this little bundle of joy that tries his earnest to articulate his words and you still have a faint idea of what he is trying to say... is just hard at first to get used to.

Just after his second birthday I took Zachary to a speech therapy where he got diagnosed. When the therapist told us that he needed speech therapy I was grateful that we can do something for him so he can have a better quality of life. The sad thing was that the therapy was going to be very expensive and we could not afford it.

Fortunately, the therapist (God bless her) told us about a federal program that your income is not required to receive services. That program in Florida is called "Early Steps", it helps children until they reach their third birthday in different services like speech delay and occupational therapy.

After being refereed to the program and gone through their different interviews, we finally got a speech therapist. She came to our house and she sat on the floor with Zachary, he only spoke 5 words.

The speech therapist was nice to him and eventually after 5 months into the therapies Zachary was able to say around 40 words. He increased his vocabulary a lot.

Another factor that has helped him a lot was his love for the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy Show. Zachary would stare at the show and my prayer was that he was able to be brave and say words that he has heard from the show. So besides learning the name of the character Wubbzy, his next word from the show was; " I am Sorry". Amazing how he understood what sorry was. Zachary amazes me more and more!

So now my new challenge will be potty training! I am looking forward to it. I heard so many times that boys take a little longer to be potty trained. I guess I just have to pace myself and be patient.

Stephanie won 3rd Place in the Art Show at her school

2009-04-28T12:51:00.000-04:00

Stephanie is my very sweet middle child. When she was a baby, you looked at her face and all you can see was her big brown eyes and bald head.

She has a birthday coming up and is looking forward to it. She has requested to be taken to Chuck E. Cheese for her birthday lunch and we are more than happy to comply.

She loves Littlest Pet Shop, has a big heart, has an enormous imagination, loves Special Agent Oso show, very emotional (she cried at the end of the "Hotel for Dogs" movie), loves to help, and she loves school. But most of all she loves Cyn & Zachary.

She enjoys being in first grade and gets along with her classmates. Stephanie loves to draw and won an Art competition, scoring the 3rd place among all the first graders at her school. She won the competition drawing flowers.

I am so proud of her. The funny thing is that I don't know how to draw, hopefully she gets this talent from her Daddy.

I feel very blessed to have her in my life. Looking forward to see what other talents God has granted her.

My Speech Delayed Child

2008-10-21T19:53:00.003-04:00

My youngest one was diagnosed with Speech Delay several months ago. We were worried about him just before he turned two years old. He would not talk a lot, just "dada", "nanah (for banana)", and basically grunting and trying to get your attention by screaming.

The pediatrician referred us to an audiologist and for an evaluation with a speech pathologist. He doesn't have a hearing problem, but he does have the speech problem.

Happy 2nd Birthday Baby!

2008-05-08T16:58:00.000-04:00

Our baby is just a beautiful miracle. Is such a blessing to celebrate his 2nd birthday.

I was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor six years ago. This type of tumor is non cancerous but it destroys your organs entrapping them with its fibers and squeezes them until you feel constant pain in that part of your body.

The radiologist suggested radiotherapy for 28 days, the doctor also told me that I was not able to have a baby since the radiotherapy burns your ovaries and eggs. The news were devastating, because deep inside... I wanted to have another baby. I always wanted to have 3 babies. The doctor was surprise when the tumor started to expand instead of shrinking. My second treatment was to remove my ovaries, long intestines, rectum and bladder. The doctor suggested I needed to live with a Colostomy bag and a Urostomy bag for the rest of my life. Not happy with this!

My Father-in-Law helped me to find a second opinion and we found Dr. Ndubisi. He took my case, he prescribed me a chemotherapy treatment called Doxil, and with lots of Prayer my tumor started to shrink.

God is amazing! My prayer always is to see my children grow old and the Lord is giving me a second chance in life to see that happening.

After radiotherapy and chemotherapy behind me I was left with a premature menopause, which my DH was struggling to manage. I was not the same, but I love God MORE with all my heart because I was alive.

With radiotherapy comes the absence of your period, so I didn't have my period for 2 years. My DH and I decided to move to another town to experience small town life.

We found a town and we settled in. I only had my period for one month after we move and I was thinking it was because I was helping my DH to move appliances around.

For some reason I had a curiosity to know how my hormones levels were for being menopausal. The pharmacy sells a kit that lets you know. Is just like a pregnancy test but instead of telling you that you are pregnant, it will let you know that you have Menopause!

The menopause kit deliver the news that was not having menopause episodes. This kit also suggested that it would not hurt to have a pregnancy test done and then talk to your physician.

I went to the pharmacy and I was even kidding myself while buying a pregnancy test, since I only had my period in August.

God is awesome!! I had the pregnancy test done and to my surprise the two lines that lets you know you are expecting were bright and fast. I could not believe my eyes.

The human part tells you... Are you able to have this baby? Are you able to carry this baby full term because of the radiotherapy damaging your ovaries and your uterus? The Lord gave us peace in our hearts after prayer.

Eight months later, he was born, just handsome and cute.

I am so excited that he is two years old. Our lives are blessed with our children. Praise the Lord for His mercy and love.

Oh, my aching body!!!

2007-12-16T19:59:00.000-05:00

Hi:

Wow! Is just amazing how a year flies by. I couldn't post because I was so sick. The second week of December I started having a fever, chills and a constant headache. I think it was the flu. My body was exhausted, I was trembling and I couldn't think. The next day I couldn't drive my children to school so my DH took the girls to school. Later in the following days, I was still battling between fever and sweating a lot. I am glad the fever is gone but it left me with a limping leg with lots of pain. I even went to the clinic so I can get medicine for the pain. I was in so much pain that I couldn't do my errands, laundry and cooking. I even called my sister-in-law and she came to the rescue. I was beginning to feel worried because I was so late in sending Christmas cards. But with the med I started to feel better and I even got my cards ready.

The Christmas card looks like this....

Have a happy week!