Life with Dos Miguels+William

Are you tired of photos from St Thomas yet? If you are, too freaking bad. ;) Miguelito and William had quite a bit of fun playing in a “just-their-size” laundry bushel one drizzly morning. They had a blast climbing in and out, and pushing it all around the villa. They were in a photo taking mood and happily let me take photos of them. It was great!

One happy Wood boy in a bushel

Not so happy little brother has joined in the fun

Aww, I love you, baby William

But enough, I’m done.

Haha…my plan worked the bushel is all mine.

Hi handsome William

My big boy, Miguelito. I love you.

Munching on an apple chunk he stole from Miguelito’s plate

Love those baby blues!

Silly “cheese” face!

Miguelito kept saying “Mommy turn” until I took a self portrait of myself.

Magen’s Bay, one of our favorite places in the world

View from the pool at our villa

Miguel and his mohawk

Cruise ship pulling into Charlotte Amalie just outside our window

View from our balcony

William and his chair. He would crawl under it, bump his head, cry, I would pull him out, and then he would do it again and again and again.

Us on our balcony.

Mommy and her boys

Sweetie, William, Mommy and Miguelito

Two weeks in paradise with the husband, Miguelito and William plus Sweetie joined us for a week. It was pure bliss until a tremendous thunderstorm one night took out the internet and cable for a few days and lightening struck the elevator in our building (we were on the 3rd floor), William got croup and a sinus infection, Miguelito got double ear infections, and I got a cold. Sounds bad, but we still managed to have an awesome time.

William playing peek a boo with Mommy at Coki Beach

Miguelito running in the waves at Coki Beach. He loved to build sandcastles.

Daddy trying to steal a smooch at Magen’s Bay

William relaxing on the beach at Magen’s Bay. He wasn’t too fond of the sand.

William, Mommy, Daddy and Miguelito (Magen’s Bay)

Sweetie with William, who rather splash in the water than ride in the boat

Where is my booby and bed? I. am. done.

Miguel did quite a bit of scuba diving while we were on vacation in St Thomas. I did not get to partake in the diving adventures because someone had to entertain the little ones. ;)

Miguel and the fishies

I have no freaking clue what he is doing here. Care to explain, husband?

One of our favorite parks is Abbott Park. There are lots of different play structures to keep the little ones happy and a few large shady oak trees to keep Mommy cool. William loves the swing, which really cracks me up since Miguel hated the swing as a baby.

I am sure by now everyone has seen William’s photo session sneak peek with Jen, but in the off chance you haven’t…head over to the blog to ooh and ahh over the stop-in-your-tracks gorgeous photos of our Sweet William.

William, Miguel, and I drove to Baton Rouge last week while the husband was off playing ubergeek in Los Angeles at a Microsoft conference. We had a blast hanging out with family, and, of course, the boys (and me) were spoiled rotten. We celebrated my 32nd birthday too!

One afternoon while William was napping, Miguelito and I decorated a gingerbread house. I had bought the kit during the holidays but then he ended up sick with croup and William landed in the hospital for a week with RSV. It was Christmas in May!

Frosting is awesome!

One candy for the house…

and one candy for me!

Miguelito and his first gingerbread house

Hello, sweet William!

Love the drool!

Eating a Ring Pop leftover from the “emergency-just-in-case-of-meltdown” stash from road trip to BR.

Yum!

Miguelito and his beloved Ya-Ya (aka Aunt Laura)

William’s silly face and Mommy

Four generations. Sweetie (my mom), Me holding Miguel, and Nonnie (Sweetie’s mother) holding William

I kind of forgot to blog about the carnival at Miguel’s MDO a couple of weekends ago. Oops! Miguel had a blast jumping in the bounce house and riding the train with Daddy. He was not so keen on the ponies, and he made it quite known he was not going to go for a ride.

Miguel, William, and I went to the Dallas Arboretum this morning to visit the Storybook Playhouses and have a picnic lunch. It was a beautiful day, and Miguel had a great time running around while William enjoyed the views from the stroller.

Miguel missed the “No Climbing” sign

Miguel adored all the letters in “The Little Prince” house

Anyone home?

Peek-a-boo I see you!

Hi happy boy!

Bye, Mommy!

Oh, Miguel, left his shiny water bottle. I. must. get. it.

I think I can.

Almost. Keep trying.

Ah, I got it!

I see you, Mommy!

You can’t live in Texas and raise children here and not take their photos each Spring in the bluebonnets. I heard about an awesome patch of bluebonnets not too far from our house, and was so excited to take the boys there for photos. It was quite the challenge since Miguelito wanted to run around while William did his best to scoot to the edge of his blanket and try to eat dirt. Thankfully, my friend brought M&Ms to bribe her toddler with and shared with Miguelito, so I was able to get a couple of decent photos.

And in an effort to appease Sweetie and the rest of the Baton Rouge gang, get ready for lots and lots of photos!