BIG News for the Trujillos!

We are all very excited to announce that we will be adding a new little baby to our family this coming June! Ashtyn is going to become a BIG Sister and already is very excited for the new role. She pats her belly and says "Baby" when we ask her if she is going to be a big sister. I am just about 13 weeks along, and things have been going well for the most part. Typical, nausea, back pain and all the other fun side affects - but am very thankful to have everything progressing... Just had a check up this Friday and got to finally hear the heart beat - very fast 161 and the baby was very ACTIVE! They also confirmed my due date to be June 8th, 2010. We are all so excited to meet this new baby and can't wait to see Ashtyn's reaction when it arrives! What will we have I wonder - boy or girl - can't wait to find out so I can make plans for the Nursery!

Wednesdays

Wednesday's are very special days for me. This is the one day a week I get to stay home from work and spend all day with Ashtyn - we call it "Mommy and Ashtyn's Day of Fun!" Every Wednesday we wake up, snuggle in bed and watch Dora the Explorer together. Then we get up and head to the grocery store - usually in our Pajamas! - which is the best time to go because it is so peaceful. Once we get there I get my usual Starbucks and Ashtyn picks out which buggy car she wants to ride in and then we head straight to the bakery to get a strawberry cookie - a great breakfast! After shopping, we of course have to take a ride on the "horse" and then we are headed back home. Once we get home Ashtyn takes her usual morning nap, while I catch up on laundry, emails and everything else there is to do... But then when noon rolls around, Ashtyn wakes up and our "Day of Fun" begins. We either go to the mall, the swimming pool, the library, meet friends for lunch or something fun we can do together and enjoy our precious time. I cherish this time with her so much, because having to work full time I don't get the time I would ultimately desire with her. Every week I look forward to Wednesday, and then I am always sad to see it end when I lay Ashtyn down to bed. Hopefully, our "Day of Fun" will be a tradition we keep for years to come. I love you Ashtyn Faith!

Perfect Sunday Morning!

Today was a PERFECT Sunday morning - the kind you wish would never end. It snowed all night and so it was the perfect morning to stay tucked into bed all morning. Ashtyn slept in till 8 o'clock and then climbed into our bed and the three of us snuggled, talked and then of course had a pillow fight! Then we all got up and had breakfast together while watching The Mickey Mouse club and then we all decided to get dressed and play in the snow. Ashtyn surprising has started to love the snow - mainly eating it! So we got her all dressed up like a little snowman and headed outside to play in and eat the fresh snow...

Ashtyn helped Matt shovel the snow...What a big helper she is!


Who says you can't play with your sand toys in the winter! Snow makes much better snow castles then sand castles we discovered...

What a PERFECT Sunday morning - spending it with the ones I love so much!

Moving Day!

Ashtyn loves her play house that we have outside in the backyard, and she doesn't understand that with it getting cold that we can't let her play outside all the time. So with the weather nice this past weekend, Matt decided to clean the house so we could move into the basement and she could enjoy playing with it all winter long....

So Friday afternoon, Matt took the house apart, cleaned it and then laid all the pieces around the deck so they could dry. Well, on Saturday morning Ashtyn does her normal routine - wakes up, has her milk and breakfast, watches "Pooh" and then as always checks outside to see if she can play. Well much to her surprise when she moved the curtain to look out the window she saw her beautiful house in pieces. Needless to say - she got VERY upset! She started crying and saying "huse", "huse" with her arms up in the air! and just couldn't understand why someone would destroy her house! So Matt explained to her that he would fix it - so all morning before nap she walked around with big alligator tears in her eyes and a worried little face saying "Da Fix it", "Da Fix it" - Oh it broke our hearts, but it was kinda hilarious at the same time! Who would have know she would get so upset - you never think about these things as an adult.

The moving day was successful though - by Saturday afternoon her house was back together in it's new place - she now can enjoy her house all winter long!

Nineteen Months...

So I am couple days late, but Ashtyn is now 19 months old and I need to make an update of all her new words, tricks and discoveries... Ashtyn has learned more words and still perfecting her previous vocabulary. She now says "up", "down", "Done!", "Gun" (we live by a shooting range, so we had to explain to her what the sound was), "papa", "sit", "Dora", "cold", "hot", "this", "that", "one" and "boy"! She still constantly babbles and I can't wait till I can finally understand what her fascinating stories are all about. She still is speaking mainly one words, but occasionally has her brilliant 2-words phrases - "Fix it", "Play me", "Where go"... It is so cute to finally hear her precious words... We finally taught her what to do when she is finished eating - Instead of throwing her dish off the highchair - Now when she is finished eating she says very loudly "DONE!" Ashtyn now climbs the stairs like a big girl - which was a very scary discovery when I saw her do it for the first time, but now she is very good. As she climbs the stairs though she has to say "UP!" every time she lands on a step - very cute! Her Grandma Trujillo has been counting with her - which is so cute because she will hold her fingers all up and slowly folds them down -awkwardly- while saying "one...one...one..." hopefully we will master some more numbers this coming month. She loves to help me in the kitchen whether it is putting dishes away or making dinner or cleaning up the dinner table - GREAT little helper! She also loves to just sit on the kitchen counter - not sure why, maybe because she can see up there, but when I am in the kitchen she has to be on the counter.

Ashtyn discovered my makeup drawer recently without my knowing and was able to put eyeshadow all over her face before I found her - So we have now moved the makeup - I was thinking this would happen maybe at age 5, but not my little one! She also is obsessed with toothpaste and brushing her teeth. Which I am OK with, but the eating toothpaste thing is always a fight!

She loves playtime with Daddy after dinner the best - that's what Dad's are for right! They run, roll around, jump on the ottoman, play chase, piggy-back rides - you name it! - It is a great way to wear her out for bedtime! Watching them play melts my heart every time, especially to hear her little giggle!

Everyday she becomes more independent and changing into a little girl instead of my baby. She keeps me on my toes - that's for sure! We will see what new things are in store for us this month...

The MOON!

Right now in Ashtyn's little world the Moon is something she is SO fascinated with to say the very least. Every night we have to go outside and see if the moon is visible and if Ashtyn can see it she gets so happy, claps her hands, runs around and then has to show anyone around her the big shining Moon. But if the moon is missing - Ashtyn has a melt down! A serious melt down - and as much as we try to explain to her that it is cloudy or it's too early in the evening she just continues to look for it. I am not sure where, how or why she developed this love for the Moon, but right now it is the highlight of our evening! Lately, thankfully it has been up early and FULL, so we have had a happy little girl! It is so precious and cute to see her so fascinated with something as simple as the moon - which she calls "BALL"!

Yabba Dabba Doo!

For Halloween this year Ashtyn dressed up as Pebbles! She was just about the cutest Pebbles I have ever seen, but I am her mama! Nana and I made her costume this year and it came together rather nicely. We started celebrating Friday night dressing up and visiting Grandma and Grandpa Trujillo. Ashtyn took to trick-or-treating very quickly loving the fact that people would put candy in her bag! She instantly wanted to eat every piece that went in, so that was a fun thing to deal with!

After visiting and lots of pictures we headed to our church where they put on a Fall Festival every year! It is very fun and perfect for little kids especially when it is cold outside like this year. Inside they set up carnival games, blow up things, cake walks, crafts, face painting and more. Ashtyn loved playing the duck game and then Aunt Emily took her around to all the jumpy things! After that we got her face painted - which she surprisingly sat still for. Ashtyn enjoyed herself and it was fun to see her get into the holiday a little bit - still scared of the pumpkins though!

On Saturday afternoon we visited Nana and Papa and then went to Mimi's house. That night we just stayed home and handed out candy to our many visitors, which I think Ashtyn loved - or it might have been just how much the door bell rang - she would get so excited! Saturday was also the day Ashtyn discovered her love for suckers - which she ended up having WAY too many of and got sick Sunday - whoops! It was a very fun Halloween weekend and I am excited to see what next year will be like...