Heartfelt Thank You!

I'm not too sure if people even check my blog anymore, I guess, they should've lost hope in me by now, i update it about 4 a year Jajaja. But anywho here we go!

The past five months have not been easy for our little family, less than a week before Christmas my mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 Kidney Cancer. She has since undergone two major surgeries, a gammaknife radiosurgery and radiation treatment. Right now, she is recovering at home and resting. It has definitely been mentally, physically and emotionally draining.Luckily no matter what I'm going through little limon brightens up my day. He continues to be the center of my world despite becoming a big boy. So far for 2012, I can say that I will never know what kind of day it will be and what tomorrow may bring.

All of my mother's side of the family lives in Texas and despite being so many miles away they have been very supportive. Cancer is not a stranger to our family, my cousin Alyssa Resendez passed away from Leukemia at the age of 12, in 2006. Many of my mother's sisters and my cousins have since come to visit bearing our crazy, cold Wisconsin weather (and let me tell you they arent used to our weather). My beautiful family in Dallas even created a get well video for her where they all appear with advice and prayers, and that baby left no eye dry in our household.They have sold kidney cancer bracelets and hosted a bingo fundraiser in her name. There are no words that can explain how much we appreciate their outpouring love and support. My only sadness about it is that I wish we lived closer together so that we can all be together during this difficult time.

While my mother was in between treatments to recover from her procedures, more bad news came our way.Limon's cousin, Liros was diagnosed with Leukemia. He was in the beginning of his treatment when he passed away suddenly.The fact that his passing was so fast took us all by shock. I have so much respect for the Cruz family, I admire how united they are during difficult times. I am so lucky to come from such a great family and also marrying (technically not married yet) into a great one. Limon and I have supported eachother immensely but also we have been blessed with great support system.



I want to take this time to thank everyone that has reached out to me and my family to console and support us. When things feel like they're so hard and theres no way out. I've had people honestly touch my heart and make me feel better at the end of the day. You never know how much someones words can really affect a person God bless those people, that in the toughest times can reach out like that. Love you all!

Mustachio!!

For Christmas my present to my boys was a wii game system. Lil limon has been obsessed with mustaches and every time he sees my dad he lunges to face to feel his mustache. It's the funniest thing ever. When setting up our characters for our wii, little limon wanted his character to look like this he's so funny!

Birthday Numero Cuatro!

Since I told lil Limon a month ago that it was almost his birthday, the sight of every cake or presence at a party has always made him ask me non-stop, “es mi birthday?”

For his birthday we once again chose a last minute little party to Chuck-E-Cheese and best of all on Black Friday to avoid as much of a crowd as possible. Between the pizza, tokens and cake it was heaven for the kids.

                               Singing Happy Birthday!

  When putting the crown on him he asked if he was a king. Then two minutes later he asked, “yo soy king leon” (we recently purchased The Lion King).

                                After Biting the Cake

                         With his chuck e cheese pinata.                      

                         I see the Limón in him in this picture.

I know it was very last minute, telling family at thanksgiving the day before but thanks to all for the birthday wishes and gifts.

On his actual birthday he celebrated at school by taking an ice cream cake to share with his classroom. Picture quality is bad but something is better than nothing. I left work a little early trying to catch them singing to him. As I walked through the door they were lighting the candles to the cake I dropped off in the morning.

He was not expecting me to be there and I caught him off guard and his smile got three times bigger when he saw me. It was great.

I am really going to miss his three’s and it feels like the past year has gone by so quick. I can honestly say that these past 4 years have been the most challenging of my life but at the same time the greatest. We may not have a lot of money but I will never get tired of saying that we are so blessed. I love my two men.

First Day of School!

My little limon has always been excited to go to school. When we would go to fill out paperwork at the school to enroll him he would love to see all the kids in a single line or on the playground and would constantly tell me that he wanted to play with them. The week before he started he went with his babysitter to take Omar (her son) to his first day of Kindergarden. Which ended up helping Omar because he didn't feel alone going into the classroom because lil limon was right next to him playing with the toys and reading the books. Even when the teacher wanted all of the kids on the carpet little adrian went with all the rest. Jaja. When I picked lil limon from the sitter he kept on telling me that he wanted to go with Omar. They are a good 5 months apart but because little limon was born in November he must wait another year to start K-4. If not I would of loved for them to go to school together.

So when the day finally came for his first day of school, he was so excited. He woke up very happy running all over the house and even running upstairs with cousins and godparents to tell them all at literally 7:00 a.m. that he was going to school. He asked me over and over and over again if he was going to school. He was so excited that practically he pushed us out the door, so we arrived early. Limon, Adriancito and I were one of the first families to arrive and by the time all the kids were situated he was ready to leave. He eventually realized that I was going to leave and would not let me out of his sight. We stood around for a good twenty minutes along with other parents having a hard time. Once the teacher distracted all the kids in another room, we all headed for the door. Limon took me out to eat to distract me from thinking about little limon and then made a stop to our favorite store ~Target~. At pick up time the teacher told me he cried for a while after I left. It's so sad just thinking of him crying all by himself but, im sure he got over it beacuse he sure was dancing away to music at the end of class when I showed up.

Thank god Limon had the day off to go with me. I literally cried the whole week before him starting school, i couldn't sleep and was not even enthusiastic about starting my own semester in school because my little one was going to school and Limon was always there to comfort me. I don't understand why it was so hard and very emotional for me. It was definitely a sensitive subject for me, I couldn't talk about it with anyone without tears trying to come out. Hence, me not blogging about this earlier. I've spent the past 3 almost four years of my life revolving around my little boy. And just the thought of letting him go with a complete stranger is hard. It's a crazy world out there. Thankfully I am very content with the school and teachers he has.

With each day it got easier and now right after we arrive he's ready to give me my hug and kiss goodbye and kick out of the classroom. :)

Summer Snapshots

Every year we try to take a vacation, this year (so far) we haven’t other than our camping trips. Since I again have not kept up with my blogging responsibilities, I have accumulated some photos of our summer here in Milwaukee.

First stop Susan G Komen’s Race for the Cure and Betty Brinn. In May, we tried to complete this race but it was just too cold for all of us. So instead we kept warm at Betty Brinn Children’s Museum. We were on the bus and Adriancito was driving. All Aboard!

Father’s Day!

Adriancito putting water on his grandfather’s grave site. More like drowning the flowers because he loved doing it so much.

This summer we spent the majority of our weekends at the park due to Limon’s baseball games. GO BUENAVISTA!

The ZOO!

One day in order to keep my child from trying to get me to buy him a $39.00 stuffed animal zebra at some fancy children’s store downtown. I told him we could go and look at real zebras at the zoo. For the next two weeks we didn’t hear the end of it until his wish came true.

                      First Merry-Go-Round Ride

               Great choice he made – the jiraffe.

                 His favorite,  The Elephant!!

 

At his first brewers game. We spent more time at Bernie’s Clubhouse then actually watching the game but well worth it. He loved it. Note that he likes hot dogs.

 

We also took two camping trips and more but I haven't put my photography skills to too much use this summer. So this post to be continued until I hunt down more pictures of our fantabulous summer.

Summer Cold

A couple of days ago, Lil Limon woke up from a long nap and after struggling to wake him up, he finally woke up and with a fever. Hardly even responsive, I managed to move him from the bed to the couch. Since it usually takes him a while to wake up. But my little boy was not feeling well because he didn't get up from the couch the whole afternoon. He was laying in and out of sleep. He refused pedialyte, juice, food, soup, tv and even a trip to Target. Which he never turns down. He slept it off all day and night and woke up feeling better.

His cold came a couple of days after me and mon meet a couple of friends for dinner and Limon stated that we've been so lucky with Adriancito not getting sick this past year since we had his skin problems.

I'm glad he feels better because really who wants to have a fever in the middle of summer. It really does suck because it's so hot out and the a/c unit and fans I have to turn off because it will just make it worse. Today my little lemon is as good as new.

Overhearing a conversation on the playground yesterday...

Parent #1: Doesn't anybody know where the parents of this kid are at?
Where are your parents?
Boy: (Shrugs his shoulders and looks down)
Parent #1: Does anyone know who his parent is?
Another boy on playground: That's his dad
Parent # 1: Hey he's scratching up my kid
Parent # 2: Oh is he? I'm sorry, you know what, I apologize...
Parent # 1: Yeah okay
(To this son) Next time you defend yourself! You punch him in the face!
(Walks away swearing)
Parent # 2: Devin come here!
Boy walks over
Parent # 2: It's okay, he doesn't know your autistic.. It's okay just don't touch anyone..

I'm dreading for adriancito to start school, wish i could keep him with me forever..