lunes, el 5 de enero de 2015

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domingo, el 4 de enero de 2015

On the 3rd floor landing, heading off to playa Santa Cruz for a paddleboard!!

Buenos tardes!! What a great día!! Hmmmm....the best part so far? The early bedtime? The great noche of sleep? The familia paddle? The Poppa paddle with his lil'man on the front of his board? The flying fish? The devil rays I paddled over? The silly swim with mi hijo in the CP alberca? The awesome manos during the siesta? Or maybe the NFL football? 

Hola hola and at 340pm, the familia is out and about on a prowl...Max was not interested in a bici ride with his madre. Something about a rampa or a large hill has spooked him. I think The Boys will go out mañana for our bici tour and I will try and get Max to show me what has spooked him. Stay tuned.

Here comes kick-off......game on!!

So yes, we had a much better bedtime...820pm vs 9pm from the noche before. Yahoo!! A great noche with a 1am pee break and then a great sleep until 530am. Yikes. Manos until 6am and then there was the request for a pee and mas leche por favor.

Videos at 630am and due to the paddle, we were up and at'em at 7am.

Fruta and madre helped get the lil'man geared up and we were out the door at 8am. Grabbed our boards from the shop and lugged them to the playa, only a few minutos away.

I received the 2.5 minuto clase from Bex, and off we went. Max was on Bex's board and he just sits there and enjoys the view.

I was getting the hang of it but as we came closer to playa Entrega the olas and wind picked up and there was also some wake from some fishing boats. Man over board!! But I swam back to the board, climbed on and we managed to get to a little cove right next to Entrega.

Crystal clear water above a reef and we saw some pez and also beached the boards to grab some agua and have a swim.

On the way back to Santa Cruz, the lil'man sat on the front of my board and it made for a wee nervous Bubba. But we made it back a-ok!! I loved having Max on the board as we paddled by the jumping fish and over the devil rays!!

Back on shore we lugged the boards back and Max helped carry the front of my paddle. He received a gear change and helped his madre wash off the boards and then we headed home in the camioneta verde. 

Bex was off for a bici and was home soon after we arrived. Onto the rest of desayunos and we also cooked our chili for tonight's cena.

Back into swim gear and we prowled to the panificadora for some teleras, crusty buns, and then onto the CP alberca.

Great swim, lots of giggles and then upstairs for some leche (not much), libros and lots of attitude and defiance. Oh Max!!

I took over siesta duty and the lil'man was out in 15 minutos!! I puttered around and then I too took some shut eye and we were woken up by madre at 130pm. Oh, she too was rested after having her own siesta. Score!!

Max was onto cooking huevos with his madre, but he confused her because he wanted to do everything a certain way...which happened to be the way that he cooks huevos with his Poppa in the morning. 

Figured it all out and we all sat down for comida...Poppa helping the lil'man eat his lunch by keeping his boca full!!

Onto the Max mop and then after Bex managed to lasso him and get him geared up, out they went.

Me? Casa clean up and now ta-da...blog updating. And now that you are all caught up...onto the fotos!!

More from the 3rd floor landing.

Gearing up for the paddle.

I am sooooo thrilled to be going paddling.

The Boys have returned!!

Wash down.

Not too many fotos...time to check out what is on the crappy Sony DSC W730.

Max and Kyler.

The niños have traded rides.

Uh...Kyler's ride has his conejo coming along?

I would like mi bici back..por favor.

Another day, another visit with Kyler.

And from ayer, no swimming at La Bocana, but with madre's help, hola hola to Max's foxhole!!

The camion is always close by.

Something Max will miss when he is back in Canada? Pina coco yogurt!!

Off to watch some football!! Back at you post tina time.

Hasta pronto.

Buenos noches!! Maybe...maybe the best part of mi día was spending 20 minutos with mi hijo, drawing all different sorts of things on his dry erase easel. A self portrait, airplanes, missile strikes...oh, he loves the missile strikes, a few perros and of course a few drawings of Ciao Ciao.

As for the afternoon...tranquilo time watching football...might there be 2 upsets today?

The familia had a fun prowl through the zocalo, made their way to Soriana (our idea of a recreation center) and then home for some pre-cena tranquilo time.

A good dinner, some biz (of course), and then a tranquilo'ish time in the Palacio vs going out for a post cena prowl.

Tina time is over and we will soon be onto leche y libros and knock on wood...a quick bedtime!!

Misc...heard coming out of Max's boca during his dance party with Bex at Soriana? "Shake it, but don't break it"...hilarious!!

That was our domingo.

Have a great noche y hasta mañana.

Marco, Bexico y Max

sábado, el 3 de enero de 2015

And after taking a blog day off, Max returns with a sonrisa!!

Buenos tardes!! Another beautiful día here in Huatulco, warm but with a nice breeze. The familia is out at La Bocana and will be home at 6pm for Bubba quesadillas!!

Why the 6pm dinner? We have been having a hard time getting Max to sleep at night for the past 3 noches, starting after NYE.

And this morning, after a 9pm bedtime, he was still awake at 545am...yikes.

So the plan is to have a later dinner, tranquilo time before tina time and then more tranquilo time once  he is into his bedroom. Wish us luck as last night was 15 minutos of leche y libros, 15 of tranquilo time with madre, and then a full hour with his Poppa.

And what does he do for the hour? He just lays in his cuna with some squirming, but not much. And then all of a sudden...he is asleep.

Yikes...I don't recall reading about this in any books!!

Any who...onto our día and once I was up at 7am'ish, Bex readied for a paddle and The Boys had their usual rutinas.

Post desayunos we were off for a bici tour and the big score was a bottle of Crown for Poppa...and two new pairs of zapatos for lil'Max. He has only outgrown one pair, the rest he has worn through via the bici!!

Back home for a change of gear and onto a swim in the CP alberca. Bex has some work due, so it was just The Boys giggling in the pool!!

Upstairs for leche, libros and then the siesta and Max was lights out at 1150am and was woken up by his madre at 130pm. Any longer and we might as well tuck him in at 11pm tonight!!

I would have loved a siesta with mi hijo in the chill room, but just as I settled in...I had a coughfest. Next week...back to the doctora as this thing is going on a month now. Yikes.

So Max slept and I sat outside his closed door, keeping an ear ready...but he was lights out.

Post siesta, I was off to el gimnasio and had a great workout...phew!! For the familia, it looks like it was cooking time, lunch and the pollo for dinner, and then onto comida.

Some casa clean up and out the door.

And you are all caught up...as I am catching up on last night's Global News.

Onto the fotos!!

He does not seem to mind posing for the 3rd floor landing poses, but it takes a few fotos before the transformation appears.

Get ready...

Here it comes...

Smiling Max Van!!

Incoming...zoom zoom.

Oh, there was some excitement today!!

I call this next foto "Max and the Borracho"...yikes.

Pasale Poppa, pasale!!

All packed up and ready to head back to DF.

Max seems to be very intrigued with the big N and the lil'N.

Like a fish out of water. Wait a minute...

Pit stop at Poopie Loopie...500 gramos molida res y 600 gramos filetes de pollo....por favor.

Note the zapatos!!

Want to get 6 sales girls chatting that the gringos must be loco?? Buy two identical models of shoes, but in different colors, and then have your hijo wear one of each as we leave the tienda!!

Misc...ever hear about the term "teach and practice"?

Today Max really really wanted to cook huevos revueltos and if he had been given his way, he would have cooked them at 715am.

But between 715am and 830am, he must have asked "can I cook huevos revueltos now?" at least 30 times.

Oh, I was teaching patience and using ALL my might to practice it!! Yikes...but he got to cook his eggs and the world started rotating again.

You are all caught up. Back at you post tina time...wish us luck with bedtime!!

Hasta pronto!!

Buenos noches!! Poor niño...all we can do is keep feeding him the Gerbers.

Other then his belly, Max is a-ok and had a great afternoon with his madre at La Bocana. Lots of playing in the sand, but the water was not up to his liking, so he stayed on shore today.

Home at 530pm for some tranquilo time and then quesadillas at 6pm. And out of his highchair and into a panale at 605pm. If we ate dinner at 10pm he would need out of his chair at 1005pm!!

But he ate a good dinner and managed a lil'biz before one video and tina time.

Currently 730pm and I have 20 minutos...hoping that Bex has worked some sort of magic on the lil'man and it will NOT take an hour for him to fall asleep tonight!!

Hey, love the lil'man, and will do what it takes to help him fall asleep...but there is a NFL game on right now tambien!!

Any who...that was our día.

Mañana? Can you say familia paddle board time? We are going to be at playa Santa Cruz before 8am and Bex will give Bubba a lesson and then she will load the lil'man on her board and off we go. Stay tuned!!

And then hola hola to another couple of NFL games!! Tough domingo eh?

Ok, enjoy your Sunday y hasta mañana.

Marco, Bexico y Max