This blog post is for all the amazing people who take care of our kiddoes, teach them, love them and have become an extension of our family.
Angelica Espinosa is our Mary Poppins. She's been with us since Cassiel was a baby and we ADORE her. She's with the kids three days a week and fills those days with trips to the park, story time at the library and tumbling class at the Y. She goes grocery shopping when we're out of milk and makes dinner when I'm busy. She's an angel. But this is about the kids, not me. And the kids love her!
Alex goes to preschool two days a week and they are his favorite days of the week (aside from Saturday and Sunday when he's home with Mama - he assures me). He loves school. Here he is with his teachers, Miss Vita and Miss Megan at Chalk Preschool in Westwood. He just graduated from the Yellow Room and is now in the Orange Room with new teachers and we're missing Vita and Megan. Everyone at preschool calls him Alejandro because there is another Alex in school with him. He has really taken to the name and now occassionally introduces himself as Alejandro. (Picture me smiling here)
We think maybe Miss Megan might just be the best preschool teacher on the planet. You know those people who were just born to do what they're doing? She's one of them. And she loves our little guy. It warms my heart.
Alex giving Miss Vita a kiss....
Shariff! Cassiel goes to daycare at Shariff's house the same two days that Alex is in preschool. Every day we pull up to daycare she squeals and claps. She just loves it. It's the same daycare where Alex went before he started preschool. It used to be run by Shariff and his dear wife, Razia, who passed away a year and a half ago, and now it's just Shariff and his helper, Kor. They've been so good to us and love our kiddoes so much! We are very grateful. So, if anyone ever needs a daycare in West LA, I highly recommend!
We can't forget Grammy and Grandpa! They're at the top of the list of people who love our kiddoes! We just came back from Labor Day weekend in Santa Cruz. Grammy has a whole closet of presents for the kiddoes, which Alex has discovered and now raids whenever we visit. They took the kids to the Boardwalk, the park and the beach. There is no shortage of fun at Grammy and Grandpa's house.
Godmommy Keidi and the Lewis clan! Here we are with our youngest, Cassiel (16 months) and Annea (4 months). The big kids are playing somewhere in the yard, but were having too much fun to pose for a picture.
One day we'll look back on this blog and forget how hard it was to juggle life with two young children. The struggle to get the laundry done and the dishes washed while commuting an hour and a half a day, maintain interesting but intense careers and all the while prioritize time to play with our children, to laugh with them, to tickle them till they can't breathe, to discover the world with them. The down side to having everything you ever wanted? Chronic fatigue. Alas...
We're so fortunate to be surrounded by people who love and adore our children. To you all, thank you. THANK YOU and thank you. You enrich our childrens' lives and keep us parents sane.
