Happy 2009! Welcome to a new year of adventures!

We hope you all had a wonderful new year celebration! We are excited about 2009 - so many changes will happen with our family! We are looking forward to welcoming our new baby boy in March and becoming a family of four and then our first big move. It looks like 95% chance it will be Rochester, NY which we are excited about since we've heard it's beautiful in the fall and a great, family friendly town. We know it'll be cold for us Floridians, but we'll adapt! Enjoy some pictures from the first few days of the new year!

Paul and Cristina. This dress does a weird thing to my belly!

Sebastian before he fell asleep around 10 pm. Too bad he didn't make it to midnight this year...

On New Year's Day we went to Paul's parents to celebrate a belated Christmas with his sister and family. We also played our traditional "search for the pickle" game. Paul found it with Sebastian and when Sebastian saw it he immediately opened his mouth and tried to eat it (it's a fake pickle by the way)! It was so funny and strange because he's never eaten a whole pickle before, but it made for a pretty funny picture.

Opening two new Barney (Coe) DVD's from his cousin Tyler.

Over the weekend we visited the Brevard Zoo for the first time. He enjoyed the monkeys, birds, giraffes, gators and rhino the best. He was so excited when we walked into the open bird aviary that he just started running around waving his arms like this and shrieking. It was pretty funny.

Is this a real monkey??? Anytime we see a monkey he makes monkey noises.

Feliz Dia de los Reyes! Happy Epiphany! We gave Sebastian three small gifts as is our tradition in Puerto Rico. He was very excited to open the first one.

And he loved it! They were these neat crayola stamps - and he loves stamps. He didn't want to open any more of his presents after that.

Playing with Abu (great grandma) and laughing! We spent a morning at the park together so she could enjoy Sebastian.

A Quick Story

We keep saying we want to post this story and just keep putting it off, but I just want to recount it quickly for posterity's sake. And so Sebastian can read it years from now and laugh too. =)

Sebastian has always been pretty good about using the real words for things, except for a few. He only has made up words for a couple of things - toys = dodos, Barney= Coe and then this last one: Jesus = Chachi. I know, I know!!! I have no idea, why or where he got this, but obviously only very special people/things have made up names so it's a good thing Jesus is up on that list.

We pray before every meal and every time he sits in his high chair he says "pray" and folds his hands. He has attempted the sign of the cross a few times, but usually he just wants to fold his hands. Then when we are done, he always says "Thank you, Chachi."

Then, the other night we were at Mass and right before the procession begins he always looks for the crucifix that they carry in during the procession. It was those few seconds when they announce the gathering song and before the choir starts when he spotted the crucifix. So, the church is silent, the song is about to start and the procession, when our lovely Sebastian shouts out - LOUDLY - and points - CHACHI! We could have melted....it was soooo embarrassing, but such a memorable moment. We continue to work on his saying Jesus, but it still always comes out as Chachi.