Kids

Amelia got a hold of Ricky's ear things he wears for shooting.

She put all this on herself. That's a tshirt on the bottom half.

I love this picture. He is so smiley.

Her new favorite phrase is "Watch a movie? OK"

My handsome boy. He is growing so much. He can roll both ways now. At his 4 month check up he was 14 pounds.

Children's Museum

We had one free pass for the children's museum, so we decided to go on Friday, May 28th. It wasn't crowded and Amelia really had fun.

Outside looking cool in her glasses.

Even RE had fun!

Home

After 15 hours of travelling, we finally made it home. After a day of laundry and cleaning we are a little more recovered and getting back to normal. We really miss the beach though!

He's chunking up a bit.

Amelia is so sweet with RE. She says "I lub you" all the time.

New chalk for the patio.

This is outside the zoo. She spent 15 minutes getting on and off.

The pediatrician said we could start giving RE water in a sippy cup, but Amelia thinks she needs to help him. "He's thirsty" she says.

May 21: Goodbyes

Some of Ricky's family came over to say goodbye to us the morning we left. It was sad, but nice to see everyone.

Tio Willy

Cousins

Abuelo y Abuela with all their grandkids.

Abuela y RE

Ricky, RE, and Abuelos

Annette

We had a wonderful time in PR and we can't wait to go back. Our house is there if anyone wants to go stay!

May 19-20: Tia and Splash Park

On Wednesday, we went to Lajas to busy some bread and visit Ricky's aunt and cousin.

On Thursday we went to the splash park in Aguadilla.

We were a little early, so we played at the park for a while.

Last time we took her to the splash park in Tucson, she was still a little timid, but she wanted to go through every splash she could. She wants you to hold her hand and go with her, but usually I just pushed her through.

I hung out with RE on the sidelines until Amelia wanted me. We had fun, but it was sad knowing it was our last real day.

After the splash park we got pollo al carbon and arroz con gandules on the side of the road and took it to crashboat. I couldn't get any pictures because we had both kids. The water is deeper there and Amelia wouldn't let me touch her. The rain moved in so we had to go home.

May 17 : Beach

On Monday, we went to a different beach that has a little better snorkeling, Montones.

We had her legs buried, but she got up before I could get the camera.

This is where the Grimmers were living when I went to see them after my mission.

When we got home we played with the cousins, Eliazar and

Adrian.

May 15-16: Rio Mar and Earthquake

Some of Ricky's friends invited us to go to the bioluminescent bay in Fajardo, but it was late at night and I couldn't take the kids. So we decided to go spend the day at a resort and then Ricky went with his friends at night. We went to the Rio Mar beach resort, which was actually where Karli took me on my first trip to PR. It was fun to be back.

They have iguanas ALL over the place.

This is what RE did while we swam.

Amelia literally went on this slide 100 times.

Our little fish.

Ricky teases me about my teeth in this picture. He says he's never seen me that happy.

This one actually swam in the pool, got out, and then climbed a tree.

Ricky left at about 6:00 pm, because you have to go to the bio bay when its dark. He got back around 1:00 am and went to bed. I got up to feed RE and while I was feeding him, everything started shaking. We were on the 6th floor and it was pretty scary. The earthquake was only a 5.8, but it felt really strong. It took me a while to go back to sleep, but I finally did. I kept worrying about a tsunami, but then I realized that's from earthquakes that happen under the ocean, so we were safe.

On Sunday we found a little branch to go to church and headed home. We had a fast, but great mini vacation.