Nov 13
Was reading over at Latina-ish that her family has a favorite YouTube video for learning the Spanish alphabet. Went to comment on her post with the link to ours, and now the boys are begging me to keep playing it. So with the music playing over and over in the background, I thought I’d share it with you all, too!
El alfabeto español, compliments of YouTube:
I’m sure our family is responsible for about 52,000 of the 352,809 visits currently listed on their site.
Nov 4
People ask me all the time if the twins have different personalities. From now on, I’m just going to pull this post up on my iPhone.
Here’s where each has spent the last 2 1/2 solid hours of the afternoon. Upon their own volition; Mamacita had nothing to do with it, except for not-interrupting-them.
Exhibit A: ‘Berto:
Oct 11
Fred and I have a thing about the number 11. Both our birthdays are on the 11ths of their respective months. Our first kiss was on an 11th. The twins’ adoption finalized on an 11th. And then when we asked for a baptism date at our church? Yep, another 11th.
It’s really a little weird.
But amidst all the 11′s flying at us, there was ONE over which we actually had control: our wedding day. (And no, we couldn’t control that first kiss…)
7 years ago today, we officially started our family.
Oct 8
… would have been that he and Jose are spending it with their Tía Amy and Tío Chris (who, yes, still love us after the pranking), so that Mama and Papa can have a stay-cation for their anniversary.
But then, literally as we were going out the door…
Oct 7
Been spending most evenings this week working on backing up my aforementioned over-loaded hard drive. But I accomplished (well, we accomplished - I had help from Fred) one thing I’ve been wanting to cross off my list for a while: American Mamacita now has email!
A year late, I know.
But at any rate, it’ll start popping up all over the site now. To contact us, write to:
[Seriously, please do write. 'Cause all we have right now are the two welcome messages from Google Apps and one test I sent myself.] 
-Kim
Oct 1
I can’t imagine HOW this could have happened, but I’ve maxed out the hard drive on my laptop.
Since I don’t foresee myself taking fewer photos in the future, I’m now looking for good storage recommendations. Online? In-home? Anyone have advice they’d like to share?
‘Cause the Mamarazzi is only 4 years into motherhood and 7 years into marriage. And just got a Nikon D-90.
Help!
-Kim
Sep 28
For the second time, we packed up our belongings and brought our sons home from Guatemala on Saturday. There’s really no comparing the two trips. They’re older, (potty trained, thank you Jesus!), understand what’s going on, are attached to us, and it’s “going home” for them now, too. It was almost like an entirely different trip.
I was thinking, in the airport, how much this felt like being with totally different kids. And then I looked up, and they took me back.
Ok, so maybe they’re not entirely different.
Sep 11
Most of the time, I’m the one who writes here. But occasionally, the American Papacito will chime in. Even when he doesn’t make his presence known online, he’s always here in the background, doing his thing.
Keeping pace with what the boys and I discover while he’s gone all day at work.
Dreaming up the next home improvement we “need” to make. Read the rest of this entry
Sep 2
This morning, I got a Fed-Ex package I didn’t want to receive: a return of the letters I sent to the boys’ foster mom in Guate. She’s moved and they can’t find her.
So she doesn’t know we’re coming. And the boys REALLY want to see her while we’re there. But I don’t know where she is.
Then, at around 2:00, I got word that the airline we booked to get there is no longer flying.
So I’ve spent the evening looking for good rates with other airlines, rather than getting anything else accomplished.
For a trip that looks like – while it’ll be great site-seeing – will not include the #1 most important thing to the twins: seeing Xiomara again.
Really?
Aug 30
Well, yes, just like every other mom-blogger out there, not only did I take my kids’ pictures bright and early this morning, but I also have a sharing platform. So because I know all the words have already been said at several thousand other web addresses, no more from me. Happy 1st Day to the rest of you!
(Yeah, they just walked back inside and sat down. Guess that’s a little anti-climactic, huh?)
