Ahorra, un poco de informacion para los Colombianos

Bueno, recien aprendi como hacer un blog. Y entonces estoy compartiendo cosas de nuestra familia con el mundo electronico. Hay una fotos de la mano de Cristian. La lastimo el miercoles con una maquina de caminar de ejercicio (se llama treadmill en ingles). Esta mejorando, pero, tiene que mantener la mano cubierto con antibiotico para no tener infeccion. A pasar de esto, emos pasado muy bien la epoca de verano. Gabriela aprendio manenjar su bici y tomo unas clases de natacion y baile. Critian queria bailar, pero es muy joven todavilla para tomar las clases. Hace un mes atras, los dos cumplieron anos. Cristian 2 y Gabriela 6. Tuvimos una pequena fiesta con la familia mia. Lastamosamente, Erwin no estavo. Esto paso mientras que el estuvo en Los Angeles para el trabajo. Los ninos extranaron su papa y esperamos viajar con el la proxima vez.

New definition of burning rubber!

Well, I know that most of you who read this blog already know about Cristian's rubber burning experience. He burned through several layers of his skin when his hand got stuck in our treadmill. But, nobody else has seen the injury. So, I have some pictures to post.

Swimming, Dancing, and Bicycling...Oh my!

Well, our little Gabriela has been very busy these past few weeks. She has been taking swimming lessons and is getting to be a very good little swimmer. She also started her first dance class. I think that she will really enjoy dancing and that she will be a really good little dancer. Finally, she learned how to ride her bicycle without her training wheels. To my great relief, this was an easy feat for her that required very little effort on my part. I really had no idea how to teach her, but she just seemed to pick it up and take off without much help from me. Yeah!

Birthdays

Well, we have made it through the birthday season for our family. Cristian turned two on May 28 and Gabriela turned six on June 1. We had a small family dinner party to celebrate on Cristian's birthday, although I don't think that he had a clue about what was going on. Then on Sat. May 31 Gabriela had a birthday party with some of her friends in the neighborhood. She invited ten kids and five of them were able to come. We had a big water fight party. She got a new slip and slide and the kids played on that. We had a competition to see who could slide the fartherest and Emma Tueller won that. I also bought a bunch of water guns for the kids to play with. I hung an old bike tire up on the fence and the kids had to shoot at it as if it were a target and the kid who hit the bulls eye won a prize for that. After that, the kids just played together in the water. I think that they had a good time and to end the party Gabriela opened her presents and the kids had cupcakes. I'd say it was a pretty successful first friend party for Gabriela.On Sunday we had one more party. This was a party for the family and grandma Kathy, grandpa Brucey, Jacob, Melissa, Benji, Zach, Nate, Celeste, Alex, Tifani, and Dempsey all came to this party. We also celebrated Jake's birthday as he turned 30 on the 25th of May. Once again it was a lot of fun. We had dinner, opened presents, and ate cake and ice cream. Too bad that Nate and grandma Kathy were not feeling good. But it was fun anyway. Now I don't have to think about birthday's for several months. Yeah! I wish that I had pictures of the party to post, but Erwin took the camera with him to California so there were no pictures:( Oh well.