Feliz Cumpleanos Creed!!

Creed turned four on July 20th. Where does the time go?! He is such a cutie. We do not know anyone here so just had a little party with our babysitter and her niece. They kids spent all week planning and decorating the living room. Diana (our babysitter) took them to get a pinata a few days before and they enjoyed planning with it and filling it with toys and candy. Not sure how that tradition started for us of having the kids fill their own pinatas, but they love doing it. They put up balloons and streamers. It is so fun to see how excited they get about things. Well, really it is Laney who gets so excited. She was the one who got in trouble trying to wait for the party.  We finally had to start at 10am. I ran and got a cake and ice cream and we had the fastest party in the west. We played a little musical pillows, opened some prices, had a pinata and then ate cake. 

 Darlene and Laney coming up with a strategy to open it.

 Laney hitted the pinata with all her might. She still has not figured out that her dad has to carve it open since they are made so well.

A little known tradition (to us) that you eat off a corner of your cake. Creed had to do three corners so I could get a good picture.

 

I love that they had so much fun with hardly any friends and cheap toys. What a fun age. Creed is quite the character and has grown up so much in the last year. Of course, his Spanish skills have grown leaps and bounds (more than I can say for myself). He corrects my spanish a lot and is quite helpful when I do not know a word. He prefers Spanish and is way more comfortable in it. He is not as shy as he use to be and walks up to all the kids we walk by and says hola. Not sure if he is more extroverted in Spanish or if he is just more extroverted in general. He can walk a lot more too. Well, I guess I should rephrase that; he does not like to walk much, but now he will run places. There is no relaxing family walks; it is either run with Creed or carry Creed. Hmmm, does that remind you of anyone? Like father like son. It is a little harder to run up these hills at 9300 feet, but it is easier than carrying him. He has definately put on some pounds. He is constantly making us laugh. Today he was hugging his sister and saying "amigos por siempre" (friends forever). I love how close they are. He absolutely adores his sister and vice versus. They play so well together and seem to really enjoy each others company. Granted they are not in school here so if he did not play with her he would have no one. He does love pretending he is some animal or dinasour. It has been fun watching his imagination grow. And there is nothing cuter than listening to him play with two of his animals because they always talk in Spanish. I cannot wait to see what this year holds for him. I know it was a transition for him to learn Spanish in the beginning and it will probably be a transition for him to talk more English.