Dos Manos Fun and the Huffington Post

On December 9, 2011, my brand new tienda, Dos Manos Fun, was featured in The Huffington Post!  One of my products, a Rice Sensory Tub, was chosen by Etsy as a top toddler toy of the season!

I Opened an Etsy Store! Dos Manos Fun!

One reason I’ve been soo neglectful of my precious BLOG is because I opened an Etsy Store! (Bueno, it opened  in November 1!)  I was coersed  and I LOVE it! :) But I was working like a crazy person to get it up and running and do a little publicity for the Holiday Season.  (The store was also ignored for a while during our busy family Holiday Fest, but now that my BLOG is actualizada….it is time to do the same for DosManos Fun!)

The store is called Dos Manos Fun and we sell fun, creative, and simple hands-on activities for Toddlers and their Parents.  All of course are spiced with a little Español. ;)

Have a look around and tell me what you think!

www.DosManosFun.etsy.com

Almost Caught Up!

For those of you who have been reading….I went on a little hiatus from August until January.  Sooo much going on and just plain ole behind on everything!  I have FINALLY and feverishly written posts from August 2011 to January 2012. They are not as detailed or as language and culture oriented as I would have liked, but I tried to at least leave some kind of documentation of Sofía’s development.  It isn’t the best, but it is the best that I can do right now!  HA HA.  Soooo….I will promise to get back on track from here on out!  Sofía’s cumpleaños is around the corner, so I may not be able to jump in head first…I will at least be wading along! 

Thanks for sticking with me!

Elizabeth

Lombrices

Our newest favorite thing to do is dig up and observe the lombrices from under a stump.  We watch them, touch them, and then put them back so that we can check them out another day.

Nieve

ііPor fin....nieve!!!!

Los Reyes Magos

Enero 6 is the Fiesta de los Reyes Magos or when the Three Wise Men came and visited Baby Jesus.  Many countries have very different and very chévere celebaciones.  I wish I had the time to expand on the, but that will have to be for a future post.  Bueno….our familia tries to give a little gift on that day too.  This year, we kind of did our own thing and celebrated the night of Enero 6 instead of the night of Enero 5…but whatever, it was a Friday and it worked for us.  So we did a simple little dinner (yes AGAIN!) of baked rigatoni and meatballs and Sopa de Espárragos.  (red and green!).  Sofía’s favorite cousin, Juan Diego and his mother were still in town visiting, so los abuelos and la Tía Greta and JD of course came over.  Juan Diego and Sofía decorated cupcakes that Sofía and I baked.  We all put our shoes by the door and like magia, while we were eating, the Reys Magos came and left us regalitos in our zapatos!  It was a nice simple way for us to end the Holiday Season (now we can officially take down the Árbol de Navidad) and take a short breather before we prepare for Sofía’s cumpleaños!

Feliz Cumpleaños Doménico!

Sofía made her amigo D come cupcakes for his third cumpleaños.  They were cyber-shared!

Bolos

We took Sofía to jugar bolos for the first time.  She liked it, but I think she would have liked it even more if her favorite Primo Juan Diego had been able to go.  She’s loca for him!

Navidad

іFeliz Navidad!

Los Preparativos

Here are part of our Holiday decorations (yes in a nutshell!) Every year we host a Santa Fiesta where Santa makes a visit and gives all the niños regalos. We also always host Noche Buena(Christmas Eve)and this year due to kitchen malfunctions at Abuela’s house, we hosted Christmas Día also! Wow! 

Repetition

At two years and 10 months, Sofía still isn’t that into opening gifts.  So when people give us presents early, we try to open one a day so that she won’t be all that overwhelmed or STOP opening presents all together.  This year’s favorite present……an easel  with a dry erase board!!  So much entertainment writing with marcadores and erasing it! 

¡Feliz Cumpleanños a Mí!

¡Feliz Cumpleanños 42 a Mí!   We always forget to take birthday pictures.  Here Is what is left of my yummy torta! Yes, it had my nombre on it! My husband is the best!

Pesebre 2011

Every year, we put up both an Árbol de Navidad as well as a Pesebre.  Although our Pesebre is not nearly as elaborate as many European households, we still like to make a big production out of putting it together.  Sofía decided to add her own animales this year!

Odontólogo

We finally went for our first visita with a pediatric odontólogo or dentista as my husband says.  (I think that Colombia is probably one of the few places that uses odontólogo for dentist  and I think it may drive him a bit loco that I can’t erase my Colombian ways for his Peruvian! Sofía uses both terms depending with whom she is speaking.)  It went as well as expected (I set the expectatives pretty looooowww!)  Sofía received a, ball,  balloon, and a rinoceronte among some other really cool dental gifts like toothpaste and a toothbrush!

Árbol de Navidad

And here is the producto final....