The Toddler Laws of Property (DANNY)

1) If I touch it, it's mine
2) If I want it, it's mine
3) If It's yours, it's mine
4) If I look at it, it's mine
5) If I think it's mine, it's mine

Late Update

I has been a while since I posted something on this page, my life has gotten busier since we moved to Utah, first we had to do all the packing, then we unpacked, shortly after we had to pack again for our family trip to Colorado, then we came back to Utah and 2 weeks after my parents bought a house and we had to pack and unpack all over again. Their new house is great, it has three floors so as you can imagine Danny has me going up and down the stairs all day long, and of course the bigger the house the more messes I have to clean up. Danny sure loves the big space though. He still doesn't talk much, his new favorite thing to say is "evin!" (Kevin-my younger brother) I think Danny thinks of him as his best friend and brother. He gets really excited when Kevin comes home from school. It has been really nice staying at my parents house, it's great having the extra help when needed.
For those who have met Danny you know that he almost never stays still, now that he is getting older he has more energy than ever and has found plenty of ways to let us know when he is happy or upset. He laughs more and he can actually entertain himself a little better now, I can tell that his imagination in growing. He also loves to shout across the room any sounds he can think of making. Sometimes he will yell something and find it so hilarious and he just laughs and laughs, it is so funny to watch him do things like that. I love seeing him grow and learn new skills, he can run pretty fast now, I remember a while back that a day or two after he learned how to walk he was already trying to run! I couldn't believe it. I think most parents don't want their kids to grow so fast but I am glad that Danny is getting older and exploring more and I think that he has more fun now that he is able to climb big rock and run really fast and go up and down the stairs. It is impossible to keep our babies from growing but I do try to be the best mother I can be for him everyday. I love being a mom and I am so excited to become a mom of 2!
So after our last visit to the doctor we are now for sure of the due date.....December 24! I can't believe I only have 3 months left, I am getting a little nervous but at the same time I just want to hold her and love her. We are seriously thinking of getting induced a little earlier but we will see what happens as we get closer to the due date. I guess I should mention that we are naming her Vanessa Hinkson, no middle name, unless we think of a great one but we don't think middle names are that important.
Also, Daniel started student teaching a couple weeks ago and he loves being there and he is enjoying his internship, I am glad he picked the career of his dreams and that he has no regrets.
Here are some pictures of Danny and my growing belly.






*BUSTED! I found him eating chocolates that my cousin Carlos brought us from Peru.


*He loves baby sister's bassinet

Daniel's Graduation Day!

Today has been a great day for all of us, but specially for Daniel. He is a hard worker that has many goals and ambitions for his life; there are so many things I love about Daniel but one of them is that he loves learning and he is excited to finally start working with his degree. We are all so happy today....HE GRADUATED FROM BYU IDAHO!..... so we went out and took some pictures at the school garden, after that we went home to get changed and went to the water park! it was so refreshing to touch the cold water because today is a really hot day! Once we were done at the park, we went to get some yummy ice cream at coldstones to celebrate Daniel's graduation. We wished we could of shared this moment with all of our families but that's why we took plenty of pictures, for everybody to see a little glimpse of how happy we feel today.
*DANIEL I AM SO PROUD OF YOU MUAH MUAH MUAH! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH*

Daniel's BIG DAY


Father and son, don't they look adorable?!


Family picture


Daniel looking good!




Danny and mom


We are a happy family!


This is me trying to look good like Daniel


Daniel and Danny playing at the water park

Our lives right now:

Well as many of you know Daniel graduation is this Thursday July 23rd! Of course we are so happy that he is finally done with school(at least for a while), and I am excited to get out of here! although I made great friends here who I will miss lots, the country life is not my place to live. Daniel comes from a much bigger state (Colorado) and I come from a much much more loud and more exciting kind of place (Peru of course!) So you see, this is not our comfort zone, yet we have learned to make it our home and we did enjoy the calmness and the friendly people we met in Rexburg. It feels like we have been here for so long that I started to think that it would be fun to grow things in my garden (once we get a house), well now I think it's crazy, I wouldn't know the first thing about taking care of a plant! I will leave that to amazing people that have that kind of dedication and talent. But honestly, we think that Rexburg is the perfect place to go to school, the spirit was always strong on campus, and there weren't as many distractions, I would of love to finish school here, but that will have to get done somewhere else now that we are moving.
Danny is more active than ever, he is almost always in a good mood, but he can be a little dramatic sometimes, which even though we don't usually like it when Danny throws a fit for small things we can't help to laugh sometimes, "what a little character" as Daniel would say. He is starting to be more vocal, thought I can't make any sense of what he says, but he is starting to reply back to us... in his own way of course. He does growl less, which is a good thing, people were staring to think that he didn't like when others talked to him because every time someone came up to say how cute he is he would just growl and them. I was starting to get tired at explaining that he wasn't mad, it's just the way he "talks".

Now onto baby #2: Well, he/she is moving tons! I cannot believe it, with Danny I felt his first kick/move when I was 5 months pregnant with him, but with this baby I felt it as soon as I got in the 4Th month. Which made us wonder if this baby will be more active than Danny.....NO, IMPOSSIBLE!!....RIGHT?! ha ha but in all seriousness we are so excited to find out what the sex of the baby is, I think that the ultrasound will be done next month but it might be in September, for sure my mom will be the first one to know, after Daniel of course.

*We are moving into my parents house for a couple of months until Daniel is done with his internship, after that we will see where the Lord takes us, which I am very nervous about. But we are so grateful for the help that my family is giving us, we are excited to move in with them and for Daniel to get to know them better. Danny will have NO PROBLEM adjusting because he LOVES his abuelitos! He also loves his aunts and uncle Kevin. My brother room is Danny's favorite place to play at my parents house because uncle Kevin has all the cool stuff, playstaion, gamecube, gameboy, guitar hero, controllers, an electric guitar, cables, a computer....everything a child like Danny dreams of touching and playing with!!! ready or not Kevin here he comes!

Coco's wedding

Last week Danny and I attended my cousin Coco's wedding in Utah, some family from Peru came to the wedding and it was so great to see them! Coco and Elizabeth are a beautiful couple, here are some pictures of our week in Utah.

*Coco and Elizabeth
















*My sister Melanie and I at the reception










*Four months pregant- next month we find out if it's a girl or a boy!






*My parents










*Danny loves to play in Grandpa's room.

WE LOVE FATHER'S DAY!

This morning Danny and I got up before Daniel did, I had completely forgotten to buy a Father's day card so I thought we would do it in a different way:


Daniel got woken up by this little naked guy with a smiley face on his stomach. We are so grateful for Daniel, baby Danny loves to play with his daddy and loves having him around. Thanks for being a great dad Daniel!

Remember when he was little?

I was looking at all of the pictures we have of Danny in our computer today, and it made me feel like crying by looking at pictures of him as a newborn. He has grown so fast, I never thought I would like it but lately I am loving the fact that he is growing and maturing (as much as a year old can) and being less fussy, and being a little more independent; it makes it so much easier now that he can point at what he wants. People always talk about "the terrible two's" but we had to experience "the terrible one!" A few of days before he turned one he had become extremely dramatic and fussy and he started to hit a lot!, good thing that ended about 4 days ago, thank goodness!, we are still working on not hitting other babies or kids at church, we are not sure where he could of learned that, it's not like he is around other kids a lot, and in our Spanish branch we haven't seen kids who do that. The other day I was watching a 7 mo old baby, he started to fuss and Danny just stared at him and as soon as he started crying, Danny threw a toy at his face, a couple of toys actually, I had to run and save the baby from my own child. It makes me laugh thinking about this because if "the terrible two's" is a lot worst than this, then I am not sure how I will handle it.....good thing we have quite a few months till then. But he is not all wild, he is a very loving baby: he gives me several kisses everyday, he loves to hug me, sometimes I will be in another room for a couple of minutes and when he sees me again he acts like he hadn't seen me for a long time and runs to hug me. He laughs a lot and he loves it when we pretend that he crashed us with his little push along car ( one of his birthday gifts from Grandma Judy). He likes watching baby Einstein clips online while sitting in our laps, and he LOVES eating fruits.

Danny turned one year old

We want to thank everyone for the birthday wishes, gifts, and for coming over to celebrate his first birthday with us. At the beginning of the week Danny got the stomach flu and our poor little guy was sick all week long, but during the weekend he felt much much better but still he was a little fussy. We had some family and friends over for cake and ice cream after chuch, and with the help of my family (thank you!) we put some decorations up and got the little party together. I love it when family comes over, we wish we lived closer to them and we are so greatful that they were able to come celebrate with us.



*We are sorry we are not posting more pictures of his little birthday party but our camera run out of battery at the begining so everyone else took some pictures with their own camera, I will post more pictures once they email me the ones they have!
*Here is a good video of Danny walking:




*But it looks like the chocolate cake and ice cream got Danny pretty hyper after everyone had left. It was so funny seeing him laugh so much, we didn't really do anything but anything that my brother Kevin did made him laugh. We were very grateful for uncle Kevin because that wore him out and he slept like a little angel all night long.



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There was a point were Danny was laughing so hard one of his eyes started twiching!haha

1st Hair cut/11 mo old pictures

Today Danny got his first hair cut! don't worry everybody, he still has plenty of hair. Now that the weather is becoming warmer and warmer Danny and I play outside more often, and his poor head is often hot and sweaty, even thought we thought he looked so precious with long crazy hair, he needed a hair cut, and he looks adorable with short hair! After a nap we took him to the garden at BYU-I and took some pictures. Next Sunday he turns 1 year old! we are excited to have some family and friends over for cake and ice cream.

BEFORE

AFTER

UPDATE

So we have a great update for the family, Danny is now walking! (he accomplished this about a couple of days ago, perhaps a week) He takes about 8-10 steps on his own and I am sure he could do more but he prefers it if we give him our finger or our hand to hold on to, he is a sweetie! So I guess we could say that he started to take a couple of steps at 9mo and started walking at age of 10mo old! And now he is 11mo old..WOW! We will have a little birthday party for him this month, it's going to be great!