Bonnett-Castillo Family Blog: September 2010

Wow! Its been over 3 months since my last blog, I think that's the longest I have gone without blogging!

Well, a lot has happened in the last 3 months... Natalie is growing up so fast!! She can say quite a few words now, although not all of them are easy to understand. She can say mama, dada, milk and night-night very clear. She pretty much understands everything we tell her. She is very good at telling us no, she doesn't actually say it, but just shakes her head. Her molars have started coming in, and those have been pretty painful for her. We took her to the eye doctor because a couple people had mentioned to us that it looked like she might have a lazy eye. Her vision tests all came back normal, so that was great to find out. Recently she has started hitting us when she doesn't get what she wants. The first couple times she did it we weren't sure if she actually knew what she was doing so we ignored it, but as the days passed and she kept hitting us when she was upset we knew that she knew what she was doing. Hopefully this is a phase and she soon learns that hitting is not ok. Natalie has started going to a gym class, and she loves it!! They have physical activities for the kids, and also sing songs and play games. And there is always a lesson they are trying to teach each week.

This past weekend we went to Phoenix for Charlie's race. It was a 12 hour race, 6pm until 6am!! He did great, he came in 47th out of 183 people. He ran 30.8 miles, his race time was 6:47:07. I couldn't stay at his race since I was driving home the next day I needed to sleep, but his family was out there with him so he had a lot of support. Even though our trip to Phoenix was short it was nice to see our families. My grandparents spent the weekend with us too so they could spend time with Natalie, they had not seen her since March. Also Natalie got to see her Uncle James again, this was only her 2nd time seeing him and she warmed up to him pretty quick.

I am really going to try and start blogging more often! I promise!

Here are a few pictures from this weekend:

Playing at Toys-R-Us