UPDATE overload

My my it has been awhile since the Campos clan has updated. Alot has happened and I admit it is laziness that got in the way. Since Easter, Mama and Papa came up to visit and we celebrated Mama's Bday up here. We had lots of yummy food and my parents and Gma Belle came over as well. Inay joined us on Skype. Emma showed them the ropes in Salem on this trip taking them to her usual hangouts. Wednesday is her library day followed by a trip down to the carousel and a visit to Mommy's work for lunch. Thursday she took them to the local Toys R Us and got a new train set. Friday was a kick back day BUT Saturday we showed them what a Portland outing is like. We started our day off early, leaving the house at around 9:30 a.m. Our first stop was to my parents house to say goodbye then off to Fred Meyers to do some banking, grab some snacks, and Emma's free cookie. We headed to Hmart to do some korean grocery shopping, grab some lunch, and marinated squid to take back to the Bay Area. Next was to Blumenthals for Papa to get some postal uniform stuff and than we headed to OMSI. We toured the Da Vinci exhibit, life science, and the play area. After OMSI we drove to a furniture store over by PDX and than to Ikea. After Ikea we grabbed dinner at Panda Express and got some Frozen Yogurt for dessert. To bad we can never go back there, thanks to Papa. Ask him for the details. LOL

After we ate, we dropped Mama and Papa off at the airport. It was sad to see them go and wished they could have stayed longer. We were going to go back home but decided to make a stop at the Costco in Hillsboro to check out some furniture deals. I know what you must be thinking, why all the furniture places? Well we got our tax refund (thanks Obama) and badly need furniture to fill in our house. We brought the furniture from our 1100 sq. ft apartment into our 2811 sq. ft house. Lets just say everything we owned fit into our kitchen and family room ONLY! Haha

Okay back to our trip, after Costco, Eden wanted to go to the japanese grocery store to buy a movie she wanted and Albert wanted to go to the boba place. After that, we made our final stop at Bridgeport. So after 12 stops, 12 hours later we finally made it home. Our girls were great, no crying, whining, or tantrums. It will be awhile till we do another trip like that again!

BTW: Happy 21st Birthday Nikki!

Easter Sunday!

It's been a wonderful weekend. I love celebrating Easter! This was the first time that Emma actually understood what was going on this year for the egg hunt. Eden did not get to participate she was above the age limit. She has officially transitioned out of being a "child" no more kid's meals and egg hunts. I won't leave any captions for the pictures. I'll let them tell their story.

A Day at the Park

For the past couple of days we've had really good weather (finally!). We celebrated the return of the sun by going outside and having a nice family picnic at a nearby park. This park is also right next to Pringle Elementary, where Emma and Sophie will be going to school. All the pictures and videos you see of the family are actually on the Pringle Elementary school grounds.

This was taken AFTER I was took a video. The video actually has both Joy and Emma looking at the camera with huge open mouths like they're about to go down. After telling them that I was taking a video, I switched to camera mode, which they then went DOWN the slide. A bit backwards, no?

Joy's Fear Factor moment. :) She was "exaggerating" for Emma, but it was funny nonetheless.

Emma going down the slide by herself. She loves going down slides, but HATES swings. Go figure...

So after the park, since it was still nice out (about 70 degrees around 6PM), we decided to wash the cars. By washing we mean, Joy and I do the work, and Emma plays in the water. Sophie fell asleep in her car seat (as usual) and Eden went to another park to see her friends.

Emma in the "rain". Any type of water falling from the sky to her is rain. She also takes a shower in the "rain". Needless to say, she got DRENCHED.

Here's how she got drenched.

Sophie has been ridiculous since the last time we updated. She had her two month checkup on Monday the 6th. She got three shots and had to take a fourth one orally. Poor Sophie! But she got the last laugh. She was lying down while the nurse attendant was trying to give her the oral medicine. She dropped in a little bit, but Sophie smiled and let it dribble down her chin. The nurse cleaned her up, and proceeded to do it again. She pushed a little down on Sophie's chest to get a better angle for her to drink, when all of a sudden... BLEH! Sophie threw up all of her formula that she just drank. I laughed, but the nurse didn't. :D

Sophie being Sophie.


Smiling Sophie.

Pensive Sophie.

AHHHH!!! Emma trying to eat the Mama!

Eden and Emma sunbathing out on the deck. That's aluminum foil if you're wondering.

Lastly, Happy Easter everyone! Thanks for reading!

COOKIE TIME

Yummmmmmmyyyyyyy! Albert tried to catch the girls sneaking cookie dough batter while filming. I think the cookies turned out great and the kichen was a mess afterwards. The girls had a fun time making them. ENJOY!

Update!

Yea Yea Yea, I know what you're going to say... "You said you'd update 'tomorrow', it's 4 days since 'tomorrow' happened..." Well guess what, we're people and we get busy (or lazy). Now, onto the update!

Today is April 1st, but it's actually 8 weeks since Sophie entered this world. A lot has happened since then, and she's changing every day for the good!

Our three girls. We tried to mimic a picture that Emma and Eden did around the time Emma was around 3 months.

Sophie is growing a lot. I can barely hold her in my arms because her legs are so long! Emma is saying so many different things it's ridiculous. She can sing the alphabet song, with a little bit of help, and she can say her numbers from 1 to 20! Eden is studious as ever. Her block teacher bribed the class with a pizza party if they do well on their end of the year standardized testing. I don't doubt that she'll be eating pepperoni on the last day of school!

So yes, we DID go to Portland on Friday and it was a BLAST! Our first stop: Voodoo Doughnuts (http://voodoodoughnut.com/)

They show the doughnuts like this, in a pie display case. The ones you eat are on trays behind the counter. We opted for the Voodoo Dozen, where they pick the ones for you.

Part of the inside of the restaurant. We went to the second location, which is supposedly bigger with ample parking. You can't miss the building, it's on a weird intersection and it's painted in Pepto-Bismol Pink.

I don't think they do deliveries, but I guess Joy took a shot of this to actually prove that we went there. :)

The Voodoo Dozen. Notice in the left-middle the voodoo doughnut. It has a pretzel stick sticking out of it! There's also a "Devil's Chocolate" doughnut complete with red sprinkles and a white frosting pentagram. And of course, the sprinkles! Emma loves sprinkles. We definitely got an odd assortment of doughnuts.

Emma eating her first Voodoo Doughnut. What, did you really think we'd give her the one w/ the pentagram first? She ate that next.

So after our sugar rush, we headed on down to OMSI (http://www.omsi.edu/). This place is AMAZING. Think of The Exploratorium times 10! We decided to help them out and bought a membership. We also got tickets for their IMAX theater. Emma was wowed by the sheer size of the screen, but got scared once the previews started rolling. I had to bring her to the top of the theater where she calmed down... and fell asleep. Sophie slept through the entire movie. We watched a movie about the ocean off of the coast of Africa. It was about the sardines that live around there and the predators that ate them! It was pretty cool watching the birds dive from 100 feet in the air and dive into the water at over 30 mph! After the movie we went into the hands-on area where Emma and Eden got to play with a whole bunch of gadgets and gizmos.

Eden in a replica spacecraft.

The Sand Pit. Emma DID NOT want to leave this place. Eden got assaulted by a little kid. Not really, this little boy came and took her shovel and said that he needed it. LOL :D

There's a reason to why I look like this. NO, I don't look like this ALL THE TIME! Stop laughing. There was a guy in the sand pit sitting on a bench in front of me. He kept bending down to help out his kid who was playing in front of him. I turned that way to look at Emma when I noticed that the sand pit HAD SPRUNG A LEAK! There was a HUGE CRACK IN IT! You catch my drift...

After the sand pit, we entered the Life Science area. Emma got to pet a snake, and look at all these other bugs and frogs that were in the area. They had a very interesting exhibit about pregnancy and the stages of fetal development. It was created by the same person who made those Body Worlds exhibits. They had actual fetuses that were encased in some kind of liquid starting from 4 weeks to 32 weeks. Joy and I walked through the exhibit holding Sophie, and it was surreal to think that this is what our kids went through inside of Joy. There was a sign in the front that told us that these were real fetuses, and that they died of natural causes. There was also another sign beneath it that said to not take any pictures or video... Joy did... But I'm not posting the pix here! LOL

Our last stop in our Portland trip landed us in the Lloyd Center (http://www.lloydcenter.com/). Unfortunately our camera ran out of batteries before we could take any pictures here. This mall boasts three levels of shopping with an indoor ice rink on the main floor! We ran into our realtor who helped get our house! We actually ran into him inside of OMSI as well. We also met up with one of our old church buddies from TCCBC, Justin. He's living in Portland right now doing his residency. It was just so nice to see a familiar face in a sea of strangers!

After seeing Justin and walking around the Lloyd Center for a bit, we headed on home. Sophie and Emma were extremely good angels throughout the entire time we were out. Eden was a doll as usual! We got a little lost trying to find our way home, but our GPS guided us RIGHT to the Rose Garden, which was pretty cool to see up close.

And that's the end of our Portland trip! We look forward to going around and seeing more of it again some time soon.

Thanks for reading everyone.