Quetzalli and Ximena swimming.

Last Tuesday May 3, 2011, Quetzalli started swimming and holding on her breathe under water. It was a great accomplishment, I teached her how to do it. First I told her to hold on her breath and then put her face underwater. She did it. At first they were quick submersions. But now, almost two weeks later she can hold on her breath even longer.

Yesterday, May 13, Ximena, the youngest of my daughters, began learning how to hold on her breath underwater. This time, it was her mommy who teached her how to do it. Of course Ximena is still 1 year old and can do only minimal submersions. Her mommy also taught her how to lay in the water by herself. Only the floaties were sustaining her at the pool.

Ximena y Quetzalli en la Ciudad de Mexico!

Hola ninas bonitas. Pues hace unas semanas que nos vinimos para aca a Mexico, y se han estado adaptando bien.

A ti Quetzalli, lo que mas te gusto es haberte venido en avion. Quise traerte en avion porque sabia que era uno de tus mas arduos deseos el subirte a un avion. Y ya te subiste! Nos sentamos juntitos, fuimos companeritos de avion. Yo te sente en la ventanilla para que fueras viendo para abajo a las nubes. Cuando llegamos te buscamos una escuela, y fue dificil, porque por aca las escuelas no dan mucho ingles como estabamos acostumbrados. Pero te encontramos una escuelita chiquita donde dan clases de hawaiiano. Todavia vas con tu antiguo uniforme del Pequekali. Y ya te estan ensenando las letras, porque ya ibas atrasada. El habernos venido para aca a Mexico hizo que perdieras muchas clases, y ahora tienes que ponerte al corriente.

A ti Ximena te estan saliendo mas dientes, y eso lo aprovechas para comer cada vez mas. Tomas demasiada leche, tenemos que comprarte leche cada tres dias porque te las acabas. Eres muy chistosa por ser tan comelona. En el avion te portaste mas o menos. Bueno yo diria que bien, para ser una bebe y ser tu primera vez que vuelas por los cielos. Juegas mucho, y ya quieres hablar. A veces te pones a platicar con tu mami y conmigo. Pero no te entendemos, pues solo dices ruiditos. Veo que tambien te gusta jugar a que te perseguimos. Eso es bonito, tambien le gustaba ese juego a Quetzalli. Se trata de que alguien te comienza a perseguir diciendo "ahi voy". Tu te emocionas, te ries, y comienzas a correr carcajeandote.

Un año muy feliz

Quetzalli esto lo escribi cuando cumpliste un año solo que no lo habia puesto, pero aqui esta.

Nena, quiero decirte que este año que he pasado contigo ha sido el mejor de mi vida. La gente siempre me decia que era muy bonito tener hijos, pero la verdad es que nunca comprendia lo que me decia. Ahora que te tengo a ti, mi primer hija, entiendo a que se referian.

Ser mama por primera vez me ha hecho sentirme realmente feliz, y digo que no es que con tu papa no lo era, pero es que a el le tengo otra clase de amor, con el soy muy feliz de otra forma, pero contigo es muy diferente, tu has hecho realidad mi sueño de ser mama y es lo mejor que me pudo pasar.

No importan las desveladas, los llantos, los gritos, las poposeadas, que es de lo que la gente comunmente se queja tanto. Pero para mi fue la mejor parte, por que sin eso no se hubiera sentido igual, no lo hubiera vivido al cien por ciento.

Este primer añito de vida se me ha pasado tan rapido que hasta siento como si fuera ayer cuando te vi por primera vez, toda mojadita y llena de grasita, estabas llorando y el doctor te puso cerca de mi para poder darte un besito, tu primer besito, que te lo di con tanto amor y tanto anhelos. Me acuerdo que yo te queria sostener, pero no podia, te veias tan pequeñita y fragil.

Recuerdo cuando te llevaron a la habitacion del hospital a que te cargara por primera vez en toda tu vida, todavia no te conocia bien y te llevaban toda envueltita y peinadita con los pelitos paraditos y sobre todo recuerdo que que tu papa estaba muy asustado.

Y no olvido cuando te trajimos a casa, estabas toda rosita y chiquita, no es por nada pero la primera noche te portaste muy bien, me ayudaste basatante.

Tambien recuerdo cuando no nos dejabas dormir, te la pasabas toda la noche en vela y dormias solamente en la mañana, no importaba lo que hiciera tu no te dormias hasta que amaneciera.

Me causo mucha alegria cuando empezaste a balbucear, lo primero que balbuceaste fue agku, que por cierto yo tge lo enseñe, para todo decias "agku". Me causaba tanta felicidad escucharte decir eso y escuchar como te empezabas a reir.

Cuando empezaste a voltear y rodar en la cama, fue lo maximo, verte mover y descubrir a donde te llevaban tus movimientos, era toda una alegria.

Luego empezaste a gatear, me daba mucho miedo por que siempre te ibas a la orilla de la cama y ya no te podia dejar ni un solo momento sola.

Me acuerdo cuando te salio tu rpimer diente, te dolia tanto, te poniamos tantito tequila en las encias o si no el nenedent fue todo un acontecimiento en toda la familia.

No nos olvidemos de cuando te pudiste sentar y parar tu solita, fue tanta la alegria que es indescribible, hasta que te pase a ti me podras entender.

La verdad es que este año que te he tenido conmigo es lo mejor que me pudo haber pasado, me haces muy feliz y te amo tanto, tanto que nunca se acabara este amor que te tengo.

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS MI "PRECIOSA" BEBE QUETZALLI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Vocabulario de Quetzalli

Vocabulario de Quetzalli
1 año, 8 meses, 25 dias, 1 hora

Diccionario para entender las palabras aprendidas o inventadas por Quetzalli hasta el momento.

Estas son todas las palabras que usa Quetzalli para comunicarse con nosotros, sus padres, o con el mundo que la rodea. Notese que el interés linguistico de Quetzalli gira alrededor de ella, de sus necesidades o intereses.

Agua: 1. Agua o bebida para tomar. 2. Alberca o jugar con manguera. 3. Fuentes. 4. Ciertas cosas color azul
Ahí: Indicando el lugar de algo.
Ay!: 1. Interj. expresando alegría. 2. Muestra cansancio
Bo: 1. Fantasma de juguete. 2. Inter. para asustar o sorprender.
Boca: Sus labios
Bye: Adiós en inglés.
Chetos: Cheetos estilo puff de bolsa azul (Sabritas) que le gusta botanear.
Coate: Chocolate
Coca: Cualquier refresco
Cocó: 1. Teléfono. 2. Frase que usa al usar un teléfono. 3. Cualquier aparato pequeño con teclas.
Esta / Este: Indica el objeto deseado
Fff!: Sonido repetitivo que indica 1. que algo esta caliente. 2. fuego
Gobo: Globo
Grashias: Gracias
Hi-5: 1. Programa televisivo para niños. 2. indica Chocalas! en inglés.
Hola: Hola
Juo: Cualquier jugo, no refresco.
Leche: Leche
Lista!: Indica que ya esta lista o se ha terminado un proceso.
Luz: 1. Luces de la calle o alumbrado público. 2. Toda luz que no sea la Luna o el Sol.
Mamá: Mamá
Moon: 1. Luna en inglés. 2. Cualquier otro planeta como Netpuno y Urano que ve en la televisión.
Nené: Niño de cualquier sexo alrededor de su edad o mas pequeño.
No: No
Ojo: Ojo
Ouch!: Inter. en inglés imitando el dolor que emiten las ardillas de la pelicula.
Pan: 1. Platano. 2. Indicativo de que desea comer.
Papá: Papá
Papa: Comida
Pallá: Señalando indica hacía donde desea dirigirse.
Papo: 1. Zapato. 2. Indica que algo esta mal con su zapato
Popó: 1. Excremento. 2. Avisa que desea ir al baño. 3. Pedo
Pucca: Caricatura de Jetix
Qué: Qué
Runrun: 1. Automovil, coche, auto, jet ski, moto, cochecito, y cualquier otro medio de transporte. 2. Indica que desea salir a la calle a pasear.
Sh!: Indica que quiere silencio.
Sha: Interj. repetitiva para invitar a alguien a sentarse donde ella este indicando con su manita.
Si: Si
Sol: Sol, contrario a Luna
Ven: Que quiere que se aproxime alguien
Ya: Ya

Quetzalli walks all over the place.

Quetzalli never stops to walk. She likes to walk all over the place. I placed some foam mats in order for her to have a soft spot where to fall, just in case. But she walks out of the foam mats, and goes to the kitchen, to the restroom, to the bedroom. We have to be behind her in order to see where she is going. I think Quetzalli loves to explore. She goes around the house looking for new stuff to grasp and see. Sometimes I would open the "secret room", where I keep all my tools, my bike, cameras, and other things I would never like to see Quetzalli grabbing. And Quetzalli will ran towards the room. I have to quickly get what I needed, and get out immediately. Sometimes Quetzalli is faster than me! And before I notice, she would be entering all excited into the secret room.

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I think she also has a fascination for the forbidden. Just as in the case of the secret room, where I keep the dangerous or fragile things. Quetzalli is attracted to things we don't let her have. And sometimes she cries, but other times she creates a better plan. So you never know with a playful toddler like Quetzalli.

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We are also starting to take Quetzalli to the park to walk on the grass. She likes it, as expected. But most of all, she likes to run towards other children's toys. Whenever Quetzalli sees a bouncing ball or a flashy toy, she runs towards it, demanding it. Mommy and me laugh about it, but I think that Quetzalli needs to understand that not all toys in the world are hers.

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The trycicle adventure

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One time we were at the park. We were the three of us walking in a comfortable afternoon of January. When all of the sudden Quetzalli runs towards a trycicle. The little girl was with her mom in the trycicle. So Quetzalli approached the little girls and started babbling to her. The girl just stepped out of the trycicle, and let menacing Quetzalli to touch the buttons it had. Quetzalli was playing like if the trycicle was hers. She did not attended to our calls, she was totally focused with the trycicle and the electronic buttons. The little girls looked everything for a foot away from Quetzalli. Both mothers began chatting, while I went away for a bit. Then the little girl wanted to show Quetzalli how a button would sound when pushed. The girl approached the trycicle, and pushed the button for Quetzalli to see. All of the sudden Quetzalli scolded her, yelling like a wounded goose. She makes that goose sound when she gets angry. The goose sound was so loud and surprising that the little girl jumped to her mother's arms crying in terror. Quetzalli was all angry protecting the trycicle. So mommy got angry with the action, and immediately took Quetzalli out of the scene. Quetzalli cried.

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Mommy and me were laughing because what would Quetzalli expected us to do? "Here Quetzalli, take this little girl's trycicle". Or should we say to the mother "Take your daughter away, my daughter is going to play with your daughter's toy". We were laughing, because this is so typical of Quetzalli.

Quetzalli discovers Astronomy!

My beautiful daughter, Quetzalli, began to discover Astronomy this last week. It all began with the total lunar eclipse last Thursday night, February 21, 2008. Mommy and me pointed Quetzalli where the Moon was. At first, she ignored the moon, as usual. Ever since she was born, she had been ignoring all things celestial. The moon, the clouds, the stars; they were of no importance to Quetzalli.

But we kept pointing towards the eclipsing Moon just outside of Long John Silver’s. After dinning, we went out to see how the lunar eclipse was going. And again, I pointed towards the Moon. She started to stare at it, and turned down to Earth. Quetzalli noticed we had our eyes fixated at the Moon, so she turned her little head up, and pointed the Moon.

Since that eclipse night, she’s been looking and pointing at the Moon. If we are at the car on the freeway, and the moon pops-up, she’ll start babbling all excited towards the Moon. Mommy explains to Quetzalli that it is the Moon. Quetzalli gets all hyper over the moon, and starts to force us to see the Moon as well.

Yesterday, the Moon was late to appear on the night sky. Quetzalli was looking for the Moon all over the sky. She asks us where the Moon is. She points as if the Moons will pop out of a cosmic hide-out. No Moon. So mommy offered Quetzalli a repertoire of small but never-failing stars. Quetzalli stared at Orion and neighboring constellations. For a moment she seemed to not be convinced. But she keeps looking at the stars, and finally she points them all excited.

Quetzalli has learned many new things about this world, or should I say, from out of this world. She not only discovered the Moon. But also, Quetzalli found that whenever there is no Moon, you will have stars to see.

Quetzalli riding a radio flyer

This is video was taken in May. I forgot to put it, but it is still interesting.

Your first birthday!!

Quetzalli, today is your first birthday. Today is the day in which you reached one year of life in this world. It went so fast, that it is still incredible that you are now one year old.

One year ago, your mommy and you went to face destiny. It was the time in which both of you, joined by the eternal link of mother and offspring, fought for life and survival. The ancients talked about a cosmic battle, the birth of a child. The Toltecs said that the mother, victorious over adversity, would get to keep the captive. In this case, the baby. If the mother failed, death would have taken her baby as captive. It is a natural and constant battle, necessary to make the stark distinction between survival and dismay, between life and death. Otherwise, there would be no division between life and death, and hence existance would cease to exist blurred by such universal inconsistencies.

Therefore we need those contrasts in life, Quetzalli. There has to be evil in order for goodness and kindness to exist. There has to be cruelty in order for love and care to be in our reach. You are a survivor, Quetzalli! Premature, against all odds, and you still courageously resisted to have a chance for life in this world.

Your mommy and me love you so much Quetzalli. Sometimes we think we want to give you the entire world to your feet. Our love for you is so grand, that it may even survive time and death. Please remember, Quetzalli, that I will always be inhabit in your heart. During the time we will have together here on Earth, I will do my best to help you, protect you, cherish you, and love you. And even if time does not permit us to be long enough, be assure, my dear girl, that I will always look up for you. That is my promise to you. That even when I go, to live amongst the bright stars of the eternal night, I will be your beacon. I will be always for you, at least, to love you. You are my reason to exist right now, and it will be the reason for conscious and love to survive time into the mists of eternity to always be with you.

I love you so much Quetzalli! Please, remember me in every birthday you have in your life. Remember your mom too. We merged our love to create you. Not chance nor casuality was the reason of your existance, but true love emerged from the deepest of our souls. Always remember our love for you in future birthdays. I love you Quetzalli, and wish for you many more birthdays! Let life be kind and wise with you! Let death spare you time and health!

You can sit by your own.

Hello baby Quetzalli,

Yesterday, Monday April 23, 2007, at around 12:05 am you sat by yourself on the bed. You mommy was playing with you, and she kept you sitting. But when she turned to get something, she noticed that you were sitting all by your own! Usually, when you were left alone sitting in the bed or somewhere flat, you would eventually fall to one side. But this time you kept your back straight, sustaining yourself. What was funny was that you didn't noticed, because you were playing with your toys. At some point, you dropped one toy to grab another one near you. But you did not fall at all. It was great. You mommy and me are so excited about it.

Of course, after a long time being sitting sustaining yourself, you obviously fell to one side. But it's a beginning. You're seven and a half months old, and you're beginning to show a lot of stuff that you couldn't manage to do. Especially with moving hands, arms, legs, and even your head.

Sometimes you are liying in bed, and then you move your head as if you wanted to get up. This happens when you want to see television, or when you are just tired of playing in the bed.

When we go to restaurants, they offer us a small chair for you. But we always tell them that you are still too young to sustain yourself in a sitting position. Maybe this is about to change.

Also, your mommy has reported that you are beginning to eat more. Apparently you are eating almost half of a small glass Gerber-recipient a day. We need to buy you more food.

Quetzalli comienza lentamente a comer

Desde su nacimiento, Quetzalli ha adquirido sus alimentos por medio de leche materna. Es decir, de pecho de su mami. Incluso todavia hoy la mayoria de su alimento proviene de pecho materno. A muchos les a disgustado la idea, a otros no y nos han apoyado a Erika y a mi. Unos siguen apegados a ideas arcaicas de mediados de siglo XX, tiempo en que los babies comian formulas y alimento preparado tipo Gerber. Pero incluso el propio pediatra de Quetzalli ha dicho que la comidita se le va a ir introduciendo entre el sexto y el noveno mes. Cosa que ya hemos comenzado a hacer.

Hubo un momento alrededor de Enero que incluso Erika ya le queria dar su comidita tipo papillita, pero yo le decia que aun no. Y es numerosos estudios cientificos siguen señalando que los babies deben comer su leche materna lo mas que puedan. A muchos babies les quitan el pecho a los tres meses de edad, y a otros ni si quiera los amamantaron. Y por eso los problemas.

Quetzalli... aunque en este chistoso video sales devorandote una jugosa manzana, en verdad era solo juego. Tu primer papillita te la dimos poco despues de haber cumplido tus seis meses, es decir, hace un mes. Fue de platano, y te la compramos tu mami y yo en las farmacias de Guadalajara. Tu primer juguito fue de manzana. Aunque el juguito fue mas reciente, y diluido en agua.

No hemos exagerado en darte papillitas o juguitos desde entonces. Sino que ha sido algo progresivo. No queremos que sea de golpe y porrazo, pues queremos que tu te vayas acostumbrando a la transicion de la leche materna a la comida solida. Ademas de que estamos viendo como reacciones ante los sabores. Dice tu mami que tu favorito es el de mango.

Lo cierto es que ha cambiado por completo la forma de irte acostumbrando a la comidita. Antes era la leche materna. Pero la transicion ha comenzado. Y hay veces que llego de la calle, y estas toda embadurnada de color naranja tu boquita y tu baberito. Asumo que por el mango o el durazno. Es muy chistoso cuando tu mami te da papillita de pasitas, porque te manchas de moradito.

Ahorita tienes siete meses, y estas muy bonita. Para el noveno tal vez ya te estemos dejando ahora si la leche materna. Lo bueno es que aprovechaste muy bien el calostro de tu mami. Y dicen que eso es bueno, porque te ayuda contra enfermedades. Y en verdad no te has enfermado. Ya van siete meses de que has estado en este mundo, y no te has enfermado, a excepcion de principios de una gripita. Pero fuera de eso, has estado muy bien. Ojala que cuando crezcas sigas alimentandote bien, porque eso evita que caigas en males y enfermedades. Y lo que yo deseo es que sigas siendo una niña sana y fuerte.