10 Months In: Let the Crawling & Talking Begin!

This last month has been a lot of fun. Little Lady mastered crawling in a matter of days and quickly went into cruising like it was no big deal... MY BABY ON HER OWN TWO FEET IS A BIG DEAL, PEOPLE! Where did my my snuggly, fluffy-headed infant go?

In other news, Lady has started talking quite a bit. She loves to repeat and always says "pishhh" for fish and "ba ba byeee" for bye-bye. I love her little voice. We have been doing some baby signs up until this point, but not that she is expressing more and more interest in talking, I think we are going to let them go and start working on words a little more.

It was fun to go to the bookstore and let her play in the kid-zone. She absoultely loved it. I am so blessed with such a happy baby girl! (I must mention, her laugh is contagious!!)

She may only have six teeth, but have I mentioned how much she grinds them!?



Kept on Edge by a Baby on Her Feet,

D

What Would You Do for a Klondike Bar? Turn 23.

My 23rd birthday snuck up on me. Luckily we just enjoyed an evening of family and Klondike bars, nice and low-key. Even Little Ladie shared in the ice cream festivities!

Older and Wiser,

D

Month Nine was Fine!

Little Lady is growing so fast. She has started to show signs of getting ready to crawl. Mostly she tried to reach for the dog and will scoot a little on her belly to get his paw or tail! It's so funny to watch her concentrate.



The weather has been beautiful, so we've been doing laps around the park down the street with a friend of mine and her two little girls. Lady will love the swings one day and hate them the next... What a diva, right? We also visited Auntie Cussy and walked around the lake and had some delicious pizza. We really enjoyed the view.

We started sippy cups this month! Let's hope bottles go out the window by December!!



Acting Funny While These Days are Sunny,

D

Reunited And It Feels So Good!

We had our first ever family reunion! My awesome cousin Stacy initiated, delegated and pulled off our first family reunion. It took place in Half Moon Bay and it was a fun and beautiful day. It was so great to get together with all of our relatives on Nana's side.

Nana & Papa

Auntie Cussy & Cousin Trina

D & Little Lady

Cousins & Spouces

Our Family

Nana's Siblings

Siblings & Spouces

Aunts, Uncles, Cousins & Kids

Extended Family

With Cousin Stacy & Little Kaia

Exersauser=Babysitter!

Auntie Cussy & Uncle Andy



D & Little Lady



Little Lady in her fluffy hairdo

Delighted to be Reunited,

D

Crazy Eighth

July was an extremely packed month. With a vacation, summer semester midterms and finals, a couple of weekends of housesitting, the second half of the World Cup, and a sprinkling of weddings, I didn't have too much time to take pics of the Lady. This is the best I could do:

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Waiting to Wind-down,

D

Ode To June

To be completely honest, I'm writing this post in December, so I'm foggy (to say the very least) on the details of what transpired about six months ago. I'll do my best.

Little Lady went in for her first "illness". She had a scratchy and soar through that was inflamed, but tested negative for strep. Phew! She weighed in at 15 lbs. 5 oz. and after a few days and some chilled bottles, she was back to her normal, vocal self.

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In the middle of the month, Auntie Cussy and Uncle Andy moved back to the Bay Area for the first time in nearly seven years! Hooray! I was so fun to have them around and to have another pair of babysitters. Ha ha. We also kicked off the FIFA World Cup which pretty much distracted me for the remainder of the month. Perhaps it is a good thing that it is only every four years after all...

Over the Sickness, but Never Over Soccer,

D

SacramenTrip

As fun as our Fourth of July was, it was only a small portion of our trip in Sacramento. We also ventured out to Lake Natomas for a day of fun in the sun and water. Little Lady was not too pleased with the water temperature, even though it was, in actuality, ideal. This was her first time in her new bathing suit which barely fit her and will probably never get to wear again... Oh well, still worth every penny!

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It was instantly clear that the Lady did not inherit my fear of open water in the boat. We enjoyed a little kayaking and others enjoyed tubing. It was perrrrrfect weather, not too hot or windy at all. We wrapped up the trip with a meal to send us off with full stomachs. Little Lady particularly enjoyed her first taste of watermelon in the "gnawing net" that my aunt got for her!

Staycation Satisfied,

D