Sunday, October 11, 2009

Dylan Turns 1!

(Jackie- hope this brings a smile to your face for your Monday morning - hot chocolate!)

Hard to believe it was a year ago that the baby boom began in our area and Dylan was born. How fast it went by!

This weekend we were actually home for once with nothing to do except attend Dylan's birthday. We had a great time at the party, and enjoyed the rest of the weekend getting things done around the house and watching baseball, football, and golf! Despite the Twins loss, we had fun cheering them on!

Birthday boy!
He was a good sport with the celebration hat and all!


There were so many kids there it was fun for them to all play together. We took a couple pics of the babies, and their mama's. (Bre and Peyton, sorry we didn't think of this before you left!)

Giada is so rough with the kids, luckily Nico was a good sport as were Marc and Renee. She would climb all over Nico, knock him down and try to pull his hair. She is so rough with Sydney(our dog) I think she thinks she can be rough with everyone...yikes :) She did try to give him an occasional kiss too, so I guess that makes it all better!
Giada loved the ball pit, I think she may find one at our house in the future!
Family photo op

Monday, October 5, 2009

8 Months

Can't believe Giada is 8 months old!
She has changed so much since the first days. She is finally feeling big to me, and looking like a little person. Some of her changes in the last month:

- Her hair is growing so fast, it's much thicker now and seems to be keeping that curl in the back, we will see how long it lasts. My mom said Matt had hair like that and lost the curls after the first cut. Guess I'll never cut her hair. :)
- Says da da and ma ma from time to time, haven't captured it yet, and she doesn't know what it means, but it's getting more clear. Sometimes it sounds like she says other things like "kitty" but I'm sure it's all in our head.
- Left eyelash still has no color...maybe it will stay that way, I think it's unique.
-Hair is turning more brown but still has a couple reddish patches in the front.
- She is on the move, crawling like a mad woman and pullling herself up on everything. She will even walk if you guide her with your hands. She will be mobile in no time I'm afraid.
-Clapping
-Playing peek a boo
- Still nursing and eating fruits and veggies, so far not too picky.
-Still feeding Sydney all her rice crackers!
-Only 2 bottom teeth but they are getting big

It's so amazing to see how much she can change in one week. Watching her figure something out and look back at you to see if you noticed. She is so impressed with herself.
Despite being a bad sleeper she is such a joy and very happy girl. Another month down!

A few photos from my attempt at the 8 month photos.
We tried some inside and out...not too much luck on any of it.
Tried to give her other things to play with so she wouldn't mess with my blocks, but then she just wanted to eat them.
The clown(which was me) could not make her laugh and snap the photo at the same time - and not get a shadow on her face(like in this one) - its like you need a separate clown....baby photos are a tough job :)

She was on the move to destroy my blocks!
Let's try this inside....not too much luck here either!
It was more fun to eat and yell at Mr. Monkey.

Or hit Mr. Monkey!

Thank you Dylan for sharing your Jeep with me, I love it! I play with it inside and outside!
For the first couple days I thought it was a jumper and tried to jump in it, then I realized it was a walker and off I went! I roam all over the house and bump into everything. Thanks for sharing friend!



Just a photo of her playing on the lawn, while we waited for our dinner date with Hilder and Linds last week.

Busy weekend as usual, birthday parties, olive oil tastings, street faire! But we did have a chance to get to Windsor for a couple hours to celebrate Bush's 30th bday. Happy Birthday Marc!

Marc and Renee - thanks for having us!

Great stories Bush!

That is a lot of candles :)




Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Aptos with the girls!

This weekend I went with mom and her friends to Aptos.

There are so many photos from the weekend that I'll save the other photos for next week.
Sorry for the late post again Jackie! Mom was so tired when we got home on Sunday she didn't have a chance to do it.

Here they are...thanks Hilder fam for letting us enjoy your beach house!

This was a very active trip. I like to wake up early...like 6:30 and we didn't want to wake anyone up so we would go on LONG(couple hour) walks on the beach. On Sunday we even watched a Triathalon in action and Hilder was trying to convince mom we should do it next year. I think mom is scared to swim in the ocean though!

We saw a school of dolphins jumping in the ocean, and had perfect weather all weekend too.

Good meals, shopping, and lots of laughs. Not much sleep for mom but catching up with friends is worth it for no sleep anytime.

Cottage 2009!

Enjoying carrots!
View from the Cottage.
Shopping in Capitola!

Playing with Auntie Hilder- She woke up early and played with me in the mornings.
Fun at the beach.
KR and Hilder went on a 15 mile bike ride, then joined us for the rest of our morning walk.

I LOVE riding on anyones shoulders! (But they better beware, I pull hair)

End of our trip :(

Monday, September 21, 2009

Pets, My Office, Matt's Birthday , Grape Festival

This week was no different than most. Busy Busy.
As I have mentioned before it's getting increasingly harder to work in the office as Giada has become mobile. She is no longer content sitting in a jumper or exersaucer for any length of time. Each stage of her growth is so much fun, and we make changes along with it.

A day in the office....
She crawls under the desk and pounds on the printer until paper comes out...then looks up at me like, "who me?"
Then the good ol DVD wall, she pulls MANY of them down and then moves down the wall to pull down a new pile. On the one hand I'm glad she is distracted and content for a few moments. On the other hand - I'm SICK of putting away DVDs :)Then she crawls over to the chair and wants to be up sitting with me. And with that cute face, how can I resist?
And then sometimes she falls asleep in my arms after eating and I don't have the heart to set her down. As you know she isn't the best sleeper, so sometimes I'd rather just hold her and she will nap longer so I can get some work done. Maybe I'm the problem with her sleeping not her ;)
All and all I can't complain, I know I'm very fortunate to be able to stay home with her all day!

We also celebrated Matt's birthday this week. Happy 26th birthday Uncle Matt!This was also Grape Festival Weekend. A once a year event in Lodi. Thursday night I helped Kristen at the Bingo Booth. She is a Lions Club member and needed a friend to assist. We both love volunteering and actually had a great time and made some new friends in the process!
These boys take their events seriously. Russell told us all about how it used to be in the good ol days, he has been a member for 54 years!! Yikes!Teaching Giada about the family business at a young age! We did some oil bottling this week now that we have the new bottling machine. It was nice to get that completed as well. Giada is such a trooper to all the places I drag her to!And last but not least, I'm so impressed so far with how the pets have handled Giada. Sydney is so patient with her while she grabs her hair, tail, legs etc. Max on the other hand I worry about. But over time he has gotten pretty used to her. He now lets her grab and pull at him as well. I did have to draw the line the other day when she put his tail in her mouth! She discovered real quick that that didn't taste good.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

I Pull Myself Up!

Hi blog friends...
A few photos from this week.
Mom took me to the park and I had SO much fun swinging in the swing. I hope we go back this week.

Mom learned to knit this week. Some of her friends joke that its a hobby for old ladies. But mom seems to like it and is working on a scarf.

Doesnt this DVD wall look like fun. I pull them off the wall while mom tries to work. When I pull off a couple shelves of them, then she moves me and we pick them all up and put them back. It's so much fun.

I was trying to grab the camera on this one...but can you see my two teeth are getting SO big.

I'm pulling myself up on everything now. This video is actually a week old or so, and now I'm moving much better. Pulling myself up on everything and crawling all over the place.

This weekend at Kernal's bday it was like a playdate with so many kids.
And Auntie Kristen made these cool shirts -

" Duck the Fodgers!" Go Giants!!
Playing with Peyton and my Aunties!

Peyton -6 mon, Me - 8 mon, Ashland -newborn, Mason - 10 mon, Dylan 12 mon...or there abouts!