Tuesday, March 30, 2010
A Day At The Park
This weekend was beautiful!! the weather was awesome and we couldn't have picked a better day to have a bbq picnic at the park. We set up andrea's playpen under a shady tree had hot dogs and hamburgers and snapped some pictures!! My mom and dad joined us, which was nice. The day was so relaxing. Andrea got to see two horses ride through as well as an alligator that was swimming in the lake literally feet from where we were (that was a little unnerving lets be honest) but besides that it was a great time. Some of my favorite memories were of my own family bbq's as a child with my parents just passing the time i hope andrea can experience the same kind of quality time spent together that she can one day look back and smile about.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Andrea is 8 Months Old
WOW another month gone by!!
Andrea turned 8 months old on the 22. She doesn't have a well visit this month but she does have an appointment on friday to get a physical and her immunization records in order to begin daycare so i'll most likely have her current weight and length to report at that time. But as far as milestones:
Andrea Can:
Say "mama" consistently
wave "byebye"
say "abye"
She crawled once but hasn't been able to do it consistently yet.
Sits unsupported
plays alone
LOVES to interact with other babies
She's now eating whatever we eat along with the gerber puffs. She's on 2nd stage foods and has basically gone through every kind you see on the shelf.
All in all my baby ballerina is doing EXTREMELY well and im very proud just like every other month of her life!!!
happy 8 months my sweet girl!!! mommy loves you!!!
Andrea turned 8 months old on the 22. She doesn't have a well visit this month but she does have an appointment on friday to get a physical and her immunization records in order to begin daycare so i'll most likely have her current weight and length to report at that time. But as far as milestones:
Andrea Can:
Say "mama" consistently
wave "byebye"
say "abye"
She crawled once but hasn't been able to do it consistently yet.
Sits unsupported
plays alone
LOVES to interact with other babies
She's now eating whatever we eat along with the gerber puffs. She's on 2nd stage foods and has basically gone through every kind you see on the shelf.
All in all my baby ballerina is doing EXTREMELY well and im very proud just like every other month of her life!!!
happy 8 months my sweet girl!!! mommy loves you!!!
Day Care
on april 5th andrea will no longer have a babysitter or come to work with mommy :(
She will be starting school lol obviously daycare but still i feel like my little girl is growing up sooooo fast :) really it just got to a point that gustavo and i feel that she is craving the social interaction of other babies. so we hunted down the daycare she will be attending :) it's right down the street from my office which i figured would be most convenient since .... well... I'M ALWAYS HERE!!! anyway so far we're really happy with the feedback we've gotten and i've visited the facility 3different times already and met the teacher so we definitely feel comfortable. and more than anything i'm excited for my bright and beautiful daughter. When we took her in there to see the classroom for the first time she lit up!! seeing all the toys and the other babies she immediately wanted to play :) so i can't wait for her to be able to go and interact i think its important for her development and since she turned 7 months old it seems as though she needs more stimulation because she gets bored so easily. I think this is going to be a great change for her.
She will be starting school lol obviously daycare but still i feel like my little girl is growing up sooooo fast :) really it just got to a point that gustavo and i feel that she is craving the social interaction of other babies. so we hunted down the daycare she will be attending :) it's right down the street from my office which i figured would be most convenient since .... well... I'M ALWAYS HERE!!! anyway so far we're really happy with the feedback we've gotten and i've visited the facility 3different times already and met the teacher so we definitely feel comfortable. and more than anything i'm excited for my bright and beautiful daughter. When we took her in there to see the classroom for the first time she lit up!! seeing all the toys and the other babies she immediately wanted to play :) so i can't wait for her to be able to go and interact i think its important for her development and since she turned 7 months old it seems as though she needs more stimulation because she gets bored so easily. I think this is going to be a great change for her.
Michael Buble
i'm a huuuuge fan of michael buble and have been for many years now but have never had the chance to see him perform live. however March 12 hubby got us tickets to go see him in concert and what a performance he gave!!!! WOW he's wonderful and i love him even more now. The concert started around 9pm and michael played straight through til almost 11 with no intermission. It was awesome!! before we headed to the concert we stopped to have sushi for dinner which was a nice change for us. we went to sushi inn in sunrise!! after the concert we headed home ... my parents had the baby for the night which was very nice of them :) saturday morning we headed to my parents house to pick up my little ballerina and start our weekend.. all in all the concert was GREAT!!!!
its been awhile
buuuut in my defense we've had a lot going on... Gustavo was out of town on a business trip last week so lord knows i didn't have time to keep up with anything then ESPECIALLY my blog. lol i was lucky if andrea let me take a shower. anyway he's back now which is great news. Now i can get back to my regularly scheduled program :) i've really come to enjoy my blog its become therapeutic for me so i'll be updating with the latest asap!!
Monday, March 8, 2010
My Baby Ballerina Andrea!!
Well the time has come!!! i've officially started planning my sweet baby's first birthday... i am aware of the fact that we're 4 months away but i think the time has come... lots of plans these days lol birthdays vacations and pretty soon its going to be time to start xmas shopping which i also plan to do wayyyyy in advance... the way i figure it if i start early enough for all of these things it's more time consuming but definitely more affordable in the end plus i will be able to do pretty much all the things i want instead of waiting until the last minute and being forced to scimp on certain things. this post is about my little ones birthday so i'll get back to that:
We'll be holding her birthday party at the park probably cb smith or another local park like tree tops. We should be reserving the Pavillion within the next two weeks so that will be taken care of.
The theme is going to be ballerina... So of course my baby ballerina will have her own pink tutu and tiara. and then i plan to have tutu's for all of the little ballerinas who will be attending.
I'm still looking into some sort of activity for the kids to do so that's still up in the air.
of course i'm researching all sorts of decor and will be visiting michaels, joanne's fabrics, and a.c. moore.
We're looking into either pony's or a toddler bounce house for the park depending on the rules and regulations.
so far thats all i have so i'll definitely be posting as we get closer. Needless to say i'm nerdishly excited for my first borns first birthday party.. of course what kind of first time mommy would i be if i didn't go above and beyond for such a special day in my sweet girl's life.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
The Diaz Family Vacation
This will be the First Annual Diaz Family Vacation!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm so excited :) No matter how simple it may be i know its so important to take the time to do things like family vacations. Its the time you spend and the memories you make :) So far we're looking in to South Carolina possibly Myrtle Beach and Sarasota Florida. so far i've gotten pretty positive feedback and pricing on sarasota since september is their value season!! Exciting stuff :)
I'll of course keep posting through out the course of the year what i come up with but so far so good!! :)
i'm so excited :) No matter how simple it may be i know its so important to take the time to do things like family vacations. Its the time you spend and the memories you make :) So far we're looking in to South Carolina possibly Myrtle Beach and Sarasota Florida. so far i've gotten pretty positive feedback and pricing on sarasota since september is their value season!! Exciting stuff :)
I'll of course keep posting through out the course of the year what i come up with but so far so good!! :)
Thursday: Little Thankfuls
I've decided that i'm going to add on to my little blog lol!!!
i follow many blogs that have something designated for a specific day of the week...therefore i will be adding "little thankfuls" Once a week i will post what i'm thankful for, why i feel blessed, what good things are going on in my life! In life it's sooo easy to get swept up in the mundane, "bad" things that are around you that you forget all that you have!! and that's me right there... so i'm doing this as a reminder that i need to wake up and smell roses i have sooo much to be thankful for that God has placed in my life.
Today's Little Thankfuls:
Of course i wouldn't be me if i didn't say i am so thankful for my family, my beautiful daughter and especially my husband.
I'm thankful that i have a job with so much unemployment out there!
I'm thankful for my daughters smiles!
I'm thankful for the way my husband understands me and the way we say what the other person is thinking at that very moment.
i'm thankful that andrea is surrounded by so much love that it shows from the moment she wakes up in the morning until the second she goes to sleep at night.
i'm thankful that i'm able to plan our "DIAZ FAMILY VACATION" no matter how simple it may be.
and lastly for today:
I'm thankful that i'm able to look to the future with excitement just knowing that i'll be with gustavo and andrea. if life has been this wonderful up til now i can only imagine the great things god has planned for us.
i follow many blogs that have something designated for a specific day of the week...therefore i will be adding "little thankfuls" Once a week i will post what i'm thankful for, why i feel blessed, what good things are going on in my life! In life it's sooo easy to get swept up in the mundane, "bad" things that are around you that you forget all that you have!! and that's me right there... so i'm doing this as a reminder that i need to wake up and smell roses i have sooo much to be thankful for that God has placed in my life.
Today's Little Thankfuls:
Of course i wouldn't be me if i didn't say i am so thankful for my family, my beautiful daughter and especially my husband.
I'm thankful that i have a job with so much unemployment out there!
I'm thankful for my daughters smiles!
I'm thankful for the way my husband understands me and the way we say what the other person is thinking at that very moment.
i'm thankful that andrea is surrounded by so much love that it shows from the moment she wakes up in the morning until the second she goes to sleep at night.
i'm thankful that i'm able to plan our "DIAZ FAMILY VACATION" no matter how simple it may be.
and lastly for today:
I'm thankful that i'm able to look to the future with excitement just knowing that i'll be with gustavo and andrea. if life has been this wonderful up til now i can only imagine the great things god has planned for us.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My Mommy's Birthday!!
Sunday was my mommy's birthday!!! We went to eat at buca di beppo which was such an unique restaurant!!! the food was great and the atmosphere was definitely different than anywhere i'd ever been!!
andrea had fun trying all the different foods lol and we all had a great time celebrating a great day with the woman who has literally changed and shaped my life in more ways than one. I'm so grateful for my mom because our story is a little different than most mom and daughter stories you'll hear.. there's no tale of how she found out she was pregnant whether i was planned or not... whether i was made out of love or if i was an oopsie... there was no tale of 9 long months that she carried me and then the trip to the hospital or labor or delivery for that matter... none of that but there is a story of of a woman who god created just for me... to be my mother, to love me, to guide me, to teach me, to inturn raise me to be the kind of mother that i've always dreamed of being. the story begins when i was 7 years old she was very young and fell in love with a man who basically had a ready made family waiting for her. She was the missing link to our family she made my dad and i complete and for that i will be forever grateful. I dont have any memories from before the age of 7. i have one baby picture which now belongs to her. it was one that my grandmother saved for me. other than that as far as i know my life started at 7. i may not have stories about when i was a baby or the first word i said or the first steps i took but i do have a life filled with love and happiness filled with memories of parents who fell madly in love with each other and loved me with all that they had every second of every day. they made me the center of their universe and for that i will always be grateful. my mother sacrificed the best years of her life to put me first to give me what she never had to teach me lovingly and love me unconditionally.. you could never tell that she wasn't my biological mother if not for the physical attributes that show her age clearly. She is amazing in more ways than one. i may not have a hospital story of my mother the way most people do but the day i got pregnant the first place we went was to tell my parents, she was there for me 9 long months of my pregnancy, as well as every second of my labor and delivery. she was there when my daughter first opened her eyes, she changed her first diaper. SHE, MY MOTHER was there!! so in a way we did have that pregnancy experience, we had the hospital and we the birth....
i'd just like to say this.. God works in very mysterious ways... just because you dont get the answer to your prayers that YOU are expecting doesn't mean he hasn't ANSWERED. i think that's the moral of this story. She's my mother and i'm her daughter. a mother isn't just the person who brings you into this world no she's the one who quietly guides you through this world, who raises you with love and affection, who sheds tears and spends sleepless nights worrying about you no matter your age no matter where you are married or not adult or child. a mother can never be replaced.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS
THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE COMPLETE
And then all of a sudden
Oh, it seemed so strange to me
How we went from something's missing
To a family
Lookin' back all I can say
About all the things She did for me
Is I hope I'm at least half the MOM
That She didn't have to be
andrea had fun trying all the different foods lol and we all had a great time celebrating a great day with the woman who has literally changed and shaped my life in more ways than one. I'm so grateful for my mom because our story is a little different than most mom and daughter stories you'll hear.. there's no tale of how she found out she was pregnant whether i was planned or not... whether i was made out of love or if i was an oopsie... there was no tale of 9 long months that she carried me and then the trip to the hospital or labor or delivery for that matter... none of that but there is a story of of a woman who god created just for me... to be my mother, to love me, to guide me, to teach me, to inturn raise me to be the kind of mother that i've always dreamed of being. the story begins when i was 7 years old she was very young and fell in love with a man who basically had a ready made family waiting for her. She was the missing link to our family she made my dad and i complete and for that i will be forever grateful. I dont have any memories from before the age of 7. i have one baby picture which now belongs to her. it was one that my grandmother saved for me. other than that as far as i know my life started at 7. i may not have stories about when i was a baby or the first word i said or the first steps i took but i do have a life filled with love and happiness filled with memories of parents who fell madly in love with each other and loved me with all that they had every second of every day. they made me the center of their universe and for that i will always be grateful. my mother sacrificed the best years of her life to put me first to give me what she never had to teach me lovingly and love me unconditionally.. you could never tell that she wasn't my biological mother if not for the physical attributes that show her age clearly. She is amazing in more ways than one. i may not have a hospital story of my mother the way most people do but the day i got pregnant the first place we went was to tell my parents, she was there for me 9 long months of my pregnancy, as well as every second of my labor and delivery. she was there when my daughter first opened her eyes, she changed her first diaper. SHE, MY MOTHER was there!! so in a way we did have that pregnancy experience, we had the hospital and we the birth....
i'd just like to say this.. God works in very mysterious ways... just because you dont get the answer to your prayers that YOU are expecting doesn't mean he hasn't ANSWERED. i think that's the moral of this story. She's my mother and i'm her daughter. a mother isn't just the person who brings you into this world no she's the one who quietly guides you through this world, who raises you with love and affection, who sheds tears and spends sleepless nights worrying about you no matter your age no matter where you are married or not adult or child. a mother can never be replaced.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS
THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE COMPLETE
And then all of a sudden
Oh, it seemed so strange to me
How we went from something's missing
To a family
Lookin' back all I can say
About all the things She did for me
Is I hope I'm at least half the MOM
That She didn't have to be
Monday, March 1, 2010
my 7 month old
Well as of February 22 i am the proud mommy of my very own seven month old!!!!
woooooooohoooooooooo
warning this rare species may come with bouts of separation anxiety, screaming for no reason at all, wanting everything you have at that moment, fits, and boredom after playing with any toy for more than 5 minutes. said species will also come with the inability to lay still while mommy and daddy change her diapers and any food is game especially what you happen to be eating or drinking at the moment. have fun and enjoy!!
you'll have to excuse my sarcasm lol!!! but my sweet bundle of joy has all of those new special quirks and then some lol but she's growing soooo fast!!! i cant believe we're less than six months away from her first birthday :) WOW!!!
andrea has moved on to three month appointments so i dont have any stats to report this month however i do know that she's sitting unsupported extremely well, she's desperately trying to crawl, we've become pretty liberal with her diet as she's now eating her babyfood and baby cookies along with what ever we may be eating at the moment. She's good with playing with her toys but gets bored very easily, she loves to play with other babies and is showing more and more how much she loves her family!!! Shes my big girl!!! and i'm so proud of how well shes doing!!
MOMMY LOVES YOU BABY ANDREA!!!
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