Feliz 9!

Vale turned 9 months yesterday! She's not walking yet but she: gives kisses, waves, plays catch w Kevin, speed crawls, stands w assistance, walks w assistance, laughs at funny things, mimics our facial expressions, eats home made pizza, loves sunglasses, can't wait to get in the pool/water, won't sit still, can stay awake past 8, craves frozen anything, likes to nap in stroller, loooves dogs, adores strangers, hates diaper changes, and lastly she wants a cell phone and wallet of her own to chew whenever she pleases :)

Here are a couple outtakes, in case you're wondering how I get her to sit so still, I don't. :)


p.s. Don't you love how her feet look the same size as her head...???

Del Mar fair is more than fair, it's AWESOME!

sure we spent all our hard earned money, used up a weeks worth of calories on deep fried junk, almost lost said deep fried junk food purchased with hard earned money, but boy was it worth it!



battered potatoes!
not pictured:
fried zucchini
fried twinkie
fried Klondike bar
cinnamon role
apple caramel tower
huge maple bacon donut
gyro
polish sausage
french fries w cheese
(these were purchases made by all the people in our party, not just Kevin, just wanted to clarify)


checkin' out the farm animals






who sometimes do the petting.

Melody and her sweet son joined us too!




Then we ran into my sister and her family!




and my other sister too, and her gf!

when in Rome right?....tickets in hand ready to get our scream on!


my parents, checking their text messages. Always makes me smile. I wonder who texts them, oh wait..me.

before

during (poor Vale got a whole lot of nada, again)

after



I love the fair, it reminds me of summers past. I hope Vale gets to enjoy it next year as much as my niece and nephew and Melody's little man did this year.

We heart farmers market

Who here doesn't like free food samples, good music, lots of sunshine, babies in sun hats and dogs of every make and model...???? I'm pretty sure you're looking around right now to see who raised their hand right...??? I know I am! :) Well, this little family can't go to enough farmers markets in a week, but that sure doesn't keep us from trying again the following week. Sometimes we go to the farmers market in little Italy (my fav) and others we go to the Hillcrest (Kevin's fav) we also never miss the Thursday chula vista one right down the street. On occasion the friday Imperial Beach fm is visited and hopefully this summer we'll add the wednesday ocean beach fm to out repertoire! I love all the organic produce and colorful flowers, Kevin loves the coffee and the bread, Vale just wants to sample everything.



Not to hate on Vale, but seriously girl, what's up with your expression?? Maybe she though "cheese" meant "make a dog with rabies face"....sorry V, te quiero! Side note...Is Kevin looking like a total papacito or what..?? ( more on this side note when I get to our super fun and baby free day date blog...tomorrow perhaps! )

baby armpit folds... I wanna burry my face in them!

I helped my niece and nephew make maracas at the kids zone. I did this not JUST because I'm a super cool aunt, but also because I love my sister and the thought of her hearing her kids play those things all the way home made me all giddy inside.

Lately I've been obsessing over these cold and delicious coconuts. The water is heavenly and they are young so the coconut meat is tender and sweet! yum!

This was on a different Sunday but it's still the Hillcrest fm..We wouldn't dare mix our families, oh the rivalry, the competition, the excitement, who would win Vale's affection? tun tun tuuun!


baby bans, I'm sure someone made this joke but since it hasn't been made on the blog it is all mine! MWAHAHA!


I'm about to hit publish when I suddenly remember I have a pic of Kevin holding six month old Vale at fm, and he looks...well, let me just upload it and then I'll give you my critique.


like a criminal who just got out and doesn't want to break his tough guy image so he holds the baby in a cool and totally not thought out way, but then he realizes people (or at least me) are looking so he kisses the baby to assure the crowd (me) that he's really a soft soul who adores his child.

"leaf me alone"

Hoooooola! Hope everyone had themselves a relaxing weekend, I have a bunch of pictures to share from last weekend and this but am on the last ten minutes of Vale's nap which are usually my most productive around the apartment so we'll have to wait till tonight. In the meantime, here is a little something something to get you through the monday lunch hour. Muchos besos, see you tonight :)

FATHER ...KNOWS ....BEST.

What you're thinking: "Oh no they didn't"
What we're thinking: "Oh YES we did"




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Vale parker

This little one loves the park, loves the swings, and the grass, loves crawling, and recently loves standing all on her very own for a few seconds at a time. I think she knows that what she's doing is MAYJAH because she smiles and laughs and squeals in delight afterwards! I better start accepting bets here....who here thinks she'll be off her hands and doing the two foot shuffle by June 29th, 9 months??? What am I doing blogging, I got corners to pad! Have a warm and cozy night my friends.