NCM

We just rediscovered the awesomeness that is the New Children's Museum--this place is rad! The museum has on exhibit right now all things trash, yeah I know sounds nasty, but its all in the name of educating our little ones while having fun. Theres even a garbage collector truck on display, its huge, I didn't catch a picture but the museum's website has all sorts of images to check out. Vale loved every second of it, there were things for her to climb, stuff to move around, kids for her to greet and an all around fab time. Can't wait for next month, it's free the second Sunday of every month!

the last time we were there she was 6 months old...

1.1

Vale is at a hilarious stage right now, one I don't want her to leave too soon...

favorite things to do:
blow kisses at people and plant them directly on cheek.
in a very beauty queen fashion wave when saying hello or goodbye
take all her clothes out of drawers and sometimes put it all back in
shower standing up in tub
play peek-a-boo
go bike riding
going outside to see the dogs and planes flying overhead
point at everything

favorite places to go:
zoo
garandpa and grandmas house/la casa de abuelita y abuelito
home
the park down the street
to see her buddy Joshie and his mom Vanessa


favorite books to read:
Biscuit by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Cuando Sofia se enoja se enoja de veras by Molly Bang
A bañarse con Maisy by Lucy Cousins
Colors by Emily Bolam
Princess Potty by Samantha Berger
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems

favorite foods:
cheese
pan
fruits of all kids
veggies of every type
pasta
soup of any variety
anything, everything aka todo

out of her mouth:
agua pronounced ada
papa and dada
mama
ball
bebe
Animal noises-dog, elephant, lion, cat, duck, parrot, pig, cow, polar bear

mariquita Vale

Our very first repeat holiday!(Is halloween a holiday?) Last year Vale was a sleeping M&M, this year a ravenous ladybug. Vale strongly dislikes beanies, hats or anything covering her head so we weren't too sure she'd let us pull the hood over her head...but once the ooo's and ahhh's started she couldn't be more excited about wearing the super cute antennae.

The first set of pics are from tita Kristin's soul session partaay, (which was a total blast btw) and the last two pics are from the 31st. We got together with our apartment buddies to watch the Chargers game and pass out candy. Vale munched on a delicious apple cinnamon rice cake throughout the evening completely unaware of the delicious chocolate she was carrying around the whole time.. sneaky parents, mwahaha!


It doesn't look like we dressed up, but we did...I was a leaf and Kevin a gardener-the perfect accessories to our little bug.

u-picking in Julian

Dear Julian,
we love you..we love buying bread at Dudley's on the way to visit you, we love picking apples in your orchards, we love the mining town feel, and we love it when you're covered in snow, see you in December!

Tour de fat

One of Vale's favorite things to do right now is go for a bike ride.. we ride to the park, the library, the bakery, around the neighborhood to visit all the dogs, and even to the supermarket. Vale loves the speed and being outdoors, I love the freedom from the stroller/car seat/car.

The baby bike seat is made by Yepp, and I gotta say I wasn't totally on board, like Kevin was, about riding with Vale in the front but after reading all the positive reviews and then trying out the seat for myself.. I'm totally in love. It's awesome to have Vale in view at all times, I can talk to her, feed her a cracker if she gets fussy, I can even adjust her slightly too big for her helmet.

We took her on an a bike ride, put on by fat tire beer, with lots of other people recently, don't worry it was super safe, so safe that I even managed to take a few pictures while riding.....










p.s. that's the reboso I picked up in Rosarito, We're especially loving it as the days get cooler since it serves not only as support for carrying Vale, but also as a warm cocoon :)

September 29, 2011

Having thrown the house out the window, an expression in Spanish meaning to throw a big party, to celebrate Valentina's 1st birthday, we wanted to make her real day of birth fun for her on her terms. We started the day off with a trip around the neighborhood to visit all the dogs, cats and birds, followed by lots of reading and her fav snacks throughout the morning.

Her favorite cousins came over a bit later with balloons and lots and lots of hugs and kisses. Then we did what any girl would do on her birthday, we went shopping and she got a pair of new kicks, her first pair of big kid shoes she loved them so much that she wore them out.

Kevin and I agreed the previous night that if Vale could say so, she'd want to hang out at the beach on her day. So we went.. and I really don't think we misread her, she loved it (as usual)! After the beach we paid her grandparents a visit to wish them luck on their trip as well as get b-day kisses. Vale's b-day concluded with an apple sauce cake and since we topped it with her favorite: strawberries and yogurt she dug into it big time making it a super sweet moment and one we had really hoped to see!










p.s. I can almost be sure that this is most likely probably the last b-day related post, we'll be back to regularly scheduled fun times posts real soon here :)