oh mom this is so good!

Her first solid food (sorta)!!! We were so excited to give it to her and she didn't disappoint, she's so excited to eat it all up, most ends up on her chin/pj's/napkin/ but whatever, she can't get enough! (but once she does she's back on her yummy fingers, Oh Vale!) In two weeks we're going to give her a veggie..not sure which one yet..any suggestions?

Happy 5 months Valentina

My dear sweet girl how fast you are growing

Kevin and I can watch this video over and over. On mute, you might be able to as well...
Vale presents the much coveted....

Untitled from KarlaB on Vimeo.

apologies for the darkness, but it was that or miss the great event

first off I'd like to give a shout out to Kevin...Wecome back to blogland honey! Here are a few pictures from our rainy weekend in San Diego ( I realize it's now thursday and everyone is over last weekend and looking forward to the next one, but over here in stay at home mommy world, The days and weeks are kinda sewn together.. tuesdays feel like Sundays, Wednesdays feel like Fridays and Thursdays feel like Mondays.

let the tent building begin!!!! Vale loved touching the blanket over our heads.

Her squeals are becoming more multi syllabic and call us crazy over here, but we've made out the worlds "hi" and "I love you" coming out of Vale. Seriously. Kevin and I actually replied "hi" in unison, it was awesome!

When we went to get her from her nap, we found her playing with her feet, first time ever, lots of cuddles ensued.


A favorite at the K/B home, Bread and Cie in Hillcrest, this is usually our Sunday hangout but we got rained out of our Saturday farmers market so we made our way over to hillcrest and lucky us because we ran into my dear S-BFF Blanca from Dos y Dos and her fiance Ryan...



looking ravishing in her new outfit--thanks Tita Kalani!


Hodad's in P.B.---that has to be the longest line I've ever waited in, but the burger was worth it! yuuuuumyyyyy! I have a little guilt over eating so much meat since finding out I was preggo, but I can't say that I miss my old veggie lifestyle.

second shot at having breakfast at a farmers market, no rain at this one.Kevin's fav, the Hillcrest one...gotta admit, it's pretty fun! we don't have many family pictures together so I was super stoked when a lady offered to take the picture!

yes it is a skillet cookie, and yes we did finish it in under 24 hours...yuuuummm...good work Kevin!

B'wait... there's more (Daddy Day Care Pt. 2)

After some breakfast, we went to the Grampies' house to get some love and to wash the truck. And then, we visited Karla for some lonche t-milk. After satisfying Vale's appetite, she tried to hop in the driver's seat, as demonstrated below.



(Most) Adults don't let babies drive drunk, or usually at all... I do.

Daddy Day Care and other firsts...

Mom aka Karla is at work, while (suprise) Dad is not. Here we go, gente. Pops is getting fully babified today. And yes, we will attempt to document the experience.

Here we are preparing for some breakfast and conversation...




The convo was getting super deep, and heated! (Note: Vale's "Domino Mothaf-er" hand slam a la that Snoop Dogg video circa early 90s)





"Ahaha. Perhaps she's got a point."

Spring is a month away

taking pictures of nature around our little apartment makes exercising a bit more exciting. How fun is this mosaic? I want to make every picture in my iphoto a part of one. check back soon and I may have turned the blog into a mosiac exhibit :)

GOOD MONIN'

No long return from hiatus speech here... just the facts, mam.

Early monin' (no work/school day) checklist for Dads:

-Baby-skate-train aka babyskates (see above) trip to La Concha
-Pan
-Big Hug Mug of cafe
-Nacho Libre DVD (=Vale sleeping) or Class of 3000 CD (=Vale awake)

Done-zo. See you soon, suckaz! :{

G stands for ge' it

Vale truly found her voice this week. Kevin fondly calls in squealing, but at 6am it's more like a piercing scream, even then, I have to admit it's pretty dang cute. She's also reaching for everything-- hands, toys, food, (funny story about that which I'll get to in a sec) long hair, skin (she's learned to pinch) and of course it all goes straight to........you guessed it.......her mouth..




oh but back to the food story, Kevin's water polo team had their end of season banquet at Murrietas, in Bonita and although I'm a total snob when it comes to Mexican food restaurants I actually really enjoyed the food, and so did Vale... While I was happily eating my enchiladas a little hand made its way on to my plate, I thought I caught her hand right as she did it and wiped it, but it wasn't until I passed her over to Kevin that I took a look at her face and saw that she had enchilada sauce on her mouth. Oh I felt like such a bad mom, we haven't even given her rice cereal and she's already eaten a hand full of spicy enchilada sauce, hell!

He's still got it

Kevin sure knows how to make a girl swoon...






not pictured was the awesome cheese plate with olives and pita bite crackers put together by Kevin or the lamb chops with mushrooms I made....mmm,...

How was your Valentines's Day, did anybody do something really romantic for their loved one?