The Incursion of Foreigners
9 years ago
Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Easter Fun
Here is a fun video from Easter Sunday over at Tyler's parent's house. The three cousins trying to pose for a cute picture.
more photos to follow....
more photos to follow....
Saturday, March 24, 2012
9 Month Update
From this...
to this...
Where does time go?
At 9 months, Malia...
* Loves to stand and creep along the couch
* Enjoys sharing a meal with you off your plate
(she has eaten bits of beans, rice, cheese, yogurt, chicken, carne asada and bread - and yes, just a tiny, tiny bit of ice cream - twice)
* Loves chewing on shoes and finds empty egg cartons, the remote control and cell phones entertaining
* Has 4 teeth (two on the bottom, two on the top)
* Has mastered the words mama and dada and likes to stretch out her arm to "share"
* Likes to turn the pages of her books herself
* Has mastered the stairs (and so we've gotten a baby gate =)
* Enjoys using the underside of the table and chairs as her jungle gym and tries to hurry inside the refrigerator whenever we open
* Is sleeping all night again! (from about 8:30/9 pm to about 6 am)
* Is our pride and joy!
to this...
Where does time go?
At 9 months, Malia...
* Loves to stand and creep along the couch
* Enjoys sharing a meal with you off your plate
(she has eaten bits of beans, rice, cheese, yogurt, chicken, carne asada and bread - and yes, just a tiny, tiny bit of ice cream - twice)
* Loves chewing on shoes and finds empty egg cartons, the remote control and cell phones entertaining
* Has 4 teeth (two on the bottom, two on the top)
* Has mastered the words mama and dada and likes to stretch out her arm to "share"
* Likes to turn the pages of her books herself
* Has mastered the stairs (and so we've gotten a baby gate =)
* Enjoys using the underside of the table and chairs as her jungle gym and tries to hurry inside the refrigerator whenever we open
* Is sleeping all night again! (from about 8:30/9 pm to about 6 am)
* Is our pride and joy!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Botanical Gardens
Wednesday both Tyler and I had the day off so, we took Malia to the Phoenix Botanical Gardens. They had a butterfly exhibit going on and we thought Malia might enjoy it. Here are some pictures:
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Tax Season Excitement
I think this is the first tax season I'm kind of excited about. We're hoping to get a little bit of a refund and I'm hoping to put a little bit of that refund into landscaping our backyard. When we were house hunting almost 2 1/2 years ago, one of my wishes was that the house have a backyard. I really, really wanted a dog at the time (growing up with animals there was just no other way!) and had to have a backyard for my dog. The house we bought has a decent sized backyard. Full of rocks and no grass - but at least it was something to work with. Since we've moved in, we've put down some sod and seeds and Josie loves the grass, but now that we have Malia, I have grander ideas - a la backyard oasis in time for an upright, walking Malia. Concrete curbing - yes please. A raised planter with flowers and a big tree stretching alongside the back - yes please! Tyler shares a small part of my backyard excitement - mainly because I think he thinks of the process (work!) and I mainly just think of the outcome. Hopefully, that will change =P
The current blah backyard (it looks much better in the summer - we tried putting down winter seed this year and the birds ate A LOT if it hence all the yellow)...
We're also hoping to put a portion of the tax refund into starting a business. A venture we've talked and played around with for quite a while now. I know I should be even more excited about this than the backyard because a business has the potential to provide some needed extra income, but it's also a little nerve wracking too as any new venture can be. Tyler and I should have the ability to run this little business on our weekends off and during the summer when he's off of school. Details to come though!
The current blah backyard (it looks much better in the summer - we tried putting down winter seed this year and the birds ate A LOT if it hence all the yellow)...
We're also hoping to put a portion of the tax refund into starting a business. A venture we've talked and played around with for quite a while now. I know I should be even more excited about this than the backyard because a business has the potential to provide some needed extra income, but it's also a little nerve wracking too as any new venture can be. Tyler and I should have the ability to run this little business on our weekends off and during the summer when he's off of school. Details to come though!
Friday, February 3, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Almost 8 months...
I've really neglected this blog - I'm sorry! Thank goodness for Tyler keeping it semi up to date.
Malia's growing and growing. So much so that sometimes I have to do a double take when she's standing tall in her exercauser or in her walker. She's still got a few nice rolls and little chipmunk cheeks, but I don't think she'll ever be a little chunk. She's been eating solid foods great for about a month now. Around 5-6 months she got a bad cold that morphed into another cold and the few solids she was eating at the time she stopped completely for about a month. I was sad to see her interest in food go, but it was worse seeing her sick! Having a sick baby is the worst as a mother! Her appetite has picked back up since recovering and so far she's tried and is loving rice cereal, oatmeal, carrots, corn, green beans, sweet peas, apples, applesauce, bananas, pears, strawberries, mango, and cherries. We're trying to introduce her to as many foods as possible since I read somewhere that babies are most receptive to new foods between 6 and 9 months, although I don't really know how true that is (and I'm kind of hoping it's not true because there are just too many good foods out there!).
Besides eating well, Malia just started officially crawling about a week ago. She's been pulling herself around on her stomach with her arms for a while now and that slowly led to her rocking on her knees. You could almost see her thought process - there's got to be a better way! Before she started crawling I was worried about how rough our tile would be on her knees (it's all tile on our first floor which includes the living room where we spend most of our time). She's doing just fine and I think the tile made it easier for her to slide around initially. We did get a big area rug for the living room and it's double padded, but she eventually wanders away from it anyway exploring the under side of the kitchen table or trying to make her way into the kitchen.
Josie, our dog, has been great with Malia! I had my reservations about having a small dog and a small baby and even almost gave her away at one time, but I'm glad we decided to keep her. Malia crawls over Josie all the time (with our supervision) and Josie just lays there. Malia also has a new found love for pulling and yanking on things (like our skin - ouch!) and not even Josie is spared. Josie just sits there and takes it until we intervene and save her. Josie is also fabulous about not -ever- touching Malia's toys. She's so careful not to step on them and this is no easy task as they're usually sprawled all over the living room floor. There's only one toy that she's certain is a dog toy that she goes after occasionally. That one we're careful to bring out and use. Can't blaim the poor dog. Her only dog toy (a ball) Malia steals so, we've had to put that one away.
Well, that's where we're at right now! Hopefully, I'll be better about updating this blog more often especially with Malia growing and hitting different milestones. Off to spend some time with her...
Malia's growing and growing. So much so that sometimes I have to do a double take when she's standing tall in her exercauser or in her walker. She's still got a few nice rolls and little chipmunk cheeks, but I don't think she'll ever be a little chunk. She's been eating solid foods great for about a month now. Around 5-6 months she got a bad cold that morphed into another cold and the few solids she was eating at the time she stopped completely for about a month. I was sad to see her interest in food go, but it was worse seeing her sick! Having a sick baby is the worst as a mother! Her appetite has picked back up since recovering and so far she's tried and is loving rice cereal, oatmeal, carrots, corn, green beans, sweet peas, apples, applesauce, bananas, pears, strawberries, mango, and cherries. We're trying to introduce her to as many foods as possible since I read somewhere that babies are most receptive to new foods between 6 and 9 months, although I don't really know how true that is (and I'm kind of hoping it's not true because there are just too many good foods out there!).
Besides eating well, Malia just started officially crawling about a week ago. She's been pulling herself around on her stomach with her arms for a while now and that slowly led to her rocking on her knees. You could almost see her thought process - there's got to be a better way! Before she started crawling I was worried about how rough our tile would be on her knees (it's all tile on our first floor which includes the living room where we spend most of our time). She's doing just fine and I think the tile made it easier for her to slide around initially. We did get a big area rug for the living room and it's double padded, but she eventually wanders away from it anyway exploring the under side of the kitchen table or trying to make her way into the kitchen.
Josie, our dog, has been great with Malia! I had my reservations about having a small dog and a small baby and even almost gave her away at one time, but I'm glad we decided to keep her. Malia crawls over Josie all the time (with our supervision) and Josie just lays there. Malia also has a new found love for pulling and yanking on things (like our skin - ouch!) and not even Josie is spared. Josie just sits there and takes it until we intervene and save her. Josie is also fabulous about not -ever- touching Malia's toys. She's so careful not to step on them and this is no easy task as they're usually sprawled all over the living room floor. There's only one toy that she's certain is a dog toy that she goes after occasionally. That one we're careful to bring out and use. Can't blaim the poor dog. Her only dog toy (a ball) Malia steals so, we've had to put that one away.
Well, that's where we're at right now! Hopefully, I'll be better about updating this blog more often especially with Malia growing and hitting different milestones. Off to spend some time with her...
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