Friday, September 23, 2011

7 Meses


Elia turned 7 months on the 21st of this month and since she doesn't have her next Dr. appt. till November, I thought I'd post a little something about her new discoveries.
- Her cry has changed from a cute whimper to a "they are killing me scream"- there used to be some what of a progression but not anymore, and she wines now.
- She notices when I leave the room or walk away from her and she will either start crying or wine until distracted.
-She sits up on her own. She started this around 6 1/2 months but I still put the boppy close by because when she wants to reach for a toy she will just topple over, roll onto her tummy then start her journey to reach her toy that is out of her immediate grasp.
-She likes patting everything, the floor, arms, face, toys etc.
-Eating is one of her favorite things, for now.  So far she has liked everything I've given her.  She also hum's between bites or will stick her thumb in her mouth if I'm not fast enough. (and boy does her poop stink)
-She is quite the talker and uses her hands to tell her story. 
-She gets bored of her toys, so I'm starting to entertain her with plastic water bottles, wooden spoons etc. she is more into the basic, simple toys I guess.
- She is a little angel during church, but she does like to talk during Sacrament meeting or during the lesson in Y.W.
-She is my little Zumberita.  She loves coming to zumba with me (until Danny comes to get her).  She loves the music and is so observant of all our moves!!
I have been able to catch some of  these cute milestone/discoveries on camera/video.  Enjoy!









This is how I know she had a good nap- she wakes up talking to herself

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Family pictures

In August Danny decided that he wanted to take professional family pictures before Elia started getting teeth.  Janessa (Danny's cousin) is a faithful customer at JC Penny's portrait studio, so we asked her some questions and she suggested to get the membership, which was only $20 and it covers all the sitting fee's for 2 years.  So pretty much when we visit family in L.A or UT we can take as many people as we want for a shoot and only pay for the prints we want (which I only buy with a coupon).  Anyway, we decided to do it which I am glad we did because we never really have pictures of all 3 of us together.  After we got our family pictures back I decided to do another shoot with just Elia and give it to Danny for his birthday- I can't tell you how much he LOVES looking at pictures of her.  He will get onto my facebook (which I guess is OUR fb now) just to look at the pictures I post of Elia.  The photo shoot had a theme... "Proud to be......"  American, Argentine and Mexican!  So I had her wearing something from each country.  My brother recently came back from Argentine and bought Elia and baby soccer jersey, then Abuelita Elia bought her a cute 4th of July top that says "America's sweetheart" but we didn't have a Mexican baby jersey for her yet so I decided to use mine on her... and this is how they turned out...






                                                            With daddy's indoor soccer ball


Monday, September 19, 2011

September Celebrations

September is the month of birthday in both Danny's and my family and of course we can't forget that it's the month of Labor day vacation and Mexico's Independence! For the labor day weekend (which was before Danny's birthday) we decided to drive down to L.A and spend a couple day's with family (Wendy/Travis before they left to Africa), and friends. We left to LA late Saturday night after we danced at our ward Multi-Cultural activity so we can be at church by 11am. Luis, Danny's best friend asked if he could bless their baby on Sunday, it was a special opportunity for Danny and he got a little emotional again and it was great to see both Miriam's and Luis's family there to show support. On Labor day morning we went to Jc Penny and had some pictures taken of Elia, Travis with the Abuelitos and then Wendy took some maternity pictures with Travis that turned out super cute! After that we went to El Cariso Park and spent the rest of the day eating, talking and launching water balloons with friends and family.

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For El Grito on Mexico's Independence day we went into Sacramento to enjoy the festivities at the capital building.
                                             This was me last year 16 weeks pregnant


                                                 1 year later with Elia at 6 months

                                              Had to have my papitas con limon y chile