Pumpkin Carving

We had a fun time this afternoon carving our pumpkin. We carved the big one and Sofia picked the shapes for the eyes and nose, and said she wanted it to have teeth (2 buck teeth like Mater from Cars) and ears. Then we drew the same face onto her little baby pumpkins. Gabby watched for a while, but wasn't terribly impressed. When we lit up the pumpkin, Sofia blew out the candle and said "happy birthday!" oops :)

Random cell phone pics from this month

Daycare Pics - End of Summer/Early Fall 2011

Lots of birthdays - Abigail's, Caitlin's, Zach's and Jaelyn's -- plus a cute pic of her and Nathan (Samantha's little brother just started daycare!) and running around in the sprinklers. Plus Gabby's first daycare pics!

Gabby at 8 1/2 months

Gabby is such a sweet and mellow baby. Still a great sleeper, she almost never wakes up at night. Last night she did, and it was the first time in months. She didn't even wake up when she was sick a couple weeks ago. She is starting to "talk" - ie ma ma ma da da da. She still isn't much of a mover, occasionally rolls over, only likes to sit for a few minutes at a time before she knocks over. She is reachy and grabby and puts everything in her mouth. She will stand assisted if you help her. Even on her tummy wont pull up to all fours. She doesn't even like to hold her bottle herself though last night I made her (see pic) and she did great. I joke that she is "lazy" - she just has no interest in going anywhere. She still has no teeth and no signs of any breaking through soon. She just started eating protein - chicken, turkey, beef and yogurt. She is a good eater. She is very happy almost all of the time. She is still on 2 naps a day with a bonus power nap if we can get it in (around 6pm for 30 min). She loves her sister and she is always checking her out, and when Sofia tries to make her laugh she loves it. She's an angel!

We Love bath Time!!

I did this all on my phone including the border and caption!

Sofia's First Mani Pedi

Sofia napped while I went to get my nails done, I got Halloween themed toes - orange with black spiders and white webs. I showed her when she woke up and she wanted them on her toes! Luckily my nail stylist was free and did a quick pedi and then purple fingernails with flowers too. She was a very good girl and sat pretty still. She was so proud of her pretty fingers and toes!

Playgroup Princess

We had fun today at playgroup. It's amazing when I think back that we've known this group since the kids were 6 weeks old! It's so awesome to see them all grow up. Today it was at Jenna's house. We played and ate lunch and the moms got to chat. Sofia wore a super cute Cinderella tracksuit and I love how she modeled the writing on the butt for me :)

Pumpkin Patch!

We had a fun time at Lombardi Ranch pumpkin patch today. But boy was it hot - 95 degrees in late October? Sofia loved running around checking out all of the pumpkins, and riding the choo choo train. She is super excited about Halloween this year and can't wait to trick or treat. WHY? Because "I get candy mama!" Gabby was a trooper despite the heat and loved checking everything out. And you can check out my new glasses in these pics too :) will probably still wear my contacts most of the time but these are super cute. Also we got new iphones so taking so many more cell phone pics and I got a cool app where you can add filters, borders etc. So the first pic is me taking a self portrait on my photo using a retro filter!

Go Kings Go!

Nelson and I went to the Kings Home Opener tonight (5-0 win!) and Gabby wore her Kings onesies to show her support :)

Happy 104th Abuelita!

We went to visit Nelson's Abuelita for her 104th birthday. She was so happy to see the girls. It was great to see Tia Ani and Tia Isabel too. It had been to long. Sofia really liked the sopapillas too!