Spaghetti

After a hard day at daycare, nothing beats spaghetti on an empty stomach!

I'm MAD!!!

I have to say I am not in the greatest frame of mind while writing this...but today I had my car broken into. I had my window smashed and my GPS stolen. I know that is not alot, but when you work hard for all the little things hat you have and then someone just steals it, it can make one feel very pissed and violated. I don't think pissed is a strong enough word for how I feel. I know these items are replaceable, but that is not the point. My trust in people is at an all time low. I am at least grateful that I was able to replace the window within a couple of hours of it happening, but it was all on me. My deductible was too high. Isn't that just a pisser?!?

Walking

DJ just started walking yesterday!!! He is so proud of himself! This is just a short video and from my phone so it is a little grainy. Hope you like it

Vacation

It's been a couple of days since we came back from California. The time went by so fast. It's hard to cram so many things in such a short amount of time. It's even harder when you have a little one who needs to take naps. All in all it was a good time. To start with, I got a chance to visit my friend Natalie, her daughter Avi and her son who is still baking in the oven. Next we were able to spend the day with Dave's daughter Jamie. This was the first time Jamie met her brother. They seemed to hit it off really well. He didn't give her the shy treatment at all. We also went to Disneyland which DJ did really at. He didn't get scared at all and was able to squeeze in 2 naps. The next day we went to a Dodger game which was a birthday present from my brother. I thought it was going to be an early evening and that we would have to leave because of DJ, but he surprised us and made it until the middle of the 8th inning. I do have to say we had a nice vacation even driving from Albuquerque to So Cal and vice versa with an infant and two dogs wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I do have to say we are very blessed.

Meeting A Good Friend

Just came back from vacation to California and had a chance to meet up with my very good friend Nat!! I also got to meet her daughter Avi for the first time. She reminds me so much of Erik. Her little facial expressions is so him. We had lunch at the cheescake factory (I miss that place) and went to Huntington Beach for the afternoon. Her little Avi is quite the water baby. She just walked right in no problem. It was a wonderful day...no June gloom! I was so happy to see Nat. I haven't seen her in 6 years. Where has the time gone? It didn't seem like that long. Avi and DJ seemed to hit it off real good. I hope Nat and I meet up again real soon.

Turning 1!!!

DJ just turned one and we had a little party today. Time has gone way too fast. I'm afraid if I blink I will miss it. This is him enjoying some birthday cake!

Easter

We decided to go camping this Easter. This was going to be DJs first camping trip. We went someplace local and not too far "just in case" something should happen. Boy, we were sure glad we did that! We went on the Friday before
Easter and set up camp. We went for a hike had some dinner and a camp fire. The weather was pretty decent mid 60s and breezy. The whole time we were concerned about DJ...if he was too hot, too cold, uncomfortable, hungry and so on. He did great. Took everything in stride. Didn't complain much except when we wouldn't let him crawl in the dirt. Otherwise he was a good camper. After we went to bed in our tent around 9 the wind started to kick up and then it started to rain around 1 in the morning. The whole time I kept on getting up to check on DJ to see if he was arm enough, he was fine. As time went on it started to hail, it got colder, and our tent started to leak on our pillow. 4 am came around and DJ woke up and wanted a bottle, I didn't bring any breastmilk with me and brought formula instead. No sooner does he finish drinking it he throws up all over us and our blankets and then promptly falls back to sleep on us. We covered the throw up with towels and tried to go back to sleep. Didn't happen. We were too tired, too cold, and it smelled like vomit. We decided to get dressed and get in the car to sleep. As soon as we opened the tent there was snow everywhere and it was sleeting. We got to the car and noticed it was 36 degrees outside!!! Needless to say we packed up after it got light outside. Took us about 2 hours to pack everything away. We kept on having to get back in the car to warm up since we didn't bring any winter clothes! Oh well!

Sunday was DJs first Easter. Nothing too exciting. Just another day for him. He was barely interested in his Easter Basket!