a little bit of our weekend...

Hello- hope everyone had a nice weekend. We had a fun one, did the usual walking, eating etc... Scott and I also had a date Saturday day and rode bikes and had lunch down on the wharf. Sunday we took Eli to 'Happy Hollow Park' up in San Jose. Eli very much enjoyed the petting zoo and thought it was hilarious when the goats and miniature horses would kiss his hands. :) The rest of the park has some small rides and other small zoo animals, but Eli is still too young to appreciate those, but nonetheless we had a good time!

p.s. Eli can now say 'cat.' Hahaha, go figure his first 'real' word would be cat!

my crazy hair blowing in the wind!

goats!

this goat liked kissing my knee?

lucky 13!

dear eli,

today you are 13 months old. i feel like in the last month you have grown leaps and bounds! you are now not only the fastest crawler in town (seriously, you're starting to get a bit of a reputation for your 'fastness') but you are now pulling yourself up to stand on everything and are cruising all over the living room furniture. it is so much fun to watch. another one of your new favorite past-times is to crawl all over mommy, I've become your own personal jungle gym. also, right after your first birthday you finally began to babble all the baby words, which include baba, dada and goo-goo-gaga. then...on mommy's bday you said 'mama' and it melted my heart. now you are starting to look at me and say 'mama' and this morning you looked at 'dada' and crawled to him. :)

your favorite things, songs, books, etc... are:
-your bunny/lovey that you sleep with (pictured above)
-'hey wake-up' is still your favorite Sandra Boynton book, we read it every morning and I know that you know the story by heart now, because when you turn the page to the part where we shout 'good morning sun, happy morning everyone,' your eyes get even bigger and brighter with excitement. you also love her book ' belly button beach.'
-you love the cd from music class and favor 'all the pretty horses' and 'tiny tim.'
-you still love to go to the pool to swim and play at the park and play with your friends, even though you're not really playing 'with' them yet...
-you love to play with your car, your wooden puzzle and train
-you love animals, especially our cats and you LOVE dogs, so much that it breaks our heart we can't have one in our rental (maybe someday.......)

-you do not like to have your face wiped, your diaper changed, when we don't let you pull the drain stopper in the tub, and you don't like getting in and out of the car for errands, although you are liking the car so much better these days. and i don't think you like watermelon?

love you to the moon and back my 13 month old eli!!!

just because...

my birthday weekend...

Hello friends,

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we did! It was my 32nd birthday on Sunday the 7th and so we just hung out mostly and did relaxing stuff with Eli, like eat pizza and go for walks. But, Scott and I also had a date Saturday night and we went to our favorite crazy Italian place 'Cafe Lucio' (formerly 'Al Dente' for you Santa Cruz peeps,) and then afterwards we went to the boardwalk and rode a roller coaster and did the bumper cars, it was SO much fun! I felt old and young all in one, HA! I'm pretty sure the roller coaster almost gave me whip-lash...and I screamed at the top of my lungs the entire time, mostly to frighten the children in line, hahahaha, just kidding!

Sunday was mellow and we had a little brunch at our favorite French Bakery 'Kelly's' and then after that I had some leisurely time to myself and shopped, mostly trying to find shoes for my sisters wedding. It was a great birthday and I feel relaxed and settled into my 32 years of age. Thanks again for all the birthday love, here's a pic of me and E at brunch, not the best picture but Eli looks funny eating his strawberries. :)

a little bit of our weekend

mom, i'm not a cat too, the cats are over there...

We drove up to the cute little beach town Davenport (which is 10miles north of Santa Cruz) on Sunday for a little outside/beach time, it was quite lovely.

crawling into the ocean...

so, so busy digging!