Musical Coyote

The hubs was able to work from home today, so he got to experience Lila enjoying herself during music class. I decided to sign up for another session because I really see the musical side of her coming out more and more everyday. She's constantly dancing, singing aka yelling, and flapping her arms. She has such a fun spirit about her.

Here she is saying hi to her friend.


Give yourself a "hug" time. Notice the other parents have stopped hugging their children by now and look at that death grip he has on her!


She did this last week, she did it again today. She'll crawl in the middle of the circle and just stare at Teacher Gary. Attention seeker?


Racing to be first to the congo drums.

10 months

I love the weekends, and I love my Lila. How is it that one small tiny person could bring such joy to me? I'm feeling so warm and fuzzy these days...must be because it's that time of the month. And by the way, who said breastfeeding delays your period!???? I guess I was the unlucky one because my first visit from aunt flo was only three months after giving birth. Shucks!

Weekends are wonderful because of family time. We ate at our fave place, Souplantation. We shopped and shopped and bought some outfits for her. Lila has been fortunate to wear Samantha unni's clothes, so I've been lucky not to buy much for her. However this weekend we splurged and got some cute clothes for her to wear for our family photo session next month. Gosh...already. Must kick butt in overdrive to lose the final pounds before the dohl. My friend said the first birthday is the unveiling of the new mama's body and then second comes the celebration. haha isn't that the truth!!!!

Lila is officially 10 months now, and I'm constantly reminded that she's not a little baby anymore. She loves to stand every chance she gets. She'll let go for a few seconds and fall on her butt. It's amazing to see her trying to do it by herself. I love this stage!

She has made a great friend at church who so happens to be named Hanna :), and they play together and eat snacks together. I'm such a people watcher, so it's fun to see her interact with other children. I realized she's a sharing person when it comes to toys but not with her snacks. She will fight you to the last cracker!

Her top side teeth have already broke skin, and they're quite crooked. It makes me smile because it's so ugly. Ugly cute? Either way, they make me smile. We've added another routine to bedtime which is brushing her teeth. She totally enjoys this and even opens her mouth when she sees me putting that rubber thimble on my finger.

Lila's fave foods as previously posted is the porridge, yogurt, anything with carbs and my booby! I'm not sure when I'll wean. I thought if I could do it for a year, I'll be completely satisfied but now I keep thinking why give it an end date? We'll see how it goes~

Have a great week everyone!

Favorite meal

It's hard enough to figure out what I should eat (trying to be good about NOT EATING OUT), and now it's beginning to be a challenge to figure out what to feed Lila. I want to give her a variety of food...hopefully that might help in not having her become a picky eater like her daddy. She's already not a fan of meat. Yikes and I'm such a carnivore!

I finally found a meal that's quite easy to make that I can actually eat too. I can always count on her to finish this meal: Brown rice jook (porridge) + broccoli + egg yolk.

I usually make 2-3 cups of brown rice and freeze whatever I don't feed her or eat myself. I was skeptical about freezing the porridge because it seems so sticky compared to white rice porridge, but it really microwaves well. All I need to do is add in a serving of broccoli or carrots and mash in an egg yolk. The egg white will be my snack for the day with peanut butter + ____. I can eat peanut butter with anything...w/ celery, toast, or just eating it right out of the jar. Ughhh...I know it's so fattening but isn't it healthy at the same time? I hate those kinds of foods!!!! Nuts, avocados, bananas - all these things can be found in my home.

Thank you for porridge. I can't wait till I can just feed her this without sticking it in the magic bullet!

WOW that's all I got to say!

As long as it was a C-Section...



19 pounder born in Indonesia! Say what? I can only imagine.

Look at the colorful clothes and blankets and random things inside the hospital bassinets. Kinda funny. awwww so sad, the boy is too big to be swaddled :(

Gift from God

After her baptism, we came back home and had a quick photo session by yours truly. It was great to see my family come out to support this beautiful occasion. Hubs and I have made a promise to raise Lila in a God-loving home.

Thank you Lord for my wondapul gift!...as quoted by the in-laws.

a little bit of this and that

ahhhh finally some time to relax and unwind. Hubs did dishes, I watched my fix of Jon and Kate, and opened up my Halloween candy early so I could eat some Peanut M&Ms for dessert. I hate J&K now, but I just had to watch to see what they were up to. I really need to delete them from my recorded shows.

The Dohl is coming along. Catering and the photographer are booked. Cupcakes have been ordered from a very talented gal I met at one of the craft fairs ~ Just Jenn. All that is left to do is the DIY stuff which I've been posting on the lil sprinkles blog. Sigh...I realize I work better under pressure.

I've put a hold on birthday stuff to make some dolls for the coyote. She's becoming more and more of a coyote everyday. She's been climbing on me every chance she gets, crawling in her exersaucer and trying to make it topple over, shrieking from the top of her lungs, and her latest and greatest thing is to stand in her jail cell licking each panel as if she's making her mark!



Caught her red-handed!

Tomorrow is music class, and I'm hoping she'll like it. Hopefully she will since it's looking like she has a thing for music and dancing. Following daddy's footsteps. As long as she stays away from glam rock and metal, it's all good! :P

Jumped on the bandwagon

We bought one...an SLR camera. All I know is that it takes amazing photos, and I'm in love. Usually I'm not a manual reader, but I actually went through the camera manual twice. Gotta get the most of it esp if I'm going to be the photographer of the family. It will also come in handy to take photos of the goodies in the lil sprinkles shop!

Background blurry shot at grandma's house



Portrait w/ no light

20 minutes and still standing

Lila has turned our world upside down. I'm being dramatic here, but I don't know what to do! She learned how to pull herself up by using the crib railing, and she won't get back down. Of course, this is the cutest sight in the world to me but not so cute when she decides to do this instead of sleep. Perhaps she doesn't know how to plop herself down or perhaps she just wants to make mommy go crazy! Her naps and bedtime have been thrown off schedule, and I totally depend on that schedule. I've signed her up for classes this fall, and I'm nervous that things will not go back to normal by next week. I guess this should be expected with babies though, huh?

I put her down for her last nap of the day, and she usually peeks above the bumper as I leave. Instead, she got right on her knees and pulled herself up. As I was watching her through the monitor, I decided to wait it out for 10 minutes before laying her back down. She was just fine - babbling away, gnawing on the rubber crib guard, cruising back and forth. After 15 minutes passed, she started getting antsy and letting out a few cries. At about 20 minutes, I thought she had enough so I went in and laid her down. She smiled and I quickly left the room. I rushed to the monitor, and she was just playing with her blanket and stuffed animal. I thought I was in the clear. Next thing you know, she got on her knees with a whimper and stood up again! Why???????

This has been ongoing for the past three days. Any suggestions????

Baptism

Lila will be baptized this month. This is a special event for us. She is a constant reminder that God is good and has blessed us with such a perfect gift. She is our perfect little person, and I am always amazed at how much I can love her more and more everyday. Gosh I'm being so mushy after reading my (only) 8 completed pages of her scrapbook. To think she's almost a year and I'm not even done with 2008! I opened it up tonight wanting to finish up another page, but instead I just looked over what I completed, closed it, tucked it back under my desk, and now am blogging! Too many projects to complete, too little time in one day.

Anyhow, I'm going to have my fam take lots of pictures of her that day, and it occurred to me that she needs a baptism outfit. Not really "needs", but a onesie or her everyday dresses just will not do! This is an excuse to go shopping for an outfit. Shopping at Joann's that is! :)

I'm hoping I can make her something to wear. Will I have time? If not, I can always trust my local TJ Maxx to find a dress. I'm seriously done with mall shopping!