October 2009

Alrighty-As you might have noticed I've decided to start doing my blog post with these mosaic type photo collages. Sure, some of the pictures are smaller, but this way I can easily group them into corresponding photos and that way it's not like you have to scroll to the very bottom in order to see the entire string of photos. These are all the pictures from October.

I guess I should add some stuff that's been going on. This last month has been a little crazy planning the Halloween party (see the previous post).
At Amaia's 15 month check up we learned that she's still a shrimp with a big noggin: her weight and height are between the 5th and 10th percentile but her head's all the way up in the 50th percentile. She still doesn't weight 20 lbs yet (only 19lbs and 12 oz) but that didn't stop us from putting her in the forward facing carseat in September.
She has just exploded vocabulary-wise. A couple days ago she just started yakking away (gibberish, but yakking nonetheless). It's to the point where she says something, and most of the time I can pretend she's saying something real (becuase she uses real sounds now) even though she's not. It makes it a little more fun for me.
Her actual word vocab is also increasing-this morning she called her blankey a 'teddy' (she has one of both, which are usually together so it gets confusing). I sat and explained to her (over and over) that it was a blankey, and she kept trying over and over and actually got pretty close. It's like that with tons of words. So far my favorite are 'muk' (milk) and 'niiiight!'-it's so dang cute.


Here are Amaia, Sophie and Chloe Hales all cuddled up in my trunk as we watched the boys play football on an absolutely freezing Saturday morning.

Here is Amaia getting 'pretty'-combing her hair, putting on foundation and blush, and of course, putting on as many pairs of mommys lingerie as humanly possible

Justin won't like me for this, but here it is: a collage of only him (almost). Top pictures are of him and his buddys preparing to go painballing-complete with camo; boxes of paint; paintball gun parts and cleaning supplies-oh ya-and a truck drive off road to get to where they need to go. Behind the houses on who knows who's property.
The bottom left and right require a story: for our xbox game Rainbow Six Vegas there is an achievement where you use your Xbox Live webcam to take a picture of your face, and it will put it on your dude. Well, I didn't have that one yet, and Justin decided it was silly for me to not have it, so he did it himself. He made a funny face, and this is how it turned out.
The bottom middle is a shot of a 'wound' justin recieved from a piece of his paintball gun exploding into his face. you can see it's the exact same square shape at the piece that hit him.

Here are some shots of Justin and the boys playing football


Our trip to Dave & Busters: Amaia hugging the hippo, even though it was still in the cardboard box. A caracature; Amaia's face paint, and Amaia checking out the dough :)

Amaia and friends: Owen; Andrew; and Poor Baby Jospeh getting his faced mashed down at the bottom

And Amaia all on her own. Note the do-rag and the suepr cute sweater outfit off to the left.