Rainy Day Games

Since the weather has been wacko lately, we've been playing games inside (one day in trundles and the next in shorts and a tank top!)
Here's Lexy showing you her puppy game...where she carries something in her mouth around the house like a puppy (hmmmm...where did she learn that one?)

Daddy lined up all my stuffed animals to watch us play!

Here is Lexy, now 10 months old and too big to jump in her jungle jumper anymore :(... wait, that won't stop her from playing in it!...well, the top half anyway... ;)

Fun Games at Home

Since we had a ton of candy left over from the pinata...lexy has found some new toys! She loves shaking the boxes of hot tamales and mike 'n ikes. She loves them so much that they have been her favorite toys for the past week...she won't even put them down while crawling...she just uses her elbows as you can see! She also loves the leftover balloons because they are fun to throw around (and they are so deflated they don't pop).

Diaper changes are 'fun' now...she will roll back and forth and arch her back in order to make it very difficult. The whole time she thinks it is so funny because she is smiling and even laughing (not so fun for mom and dad let me tell you grrrrr).

Pressing her face against the glass is fun too! Thanks auntie Candice for the adorable "cupcake" trundle. These are coming in handy as it is getting cold now. It's weird though, we had to go to 3 different stores looking for ones that had grip on the feet so she won't slide when standing up on the hard floor. They seem to only put them on the bigger sizes...whatever people! So we ended up buying two w/o feet and then socks w/grip. ;)

Other new things she is doing include kisses: these started a while ago, but then they died down and now they are back w/ a vengence! She is kissing pictures in books, the window, the couch, the floor, her toys and sometimes even mom and dad (and if she could catch a kitty...)

She is very good at saying "kitty" whenever she sees a cat including a tiger on tv or in a book or in the house she says "kitty" in this high pitched squeeky voice (which is how I say it...so it's not weird, unless I'm weird...anyway)

She has just learned how to point! Which is so great because now when she wants something she points at it and we know what she wants. It's cute too because sometimes she will point at me or robert and we point back at her and she loves it.

She likes to alternate feedings...like we have 2 spoons and I will give her a bite from my spoon (w/ food on it) and she will give me a bite from her spoon (w/imaginary food on it). And she has the biggest, stupidest, most adorable open mouth smile (sometimes w/food showing) the whole time.

The last thing...I think I mentioned before...she is dancing. She will get excited or hear a song and start bopping up and down bending her knees and we say "go boogy go, go, go, go, go" and she does it faster and then she sticks her butt out and goes left to right bopping it up and down! Robert even caught her bending down to grab something in the middle of a dance and so she stayed bent down and had her butt in the air and was bopping her butt up and down!! So funny! I swear, it's never ending with the new things she is doing and it is so great to experience all this! I am so lucky.

30 Years Old!

So I turned the big 30 on friday and had the best birthday!! Friday night Robert took me to an A's game and we had great GREAT seats! We were in the 4th row from the field and looking straight at 1st base!! The players were so close you could yell at them and they would hear you and could SEE you! I was star struck big time! We had such a good time because the A's came back from being down by 6 runs in the 3rd inning to rally with 9 runs (7 of which were all in one inning)! So it was very exciting and long which was perfect! My dad and Lauryn went too, but they had decided last minute so they had bleacher seats until the end of the game we had them come sit with us. Such a great time!

Then my birthday party was on Saturday and Robert did ALL the planning (which is a very big deal) which included a BBQ and even a pinata at the end (which everyone got a crack at!! so funny!!! we video taped it!) It was so much fun and everyone had a great time and I was suprised to get some gifts too. I got a gift card from my dad which I used to buy the perfect zip up A's sweat shirt at the game (which i'm not putting a pic up because I will probably be wearing it in every pic I put up after this once it gets cold).

Here are the necklaces I got: first a best friends one from Lauryn (i'm best); then a dog tag style one from theresa and frank that has lexy's picture on one side and the A's logo on the other; and a silver one and matching bracelette from sushuma. I love them all!! Thanks again you guys!! :)

I got this awesome T-shirt from Chris that is so perfect!! Well, it's perfect for die hard fans like me! (I wore it sunday and it almost helped us beat the Broncos!!)

Here are most of the cards I got...I just wanted to put them up because I was overwhelmed by how many I got and I wanted to thank everyone!! This was one of the best birthdays ever and I feel so much happier turning 30 when I have such great family and friends to share it with (ok sorry, but you know I'm mushy). :)

More Pics from the Visit

Here's Lexy with a poker chip that she found...and well...everything goes in the mouth. It looks like she has blue lips!

I want that cool thing on your head grandma!

More pool pics...she's in love with the water.

A VIsit to the Country

This has been a very fun and busy past week! We went to visit my parents in Browns Valley (middle of nowhere sort of near marysville highway 20ish) where Lexy got to experience country living. She got to see wild turkeys and pumpkins and lots of canaries and two little dogs that scare her only when they "sound the alarm" by barking if they hear something outside. She got to take long naps (like 2-3 hours long!!) and discover a large house with lots of fun toys and exciting grandparents to play with! Here she is playing with grandma: laughing so hard because she was sharing her teething ring with someone that she got the hiccups.

Here she is discovering the wonderful world of DVDs! Total Recal was the winner because it had a red tin case she could band and play with. Oh, and no, she didn't put them all away...

Here's Lexy watching her video with grandpa. A very comfortable and cozy seat..everyone likes to cuddle with grandpa!

And for the grand finale... "the face"
Alexya went for a swim in a little wading pool that grandma bought her...and while grandpa was taking pictures she decided that she would give him the snarl/robert face. I'm going to try to take a picture of Robert making the same face and put it up too so you can all freak out with me.

Lexy's Best Friend is Here ~ Isabel Bayani

Here she is! Debbie finally had her baby girl on September 9th! Isabel has arrived and Lexy is already preparing to meet her!!

Congratulations Debbie and Ben on a beautiful baby girl! She will change your lives in the best possible way and she couldn't ask for better parents than the two of you! We are all so happy for you! :)

Hernandez Family Updates

Here's Alexya playing with her "prayer bear" that she got from great grandma Monger. If you press the hands or feet it says a prayer in a really cute voice that makes Lexy smile and get very excited. If she hears it she will crawl as fast as she can across the room to get it. It's really soft and the yellow bow matches her room!

Here's a pic of our living room / Lexy land with the new shelves we bought at Ikea. We had to find some fun and neat way to store all of her growing toy collection...so this works out great! She can stand up and pull out the cloth boxes and go through her toys... and when she's not playing they are put away and organized. I love it! It was fun picking out the colored boxes with Lauryn! We had them all out on the ground trying to decide on which colors to get and what order to put them in.

Here's Lexy with Daddy.... He was showing her one of her books and she was taking it very seriously! They are so cute when they play together!

Toretto, Toretto, come here!! She bangs on the glass and yells for him to come over. He will grab a toy and come over to the window and put it on the ground for her and then they have a staring contest. Too cute how they have their own way of communicating.

The Chase Is On!

Alexya is very determined to catch a kitty lately. Her odds are good in that there are two of them...but, they are very quick and crafty going through chairs and under the table to escape her hair pulling grip! Toretto, on the other hand, can't get enough of her, giving tongue baths and doesn't mind losing handfuls of hair in the process. It's really cute how she even tries to "talk" to them. Since every time she sees a cat or a picture of a cat we say "kitty" in this high pitched voice, now when she sees one she goes "aieee" in this high soft tone. It's like she's trying to be nice and call them at the same time. For Toretto she yells at him with a loud "aye" sound or bangs on the sliding door when he's outside and she wants him to come visit her. She definately loves animals and so we bought her the baby einstein "world animals" video which she loves and is really fun to watch even for adults I think. ;)

Labor Day Weekend pt 2

We had the best time at a BBQ at Grandpa's house and fun in the pool again. Lexy loves to splash the water so hard like she's attacking it!...and sometimes it attacks her back! She got to spend most of the weekend with aunt Lauryn who stayed over two nights at our house and we had a great time! Lauryn got to feed and play with Lexy and it was so much fun hangin out. "bananas bananas" was the new dance Lauryn would do to entertain Lexy!

She also had a doctor visit today and she's perfectly healthy and growing strong! The doc said she was obviously very active and she's healthy. And guess what?? Lexy lucked out...no shots this time!! She's 2' 4.5" tall and weighs 16 lbs 4oz. She's also babbling like crazy while she crawls a hundred miles an hour and pops up and down like a rabbit and chases kitties. She loves attention! From anyone! Even staring down strangers as they pass by until they smile and acknowledge her...too funny...she even gets this dissapointed look on her face if they pass w/o smiling at her.

Did I mention that I am so so so so so so so so happy?!? I love staying home with her and getting to watch her grow and change every day! This is the best thing in the world and I am so happy that I can do it. I am just so content and happy being a mom, it's hard to put into words..but, it's the most rewarding and emotionally fulfilling experience i've ever known and robert is such a great dad!! I can't stress that enough, he loves his daughter so much that it makes me emotional just thinking about it. :)

Labor Day Weekend pt 1

Lexy with mommy

Lexy and aunt Lauryn

Lexy and Grandpa

Lexy and uncle Chris