After Christmas Birthday Party Pictures

On the weekend we hosted Liliana's After Christmas Birthday Party, since her birthday is December 25 we decided to have her toddler friends party celebration almost a month after her birthday. We rented the 'Birthday Loft' room at the Children's Discovery Bay Museum in Saulisito, CA. We had a fun time with cake and drinks, and then the tots had the run of the museum with outdoor play structure, train tables, art workshops, and tots structures that were nature based (it truly is a fun place full of tot adventures waiting to happen). Liliana really enjoyed her party, so much excitement that she missed her afternoon nap, but she expressed how happy she was especially when she opened her gifts and found a new baby doll with a car seat! Since Saturday she has not let go of the baby and has sang Happy Birthday to herself many-many times. It was her first real party with her friends! It was so sweet to see all the little kiddos sitting at the table enjoying cake and watching all the adults gather with their little ones seeing proud looks on all their faces! What fun!!

Mendo Madness!

Well, we are back from our little getaway vacation to Mendocino. It was a beautiful trip with spectular views and relaxing vibes. The ocean was breathtaking, the forest lovely, and our little bug had a fun filled time of hiking, playing on the beach, and eating delicious gourmet food. We stayed in a old water tower that was renovated into a quaint little lodging cottage. It was cute, and we had a refreshing time getting away from the busy bay area.

Love Love Love

Today Daddy was day care, he and Lilibug came to meet me after work and we walked home together. Once we got home I lifted Lilibug up to give her hug and Lilibug wrapped her arms around my neck and said to me "Mommy I love you." She melted my heart in that very moment, what a little sweetheart!!! She also told me she missed me today when I called home. I love her so much!! Of course, I also told her I missed her first and then asked if she missed me. Her response was 'miss mommy'.

I went back to work four weeks ago, this time around it's a part-time job, twenty hours a week. It not so bad, I get to focus on my career and get out of the house for 20 hours a week, and I then I with my precious little buggie bug. This week we had no child care, so Daddy was looking after our little being. They had such a fun time together giong for pizza for lunch, taking long naps, and going on field trips, such as Habitot Children's Museum. Daddy really enjoyed his prescious time with his little girlie bug. I'm not sure who had more fun? I would come home and both of my darlings had face paint on their faces, art supplies strewn around the house, with Lilibug dressed in a unique combination of clothes (sometimes over her pj's). I'm so happy that Daddy and Lilibug had their special together.

Happy Birthday Bug!

I can't believe Christmas has come and gone, along with Lilibug's 2nd birthday! It is amazing that our little bug is growing and developing so quickly!!! This year she sang 'Happy Birthday' to herself (over and over again), she licked all the icing off her cupcake, and she opened her presents up with a running dialogue stating what every present contained! She was so excited and happy, and so much fun to watch. Christmas is really about the children, and double whammie for her since her birthday is on Christmas. Of course, her favorite present was a toybox that held her attention for over an hour on her special day. She would crawl inside the box wanting the lid on and hid inside of it. She would giggle and laugh while inside the toy box. She is such a cutie! Her other favorite is the rocking moose, which is just a hoot, being that I'm Canadian and a moose is one of the symbols of Canada. She loves the moose and it totally rocks across the floor as she rides it. I really enjoyed the holidays this year, thanks to the bug her excitment.

Yikes what a day & night!

Oh good lord what a day!!! Lilibug has a urinary tract infection, last night consisted of no sleep and today during the doctor's visit she had to have a catheter inserted into her urethra while I was holding her down!!! Not fun at all, our poor little bug! It was such a yucky experience, at least she now is fast asleep and hopefully we all get some more shut eye tonight then last night (approximately 2 hours). I will be so relieved when she starts to feel better and stops saying her pee pee hurts. This is my first experience with not being able to soothe her in a short period of time, it was so hard because she just does not understand with an explanation and mommy just can't take away the pain immediately.

End of the year already!!!

We're back!!! can't believe it's been almost one year since our last blog entry! A lot has happened over the last ten months, a trip to MB to see my family, a trip to Portland, and a trip down to San Diego to see Grandma Mimi & Nana. We also had a visit from Opa from Germany for three months, and I went back to work twice!!! My job did not work out in the summer, and the other job/internship just started three weeks ago (I'm going to totally enjoy it and it's only 20 hours a week which means lots of quality time with the little bug). As for Lilibug she is totally amazing growing and developing into a little independent. She runs around now, talks sentences, gives delicious hugs and kisses, and says 'I love you'. She is quite the artist, and loves visiting Habitot Children's Musuem with her best bud Marco!!! We have started checking out preschools for next fall, and I feel sad she is growing up so fast!!!

We're Back!

We're back home after a beautiful vacation in Hawaii. The vacation was a getaway and a celebration of Mama Bug's birthday, and sort of honeymoon for myself, Mama Bug and Daddy Bug, of course, the vacation ended up being amazing for the Lilibug, she loved every moment. She almost seemed to develop in front of very eyes becoming awestruck with her surroundings. Every morning Daddy Bug took Lilibug for a morning walk, where she gazed at the Lily Pad Pond, they walked around the property looking at plants, admiring flowers, shuffling through rocks and gravel, and heading down to the ocean for sorting through seashells.



Lilibug swam in the ocean for the first time, in fact, she also went swimming for the first time. At first, Lilibug appeared a little frightened of the water. We were staying at Anini Beach on the north shore where the water is a little rougher during the winter months, and colder. We all went swimming the first day after our arrival, and the Lilibug seemed a little shocked by the experience. The next swimming experience was at Tunnel Beach, also on the north shore, again Lilibug seemed outright frightened by the water, but the next swimming experience was much different because we hit the toddler beach on the south shore of the island in Poi'pu where waters are much calmer and warmer.