Monday, May 31, 2010

14 Months


















Wow, all I can say is that I can't believe I have a 14 month old (well in 3 days)! Gabriela is of course the best baby in the entire world. We are going to go on our first airplane ride on June 3rd to Arkansas. This should be interesting. I am a bit nervous, since it is just me and G, but I am sure we will do fine. I will give an update on that experience. Wish Bob was going, but circumstances don't allow it this time. Well, let's see.....G is talking a bit whenever she see's a baby she says ba-ba. She says Coco, and knows the dogging goes woof and the duck goes quack. She also knows how to say the German children's word for dog which is wow wow (sp?). She also knows mu-ah for kiss and blows a kiss by putting one finger to her mouth and then it winds up in her nose, but she's consistent! She knows her eyes, ears, nose, feet, hands & mouth in both English and German. It's amazing that she is understanding both languages fluently, I know I shouldn't be surprised because they say that the children absorb multiple languages at this age, but when it's your own child it's amazing. She also gives you things when you ask for them and this week her newest thing is that everything from cell phones to keys go up to her ears and she pretends she's talking on the phone. She loves to dance and when you ask her to dance she moves one of her shoulders up and down. She is extremely active and is walking, oh wait I mean RUNNING everywhere. She just doesn't keep still. She is very happy as usual and brings everyone who comes around her such joy. Bob is so proud of her (and I am too)!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

13 Months and Counting

Not too much is new on this end. Gabriela is progressing nicely. She loves to dance, especially to Thomas the Train. My daughter loves Thomas!!!! She's walking/running and getting banged up with her tumbles, but she's loving life and continues to be the great joy of ours. We had a little excitement this past Saturday ~ it was really windy and Auntie Erin and I went to lunch with G at the Sunset Grill in Lincoln Park. It was sunny and warm and we thought it would be nice to sit outside and watch the airplanes come in. By the way G loved watching them land and take off. Anyway....all of the sudden a massive gust of wind comes (I know I exaggerate, but ask Erin, it was crazy) and blows the highchair, with Gabriela in it, pushes the table toward Gabriela and the Teak umbrella starts snapping towards her. it was crazy!!!! To put it one way, the table behind our had 3 grown men trying not to have their table flip. It was strong, I tried to block the umbrella from the baby and this nice man came running over to help us and I was able to take the baby away. Needless to say the baby wanted no part of the highchair after that chaos. However, we survived unharmed thank goodness!!!! Now we are just fighting colds and preparing for Nana "B" to arrive for a visit tomorrow. We are looking forward to that ~ we miss her very much. Our work schedule is going to be hectic over the next few months which is a good thing, especially since the last few months have been brutal. So G is going to have a busy summer on job sites visiting daddy. We will be working as close as Parsippany and as far as Red Hook (100 miles away). Gotta pay the bills though and work is work! Take care all, I'll be in touch and post some pictures soon!