Friday, April 30, 2010

Night with cousin Sydney at Nanny and Papa'Al's house

This past weekend we went to San Francisco for daddy's Escape from Alcatraz triathlon. We stayed the night at Nanny and Papa'Al's house in the East Bay Area Friday night with cousin Sydney and Uncle Alvin.

Taylor on the car ride up to Papa'Al's house


Taylor and Sydney being goofey on mommy's bed


Video of the goofyness

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Spa Time with Papa'Al and Nanny (they wanted to swtich bathing suits so they have each other's on)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Dressed in my new TuTu and Butterfly Wings

Taylor is very intersted in ballerinas, particularly because Tinker Bell takes a ballerina on a music box to the "main land" in her second movie. Sydney gave Taylor that music box for her birthday so now Taylor is very much into ballerinas. Nanny bought her a tutu from Costco and boy is she is 7th Heaven!!












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Taylor's other Nanny (Nanny M) brought Taylor up some butterfly wings from the Wild Animal Park in SD for Easter. We have one lucky daughter!!

Monday, April 26, 2010

Helping daddy do house work

For an entire week Papa'Al and Nanny were here helping out to give the inside of our home a face lift. We painted and put new baseboards and crown molding up around the entire downstairs. Papa'Al is truly amazing with his craftsmanship and painting! It feels like we have a brand new house...thank you!!!

Taylor really wanted to help out so when daddy continued to do some work after Papa'Al left, Taylor was able to use her own screwdrive and help daddy!







There was nowhere to sit so...let's ride on daddy!




Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Party after bed time!

Today Taylor figured out that she could get out of her bed after we put her down and she could play, play, play! I put Taylor to nap at 1:15 and as I was walking out of the room she fell out of bed on purpose and laughed (this has been a fun thing for her for about a week). So, I just left her there, told her to get back in bed and take a nap. About 15 minutes later I went in to check on her and she was sitting up in bed reading her Tinker Bell Pillow Books. She told me she was "putting them together like this" so I just said "okay, when you're done lay down and take a nap," and then I left. Another 20 minutes later I swear I heard something so I went in her room and...



she was in the rocking chair reading books, all the stuff in her top and bottom dresser drawers were taken out so her Tinker Bell Pillow Books could lay inside of them, and she just looked at me and didn't say anything. I looked at her didn't know what to say, and just walked out (really because I wanted to get the camera). My mom and I went back in, took a picture and she started whining that she didn't want to take a nap. I told her she had to, picked her up and put her back in bad.

I left and then grabbed the monitor which I hadn't used in soooo long (Lisa's bright idea so I could just have fun watching what the heck she does in there). Taylor continued to sit up and down in her bed, play with her dolls, count the flowers on her blanket and pillows, play with the snaps on her crib sheet, etc. She became really focused on her Abby doll that Cadin gave her for her first birthday. She took the pacifier on and off Abby and even whispered things to her but I couldn't tell what she was saying. At the point when all the clothes came off Abby and Taylor was going to take another 20 minutes to get them back on I went in, put them on, and told her she needed to go night-night. Once Abby's clothes were on she was a-okay and went right to sleep.

Oh boy, I'm interested in what is to come with this new after-bed excitement!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Day with mommy's work friends

Today mommy's friend and "scheduler" at work came all the way from Arizona to visit the office. A few people brought their kids to work and we all had a pot luck. Before the pot luck a few of us took the kids to Fan Yang's Bubble Show at the Children's Discovery Center. It was pretty cool!

I left Taylor in the car (in her carseat to buckle it) while I went back in the house to grab something and this is where she ended up when I came back out!


Mommy caught you!


Following Victor, Mateo, Margaret and Suzanna to the Discovery Center


That screen tracks Taylor's movements and makes a cool design


The marble machine


Exploring how circular light shapes can make light tracks when you move them in the dark


Here is Fan Yang!




Taylor's first piece of Fried Chicken (at mommy's office)


Giving Marisa a hug


Marisa's cool toy






Tran with Suzanna (Margaret's daughter)


Taylor and Mateo playing in our toy room


Taylor and Mateo riding the scooter-thingy

Sunday, April 4, 2010

EASTER!!!

We had so much fun planning for this very special Easter. The Easter Bunny made sure that both Sydney and Taylor's baskets had all the same stuff and boy was that stuff good stuff! Sydney wakes up much earlier than Taylor so the Easter bunny decided not to come until a little later in the morning. While the girls were getting ready in Taylor's room the Easter Bunny came to our house and hid lost of eggs. He even made a path using chocolate easter eggs from Taylor's room all the way down to their baskets. What a creative bunny!

We then went to the beach after the egg hunt and had some fun swinging, playing with the girls' new bubble toys, and playing in the water.



The chocolate egg path


Collecting yummy chocolates!


Wow, the chocolates led right to the baskets!


Tinker Bell!


Enjoying chocolates with daddy








Mommy showing the girls how the malt balls make lipstick!


So pretty on Sydney


And Taylor...


They got Tinker socks!


And tattoos


Not a good picture but so cute and silly ready for the beach


Cousins






Bubbles!










Sydney can touch the ground!












Our sun bather






Singing while buried