tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325744372008-07-23T07:47:59.826-07:00Heathernoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-11539356774260203572008-07-21T14:06:00.000-07:002008-07-21T21:53:46.464-07:00

Last night Dave and I returned from our trip to London (well, Dave actually started in Germany and then went to London). It was a very quick trip, but I was able to see a ton of famous sites and a lot of really old stuff! Here are the lowlights and highlights :-) And, please excuse any ramblings and bad grammar - I've had very little sleep the past week! Let's start with the bad stuff... 5

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-42916916800392121602008-07-14T11:20:00.000-07:002008-07-14T11:25:15.040-07:00

Well, our little Carina isn't the only one getting older around here! I went to the doctor this past week for some knee pain I've been having (well, I've had knee issues for years, but over the past few months it has gotten worse and worse). Turns out I have arthritis in my knees. My doctor said I probably have the 13 years or so of baton twirling and marching to thank for that. She's

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-25825008589876244782008-07-01T10:11:00.000-07:002008-07-01T15:08:05.329-07:00

Our summer mornings: Wake up! If I'm lucky Carina sleeps in until 7:30, but it could be as early as 6:30 that she gets up. She's almost always in a happy, good mood to see me - sometimes still waking up a little bit. Walk! We've been walking around the park every morning. Carina LOVES being in her stroller and it gets me some much needed exercise, so it's great for both of us. Since Carina

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-39022514495665964192008-06-17T17:40:00.001-07:002008-06-17T17:54:59.845-07:00

Yay! Summer is here!! My last day of work was last Thursday, and we've been busy, busy, busy. We started out this weekend when we took Dave to the Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose for a Father's Day Picnic. Daddy liked his picnic, but Carina really had a good time. She wanted to run around (not instead of eat, but with food in her hands). When she fell and her sandwich got covered in

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-74106137916967644072008-05-31T10:11:00.000-07:002008-06-01T20:02:03.387-07:00

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-11768385864863092852008-05-20T20:58:00.000-07:002008-05-26T17:13:51.171-07:00

Last weekend we made a trip to the San Francisco Zoo to celebrate my step-dad's 60th birthday. We met up with his kids (and their families) along with Liam (Crystal had to work, so she didn't join us). Carina liked watching the animals - she thought the two playing grizzly bears were very funny. We tried to get her to sit on a bear statue, but she wouldn't have it. Liam climbed right up

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-33601958089255207932008-05-05T22:02:00.001-07:002008-05-05T22:41:30.894-07:00

Well, our little girl is growing quickly. In the last few weeks it seems like she's not our baby anymore. A few things that have happened... * Carina finally hit 20 pounds and is now in a forward facing convertible car seat - she seems so big! * Her hair is getting longer...and curlier! I've tried putting her hair in pig tails and barrettes. It is so cute. It looks pretty darn cute all curly

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-66045093534537356972008-04-17T20:37:00.000-07:002008-05-06T18:13:31.053-07:00

This past weekend we went to Disneyland...and left Carina with her grandparents! We dropped her off at my mom's house on Friday night and drove to Camarillo to stay with one of Dave's college friends. We woke up Saturday morning and headed to Disneyland. It was my first time leaving Carina overnight so I was feeling a lot like this poor guy we saw at Disneyland... Luckily the spirit of the

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-19968149815562348812008-04-01T20:15:00.000-07:002008-04-01T22:26:58.858-07:00

Carina's hair is starting to get long enough that she has started waking up with some pretty good bed head. The other night we went in to peek on her and we got a pretty good view of some pretty good bed head in the making. Luckily taking that picture did not wake her up! Carina has two new teeth (finally her top two teeth are in and it looks like a couple more are on the way after that), and

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-64169578664781976052008-03-09T21:17:00.000-07:002008-03-11T21:40:49.495-07:00

Carina has been practicing using a spoon with certain foods (like yogurt, oatmeal, and other foods that stick to the spoon). She isn't doing so well yet, but we figure it's good practice if nothing else. She tends to start dipping the spoon in the food and then using her other hand to take the food off the spoon and put it in her mouth. By the end of any meal when we try this she is pretty

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-9819609888799491562008-03-02T07:20:00.000-08:002008-03-02T07:30:40.909-08:00

We basically have a park in our front yard. We've taken Carina out a few times to "play", but really she hasn't been old enough to enjoy most of it. Last week we went out to try the slide again, and in no time she had figured it out. She'd scoot her little booty and lean forward to get herself going down....smiling the whole time. Daddy even rushed home from work one day to watch all of the

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-38741122415768248082008-02-25T08:26:00.000-08:002008-02-25T08:40:32.626-08:00

I was on vacation last week so I took the opportunity to take Carina in to take some one year portraits at the Picture People. She did really well with the photographer and managed to stay in a good mood during the picture taking process so we got some very cute pictures. Dave and I went back a few days later to actually buy the pictures and of course we spent way more money than we needed to

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-65398867906050298632008-02-10T15:53:00.001-08:002008-02-10T16:10:03.212-08:00

Has it really been a year already? In some ways the time has gone by so fast, yet in other ways the past year has taken its time. It is still a couple of days until Carina officially turns one (February 12th), but we had a party for her yesterday so that our friends and family could help Carina celebrate! Carina started the party with a bang - napping! When she woke up she put on her new

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-84202281807602224582008-02-03T17:10:00.000-08:002008-02-03T17:22:52.062-08:00

Watch out! Carina has taken a few little steps....I think we're in trouble! Once she really figures it out - will she ever stop? She is also starting to eat "people" food. This past week we've tried lots of stuff just like Mommy and Daddy eat - just cut up into small pieces. She seems to like it most of the time, but when she's not up for dealing with pieces of food she'll just spit it right

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-20294813127274564262008-01-20T07:39:00.000-08:002008-01-20T07:54:38.337-08:00

Carina found something new to play with yesterday. Well, actually something new to play in... Some of Carina's other new tricks include her first word, "uh-oh." She says it a lot now (for any occasion really), but when she purposefully drops something and then says "uh-oh" as she looks down at it, she is pretty cute. She can also stand by herself for a little while. If she is already in the

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-45829921056745616052008-01-13T18:54:00.000-08:002008-01-13T19:35:13.970-08:00

Some time ago, when we lived in the trailer, the local cops had chased some guy into the trailer park. He was dodging between the trailers and ended up hiding under a trailer near ours. The whole place was surrounded with officers. That story is not the reason for this post, but it provides good background information. Fast forward to last night, January 12. At about 10:30pm, just before

davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-29289160414264756962008-01-03T21:27:00.000-08:002008-01-03T22:20:01.381-08:00

Carina's first Christmas was a little hectic, but she seemed to enjoy it (well, she seemed to at least enjoy playing with the boxes and packing material that gifts came in :-) We started out the 23rd with a get together with my mom's family. Carina was a good girl of course and loved the toy dog she got from Great Grandma. Then on Christmas Eve we visited my dad's family. Carina had started

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-61159697060470649052007-12-11T21:33:00.000-08:002007-12-11T21:53:40.336-08:00

Today, we prepared all or our Holiday Letters to be mailed. Rather than writing about the contents, I'll just post a copy of the letter (click on the letter to download a .pdf for reading or printing). We also included a picture of the three of us in the envelope. We thought it was going to be fairly difficult to get Carina to look at the camera at the right time (we were using the timer with

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Carina loves bath time. One of her favorite toys is Nemo and she loves to stress out Mommy by standing up in the slippery tub. Lately we've also been doing some fun hairstyles during bath time since Carina's hair is getting a little bit longer. All three of these items are demonstrated in the picture below: Carina had a nice first Thanksgiving. She loved the turkey of course, but I'm sure

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-73497920578364668972007-11-18T19:35:00.000-08:002007-11-18T19:52:34.075-08:00

Carina started to pull herself up to standing about a week and a half ago. I walked in to her room to get her up from a nap and there she was standing! It was very strange. Since then she pulls herself up on just about anything she can. Today she took it a step (pun intended) further and started moving herself along while standing. She is very proud of herself as you can see: She also is

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-81203919217447098902007-11-07T20:49:00.001-08:002007-11-07T20:59:18.554-08:00

I'm finally posting the pictures from Halloween...I know it was a week ago, but hey, give me a break! :-) Dave's work had a pirate themed party, so Dave went as a pirate and Carina was the best accessory ever... They held a costume contest and with the help of his parrot, Dave won! Although the judges did point out that it was really his super cute parrot that got him the prize. And the prize

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-2872307086475688842007-10-30T19:52:00.000-07:002007-10-31T06:45:31.408-07:00

This past weekend we made a trip down to see my Grandma Helen. She's been in a nursing home for a number of years and we try to visit her whenever we are down there. Since Carina has been born we've been to see her quite a few times. Just recently she fell and broke both of her knees. The doctors gave her only a few weeks to live. We were planning a trip down on Veteran's Day weekend, but

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-83129515526806865682007-10-23T06:44:00.001-07:002007-10-23T06:50:29.213-07:00

Looking for trouble... Here's an action shot...Yep, our little Carina has started crawling. She doesn't go very far yet (usually just far enough to get whatever it is that was beyond her reach), but it's pretty darn cute. Her little knees are all red, but she doesn't seem to care. I think Dave and I will spend some time this weekend investigating some more serious childproofing ;-)

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-64521543514564404262007-10-14T21:46:00.000-07:002007-10-14T22:18:40.235-07:00

We noticed Carina had the beginnings of a cold on Friday morning. She was congested and had a slightly elevated temperature. She had a good day at Michelle's but by Friday night she seemed to be getting worse. She was so sad! She sept alright Friday night but her stuffy nose must have been keeping her from very restful sleep. Saturday was not a good day. She was very sleepy all day, but

Heathernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32574437.post-21000098379472714412007-10-02T20:12:00.000-07:002007-10-02T20:41:15.565-07:00

Carina has this laugh, giggle, smile combination she does these days that just fills my heart with pure joy every time she does it. The smile is gummy, the cheeks are dimpled, and the sound is the sweetest thing you'll ever hear. I spend my time doing every silly thing I can just to get a little bit of it and every time she does it I can't help but giving her the biggest smile back. This

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