Trip to Seattle, part I

Finally we had the opportunity to go up to Seattle and visit grandma, grandpa and aunt Miriam, plus enjoy the nice weather they have there (yes! we run away from the heat over 110 degrees every day in Yuma).

Joel had a great time exploring the backyard. He was very excited to be able to do it at anytime, he can't do it at home, just before 7am or after 7pm and it's a short  visit because is hot.

Joel loved to go up and down the stairs (a million times if possible during the day)

Loved to spent time with grandma

Joel loves sea food

Joel enjoys his bath time, and every day he's looking forward for that time!  One of his favorite toys is a fish that he likes to squish and dip it into the water. Besides that he enjoys playing with the water.

  

The green family

I'm not taking about a family with the last name Green, or carbon footprints...I'm talking about us!  In June there was a Mexico soccer game and it was the last game to be the champions, so we all were cheering them, and put on our green shirts just for fun, it was a very exciting game, and we had a good time as a family.

Official first haircut

We were complaining that Joel didn't have that much hair, but suddenly it started to grow until this was how he was looking that we even were trying to make his hair like Justin Bieber or Joseph Smith style.

This is before as you can see

 We found a place where they charge $5.00, and we thought it was a pretty good deal since it will be faster to get both of these boys a haircut instead of me spending a lot of time doing it.  We called early to find out their hours and for our surprise it was open at 7am, it sounded good to us (especially because it wasn't as hot at that hour, just around the middle 80's), so we went.

 Joel was always looking around and trying to figure out what was going on, even though we were telling him we will get him a haircut probably it didn't mean anything to him :)

 He was kind of scared (poor little thing) and he didn't like all the noise and being held so the barber could perform the haircut, he likes to be free so it was a hard time for our little one.

 This is his new look after the haircut, doesn't he look cute? He was so serious and a little bit upset for putting him through all that. I can even say that he couldn't sleep very well during his nap time or even at night because I might say that he was having nightmares about his first experience with the barber.

 A little bit more happy posing with his sunglasses

Balls

Something else he likes to do is play with balls - grab and throw them or chase or try to eat them.

Baby story time

After a few months, baby story time at the library was back, I was so excited and ready to take Joel, and set apart the day on the calendar,  But we totally forgot because of some changes in daddy's schedule, the following week we resolved not to miss it again, but all of us got sick after we came back from San Diego, then the next week we were ready but an ex-neighbor (from the apartment complex we used to live) asked me to babysit her baby boy (who is a month younger than Joel), so we missed it again. That was last week in June and we were not able to make it any day.  I was really frustrated because it is one of the few things we could do here and it suppose to be only for seven weeks and we already missed the entire month.

Before anything else happened the following week (before we went to Seattle) we finally made it!! I was so happy and excited that Joel could see some other babies and interact with them because he only sees us. He is usually very careful when he in a new place and starts to look at everybody and everything until he feels comfortable (I guess). It took him a little while but finally he participated with the others and crawled from my side and enjoyed playing with new and different toys.

Visiting the kitchen again

Besides making sure the dishwasher, oven, drawers and cabinet doors work, Joel likes to take a few visits to the kitchen to make sure mommy has everything she needs in the cabinets.  If something is missing then it's time to include it in our next grocery list.
Exploring time!  It's hard to try to keep him away from things/places he's not suppose to be.  Every time we think it's baby proof we discover there is something new to protect, so we just let him go around for a little bit being curious about new things and exploring.

Rolling over the bed

One of the things that Joel likes to play is rolling over the bed, some mornings he is so full of energy that he wants to keep going over and over for a little while but we get tired first, we try to have fun with him trying new and simple things, we know it could be dangerous if we let him stay by himself, but also we are teaching him how to get down on his tummy.

 These pictures and video are from June

Here it's a short video of Joel rolling over....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PX_NUoNERE

It's a baby .....

Finally we found out what are we having, probably some of you might know by now....but we want to make it official.....

I know it took us a little while to say it, we are excited for having a baby girl!

 We are following Angie and Sander's pattern apparently =)

The ultrasound technician took more than half an hour with me, the baby was a little bit shy and didn't want to move to let us know the gender, first she was bending her knees, second time we tried after moving a little bit she was playing with the umbilical cord, and finally we could barely find out when she was kicking my bladder (nothing fun to me, because it was full) the technician said, it's a GIRL! so we are trusting her because we will have to start getting everything in pink or similar colors, besides some headbands and cute things for girls! 

I was looking for something cute to make for her (even though I didn't make anything cute for Joel - but I will make it up for him too).

 I found this and I wanted to try it...........

Even though I 'm not very crafty or creative as I wish, this is what it came up for our little princess! Hope she fits in the onesy at least for a picture

Thanks to our Heavenly Father, this pregnancy with our little angel has been so far so good. I feel really blessed, I can say that I know I'm pregnant because my belly is growing but besides that, the first trimester was pretty good (part of it didn't know I was pregnant) and this second trimester has been really good (except for two days that I ate something I shouldn't that caused me some heartburn, but that was it).

I haven't shared our story about how we found out we were pregnant,  we were looking for a place to move from our apartment complex and while packing things and getting things ready for the big day, I suddenly wanted to eat peanuts really bad (Mexican style -with some chilli) and I did it a couple times and I was craving them, but I don't usually do that, I'm not a big fan of peanuts and if I eat a peanut butter sandwich it has to have strawberry jam on it as well. So a thought came to my mind that there was something going on....I told Tom that we should get a pregnancy test just for curiosity, and for our surprise it came out positive!!! We scheduled an appointment with the Women's Health Clinic here in Yuma, and the soonest they could get us one was almost a month and a half later, so we sat and waited for that day, because we didn't even know how far we were or anything....that's one of the reasons it has taken us a long time to share this with you all. As today they say we are 25 weeks (I thought we were 20 when I had the ultrasound -that's when they usually schedule it here).
I really miss Dr Erickson and his staff and clinic back in Glendale!  If I complained before about something I take it back, they are the best, even the hospital, we had a good deal being self-pay in both clinic and hospital, we had at least four ultrasounds and a 3D one, with great discounts with the lab. Here I just have one, and the deals are not very good as we thought and I'm a little concerned about the people in the hospital, they are not as nice as in Glendale, if you ask something to the ladies at the front desk they even look at you like why are you bothering me, if that's the case for those ladies that are supposed to be nice because they have to direct/help people I wonder about the nurses (I haven't heard good comments about them or the rest of the staff there) I'm not even thinking about getting the epidural...
But something I know, we have been very blessed and Heavenly Father will be watching over us and the people that will be taking care of us during the big day!
I just will be more positive so more good things will happen to us from now on, even though it hasn't been fun for our budget.
Hopefully next baby or babies are born in a different place than Yuma =D