"Pee Pee Poo Poo Potty"

Yep, that is what Dani has to say lately people. Lately Dani's mind has been well, on the potty. She has been more interested in trying to go. Not a lot of success yet but heading in the right direction. Her biggest fascination currently and frankly the way she spends the better part of her day now is diapering her babies. She diapers them and then shreaks "baby poo poo potty". She finds this hilarious and then proceeds to take the diaper off. At this point she prefers that we further inspect the situation. She usually says "Yook Mama, baby pee pee poo poo" or "baby poo poo potty". "Yook" is her way of saying look and we hear this word a lot. Too cute and I seriously hope she says 'y' instead of 'l' for awhile becuase it warms my heart in a way I never though possible.

We had a nice weekend and spent time with my parents and my cousin who was visiting from Texas. Last night we went out for Chinese. My Mom and I thought it would be too cute if Dani wore her Chinese Cheongsam (sp?) to dinner. The ladies at our favorite Chinese place were over the moon when they saw her. It was pretty funny.

Here she is after we got home:


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Caught scaling the coffee table on Sunday Morning!


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Tyler recently started taking tennis lessons. His coach was really impressed with his ability and he was chosen out of his group to represent his site at a tennis tournament. Here he is rallying during warm up:


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THis cracks me up. Dani was wearing her monkey pj's and robe. Muggin the camera.

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A little happier when she found out she was going to play with her friend Erin.

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Oh Blokus How I Love Thee...

This is my new addiction..my new favorite thing to do with my husband and Tyler. Want to know why??? Cuz I can beat the pants off of them that's why! Never before have I been so good at any game. I NEVER win people! Seriously. I now have the ability to challenge them to a game that I have been winning every time. I am sure they are sick of my gloating and sheer excitement since my Mom gave Tyler this game last weekend. I can't get enough.

It's just a game of strategy involving tetris shaped pieces. Simple to learn and play. I have never really been a game person but I have been known to become a little obsessed once in awhile with Bejeweled and Tetris. Once a year or so I will have down time at work and play Tetris or Bejeweled on the computer. Then I become an addict and have to wean myself off. I get bored and forget about it for ahwhile. This game reminds me of those and man it's fun. Ok, yes I'm a dork!

I will post some new pics over the weekend. We are going to see Aisha Tyler tomorrow night at a comedy club. I think she is pretty funny. I had wanted to go last week because Anjelah Johnson was playing. I hadn't heard of her until recently when I saw this. Hilarious...not meant to offend anyone. She seriously has that accent down pat!



BTW is it at all fair that she is that pretty and funny??? If she is that funny that probably means she is smart too. Ughh JK :-)

Hooky Day

I played hooky today and spent the day with Daniela. Our sitter had the day off so I got to spend a great day doing fun stuff with my little chica. We went to Picture Perfect Party for open play in their big playroom which was great. Then we went to Barnes and Noble and played in the kids area and read books. The bookstore I found is a particularly enjoyable place to go for FREE!

Not too much else new. Please leave me a comment as I am going to make a blogroll and need blog addresses. I am always using other people's blogrolls to access blogs so this way I can have my own.


We went with our local Guat Adoption Group to a Guatemalan restaurant in Oakland recently. The food was actually great and it was a fun outing. My daughter ate like she was in the "mother land" let me tell you. It was too funny. I don't know what it is but she LOVES Guatemalan food. She was covered in black beans from head to toe. She managed to get it all over my pants as well. Black beans on your jeans doesn't look right.


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Our friends daughter Gabi. Gorgeous!


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Wearing T's helmet. It was even better when she was wearing it backwards and running around the room. Kind of reminded me of that scene from Parenthood with Steve Martin where the kid was running around with the bucket on his head.


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A video from today's outing. More pics to come tomorrow.


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Extreme Makeover 2008 and Holiday Rewind

So, I did it! I jumped on the bandwagon and got a blog makeover. I wanted to keep my same old blog but then I started looking at everyone else's pretty new blog and I got SO jealous. So the fantastic Nikki (www.madebynikki.blogspot.com) gave my blog an extreme makeover. Do you like it? My kids sure do.

Thought I would play catch up from the holidays and include some pictures. We had a great Christmas and NYE. Christmas was at home and pretty low key. It was so fun watching Dani open presents this year. SHe really got it and enjoyed unwrapping the paper and finding a surprise in each package. NYE we did a progressive party with some of our close friends/neighbors. We are great friends with several other families on our block. We started at one end of the street and worked our way house to house for different food and drinks. With kids in tow we made it all the way until 12:30AM and it was a blast. I told Steve I had more fun this year then any of the years we went out and partied at clubs/bars. The kids had a blast (watching your parents get drunk and dance around is probably pretty entertaining). The night ended with my daughter dancing on the coffee table (video below) as the ball dropped on TV. We got her in bed at 12:30AM and...NY Day? Don't even ask..my head throbbed and my daughter whined. WE made it through though and it was so worth it. The only bummer was that Tyler was not here to celebrate with us. HE usually spends NYE with his Mom. He was here for Christmas though and that to us is more important.

Here are some pics to recap the last month. ENJOY!



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This is what happens what a small person tries to spy on parents in the living room watching TV. Small person fell asleep during covert operation!


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Our 2007 Holiday Picture - Taken by my cousin Jody at Campo Di Bocce. We had the best night having yummy Italian food and playing Bocce Ball.


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Sunol Canyon Train of Lights. This was more fun in theory than in reality. The kids had a good time so that's the point I guess. Note to Sunol Canyon Train of Lights...When you have an old train and a lot of switchbacks that involve lurching. DON't FREAKIN SERVE PIPING HOT COCOA TO KIDS!!!! Now let your imaginations run wild with the thought of burning hot chocolate all over our pants and seat ;-)


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Kids with friends Ian and Erin


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Dani and her friend "M" after a fun day of play at Habitot


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T and D cheesin on Christmas Eve. Love this pic


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Dani helping her Daddy put together he new wagon on Christmas morning


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Dani loves her wagon!


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Steve hit the motherload this Christmas and won't be getting any visits from Santa for a few years! Yep, a new TV and stand. Check out our cat. Chili loves the LCD and HDTV picture I guess. She watched it for hours that first night. It was pretty hilarious! Our cat is nuts and doesn't make too many appearances on my blog. She is why they call cats "Scaredy cats"



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We went on the Hornblower SF Bay Cruise with our close friends Laurie and August. It was fun but the food sucked. For that much money you should be getting a decent meal.


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NYE Pooped out with Daddy at the end of the night


OK, here is the video on NYE. Please ignore my disgusting shreaky voice jabbering over the video. ALso, I apologize in advance for Kanye's use of the F word. I didn't realize how many times he pops that off in this song. Good thing none of the kids noticed LOL


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