Wednesday, March 25, 2009

6 Months Old!

The Skills:
Sitting, Squealing, Giggling, Gabbing and Grabbing
The Sustenance:
Rice Cereal, Sweet Potatoes and Bananas
The Stats:
17 lbs 6.5 oz - 75th Percentile
25.5 inches long - 50th Percentile
43 centimeter head - 50th Percentile

See the Picasa site for the rest of Elena's six month photo shoot.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Throwing Sheep

I've mentioned in previous posts that Elena is a fairly serious little girl. You've got to work really, really hard to get a solitary chuckle out of her. Well yesterday, Elena and I took a day trip to Babi and Pop-Pop's (mom's grandparents) in PA. Cousin Stan was home from Baghdad on his R&R and some family was getting together. We were all hanging out and playing with Elena's new, stuffed sheep from her Great Aunt Lori.

I tossed it towards Elena and she giggled. So I tossed it again, this time it bopped her face. She squealed. The more times I threw this sheep at her face, the more she giggled. This game went on for nearly 5 minutes of giggles. Dad wasn't with us so we shot this video on Aunt Becca's cell phone to send to him. Hope you enjoy!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

Ooh... growin’ up

Life at the Vargas household is very exciting these days. Little Laney is just about 6 months old, she has 2 teeth, she can sit, and she's just itching to start crawling. She keeps throwing herself forward when she is sitting to try to get from point a to point b. She's also mastered rolling from her back to her belly. She particularly likes to do this when she is sleeping. Then she wakes up, and cries because she struggles getting rolled back over to her back. We've been working on Belly to Back rolls and last night she mastered a few on her own. Fingers crossed this new trick sticks.

She's started doing some very adorable things recently, such as reaching out for mom and dad when she wants us to pick her up. I've also taught her "high five". She's been starting to have her rice cereal almost every night now... that's dad's job since she won't let mom come near her with a spoon. After her six month check up we'll start adding some veggies to the mix.

This past weekend her Pop-Pop and Nana came to visit and she showed off all her new tricks for them. Pop-Pop's scratchy beard even elicited some giggles out of her.

We are all just trying to love every minute of it because she changes so much every day. My little lady isn't so little anymore!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

El fin de semana de la familia Vargas

On Thursday night, Elena met her Tia Elidani for the first time. Elidani was in town from Elche, Alicante, Spain to visit with the family and celebrate Ito's Birthday, Emma's Christening and Emma's 1st Birthday.

Saturday afternoon, Juan served as Godfather at cousin Emma's christening. On Sunday we headed back down to Montgomery County to celebrate Emma's first birthday. I can't believe how big Emma has gotten and how big Elena is getting. Elena had the opportunity to spend lots of time with her family, and meet a few second cousins and family members she hadn't met yet.

Lots of pictures have been posted to the Picasa Album

Oh, and if things weren't crazy enough she decided it was time to cut another tooth too... bringing her grand total to two.