Last Friday we took our first family road trip and first trip ever! Yeah I know it only took nine months you must be saying. We have gone places...but not as far as Lincoln City, Oregon (on the 101 coast). We must say that our baby did so well! He was an angel and a big boy in the car seat. He only got a bit frustrated at the end, reaching the resort only because it was pitch dark outside. He was so happy to get to the room...and uhhmm remodel!

We did get to check out a few shops, but it was just too windy to get Noah outside and risk him getting a bad cold! Momma took most of the pictures, recorded some on the camcorder, while baby did the following - slept. Oh and daddy drove of course! We picked some new toys for Noah, but he won't get them until Christmas...but we didn't have to pay taxes - yippie! We were glad to be home safe with our little angel.

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For Halloween we planned to take Noah to our local mall and hopefully meet up with abuelito Lopez'. We went to trick or treat at the mall but grandparents couldn't make it. We did get a lot of candy....I mean Noah got a lot of candy and we were able to see his grandparents later that evening. Here are some pictures from Halloween Eve (Noah and daddy carving Noah's pumpkin) and Halloween day. Hope everyone had a great day!

On Sunday we took advantage of some of the last nice sunny days and took Noah outside to play with the leaves and get some pictures - that is if he would allow us! Luckily, the sun was out, the leaves were pretty, and our baby cooperated for just enough shots. It started to get chilly really quick so we came back inside to get warm. Check out the latest pictures of our baby Noah.

Today we had plans to see his abuelito Alvarado's and then do some trick or treating in Burien.....closer to their place. We had planned it for a few weeks and invited Omar's family, unfortunately his abuelita got a very unplanned flu and had to sit it out. They stayed home and couldn't hang out with their grandson. Luckily, tia Yuri came along! She was a big help...as it was the three of us walking him from store to store for a few blocks. Noah had fun, but I think his parents had way more fun watching their baby trick or treat for the first time! We will never forget these precious moments. The day was chilly but the sun made the day and walk really nice. We got a lot of pictures, but most importantly.... a lot of memories. After getting candy, for baby of course, we stopped to see his abuelitos. Since abuelita was really sick and baby was really tired we had to cut the visit short...there is always next time though!

Ohh, and we called this Trick or treat, part 1 because we hope to take him to our local mall on Halloween night - with abuelito Lopez'. We hope everyone is healthy then! Check out the pictures and keep leaving your comments, we enjoy reading them. Hola a todos!

Yeah!!! We made it to the pumpkin patch today! After doing our morning errands, Noah took a good long nap, ate lunch, and off we went - down to the pumpkin patch! We couldn't have asked for a nicer fall afternoon. The sun was bright and no rain in sight! It was still breezy, but the sun helped keep baby warm. Our stroll among the pumpkins was really fun, we enjoyed watching Noah touch the pumpkins and not know what to do. We brought back a few pumpkins and a lot of memories. Ohh...we stopped by abuelito Lopez' also! Check out the pictures from our busy but memorable day. Tomorrow we are trying to go see his other abuelito's and his tia Lilah.

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We can't say it enough....we have been blessed with our baby Noah. He makes us smile everyday and shows us something new that he does each day as well. The last few days Noah has been doing a lot more talking...ok so it's baby talk...but parents always understand! We are so grateful that he eats well, sleeps well (especially at night), and is healthy and happy. We are looking forward to a relaxing weekend as a family. We are hoping to go to a pumpkin patch on Saturday, it will probably be muddy, but we hope for no rain while out on the field! Check out some new pictures for this week!

Our Noah turned 8 months on Saturday...as his daddy mentioned. We had a nice and relaxing weekend. Saturday we went out for breakfast and then to the market, but I forgot my camera in the car. Then we went home for Noah's nap and then headed to the mall and REI! Daddy picked up a really nice fleece vest and mittens for baby...their fall sale ended this weekend. Then we went to have lunch at Sushiland! Mommy and daddy haven't treated themselves to sushi in way too long! Noah was sooo good...he's such a happy baby, he makes complete strangers smile! Sunday we saw his abuelito Alvarado's and it was his tia's birthday a few days ago...so he went to wish her a happy one! Hopefully he can see his abuelito Lopez' this week. Check out the many new pictures! Keep sending us your comments, we enjoy reading them. Hola ha todos!

This weekend was busy, having to do our stuff and visiting the family. We mainly stayed home because of the rain. We still went to the farmers market, got some fruit for Noah and then went to get more clothes for him too. He's growing alot and leaving his baby clothes. Yesterday he was very needy, his right canine tooth is still coming out and he's very unconfortable. He likes me to rock him to sleep every night. He's very active during the day, and we are always tired by the end of the day. It doesn't matter how much he's hurting or how unconfortable, he always gives us a big smile and a kiss when he sees us. We love our boy.

Today was finally a relaxing day, although we went out and went to a wedding. Noah's aunt Andrea's brother was getting married...if you understood that! It was a nice wedding. In the morning we went to our local farmers market and picked up some fresh fruit for Noah. Then we headed to our Supermall down the hill about ten minutes away and had lunch there. Check out the pictures from today.

We are all happy the weekend is finally here! As for last weekend we saw both sets of abuelitos and picked up some new toys for Noah and two new warm hats....it's starting to get chilly! We baked cookies and just hung out relaxing. This weekend we have some places to go and we are hoping to attend a wedding. We'll try to go to the market on Saturday morning as our baby Noah is out of pears, peaches (almost), and apples! His daddy weighed him after his bath and although it isn't exact, we think Noah now weighs 25lbs or more!! We both have noticed he has grown in length for sure! Our baby is growing so fast. Momma loves that he will give me kisses out of no where, he knows that I love when he gives momma love! It's so sweet, he does it with dada too!

As for other things, we've been following the news about WaMu....pretty sad. We have mutual friends still at the company and our thoughts are with you all during this crazy time. Hope you are all able to leave it behind for the weekend and enjoy some time with family and friends.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Here we are! Our baby boy continues to cruise around! We will begin baby proofing this weekend! Hola a todos! Check out the new pictures....momma finally caught up!

Check out some new pictures! It's been busy lately and our poor baby is still teething. He seems to want to walk soon, we are all saying he will by ten months...but we'll see! I will try to blog about our weekend soon!

Noah and family have been doing well. Our baby is definetly keeping us busy. He has understood that crawling will get him places he shouldn't be....so he has learned how to crawl fast! He hardly lays down anymore...he either sits, stands or crawls to some interesting thing. Daddy brushed his teeth for the first time the other day....it was so cute, and Noah loves his teeth being brushed - surprisingly. This past week, Noah and momma did a lot of walking, or actually momma did a lot of walking! Noah was sleeping for over an hour outside on our walk - however fall is approaching fast so we'll have to take our walks to the mall. Check out some new pictures, I am still trying to catch up! Hello to our families in California!

It's been a long time since momma has written anything, and I can say so much here now but I will try to keep it semi-short so that you can read! Our baby turned 7 months today...actually JUST a few minutes ago!

Things he has done lately...or his firsts are: He had spaghetti for the first time on Tuesday and he stood up to the couch by himself! He is crawling...but hasn't really realized he can actually get farther than he thinks! His teeth are coming so fast! He has 4 teeth coming out on top! He already has his bottom two! He loves to geek out like his daddy and still loves his books. Only a few pictures have been uploaded this week, however we plan to upload a lot more next week! Keep leaving your comments, Noah enjoys reading them!

We love our baby so much and we are a very blessed little family!

Happy Birthday our baby boy! We love you!

Last weekend...
We went to Ofelia's birthday party, she turned 2. Click on pictures to see more, larger.

Since our last posting, we have been busy with Noah, his top teeth are coming out and he's been really needy. We are making his food every weekend for the week. still loving his apples, "peaches up in here". Last week he tried lentils for the first time. I made them the way my mom used to make them for us when we were little. We processed them and put them through a sifter to get rid of the skin. He loved it.

Noah, will be 6 months tomorrow. Today we are going swimming to the local community pool, depending on how he does we may sign him up for swimming lessons. He loves splashing on the tub so he may just enjoy it.
This weekend, we had another busy one. We went to the farmer's market and bought him some veggies, he loves carrots, peaches, butternut squash, apples. We got some sweet peaches, they were cooked this morning and they are sweeter even than the ones they sell at the store. We are buying a whole box next week so we can save some for the peachless season. So Noah doesn't miss out. Last Thursday we also visited his Alvarado Abuelitos, he was a good boy with them but got tired and fell asleep they gave him a CD with classic songs, the ones I grew up with, available in iTunes. On Friday, we went to his Lopez' Abuelitos they had dinner for us and his cousins were there, they had just got back from Disneyland and brought him his "ears" He loves to have them on. We have a 6 month check up and shots for him on Friday, so I'll have a short day at work. I think Cindy will be posting something this week but if not we will post something next weekend.

This weekend was a very productive weekend. We caught up on all of our pending things. We went to Babies R Us to get our growing boy new things he needs. He no longer fits on his bouncer and needs a booster seat for his meals. Since he has been eating his chicken, veggies, fruits. He loves his home made apple sauce. We made a batch of fuji apples and he loved it. I went to the grocery store and the freshest apples I found were Gala apples. they are not as sweet as Fuji's but thew are super fresh. Cindy loves to make his (Noah) baby food, in the food processor. I got him some pears but we forgot them on the stove and burnt them.
He got an activity station by Baby Einstein, he loved it we got him his booster seat but he's too big for it and will have to return it this week. We went to check out OR they have a quarterly sale, We like it because of their quality outdoor stuff. We are specially interested in rain gear for the cold season.

On Saturday we took advantage of the nice warm weekend and went out on our first family hike! It wasn't extremely difficult...but it was a start. We walked around Discovery Park. Noah loved hanging out on daddy's back and watching everything. He liked our time just sitting under a tree by the water - it was good family time. Afterwards, we went to Alki to eat fish and chips for lunch...yum! Oh then we picked up Noah's new convertible car seat. Yes, he already outgrew his infant car seat - but this new nice one should last us up until 65lbs. Sigh...he's growing up so fast.

Noah is 5 monts today in about 18 minutes, and at short of 5 months he's already made daddy proud more than once. Today as he was playing with momma, he said Dadda! We heard it and encouraged to keep saying and he kept repeating. We were very proud of our boy. Momma was sad but happy, she was proud of our boy too.

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We are doing OK, after Cindy getting sick, I got sick then Noah got sick, he's still with belly aches. We went to the doctor and expect that Noah gets better by Saturday. We haven't been able to do anything because of the weather. It keeps raining, no sun yet. I am curious if there will be any this summer. Anyway, I hope we do. Hello to every one. Please write to us to say hello or at least to know that you are checking our site.

Omar, Cindy and Noah.
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This weekend was really good, we had a stay at home Saturday with the exception of the evening which we used to go to the Lopez' for dinner. They had Caldo , and with the weather it was perfect. Andrea took some apple turnover it was low in sugar which made it really good, I had it with vanilla ice cream. On Saturday, we got up late and let Noah sleep a little before we went out. We went to the Alvarado's for lunch. And they were surprised how much bigger he's (Noah) getting.  We came back home and then I ran to Costco because we were dangerously low in Milk.  I still have to get some other groceries today but not as critical. I left my boy asleep today he's been sleeping really well.  He only wakes up for night time feedings but doesn't even cry.  While I was talking to Andrea on Saturday, she mentioned that I needed to have a "girl" and that she needed to be very needy and cry a lot more, just to get the real baby experience. It makes me feel grateful for my boy being so calm. I hope he turns out that way. I think it helps that we try to help him out and keeping him from getting too angry before we give him what he needs.
Back at work on Monday, just another day at work, was fine. Had lunch at Wild tiger pizza in Westlake Center, Took the bus and came back in about 30 minutes. I came out of work and went to the store at Metropolitan Market to get groceries and had some home made hamburgers with the really good meat from Met-market.

...was nice but always too short. Friday was sushi night and Noah was so great as always! Then momma was treated to a tall java chip frappaccino from Starbucks! Mmm! Saturday we spent the evening at the Lopez' after buying bear his really nice REI hiking backpack! Well...actually after Noah's really long nap between...lol. We can't wait to use his backpack...that's if we even get a summer! Today we went to abuelito Alvarado's house for lunch and got back this afternoon. Noah and daddy are napping now and I am going to do some laundry. Please check out the new pictures and keep leaving comments - we enjoy reading them! Gracias!

Listening to the birds chirping outside this morning while baby Noah is asleep. It actually seems like a nice spring day outside! We can't wait for nicer weekend weather so that Noah can enjoy the outdoors. Our baby is doing well...keeps getting bigger. We bought a scale to make sure he wasn't losing weight because he seems to have left his formula supplement for the most part. But this is good news! Since his two month checkup just over two weeks ago he has gained at least another pound and half...and appears to us to have grown in length as well. We won't know accurately until his four month checkup in June. We were happy to see he is still gaining despite not drinking hardly anymore formula...it's all breastfeeding now! He is only two and a half months old but seems bigger to us. He is growing up so fast! Well it was his bath night last night....check out the latest pictures.

We play every day after I get off work, he talks to me, we just chill on the bed.

Baby and momma haven't posted anything in a few weeks....been crazy! Nøah has been fine...momma's the one that got a fever due to an infection. I got antibiotics that were safe for me and the baby and am a lot better now. The baby is getting bigger as you can see by the new pictures we've posted...that's taken some time to do and I only get a few minutes to do this while Noah is asleep or when daddy is here! I don't like leaving him alone while I get on the computer....we like to read, play with his balloon, play on his play mat, take pictures to send to daddy, or do some tummy time (which momma just started doing more of these last few days only). I'll post more tomorrow hopefully after Nøah's two month checkup. Sadly though...he is going in for his shots. We'll see how he does...I pray that he does well - I know I'll be crying for sure!

Ohh...and my cousins were in town this week, we've posted new pictures of Noah with them. They leave this evening after being in Seattle for a week. Noah thanks his uncle Jr. and aunties for the new outfits! Keep reading and emailing us!

We love to play after i get off work.

A couple of pictures of baby Nøah watching his first snow fall. He really enjoyed it.

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....he discovered playing with his balloon today. It was really cute - he was holding it and moving it around. We had a good family day today...momma, daddy and Nøah.

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Momma captures daddy and son after dinner. How sweet!

Happy Birthday, Momma!

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We are as happy as when we found out Noah was on his way, we have had a few nights without sleep (Cindy mostly), but have had more smiles with him. This week he has been just like always, calm, sleepy, and eats a lot. As Cindy's post tells, he's gained almost 3 pounds from birth, not counting the 1 pound he lost when he came out. Here are some pictures I like.

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On Thursday afternoon, we went to Noah's one month checkup. It was with a new clinic and doctor, but his doctor is a really nice lady. Noah is doing very well...as mom and dad figured. We were thinking he had probably reached 11lbs...in fact he's almost reached 12lbs! He has gained about a total of 3lbs since being released from the hospital on February 14. He lost almost a whole pound in the first days after he was born...but it was only eleven percent so it wasn't anything startling. He has also grown in length! He is now 22 inches...he was born 21. Both mommy and daddy are happy with their big boy! I love the smiling he is doing when he looks at us.