I love spending time with Mom and Dad

"How much do I love thee, let me count the ways"

I love my table and play at it all the time.  Look how mom painted it so full of color.

Daddy combs my hair when I get out of the bath. He then puts my pajamas on and reads me a story.

There's an urge that I can't resist, so I must push

I have to push with all my might and most of the time, my face turns pretty red. Thanks Dad for taking these pictures of me.  I knew you would capture me at my best.  :)

Standing up for your rights!

Last week Paris and 400 other people picketed outside of the AOC ( Administrative Offices of the Court) in San Francisco.  We got this picture from the San Jose Mercury News online.  If you click on  the picture, yo will see Paris in the middle. Can you spot him?

He and his co-workers are defending their jobs.  The CEO of the Alameda Court system is laying of 73 people because the court's has no money to afford these people, but the AOC has been given money by the Federal government to help the court system keep there employees, but the AOC is holding onto the money and putting it in a rainy day fund to use for their own buildings. So 73 hard working and not-so hard working men and women will lose their jobs in 2 2 1/2 weeks.  Doesn't seem fair, does it?

May Days

Hannah has mastered the ability to eat her own yogurt.  She loves scooping it up and putting in her mouth.  She is so proud of herself for being able to do this.  the one thing she is still working on is pulling the food of with her lips, so she uses her teeth which then piles the yogurt all over her face like in the picture. SHe gets most of it in.

I bought her a table and chairs for a last birthday present. She is so excited to have her own chair and table her size.  

I have a basket of stamper markers I rarely use, she loves to play and suck on them. I don't really take the caps off unless I am playing with her.

Then there is daddy's nose.  Hannah just loves to try to bite it.

Here dad, do you want a pen too?

Lots of pens, oh my!

Hannah loves to give mom kisses on the mouth. She sees mom and dad do it, so she wants to do it as well.

Having fun in the kitchen has been great now that she has discovered the plastic lids and containers. She just loves to take them in and out of the basket.

Happy Birthday & Mom's day to me!

That's right.  My birthday fell on Mother's Day this year.  It's hard to really enjoy both celebrations at the same time,  but I did celebrate and tried to do as much as possible.  Paris let me sleep in and then made some birthday waffles  and fruit salad. 

Here is my fabulous birthday cake. Carrot of course. It had pineapple, coconut and yummy icing. Thanks Lisa, it was the most delicious cake I ever had.

Here we all are after dinner, I made spaghetti and meatballs with cornbread. Lisa &  Em brought a salad and the yummy cake. Thalia decided to cover her face for the picture.

Here we all are blowing out the candles. Isadora asked if she could help me, so we did it together. It was fun to have them over and the day went pretty fast.  

Happy 1st birthday, Hannah!

Well Hannah's birthday was on April 27th.  Paris took over 300 pictures and so it took some time to go through all the pictures to see which ones I wanted to post.  I thought by doing the small format that I could get more pictures on, but it doesn't seem to work that way, so if you want to see a larger version of the picture, just click on it and it will enlarge to full screen.

We had a great time out at the ranch.  We had great food, fun scavenger hunt followed by cupcakes for Hannah's birthday cake and then we went to ride  Uncle Dick's horses.  It was really fun!