A slippery, snowy Tacoma morning.
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Hello!
Do I always start out by saying how quickly the month flew by? Well, April was no exception. April brought a few big changes to our little family with Andre quitting his job at Amazon to stay home with Mo and me heading back to work at Disney. We’re settling into our new routines now and André and Mo are doing great at home together. Little Mo is not so little anymore - weighing in around 17lbs! She is proving to be a happy girl and is full of smiles. She’s still trying to get her toes to her mouth and succeeds every once in awhile. She’s also become quite curious and “nosy” about everything which is fun.
We had lots of visitors this month including our good friends from San Francisco, Joe and Mel, who are now Mo’s “Ninong and Ninang” - godparents. The party for Mo’s baptism was fun and it was great to see everybody who was able to make it.
Here are the April highlights…
- Puyallup Spring Fair
- Mo’s Baptism and Baptism party
- Mel and Joe visiting from California
- A trip to Pike Place Market with Mel, Joe and Paolo
- Karissa back at work
- Andre quitting to become a full-time “Stay at Home Papa”
- 4 month shots (she did great!)
- Mo’s first picnic on the “nicest day of her life, so far” with Tita Lara and Tito Paolo
- New excersaucer (she’s still getting the hang of it and gets a little frustrated since she can’t eat everything)
- Lots of spit bubbles and raspberry noises from Mo
- Mo meeting Megan and Dan, finally
- A trip to the Japanese Garden in Seattle for Grandma/Mom’s birthday
- Mo’s first Easter
- A trip to the mall to see the Easter Bunny (there are pictures but I need to scan them still)
That’s all I can think of for now!
Pictures from April can be seen here - http://picasaweb.google.com/karissa.liloc/April07
(Thanks to Maia and Paolo for taking great pictures…I snuck some into our gallery.)
And Andre has a brand new new blog with a few videos posted - http://www.andre.liloc.com
May is shaping up to be a very nice month. We’re looking forward to visits from the Mom and Dad (Grandma and Grandpa), the Byrds and the Vacas!
Take care,
Karissa, Andre & Mo
This blog needs way more photos. This is currently my favorite picture of Mo. It’s part of a batch of great pictures Ryan took one day when he and Jess were visiting. Look how happy she is to be holding her toes! heehee!
Okay…how about a less dramatic post? That last one was a little on the heavy side. I was literally hours away from the longest amount of time Mo and I ever spent apart. Now we have had 5 of those days and, while it still sucks, it’s getting easier. Andre and Mo had a great week together and I that makes it 100 times easier to be at work. I do miss them both though and it would be so nice to be home playing and hanging out all day. I guess that just means weekends, morning time and night time are extra important and worthy of savoring, right?
We stopped by Maia and Craig’s tonight and it was so nice to sit and visit with them. It’s funny that we don’t see them nearly as much even though they’re so close now. Hopefully our plan for a regular dinner night will pan out because it sounds like such a good idea!
Random…I want this for Mo. Isn’t it cool how it’s a saucer AND a table? I’m going to find it for less than the $119 (*gasp*) that is sells for at Target though.
What else…this is the latest I’ve been up all week and the first (honestly…first…isn’t that crazy?) time I’ve been on my computer in the evening. I kicked out a bunch of freelance work tonight and am feeling more caught up then overwhelmed for the first time all week. (I had some Excel help from Andre. Thank goodness…I really have Excel issues. I am Excel-challenged.) I have a to-do list somewhere but I’m ignoring it for blogging and surfing. Yay!
Two ideas that I’m loving right now…
101 Things in 1001 Days - a bigger, better version of the New Year’s Resolutions that I don’t remember if I made or not this year. I’m working on my 101 things and will post it here when I’m done.
A Year of Lovely Things To Do - Scheduling in the good stuff. Even better that she suggests using Google Calendar to do it. Anything to use more Google. I *heart* Google.
Alright…I”m off to surf more or to sleep. One of the two…
There are 2 days of my maternity leave left. Today was wonderful and happy and sunny and perfect but I am sad now. Two days left?? Really? Just two? My tiny girl doesn’t always fall asleep well without me. She hardly eats well from the bottle. She needs me even though I know her Papa will be so great at staying home with her.
And in so many ways I need her, I think. I need those gummy little grins to wake up to. (What if she’s still asleep when I leave?) I need those tiny little hands to wrap around my fingers. I need those chubby little legs to brighten my day up. I need her silly squeaky noises and little birdy sounds as the soundtrack to my day.
But, on Monday I will march to work, my stupid “Pump in Style” bag in hand. And I will sit at the new desk I’ll be given (my nice desk with the great view was given to a co-worker a month or so after I went out on maternity leave). I’ll smile through my teeth at the people who say, “Welcome back!” when what I want to do is scream at them. Three times a day I will go pump in the storage closet. I will discuss why the raise that my “manager” informed me of over email was what it was. I will try to pretend that what we do is brain surgery like everybody acts like it is. I will try to get out of the office at 4:30 so I can be home before 6 and limit the time spent away from my tiny girl to 10.5 hours rather than 11 hours.
These are the choices I made, right? These days will get better and easier and I’ll remember why we chose for things to be the way they’re going to be. Right? Right? She’ll be fine with her Papa all day and that is why it’s all good.
