Catching up

Things have been pretty busy around here, so I haven't had much time to update the blog.

Camila's language is surprising us. She learning several words/phrases each week, the newest being "help", "thank you", face, and I got it. The funniest one is water, which she pronounces "mano". Not sure how that happened. She's doing well at understanding us both in English and Spanish, and understands some words that we haven't made a point to teach her (like "brazo" for arm.)

She's been fighting a cold for the last 1 1/2 weeks, so her napping and wake up time has been unpredictable, but she seems to be feeling better. Her eating is back and forth too. Yesterday at Chipotle she literally ate everything we put in front of her, including chips and salsa. But for dinner, she didn't want anything.

Below are just a couple of pictures from Fabricio's graduation. The ceremony was good (but long!) He still needs to defend his dissertation, but he and his advisor plan for that in the next month. He's almost there!!

A random shot of Camila coloring her face (this time with a brown crayon, which looks like she has chocolate all over her face.)

And just some pictures of her playing on her horsie, drinking "mano". Santa gave her this for Christmas, but she's only really started to enjoy it recently. She's figured out how to make it bounce on her own.

Eyes, teeth, and taking care of baby

Below are just a few random pictures of Camila today....

Camila, where's your eye? Camila, where are your teeth?

Here she is playing with her baby (and just being silly).

Changing her baby's diaper.

Laying the baby down on a blanket.

And just a couple of random shots. We still aren't sure what color her eyes are (they're not brown, not blue, and definitely not green. Kind of a hazel grey for now.) But her hair is blond from the front, more brown with blond highlights in the back.

Imagine here a loud, screeching sound. This is what she does everytime she gets excited...an incredibly loud, high pitched screech. Maybe it will be better when she screeches outside now that it's nice out!

Happy Easter

Sorry I've been so bad at posting lately. We've just had a lot going on at home and at work. Camila is growing up very fast, and learns something new every day. She's started saying "please", "spoon", "there it is", "here you go", and knows where her mouth, nose, ear, eye, hair, knee, belly, teeth, pata, and hand are.

She's been doing really well lately at mealtime. She's had mac n' cheese twice this week, whereas she refused to touch the stuff since October! She's still working on feeding herself with a spoon (a very messy deal) but she has so much fun. She hasn't been napping very well at daycare, so she's been pretty cranky in the evenings. It's pretty tough when Fabricio and I are also exhausted, but we have to keep reminding ourselves that she's the little one and can't rationalize why she's cranky.

She's got quite a temper on her.... She wants to do what she wants to do, and will scream and shout when she's upset. We get quite a few temper tantrums out of her. Last night I took her for a walk, and she started running to our neighbors house b/c they had toys outside. Well, I wouldn't let her play with them, so she threw a temper tantrum on the neighbors lawn...while they were watching from the window!

Here are a few pictures from Easter. We really enjoyed the nice weather, and Camila had a great time exploring everything on my parents' deck.

Fun with Crayons

Camila loves to color. Every day she runs to the cabinet that has her crayons and paper and shouts "cacur" (color) until we give her a couple of crayons (a girl needs choices) and some paper. However, this weekend we noticed she had a little more fun than usual....

Below are just a few misc pictures of Camila. She's learned a few new words and phrases: book, stay there! (coupled with a hand out - this comes from us telling her to "stay there" when we open the oven). She has a fascination with puppies (and will go "shush" everytime she hears a puppy. I'm guessing that's from daycare, as her daycare lady always tells their dog to stop barking.) Also a fascination with babies. She loves looking at babies, so we bought her a new baby doll. She's keeping us busy, but we're having so much fun! Her "Camila-sized" blanket, made especially for her by Aunt Melissa. Camila loves this blanket and walks around the house trailing it behind her. It also serves double duty as a blanket for her "bebie".

Yeah Spring!