I'm behind

I've been behind in updating the blog lately. I'm having trouble with my laptop not charging, so I've only had my old computer to get online. And it's VEEERRRRYYY slow. Roman was in Peru again this week so I had to wait for him to come home with his computer to do anything worthwhile. Hence, I have quite the backlog of photos and video of Lila. She does the craziest things now, and I only get a fraction of them all in photos or on video.

This week has been a lot of hurricane watching, and as I write today it looks like we will probably just get a lot of rain. Unfortunately, that could mean some flooding, but probably not up where we live. We also went to the open house for Lila's Mother's Day Out class. It's part of a private school at a local church. One day a week she will go from 9-2 and they will play, have story time, recess, do crafts, eat lunch, and have nap time. We thought it would be fun, and good for her to socialize with other kids. At her age there are only 5 or 6 kids per class to keep it manageable. We also got to go see the new room Lila will be in when my mom's group meets every-other Monday. She had a chance at both places to play and meet some of the other kids who would be there with her. Hopefully she will remember the fun she had when it comes time to drop her off in the coming weeks. She's does NOT like us leaving her anywhere, so it'll be interesting. She's gotten quite a bit better with us leaving her in the nursery at church on Sundays, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Here are the latest pictures and two of the videos I got of her since I last updated.

I guess she'd had enough of me taking her picture

One would never guess it was 95 degrees outside.


Our neighbor Jenna was over playing with Lila and wrapped her up after we saw Lila with the blanket. I haven't a clue what this face is all about though.

Lila's flock-of-seagulls hairdo. This is what happens when she goes to bed with wet hair I guess.

This first video is of her bouncing a big ball around the kitchen with my mom. She thought it was so funny, and was laughing up a storm.

I got a video of her playing her xylophone, both with the mallet and a hammer she has for another toy.

Chatty Patty

Lila is forming quite the vocabulary. What she's started saying is, of course, her repeating what we say to her. Since "bubbas" (see previous post) we now have at least another seven words or phrases. Here's my latest recollection.

more and help

no: esp. when we ask her if her diaper needs changing

stink: which comes from playing the stinky toes game. we'll ask if her toes (or manolo's or daddy's or mommy's or the doll's toes) are stinky, she'll smell them and laugh. also from us asking if she's stinky (as in her diaper), but the other day she got on my lap and said "you stink". which was funny, but won't be when she starts saying it to other people. she doesn't even know what stink is since no one's toes really stink when she smells them.

whatcha doin': it really sounds like 'whasu doon'

see you: which sounds like 'she you'.

ow: as in she has an owie. we have been trying to teach her the sign for pain so if roman or I get hurt we do the sign and say ow, owie. she put that together with me asking if she had an owie and now she points at her skinned knee, or bug bite, and says ow and does the sign for pain.

mama?, dada?: she's been saying these for some time, but now she will say mama and when I respond yes, she says dada? as if to ask where he is. or if she can't see one of us but knows we are there she'll say mama? to find you.

In the first video I got her saying "no". The second is of her and the bubbles. If you listen you'll be able to hear her say "bubbas" about half way through.

"Bubbas" and "Agong"

This morning Roman was holding Lila in the kitchen and she kept pointing and saying "bubba", "bubba". Roman couldn't figure out what she wanted and then finally he saw the bottle of bubbles and this little battery operated bubble blower we have. The funny thing is, we haven't used the bubbles in probably at least a month. So I suppose she's had the word in her brain all this time and just this morning figured out how to say it. We blew her some bubbles and she kept saying "bubbas". I took a couple pictures.

Her other funny word is "agong" which means food, at least to her it does. I haven't a clue where she came up with it, but that's what she says when she sees food.

She's into pressing button, any buttons! Here she's pushing the button on the bubble maker.

We saw this little stick bug while we were out water the flowers. I thought he was neat so I took a picture.

Being goofy

Nothing much happening here. Lila is getting over a cold, as is her mommy. It's still really hot, today especially! We got hit by tropical storm Edouard on Tuesday. The weather forecasters didn't know how bad it was going to be so many people in and around Galveston evacuated. It turned out to be much more mild than expected. Some people nearer to The Gulf had their power out for a little bit, but that was about it. Up here we just got rain, and not even bad rain.

Here are the most recent photos of Lila being goofy, and a video at the end.



Manolo likes to lay in this sunny spot by the window. Lila has horned in on his spot lately. She even goes over there when he's not there to lay down.


Wonder what he's saying?






She had a little mishap. She was crawling--I have no idea why she was crawling--around our bedroom and she ran into the edge of the desk with her face. You might not be able to tell unless you click on the picture to enlarge it, but she has a long, red mark down the side of her face. She recovered fairly quickly though and wanted to wear Mommy's headband (see below).






She was being naughty and got a timeout. I had to take a picture because she always puts her head down like this. I put her in the corner for 15 second for the timeout, but she takes it upon herself to sulk and put her head down like that. She doesn't really cry, she just puts her head down and whines.


Lila was jabbing away to her doll and I tried to turn the camera on and get a video without her noticing. That didn't work, she saw the camera and clammed up. The video is funny though, she's quite the character.

Videos

I mentioned before that Lila has become quite the character. This weekend we got a couple funny videos of her. The first is of her dancing. We have all sorts of music stations as part of our cable TV. We always put them on instead of the regular TV as she will try to sit and watch a TV show. She still watches the music channels, but it's just photos of the artist who is playing. She's really gettin' her groove on to this Maroon 5 song.

The second one is of her cleaning Manolo (aka Noli). She got a little cloth and was cleaning him off with it. She's been doing it to Roman and I as well. She'll wipe our mouths and hands.

For anyone who is getting this update via email, the easiest way to see the videos is to go to the blog, rather than downloading them. Click on either "Anguiano Family" or "Videos" at the top of the email and it'll take you to this post on the blog page and you can play them from there.

Mama again

So when Lila first started talking she said Mama. She still says it, but only when someone else says it first. She'll say Dada and Nana randomly, but rarely ever Mama. Whenever she says "Dada" Roman always tries to respond and I do the same with "Mama", so she'll learn who is who. I was in the shower today after I got back from the gym and Lila came in the bathroom, pointed at me, and said "Mama"! It was so exciting for me! That's the first time she's done that. That's my highlight for the day.

This video is just her being goofy. At the end you'll see a glimpse of what poor Manolo has to contend with.

Just thought I'd share some new photos and video. Lila has been quite the handful lately! She's pushing all the boundaries (read: getting quite a few time outs) and definitely has a mind of her own. The poor dog is getting the worst of it. She is constantly pulling on his legs, tail, or hair. The other day she bit his ear, luckily it wasn't very hard. Roman and I will pat Manolo on the back and I think she's trying to mimic that, but she just ends up hitting him on the head. It's hard to tell her no, because she doesn't understand so we've just been trying to get her to be more gentle. She's still more cranky than usual, but I imagine that's still from the teeth. One of her molars has come in and one of her front teeth broke the surface as well. That just leaves the other four! Hopefully once these teeth come we'll get a good long break from teething.

She's been dancing up a storm lately too. Sooner or later I'm going to get some video. It's so funny, she tries to snap her fingers and will even try to dance while she's in her carseat.



Lila and Grana Nana


She was being goofy and putting the stacking cups on her feet


We went to her friend Isabelle's bday party and Lila got a crown and a "tattoo"!


We got her some new toys this weekend, and a new doll. It's the first lifesize doll she's gotten and she loves it!




So happy with Grandma Frances!


Just a goofy video of her and her doll.