9 Months Old

 9 month old stats:

Weight: 18lbs 10oz

Height: 28.25 in

Carmella's 9 month birthday fell on the fourth of July this year.  So to celebrate we had the Ferraro Family(s) over and had a Mexican fest. I know we're so unorthodox but it was good!

I LOVE this picture!! 

Her smile and laugh is so contagious and it just feels my heart with so much joy!

39 Weeks Old

I have discovered that Carmella has a favorite sleeping blanket, we like to call it her snuggie. It's a little mini blanket that has a small stuffed animal attached to it. When we put her in the crib for nap time or bed time she will grab the snuggie and start squeezing it and squealing. She loves to play with all her little friends in the crib, George the Giraffe, Butterfly and her wubbanub. And after she is through playing she will grab her snuggie and suck her thumb before she falls fast asleep. 

This week Carmella has become even more vocal. We will catch her talking to her toys and laughing, I know she is saying something really important I just wish I could make out what she was saying through all that baby talk. Soon she will be saying her first word and talking non stop. 

39 weeks already oh my!!

Taking our weekly picture is becoming more difficult,

She is much more fascinated by the paper then the camera.

Look how proud she is that she got the paper and now she thinks she is going to play with it.....

38 Weeks Old

Carmella is becoming more and more verbal. She can often be found playing with her toys having her own conversations, it is too cute!! Her babbling has turned into jabber and at times it even sounds like she is saying real words so we're keep an ear out all the time to catch her first word. I think it is HI but we're not to sure.

 Looking for her sign

 Awe so sweet.

Nana and Papa's Cabin

It was a great weekend to get away so we decided to pack up and head out to Nana and Papa's cabin in Long Barn, California. Carmella was a good girl on the 3.5 hour drive only need to stop once to change her blow out.

Yeah we made it!!

We were so happy to spend the weekend with Nana and Papa and we also even enjoyed some quite time relaxing.

Carmella had her first bath in the kitchen sink and she seemed to love it.

And we couldn't leave without taking a picture with Nana and Papa.

Papa, Carmella and Daddy (I just love her face in this one)

Daddy and Carmella

A family picture at the cabin.
Thanks for a great weekend and we can't wait to do it again!!

Play date with Kenna

It was a beautiful day and we had a play date planned with Kenna, so we headed over to Santa Cruz. We met up with Nancy, Dwayne and Kenna for some lunch and the girls got reacquainted since our last visit in April.

After lunch we headed back to Kenna's house where the girls rolled around on the ground and took turns screaming. It is so fun to watch them interact.

We sat the girls down to take a picture and the girls both turned to give each other a kiss, it was too sweet!

I couldn't get them to look at the camera at the same time.

Carmella would look at Kenna .....

 

and then Kenna would look at Carmella.

Thanks for the fun play date and I just love watching the girls grow up together.

We can't wait for next time.

37 Weeks Old

37 weeks Old!

Lately I have noticed that when strangers or even people that we know come around and say hi to Carmella that she drops her head to my shoulder and acts all shy. Eventually she will work up a smile to say hi but she is getting a little more picky about who she gives her smiles to.  She is defiantly becoming more aware of what's going on around her or when she is around a new person. 

She is even taking up some Tae Kwon Do on the side, ha ha

Carmella's hair just keeps growing she has even grown a little duck tail in the back in honor of her daddy (he had one when he was little).

A big thank you to the Shaffer family for this cute Santa Cruz onsie, she finally fits in it!!

 

Taking our weekly pictures has gotten much more difficult now that she is becoming more mobile. And she is always finding something to distract her from smiling at the camera, such as taking off her socks.

Happy 1st Father's Day

Happy 1st Father's Day!!!

For daddy's first father's day Carmella wrote her daddy a nice love note and made him a memory book filled with lots of pictures (with the help of mommy, of course).

We started the morning off with daddy opening his presents and then we headed off to Church. After service we had a yummy lunch at a new restaurant were Carmella tried eating a lime for the first time and she seemed to enjoy it.

After an afternoon filled with loving on daddy we headed to Nana and Papa's house where we could celebrate the other dads in the Ferraro family.

 The Ferraro Dads

 The dads with all the kids (and grand kids)

Daddy and his baby girl