Smiling Baby

My Jacob loves to smile. He’s such a happy baby! We had a small period of colic with him around 6 weeks, but ever since his first smile in December…

He’s had nothing but smiles for us ever since. So, I thought I’d document how much he’s changed, but that smiling face is still the same.

At the doctor’s office waiting room Dec/January


On his activity mat in February

In his playpen in March – focusing on that owl (he got it)

This is a few weeks later, still in March with his hair sticking straight up

What a great shot Joe was able to capture. Apparently he can’t get enough of those hands

His first trip to Disneyland with his Nana and he got this cute beanie!

In his carseat. I’m not sure who he’s looking at, but I’m sure they’re melting at that smile.

No, he’s not walking, yet. But, he loves to stand up and apparently I’m hilarious

And this was taken just a few days ago – demanding more cereal. But, who can deny this face?

Dogs & Babies

A lot of people have been asking me recently if Jacob is crawling yet. When I tell them that he's scooting around and basically gets wherever he wants to go, they immediately ask me how Chomps is with him.

For those of you not familiar, we have a dog named Chomps. He is a year (almost to the day) older than Jacob. We got him when he was only 3 months old and he's definitely been spoiled ever since. Even though we have Jacob now to take a lot of our time & attention, Chomps still remains one of our "babies" and is just as spoiled as ever. But, we're very lucky & blessed that he is an easy-going dog. Some of our family worried that a new baby would irritate Chomps and he would try to bite the baby, but the first minute we brought Jacob home from the hospital Chomps was there to try to lick him and wagged his tail so hard it looked like his back would break :)

So, I thought I'd capture a couple of minutes of Jacob scooting around the living room and Chomps playing with him. It's a couple of minutes long and probably only appealing to family members, but feel free to click & watch. Enjoy!

Anniversary

It's hard to believe that this Thursday will be my 4th wedding anniversary. In some ways it feels longer and in other ways it feels like it all just happened a few months ago. I think in the past year we've had so many changes and new things happen in our lives that it makes it seem like we've lived a whole other lifetime. I guess moving to a new place and having a baby all in a year will do that to you :)

This time last year we were heading to Half Moon Bay for our anniversary and I was about 5 months pregnant. While there I came down with a severe kidney infection (my doctor still thinks I had a small stone to go along with it) and ended up in the hospital for about a week. My husband still doesn't let me forget about that! :) (Like I could forget) But, I looked at Joe today and asked him, "Did you think this time last year we'd have a baby this big on our hands right now?" This said while Jacob was eating Cheerios (his newest trick) in his highchair. He is 7 1/2 months old and every time I look at him it's like he's grown another inch and gained another ounce. It goes by so quickly!

This year Joe & I are going to take it easy. Jacob will spend some time at Grandma's house (without mom & dad for the first time overnight). We'll do some outlet shopping, have a nice dinner, come home to a much too quiet house, complain about how quiet it is and tell each other how much we miss the baby and try to enjoy our time without him. It'll probably be bittersweet and we'll head to Lodi a day early to pick him up :)

But, I'm finding out that this is the life of a parent. And I wouldn't trade it for anything. For just a day, though, I'm going to spend time remembering just how much I love my husband and falling in love with him even more.

Summer Fun

Growing up we were very lucky. We never had a pool, but 2 of my best friends on the street had pools and their parents always let us swim there. I can remember being in my bathing suit at 8:00am begging my friend's mom to let us swim. It probably wasn't even 80 degrees outside, but we were determined! They called me a little fish because I loved the water so much. I still do to this day, but don't really make the time to go in the pool like I used to. Then again, I don't have summers off like I used to :)

As I got older I dreamed of sharing my love of the water with my kids. Folks, the day has arrived! I didn't get Jake signed up for swim lessons this summer because I couldn't get my own schedule figured out and now it's too late. But, I'll see if they have late summer classes and try to get in toward the end of summer. For now, this is what we'll do:

This is Jacob in his brand new floater in the first few minutes of being in the pool. The jury was still out at this point, as to whether or not he liked the water. But, he warmed up to it soon enough and was kicking his little frog legs like nobody's business.

This is Jacob getting kisses from Joe after they'd already been in the pool for about 25 minutes. He was starting to yawn so we took our party upstairs for a very long nap time. (Mommy is not complaining about that)

Once my sunburn wears off, I'll put some sunblock on (was too concentrated on getting it on Jake to remember to put some on myself) and get back out there with him. This is what summers are for!

Hot days. Cool nights. And wonderful family time in the pool.

A note of love

I started this blog on a sort of a whim and realize that it hasn't really chronicled much of my family life. It's more of a place for me to clear the thoughts rolling around in my head. I'm not complaining because people seem to like it :)

But, I thought I'd take a minute to introduce you to the Aguilar Family:

This is my husband, Joe, and our fun-loving son, Jacob

He's an incredibly happy baby. My co-worker told me that he's so happy because his parents are happy. And we are! One of the first things that made me fall in love with Joe was his ability to make me laugh. Scratch that, DIE laughing! We'll be married 4 years in 2 weeks and we're still laughing with each other.

Me, Joe and Jacob at Crissy Field, San Francisco last month

One of my best friends just had her baby girl (Brooke Lynne Payan) on Tuesday and it just got me thinking of how blessed we all are and how very thankful I am for my husband & son. Having my little munchkin changed the way I felt love and the way I loved. He's a perfect blend of both of us and I love that about him. I hope as he grows he continues to have his dad's easy-going nature and my loud laugh. (Everyone that knows me knows the laugh)

Just thinking of the future and looking forward toward all things good. Times may not always be easy and the road may get rough, but I'm so happy that I'm surrounded by my family and by love