shoes

grammy got carmen some fabulous new shoes, so we decided to try them all on and take some pictures of them. needless to say, carmen loves, loves, loves shoes and is constantly bringing different ones out of her bedroom asking me to put them on her.




The following picture was taken last week. Her babysitter had painted her toenails for the first time so we took some pictures to document. It's a little hard to tell as they are painted a real light pink.

posing

Carmen can pose on command now. We can now ask her to do whatever we want and she does it!!!! Muahahahahahahah. I'm sure when she wises up she'll start telling us "no." but for now, we have used this power to tell her to do these cute poses:

bikes!

so, we've finally decided to embrace the california lifestyle and get ourselves some dang bikes. that, and it's a good way to get ourselves in shape. shay has been researching bikes for the last few months. after consulting a bike guru...thanks corey...on several bike options, we've settled on some his and hers khs bikes. we got carmen a bike seat to fit on the back of my bike and a cute bunny helmet.

tonight, carmen and i went on our first ride. she rather enjoyed herself and actually really liked sporting the helmet.

wahoooo! watch out lance.

take me out to the ball game

two weeks ago carmen went to her first baseball game. the LA dodgers vs. the AZ d-backs. she was very mesmerized by the huge stadium and it took her a while to loosen up and have some fun. at one point a family with 3 little boys sat in front of us. the oldest, who was probably 6 caught her eye and she was smitten. she kept staring at him til she eventually raised her hand and slowly waved at him while still in her puppy love trance. oh, the AZ d-backs won! go d-backs!

pee pee!

a couple weeks ago i bought a potty training seat just to have to start encouraging carmen to go in it. She was very excited about it and will periodically ask to "poddy, poddy". But of course once i set her on there, she really doesn't know what to do. until today. that's right carmen went pee pee in the poddy!

fashion show

So I was sitting on my computer and Carmen comes up to me and brings me one of my shirts that she took out of my dresser. It seems like she wants me to put in on her. So I do and she seemed really pleased to be wearing it. So she walks over to daddy to show off her new outfit and trips, because of course she is drowning in it. I decided to tie up the back to help fit it to her little body. She then brings me one of Shay's belts. So I wrapped it around her and to, as Tim Gunn would say, make it work. She then brings me another one of my shirts. This time I decide to make it a scarf. Impressed that this little fashionista put together such a HOT ensemble, I had to take her outside to have a photoshoot. She was so cute as she just kept running around struttin' her stuff. (It was hard to get many shots of her up front because every time I tried to snap she kept running away giggling).

fun with grammy and papo

shay's parents visited this weekend and stole carmen away in their hotel room. which was fun for them, fun for her and, although i missed her, was nice to be able to sleep in past 7. i forgot how nice that was. below are few pictures from her weekend.




carmen and papo (carmen's new word for grandpa) and grandma went to the aquarium. carmen made us a picture:



we also downloaded yolanda's camera which has been storing pictures of the last year. it was cool to see how much carmen as changed.

Then:


Now: