teddy bear breakfast

when i find stuff like this it totally makes me want to be a kid again. luckily i have a cute little peanut to recreate it for!

Kate over on Minieco found this incredibly cute idea here and had to give it a go herself. the result is almost too cute to eat!… almost.

awwwww! and now i'm hungry!

a belated happy father's day

love at first sight. first picture of brooke & daddy taken shortly after she was born.

we are having a belated father's day for tim since we were deep in the bridgeport woods and didn't get to do it right or at least the way i would've liked to. he did get to do some early morning fishing with all the other dads on our camping trip and mama whipped up a mean soyrizo and eggs breakfast. hoping it's not one of those things that if you miss, you miss. either way... i'm writing about how much we love our daddy on a wednesday rather then a sunday.                                                                                                          i'm so thankful for my husband. he's a super hands on dad. i appreciate him more than he knows and i'm so glad that he's the one i'm on this journey called parenthood with. this was his 2nd father's day and it's so obvious to see what a proud papa he is when he is around his little girl. there is no denying brookie has him tightly wrapped around her little chubby finger and not letting go for a very long time.
we feel so blessed to have such an amazing daddy in our lives and i hope you spent yours with someone you love!

since camping is the word

ok how adorable is this teardrop trailer (spotted on the cover of the current Sunset magazine)?  since we have been looking at pop up tents and travel trailers for our upcoming camping trip i found tons of neat little campers i'm dying to have. we would probably need a bigger one once dylan gets here but this is a perfect solution for a couple and beats sleeping on the floor. and the cuteness factor adds points as well. and if you can't afford one you can rent one! teardrop trailers here :: (Vacations in a Can - $175/weekend), an airstream ::(Airstreams4Rent.com  from $225/3 nights).  Sunset has tons of links to find the perfect one for you (which they've also posted online here). 

happy camping!!

summer = camping season

yosemite 2011

tim and i LOVE camping. we both grew up camping with our families and there is no place in the world tim would rather be than yosemite. he has pictures of his mom bathing him in a bucket in their campsite which in turn i did with brooke on our trip there last year. we were fortunate to have friends who were able to get a reservation considering how difficult they are to come by lately. seriously, i'd have better luck running into my favorite actor in la than getting a campsite. i was a little hesitant to take a 5 month old tent camping but she was a trooper and did amazing on our week long stay. 

we're getting ready to go up to mammoth for a father's day camping trip and we're preparing ourselves for quite the adventure with my 28 week old tummy and our busy bee 16 month old. we rented a pop up trailer this time around so our accommodations have been upgraded a bit. i'll let you know how it goes!

previous yosemite camping trips with friends b.b. (before babies)

words and more words

it's amazing when language starts to kick in. i've been terrible at keeping up with brooke's baby book and i mostly blame it on my procrastination and not writing things down as of late. i'm going to try to record them here so when i get around to actually filling it out i have something to go back to.

she seems to be adding new words a lot more frequently and she'll basically repeat anything you try to teach her if she's in the mood, "if" & "mood" being the operative words. 

at about a year she had three words.

dada.

mama.

baba.

and now she has these too:

doggie.

nana. (banana)

ita. (abuelita)

whasssaaaah. (what's that)

fish.

kiki. (abuelita's dog)

hi.

bye.

uh oh. (unbearably cute even when half her lunch is on the floor)

she'll resort to her pointing & monkey sounds as we like to call them when she's feeling lazy but she amazes me every day when she points stuff out that i didn't know she knew the word to. pretty amazing how these little minds grow and work!