The Four Generation Picture

What a wonderful opportunity I had to go to Mexico and visit my grandma. She is so special to me. I have countless beautiful memories of her when I was very little. She used to spoil us a lot. She is a very generous person and a hard working woman. I was afraid I wasn't going to have to opportunity to see her again. She had a rough year. But I saw her and I am so grateful for it.
There is also my dear mom, oh my lovely mom. She and I are very good friends. I was the baby at home and we she spent a lot of time with me. We were always together. She listened to my needs and wants and she remained close to me even now as I get older. I miss her a lot and I can't wait to see her again.

Trip to Mexico

Here is Nalani with (most of) her cousins down in Mexico! Well, Ceci my oldest neice wasn't there (she's too 'cool' to hang out with family these days because she's away at 'school'), but she still got to meet Nalani afterwards. We went on a trip to my sister Ady's vacation house in a small town named Ixtapan de la Sal. It's well known for it hot springs. Nalani loved it. She had lots of fun with her cousins. Paola, especially went crazy about her. She is the one holding her.

Pues aqui estan todos los primitos de Nalani. Con excepcion de Ceci, pero de todas formas la conocio. Fuimos a la casa de descanso de mi hermana que esta en un pueblito llamado Ixtapan de la Sal. El cual es conocido por sus aguas termales. A Nalani le fascino. She divirtio mucho con todo el monton de primos. A Paola le encanto Nalani.

Eigth months old

She used to play for along time by the window and listen to music while I worked. But I took several breaks to play with her to sing to her and dance together. She loved my breaks! Of course.

Aqui esta Nalani mientras jugaba cerca de la ventana mientras yo trabajaba. A menudo me tomaba unos descansos para jugar con ella y cantarle y bailar con ella. Hay a mi hija le encantaban mis descansos, pues como no verdad?

Grandma and Grandpa came from Canada

Grandma and Grandpa came to visit Nalani right after Christmas. It was very nice to have them here. They brought lots of cute presents for Nalani and for us as well. Thank you again!
She truly got spoiled by them (but in a good way...!)

We had a lot of fun and Nalani was very nice to them. Well, I think. She wasn't shy towards them at all, not even for a minute. I hope she does that well next month when we come and visit them in Calgary.

Sus abuelitos de Canada vinieron a visitarla un poco despues de la Navidad. Fue bien especial tenerlos aqui. Le trajeron muchos regalos a Nalani y a nosotros. En verdad que la consintieron mucho. No la pasamos muy bien con ellos. Nalani se porto muy bien con ellos, no se porto extrana ni por un momentito. Espero que asi se porte el proximo mes cuando vaya a Calgary a visitarlos.

Christmas!!!

It was very special to have Nalani with us during Christmas. She brought so much happiness and excitement during that season. She got a few presents and Daddy got her a very nice dress! YES!! He picked it out; he was so sweet. He did a good job! It was actually a very cute dress. Good job Hone!

It was a very busy month for us . We had several get-togethers but we had fun.

Fue muy especial tener a Nalani aqui en Navidad. Ella lleno esa temporada de mucha felicidad y emocion! Nalani recibio algunos regalos y Papi le escogio un vestido muy bonito. Bien hecho amor!!

Tambien estuvimos muy ocupados con muchas reuniones pero a pesar de todo no las pasamos muy bien.

Seven Months old

Yeah, that's right! Nalani loves mommy and mommy is all crazy about her.
This was back when she used to let me have fun by putting hairbands on her head. Now, that's an impossible mission!

Aja, asi es! Nalani ama a mami y mama esta esta toda luca por ella.
Aqui era cuando todavia me dejaba divertirme poniendole el sin fin de cosas en la cabeza. Ahora eso es una mision imposible!

Six months old

We got studio pictures taken at Sears. We had so much fun during the session. Nalani behaved so well. The girl said Nalani was the best behaved baby she has ever photographed. Um, now I wonder if she says that to every mom... Oh well, we got our pictures and I am so glad we did because time never comes back and she just looked different back then. Proof of that is that she didn't have any teeth back then and we won't get to see her baby gums ever again!

Aqui le tomamos sus primeras fotos de estudio en Sears. Nos divertimos mucho durante la sesion. Nalani se porto muy bien. La chica inclusive dijo que ella es la bebe mas bien portada que habia tenido. Si a la mejor eso le dice a todas las mamas pero en fin, nos sacaron nuestras fotos y estoy tam contenta que les sacamos fotos a esa edad por que ya nunca va a ser igual. Una prueba de ello es que en ese entonces no tenia dientes!!!! Y ya nunca mas le vamos a ver sus bella encias de bebe otra vez.