We're expecting!!!!

We are so thrilled to announce that we will be adding to the Diaz family! Baby Diaz will be arriving somewhere around February 21, 2010! I am thinking that if I can hold off a little, the baby could come on my birthday, Feb 25th!

We are so excited to have our 2 kiddos so close in age. They will be about 19 months apart!
I know that it will be a lot of work in the beginning, but I am looking forward to the challenge!

Please keep me in your prayers, really mostly for strength and energy!

I'll be posting more information and pictures when we get them!

~J~

I hate to say.....

But yes, it has been well over a month since I last wrote. Actually, I have tons of drafts that I would write and not finish, (usually due to my child waking from her nap) and never get back to!
So here goes.....
~J~

Future Pianist....

I've been trying to get Jenna interested in the piano...I know this might be premature (since she's only 10 months old) but I want her to have a love for music so that I don't have to force her to take piano and voice lessons.

When I was young I took piano lessons and once it got hard I decided that I didn't want to do it anymore (horrible mistake), however, I was young and completely incapable of making (big) decisions like that.

I can play chords and read (music) some, but it's somewhat difficult and I am kinda stuck at the level that I left off (which isn't great). I would love to be able to play better, so I have started to teach myself again (not making much progress)!

Also, my Mother REALLY wanted us to take voice lessons, but I was too embarrassed to try (I was 10!)! Needless to say, I REALLY wish my Mom would have MADE me take them, I would love to have had professional lessons!

So ALL that to say this......

We spend our day singing around that house, and anytime Jenna even so much as POINTS to the piano I go open it up and sit down so that she can play!

So yesterday, Jenna was crawling all over the house and went straight for the PIANO!!!!!!

She climbed up on it and was trying to play the keys!!!!!

Of course I got pictures!

This was her once I opened the top and she was playing as much as she could!

Concentrating!

So cute....my little Pianist!

~J~

Fun in the sun....

Today we have been super productive....but we took some time to chill in Jenna's pool too!

Now I usually have Jenna in a super cute pink swim suit topped off with a bow, however, all of her swim suits are drying so she just sported the (Little Swimmers) diaper today! And to add to the NON-girliness I had her wear a BLUE hat! This is a "mommy-no-no" if we were to be out in public, but at least we were in our own backyard...and c'mon she's IS wearing her new PINK polish!!!!

We LOVE hanging out together!!! I LOVE my job!

~J~

Pink polish!!!

Well of all the super fun and girly things you get to do with a little girl, one of the OMG! girl moments is..... "NAIL POLISH!!!!!"

I know Jenna is only 10 months, but I couldn't resist! Here is her picture of her first time to get her toenails painted.....PINK!!!!!!

Aren't they beautiful?!? I love my little girls feet....

~J~

Houston, we have a SLEEPER!!!!!!

It's true...we are finally the parents of a child that sleeps through the night!!!!

It's been a loooooonnnnggggg time coming, but alas we are finally here! And as strange as it sounds, saying goodbye to the long sleepless nights are kind of bitter sweet. I mean, when you wake up a lot it makes your night longer, and while you're not getting that solid refreshing sleep, at least the sleep you are getting seems to last a while! But I wouldn't trade these full nights for the long ones ever again!! Now if your child has been one of those magic sleep through the night babies then please...don't judge me...just let me revel (if that's a word) in my wonderful sleep and enjoy it!

Jenna started sleeping through the night about a week ago...but it really got good on Saturday...when she slept until 11AM....that's right people....let's say it together....11 A...M!!!!!
Wooo hoooo!!!!!!! And I know you think that I took full advantage of my time by being a super mom and cleaning and getting the laundry done right? But heck no! I slept right along with her...it was heaven!!!

So if you're the one with the sleepless nights (which usually start during pregnancy), be assured that one day you too will be enjoying these wonderful normal nights again!

~J~

POOPY Diaper = Victory!!!!

Oh yes..... I am serious! I literally jumped UP and down when my daughter made such a bIg poopy diaper that it ESCAPED the confines of her "Huggies" diaper and ended up soaking her pants AND my outfit!

You might think this is sTrAnGe! Do you? Well let me EXplain myself......
For the last month or so my daughter's POOP has been VERY hard (she crys when she makes a stinky diaper) I have tried everything to get it back to normal (normal for a 9 month old), but nothing seems to have worked. So I decided to GET AGGRESSIVE about it and get me a nasty poopy diaper!

Here's what I did: I have loaded her up on prunes...yes prunes (baby food)! Of course that it the ultimate baby laxative so it's no secret...but I had to use a combination of a bunch of stuff to master this....prunes, pear juice, LOTs of water, AND sensitive formula (from Similac of course)!

And the result was AWESOME!!!! I would post a picture, but that would be gross....
Ahhh...the things I get excited about now days! Mommyhood is wonderful!!!

~J~