Tessa is 3 months old!

I took her to Picture People today for her 3 month portraits. She was so smiley, I couldn’t pick just one or even 2, 3, 4 portraits. So, I purchased all of them on CD. She has been dubbed by more than one person as “The Angel Baby”. She is just so pleasant and smiley all the time. She hardly ever fusses and she’ll smile at you the second you look at her. She weighs about 11 lbs., so she’s still on the small side, but is growing steadily.  She’s still a night owl. I don’t know how I’m going to get up early when school starts. I guess I’ll have to try to adjust Tessa’s sleeping schedule. Here are some of my favorite shots from today.

Then we changed into outfit #2

I feel so feel so blessed to have Tessa in our family!

A very busy week

Last week Julio was home, in between jobs, so I gave him a huge to-do list. He mowed and edged the back lawn, rototilled the front lawn, cleaned the garage, calked the tub, fixed the grout in the kitchen, replaced the ceiling fan in the dining room, and steam cleaned the carpets. He was busy! Since he and my mom were both off work last week, we decided to go out and celebrate our anniversary on Wednesday (our anniversary is actually today.) We took Tessa with us and went to Joe’s Crab Shack in Old Town Sacramento. That place was hopping! Tessa was really good, but we didn’t want to risk her getting fussy, so we ate our crab as quickly as we could. Good thing too, because just as we were finishing, she decided she was hungry. So, we went to the car to feed her, then walked around Old Town and got salt water taffy and ice cream cones. It was nice. Next year, we won’ t have to take a baby with us.

Waiting for our crab with our bibs on.

All the hard work around the house was in preparation for family coming to town for Tessa and Riley’s baby blessings. On Friday, the Aldama’s arrived from Idaho, so we headed over to Grandma and Grandpa’s house to swim, play, BBQ and celebrate Marco’s birthday (a week early).

Cute little Riley and Tessa hanging out.

Tessa and her namesake. (Tami’s initials are TESA)

These girls play so well together and they love each other so much! They look like they could be sisters too!

I think Corom’s ready to go swimming.

The sign says, “Noelle’s Lovey Sulon”   Lucia, Noelle and Marco were playing hair salon in the bathroom.

Lucia saw Noelle riding her bike without training wheels, so she decided she had to learn to ride her bike! She finally did it! It’s about time too, she’s had that bike for two years now.

Marco getting ready to blow out the candles. We couldn’t miss the opportunity to celebrate his birthday with his cousins, even though it was a week early.

Marco got lots of weapons this year. He got numchucks and ninja stars from Callie and Brian, a Nerf gun from Tami and Dan.

He got a Spiderman tent from Mom and Dad and a Hotwheels track from Grandma and Grandpa.

and here’s Double Trouble watching all the action.

There are more pictures to come from the rest of the weekend

Our mini vacation day 2

On Saturday, we got up and had a yummy breakfast at the hotel and then we packed up and headed to the city.

Driving over the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Dome in Golden Gate Park.

It was cold but Marco refused to wear a sweater.

Julio is trying to decide what we should do.

Even though it was expensive, we decided to spend the day at the Academy of Natural Sciences. It was awesome!

Looking at the man-made tide pools

Heading into the rain forest dome.

We saw lots of exotic animals.

The aquarium tunnel. This is the only place I could find to sit and nurse Tessa.

Can I have this mom? No.

Inside the kids’ cove-for kids under 5. They had lots of things to play with and explore. Lucia was bummed because she wasn’t allowed on the play equipment.

You can’t see them, but they are posing in front of the penguins.

Then they decided to pose in front of all the animals in the African Animal exhibit. Note the flash-that’s Sylvie running up and down the gallery yelling, “Look at the zebra!!! Look at the giraffe!!! Look at the elephant!!!!” She was so excited to see all the animals, she could hardly stand still.

We then went back to the aquarium to look for sharks, we only found one small one. The kids were bummed.

Up on the roof, it was windy! The kids were getting tired and starting to melt down.

A few more poses on the way out.The drive home was not too bad, we only had to stop once for Tessa.

I have to say it isn’t easy travelling with a baby, toddler and two young kids. But it was a quick trip and close enough to not have to be in the car for a long time. The kids had a great time and at least we can say we did SOMETHING this summer!