Happy Birthday Mommy!

This was my second birthday as a mother as well as my second birthday without my mother. Ever since experiencing the joys and pains of birth and raising a child, I have decided to pay tribute to my own mother and visit her headstone to start off my birthday celebration. 

Afterwards, we went on a mother/son date to Chikfila since it's Mommy's favorite fast food joint. 

And we topped off the day with dinner at Cheesecake factory (we suck at taking family pictures, so there are barely any with the three of us). 

Since Mommy has everything she could ask for in life and more, it's hard to surprise her with a present. Daddy didn't surprise her with anything, but did buy her quite a bit of things that she liked/needed. But who needs materialistic gifts when Mommy is blessed with these two dudes?

Oh, and we survived the apocalypse. Wewt!

A day without the boy

It feels weird to enjoy a nice meal out where I don't feed anyone but myself. What we took for granted two years ago is now a luxury nowadays. This past weekend, the husband and I took a mini trip to Napa to celebrate our baby moon #2, upcoming anniversary, Christmas, my birthday... just everything in one. It was great to spend a day without the kid, even though we missed him like crazy (Mommy missed Lukey more than Daddy though). However, it doesn't seem like homeboy missed his parents much.

Look at how much fun he's having with his grandma. Does that look like a boy who misses his parents? I think not!

So what exactly did we do in 24 hours? Eat... watch Food Network... eat. Yeah, the things non-parents take for granted is a luxury to us parents now. We spent most of our time in Yountville and enjoyed TK to the fullest. Husband wanted to try Addendum and I just wanted some Bouchon (macarons to be exact). We both left happy. 

After our smorgasbord, we came home and went back to regular life as parents with this adorable cutie. Yup, that's our boy and we love him so (naughty and all). Wouldn't trade this mischievous guy for anything.

THUMP!

Good news! Homeboy is now sleeping in his big boy bed in his big boy room. Oh how my baby has grown in the past 1.5 years. (On all the forums I read, you're suppose to transfer them over 2-3 months before baby is born so that they're used to it.) 

Anyway, we heard a loud thump last night when we were watching t.v. We ran upstairs and quietly opened homeboy's door. And this is what we saw...

Most mothers would be worried... what did I do instead? I LOL-ed! Yup, that's Lucas' mother! (btw this happened 3x last night)

Now I have to get the baby room ready...

Christmas at the Row

After months of writing down Santana Row's "Mommy and Me" on my calendar, we finally made the trek out to check out this event. It turns out homeboy enjoyed playing with the chess pieces the most. He even refused to go home (that's a first!).

You see the Batman jacket he's wearing? Well, it turns out that homeboy has quite the opinion now regarding what jacket he wears out. I had to fight him to not put on his red Spiderman jacket. A red shirt and red jacket just don't mix well. Well, at least we know he likes superheroes (Daddy is happy). He also has an opinion about what shoes he wears too... oh brother...

And yes, you aren't imaging things... it's December and we're still in T-shirt weather. Oh California weather... can't complain.

Almost 1 1/2 years old...!!!

The terrible two's are a terrible thing. How do I know? Lil homeboy decided to test this out the week of Thanksgiving with constant crying/whining when he doesn't get his way and major attitude. Luckily, it was just a short phase, or else Mommy would've gone crazy!

Excuse me for being biased, but I truly believe my boy is a smart one. He knows all his Brown Bear animals, Sesame Street characters, as well as random things in his books. Forget the Star Wars room, he's all about Sesame Street. If only he was into it during his first birthday... perhaps his second birthday will be a recycled Sesame Street theme.


 A boy can never have too many Cookies!


Homie loves going to Barnes & Noble. He runs right to the Sesame Street section.


He also loves books in general. Home, library, book store, whatever.
(Not complaining about his new hobby.)

However, his daily lets-take-everything-out-of-Mommy's-purse hobby is something to complain about.
(Speaking of complaints, SkipHop's quality really sucks.)

And that's month 17...
(Say hello to Mr. Crazy Eyes)