HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY LEYNA!!!

I can't believe Leyna is already ONE!

She is talking quite a bit. She will repeat a lot of the words I say, but here's the ones she says all the time:

-Dada/DadDad/Dad/Daddy(this is her favorite word(s) lately)
-Mama/MomMom/Mom/Mommy
-Ba (ball)
-Bah/Bass (bath)
-Dankty (blankie)
-Awora (Alaura)
-Sis/Sissy (Sydney)
-Bye Bye
-Ow-yi (outside)
-Dis (this)
-Dese (these)
-Yeah!
-HI!
-NoNo NoNo(not just once)
-jews (shoes)
-Socks
-wawa (water)
-Bapple (apple)
-Bopen (open)
These are just ones I can think of. She has repeated after me her colors, and different foods.

Her favorite song used to be patty cake, which she still loves, but her new favorite is "Popcorn Popping". She likes the hand motions and is trying to figure out how to do them. It's so cute watching her try to learn new things. She is starting to hum along with me when I sing her songs or when she is holding her baby.

Here's some fun pics of her and the cute things she does...

"L" for LEYNA (at California adventure)

Now that she's walking she would rather push the stroller instead of riding in it.

She loves the bath

She always finds my wallet and pulls everything out.

She always wants to do anything mommy does. I left the broom out and she found it and was walking all over like she was sweeping. It was so cute!

Eating a spaghetti noodle. Or should I say "trying" to eat a spaghetti noodle

Loves the carousel

Wants to walk everywhere.

I just think this picture is so cute. She couldn't resist it, she has to put everything in her mouth.

Future Model

She loves her baby! She just randomly started loving her baby or any kind of doll. She puts them on her shoulder and pats their back and start humming to them. It is the cutest thing! It's so cute that little girl just naturally have that motherly instinct.

Leyna pulled out the pan from the oven drawer and then climbed in it. She seems to like to climb into things. You are so stinking cute baby girl! She is so entertaining and funny.

Brushing Daddy's teeth. I think she might be trying to tell him something. =0)

A letter from mommy.......

Leyna~

Happy One Year my Beautiful Angel! I can't believe you are already a year old. Time goes by so fast. You amaze me everyday with everything you are learning. You have such a cute personality. I can't wait to watch and see all the new thing you will learn and do in the years to come. What a blessing it is to be a mommy, especially to such a wonderful little angel like you. I don't know what I would do without you, but I do know I would be very bored. =0) You keep me busy, but I love it. I enjoy every minute we get to spend together. You are always making me smile or laugh. Every time I look at you I am in aww by how beautiful, cute, adorable, and perfect you are. Sometimes I feel like I can't get enough of you and want to go wake you up at night and cuddle you and have you be next to me. You're such a blessing in our lives. You bring so much joy and happiness into our home. I thank our Heavenly Father everyday and night for blessing us with you in our lives. And I pray also that you will always have the desire to do whats right, and always remember your Father in Heaven, who loves you and wants nothing but the best for you. You have taught me unconditional love. I hope as you grow older you will always know of the love your Daddy and I have for you, and always will. Our lives wouldn't be complete without you. I love you so much "Booger"! XOXO

Love,

Mommy

MaMa

January 25, 2009

Leyna says "Mama" now!!! She's always kinda babbled it when she's sad, but not directed to me. She now says it when she wants me or sees me. She said "mama" before "dada". I've heard most kids say "dada" first so I was totally expecting it, but she said "mama" instead. It made me feel really special. She is my sweet little girl and I hope she will always be a mommy's girl.

Crawling

January 25, 2009

So three days after Leyna turned 8 months she finally crawled. It's about time!!! She has been doing the army since she was 5 1/2 months old. I thought she would start crawling a lot soon, but I guess she was content with scooting around. The funny thing is that she didn't do it on her own though. She want to be with mommy and I was cooking in the kitchen. Juan would make her crawl to get me by holding her stomache up off the floor. After about 2 or 3 trip to the kitchen she was crawling on her own. I knew she was ready! It just took her 2 1/2 months of army crawling to get there.

January 26, 2009

Now that Leyna is actually crawling she learned how to climb up the stairs and she loves it! She caught on very fast. Now we are just trying to learn how to get down so she doesn't go tumbling down them. =)

Leyna 8 months old

On January 22, Leyna was 8 months old. She is learning and growing so much! Here's some of the things she can do or say:
-walking along furniture
-very adventurous(which means more messes for mommy) =0)
-want to feed herself, but makes a mess
-Loves to eat Puffs
-gives kisses (open mouth of course)
-waves bye bye
-does "headbutt"
-gives high five
-Loves playing "patty cake"
-Can do "peek-a-boo" by herself
-When she is looking in mirror I say, "Give Leyna kisses" and she kisses the mirror
-does sign language for "more" and "all done"
-says "gah!" in a really high pitch voice
-favorite sound right now is "baba"
-Babbles all the time
-I swear she says bath, "baa". She loves the bath!
-Has crawled a little, but would rather army crawl. I know she can do it, but wont.
-Gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth like she's ready to take off crawling, but then goes down and army crawls.
-Got her top right tooth January 2 (tooth #3)
-Got her top left tooth January 9 (tooth #4)
-Is a total mommy's girl. Very attatched to mommy.



Now A LOT of pictures!!! I can't just pic a few I love every picture of her. She is just too cute!!!

Climb in here by herself

And got out by herself

She tries climbing on everything

Like a "hurricane". Loves to make messes. I swear she thinks if its clean she has to mess it up.

Funny ways I've found her sleeping.

Doesn't that look comfortable?

She usually sleeps with her little tooshy in the air, but this pic with the fluffy skirt makes it so cute!
Yummy
Stands up on everything

Learned how to pull herself up in her bed. Was very hard to get her to go to sleep when she first started, cus she didn't know how to get down, but she learned after about a week.

Loves sitting like this

What a COOL baby!!!

We got Leyna this exersaucer for Christmas, but she didn't want to sit inside after a few days. She would rather be on the outside.

Luckily we spent $15 more for one that converts to an activity table. So happy we did! She loves it now.

Visiting a friend. They had fun playing together and poking each others faces.(This is my friend Kym's little girl, Jersey. What a cutie. Love her long hair!)

Photo Shoot

So I have a hard time getting somewhere to take pics of Leyna so I set up my own little studio with some white satin material.

Getting ready to take pics

I love this smile! Look at those teeth.

Cuddling with her blankie. Ready to go sleep.

Playing "Peek-A-Boo"

She wanted to stand up under her tunell and go very mad that it wouldn't let her. But she got away.

I think someone is getting a little jealous...

Look what I can do!!!

On Easter Sunday, April 12th, 2009, Leyna took her first steps!!! It was so exciting. So she was about 10 1/2 months and she walked to her daddy. She had taken 1 or 2 steps here and there but this time she took like 5 steps and did very well. This video was a week and a half later(April 24). She wouldn't walk much after so we had a hard time catching her on video. Now she is wanting to walk all over the place. She stands up on something them walks to me where ever I'm at and she gets so excited when she's doing it. She is so much fun and growing up so fast. We're trying to enjoy every minute.

I know I have lots of updating, but I just had to let everyone know Leyna is walking and put this video up. Things just seem to be busy lately...With what? I have no idea. We are looking for a house though. So that is some exciting news. Hopefully we will have a house to call our own in the next few months. I'll keep you updated. Promise. I am working on getting all my updates done. So keep checking back. =) There are some older posts I just did below this one. So please check them out.