Days before Christmas

Happy Birthday, Riley. Thanks for inviting us to your birthday party. It was a lot of fun. Pretty soon I'll be able to hang out with you and Maddy on the monkey bars and swings...Hey, so what's so interesting that you guys are looking at...it can't be possibly more interesting as me. Hold me up, I can't see...get me outta this car seat!
Back up, girl. You're getting too close for comfort, Isabella, Haven't you heard about personal space? It's what we need as people, you see when people get too close, we become uncomfortable, and feel invaded by others. Haven't you seen in the elevator, adults get so paranoid when someone stands next to them in an elevator. Besides I heard through the grapevine, auntie michelle, there were going to be a lot of cute little girls at this party. So just keep that in mind, 'Bella.

It's Christmas time at Disneyland. Mom and dad decided to take me a second time to the Happiest Place on Earth, since the first time I wasn't able to ride "It's a small world". I had such a great time. I was so "tripping out" on all the colors and lights. I guess it was really a small world, because we ran into Kloie, Kristi's and Kaylee...oh yeah, also Uncle Randy and Auntie Christina came along, not to mention all of the Aparicio's. Here's a cool picture of Uncle Randy and Kloie trying to catch a snowflake.

Days after Christmas

Do you notice anything different about me? That's right, you guessed it, mom and dad shaved my head. Well, actually they cut my hair, they didn't have clippers, so dad just used a pair of scissors to "buzz" my head. What do you think? Mom said the "combover, just wasn't working. Do I look "gansta" or what?

So the official date of my first "haircut" is December 26, 2007. That same night was also another first, you see dad's Christmas present to mom, was a date night to go see the musical, "Wicked" and also the first time they were going to leave me with someone other than them. The "someone" or actually "someone's" was my grandma Mascardo, Auntie Chris, my cousin Jessica, (in the picture below) and my cousin Anthony.

The following day was Thursday, and mom and I headed out to church that night. We were able to meet up with a lot of people, like Kloie, Kristi and Kaylee's mom and dad, Uncle Randy and Auntie Christina. We also got to see, Max and Belli's mom and day, Uncle Luis and Auntie Z, along with my crazy Uncle Johnny and Auntie Allison.

Yes, that's me with a tie, mom and dad said it was a special occasion. So I dressed to impress. On Saturday, December 29. Mom and dad took the whole family from both sides to dinner at Il Fornaio in Manhattan Beach. Uncle Mike and the family couldn't make it, he was sick. But as for the rest of us, we ate our fair share of Italian food. Afterwards we went back to our house for desert and mom and dad gave everyone "encouragement" presents for the new year. Mom and dad are always doing stuff like this. I guess it's their way to show how much they love their family.

Here I am with my Aunts, Vy, Betty and Annie, they always seem to be ready to pose for the camera. We spent that day hanging out at Auntie Nina's furniture store called "Essence" it's located in Redondo Beach, just in case you're looking for cool furniture for your home.

My first experience of ice skating on Friday night, dad took all of us, mom, me, Auntie Christine, and my cousins Jessica and Anthony ice skating at the Santa Monica Promenade. We all had a lot of fun as you can tell from the pictures. My cousin Anthony is really good, he raced my Auntie Christine, cousin Jessica and even with dad and beat every single one of them. I was kind of bummed I was too young to ice skate but maybe next year. Since my cousin Anthony is pretty good, I'll ask him to teach me.

Los Tres Amigos

Hey look...it's me and the boys ... Michael, Stephen Fua and me. As you can tell, our parent's set this up, we didn't plan on taking this picture. I'm hoping as we grow up we don't get into too much trouble. We need to pray for the children's ministry, because soon and very soon, we'll be invading every Sunday morning.


PICTURES WITH ALL OF THE "PEEPS" AT CCSB...One of the great things God has blessed me with at church is people. And lots of people, every time I go to church people just want to take their picture with me. It's like I'm a celebrity or something. There is so much paparizzi, even at church. Well, here are some recent pictures of Uncle Jesse, Uncle David, Uncle Charlie, Auntie Luz, Grandma Fofoa, Grandma Julie and Auntie Gidget.

Car Seats, Shots, Nursery time, Disneyland & Dad's Birthday

I'm back...Wow, I can't believe it's almost Christmas. This past month since Thanksgiving has been pretty busy for us. So much has been going on, with all that I've been going to a whole lot of different places. So I have had to really learn how to remain entertained in a car seat. As you can see this one moment that I actually enjoyed sitting in the car seat. The reason why was Grandma Nancy was trying to make me laugh.

4 SHOTS & THE DOCTOR

Boy, this past month was filled with some interesting moments. This past month, I had to go for my 2 month check-up at Doctor Kato's office, which wasn't too bad. That was until the nurse pulled out a big needle, I thought to myself, "What are they going to do with that "big" needle?" then I realized it had my name written all over it. The nurse gave me 4 shots, the first one wasn't too bad, but the rest, man did it hurt! You would think that they would be nice and space them out over a period of time, but to have 4 shots at the same time. The only cool thing was that they gave me 2 Bugs Bunny band-aids.

NURSERY ON A FRIDAY NIGHT

One of the firsts this month was going to nursery at Calvary Chapel South Bay. This was my first time being at church without mom or dad. You see dad teaches the Bridge, which is the College Age/ Young Adult group at churcn on Friday nights. And it's been a while since mom heard him share about the Bible. So mom and dad decided it would be a good idea to get me used to being in the nursery. Mom said I was going to be in good hands, and she was right Auntie Denise and Auntie Olympia took real good care of me. As you can see, Auntie Olympia is reading a book to me. I can't wait until I get to go again.

IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL...

As you can see from the picture below, I went to Disneyland for the first time on Monday, December 3. From what I remember it was fun, at least for the parts that I was awake. Mom and Dad have this tradition, well, it's not really a tradition yet, because they just started it last year. Anyway, the tradition is that they go to Disneyland during the Christmas season and buy an ornament for the Christmas tree.

Dad wanted my first time to be real cool, so he wanted me to go on "It's a small world", and as we started to get in line, the Disneyland people said they were shutting it down...Bummer. Not only that the only line Dad waited in was the line to take his and mom's picture for the annual pass...Another Bummer...it's ok though, Dad said, Disneyland is still the happiest place on earth. I don't know if you can tell but this particular time, Dad wasn't feeling too good, as you can probably see from the picture, he would say, he looked "tore up from the floor up", so we had to cut our trip short,

"HANDY" HANDS

Another discovery I made during this time frame was I discovered that I have "hands" and you know what they come in handy, for example when I'm hungry, and mom is busy at the moment I can take my "handy dandy" hands and suck on them. And you know what they don't taste too bad, you should try it next time you're hungry. I also suck on my hands anytime that I need to be comforted. God is so smart to give us hands to suck on.

DAD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

On Saturday, December 1, Mom had a Birthday dinner for dad. His actual birthday was on December 5th. It was his 3?th Birthday. If I tell you how old he is, he may be a bit upset, so I'll let you guess. Anyway, mom invited quite a few people. We went to Korean BBQ, it was cool, everybody got to cook their meat on the grill. And then we went to our house and watched, one of dad's favorites "Charlie Brown Christmas". It was my first time watching it, pretty good cartoon. I just don't understand why everybody gets mad at Charlie Brown, my best part was when Linus says "Lights, please" and he starts to recited the Christmas Story from the book of Luke chapter 2. Anyway, here are some pictures of that night. If I don't see you before Christmas, have a great time with your family and friends.