Him

Today I wanna talk a little bit about this person with which I share my life.

Alex is a wonderful person, a good citizen, attentive, the kind that pulls over to push by himself a woman's broken car, which was causing a big traffic jam, but nobody else was willing to help. The kind that unplugs the neighbor's gutters and shovels the snow out of their driveways. He's always willing to help and that one of the qualities that a admire most in him.

He's a passionate, romantic, sensitive, creative and funny husband. The kind that gets home with two toy guns and has us run around the house shooting each other like children, and then he lays on the bed and says that I shot his heart and is dying of love. The kind that hangs kisses (the chocolate) on our ceiling because he wants to shower me with a "rain of kisses", he took from a piece of a poem he wrote for me when we were dating:

If a kiss was a drop of water, I would give you rain.

If a hug was a second, I would give you hours.

If affection was sand, I would give you a beach.

If love was one person, I would give you myself.

(Alex Kendrick)

That's another quality, he's a poet! He writes beautiful poems.

He's a great daddy. The kind that changes the baby's diapers, bathes her, feeds her, plays with her, puts her to sleep, gets up in the middle of the night to take care of her. The days that he doesn't work he gets up early and stays with Leah so I can sleep a little more. He does everything except for nursing, but he would lay on the floor while I was feeding Leah just to be with us.

He's a dedicated professional. The kind that takes a pie in the face for a competition to animate the staff in the bank that he manages to help achieve the goals. He doesn't think only on achieving the bank's goals but in doing his best so the customers will be satisfied with the bank's services. When I say he's the best Wells Fargo has, I'm not kidding, I really mean it.

The other day he came to me with a video he made below and said "I just wanted say I love you in a different way".

I'm really lucky, ain't I?

I love you honey! I wish I had half of your creativity to say it in a different way..

Leah says Hi

Leah learned to say "Hi" a few days ago. She says it to every stranger that crosses her way, she walks giving out "Hi's" and polite chatter wherever she goes, she says "Hi" even to her own image in the mirror. But if some stranger stops to talk to her, she goes mute! Who could've guessed...

I made this video this morning and you can hear her say it a couple times. It's the cutest "Hi" ever!

Playing workout

 Who needs to go to the gym when you have a walking baby??

First you walk half hour to get to the park. Once there, you run with your baby, climb stairs, slide down and crawl through tunnels many times. If you need to take a break, put the kid in the swing. Afterwards it's probably good if you try to wash off all the dirt on the kid's hands and legs. But the water only runs while you press the button... if you stop pressing the button, the water stops. With one hand you push the button and with the other hand you hold the kid, so how are suppose to wash it?? You can try it with super quick movements to keep up your rhythm or you can try hold the button with other body parts so you get a good stretch. Then you get to walk back home, up hill and pushing the stroller to increase intensity. And then you are home, sweating like a pig, with a happy, partially clean, sleeping like an angel baby, and you have gotten your day's work out. But if you're in a more advanced stage you still can: clean up all the toys, wash the dishes, sweep the floor, fold some laundry and clean the bathroom. Just don't forget to do all this during the morning, so when the baby takes the afternoon nap, you sleep too, because no one is made of steel, right?!   

Cute little things Leah does

A few days ago Leah was playing horsie on top of me and when she left Alex started kissing my back, Leah came back and started giving lots of kisses too, with the sound and everything! If Daddy lays his head in my lap, so does she. When I lay on the floor she does too. She copies everything!

When we ask for kisses, she gives us a pack. Some times she attacks us, even without us asking she'll just give tons of kisses leaving us all drooly. 

When we ask for a hug she lays her head down on our shoulder and pats our backs.

When we ask "Where's Leah??", she covers her face with her little hands and hides.

When she accomplishes something we say "Yaayyy" and she'll clap her hands. A little while ago I just said "Good job Leah, very good!" and she didn't forget to clap her hands to congragulate herself.

I think what she likes most to do is read books, actually just page through them since she turns the page before i finish reading it. She brings books to me, when I sit on the floor to read to her she sits in my lap all excited. When we finish she gets up to get another book and sits back in my lap to read it, then again and again and so it goes until I get tired and find something else to entertain her.

She is so cute and I love so much being with her all the time to see every cute little thing she does.

Like father, like daughter

Leah looks just like her father, and to look even more she uses the same expressions as him...

She's such a daddy mini-me!!