Bela's Blessing

Today our little baby girl was blessed at church.  We are grateful for the family and friends who came for the blessing: Mario's parents and sisters (from AL and L.A.), my aunt Melissa, Audrey, Lindsay and her family, my cousin Emily and her husband, Zach, Rachel, Kelly, Sarah, Stephen and Mark.

After sacrament meeting we took some pictures.  It was beautiful weather and was the first day I noticed a hint of fall in the air.

Bela's abuela bought her a precious dress and made a matching little hat/bonnet (not pictured).

Some things Mario remembers from the blessing are:
- to learn from her mother
- to be a light unto this generation
- to have a desire to be baptized and to keep making covenants
- to know that our Heavenly Father will always help her

One moment I'll always remember from the blessing day is me feeling nervous because Bela was tired and due to eat soon and I didn't want her crying during the blessing.  I leaned over and whispered to Mario, "I'm worried."  And Mario responded, "Yes, and you always will be."  Made me laugh!  He knows me so well.  And puts up with me.  And loves me :)

August 2015

What a fun month we've had!  Let me share some quick pics

BYU Farmers' Market

The whole fam damily at a birthday party

Bela is doing great!  She is normally so happy and smiley when she's awake.  Her sleeping schedule is not awesome, but we are working on it!

Snuggly baby! I can't get enough!

Bela had her two month appointment and we also got her ears pierced this week.  Surprisingly, the ear piercing was a lot more traumatic than the shots.

She is still nursing well, but I had to start supplementing with formula because she had gone from 50th-something percentile in weight to 11th.  She's much happier now that she's not hungry!  I was so fixated on the idea that "my body will make exactly what my baby needs," that I didn't really consider/refused to believe that not getting enough food could be a reason why she was crying a lot a couple of weeks ago.  Sorry, Bela!

Headed to the park

Lounging

Nakey time!

Dulce is a great big sister and a very active and smart two and a half year old.  I have to share these little segments of Dulce reading to Bela.  It was her idea.

As caring as she is though, if she's on the bed while I am feeding Bela, and Bela's head is within kicking distance, it will get kicked.  It's been proven every time.  Dulce kinda is unaware of what's around her.  She bumps into a lot of stuff and falls more than I thought a close to three year old would.

Dulce is REALLY into pretending.  At least half the day is her saying "Vamos a pretender que..." (let's pretend that) and then she assigns all the family a role to play.  I thought the funniest was when she said she was Agnes and Bela was Kyle (from Despicable me).

Kyle (left) is Gru's "dog."

She likes going to the rec center, building block towers, watching Peppa Pig and having me or Mario tells her stories about Alabama (you'll find out why next month!)  She also always wants to sleep with us.  I bought Lucky Charms that she can have if and only if she sleeps in her bed all night without crying.  It sometimes works but she's not always easily bribed!  She can now saw a hard C sound as well as the hard G sound and will often give me examples of how she said things before versus how she says them now.  For example she will say things like: "antes decia 'dolf' y ahora puedo decir 'golf!'' ("Before I said "dolf" but now I can say "golf!'")

#modelstatus

Napping with a balloon

Lindsay and her family moved back to Utah recently and we had a great time having them over (as well as my brother, Sam, and cousin, Maddy) this past Sunday.

Chow time!

I also wanted to share one of my favorite summer recipes that I this past week.  It's an avocado black bean salad.  We ate it with tortilla chips and and some leftover rotisserie chicken from Costco.