Party People Make Some Noise!

Happy Birthday Babykins! Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the weekend long celebration.

I hung pictures up of her first year and invited people to take the ones they liked most home.


With her Tia Tania and Alessandra
Smiling with Tia Tex
Cozy with Tia Ana
Grandmother and D with the birthday girl
Tia Antonella
Cake time!
She knew exactly what to do...and she didn't get any on HER clothes...just mine.
The girls...
Some of our favorite play date buds
Pooped from the party

Birthday morning, enjoying her favorite gift bag...pretty color eh?!

All tuckered out from a morning of "falling back" and church
Pressies at Coco's with Toto
The last of our month labels from Texas Aunt Amanda...they were such a great gift and we used them all year long!
Our last cupcake of the weekend! (We shortly thereafter discovered she's got a NEW tooth!)
Our 1 year anniversary of being a family.

Thanks to everyone for following along from pregnancy through year 1...stay tuned for our adventures as we approach year 2!

xoxo

They Grow Up So Fast....Babykins 1 Year Later

Here we are, the parents of a 1 year old! On this special day, I wish my baby girl all the love, courage, strength and wisdom in the world so that she may grow up to be an amazing woman!

Enjoy this sneak preview...party pictures will come soon! ...promise!

October in Miami (Our First Halloween!!)

October came and went so quickly---and now we are DAYS away from C's FIRST birthday! This is amazing, and I am so glad that we created this blog to document our journey, and our family. Here are some of the highlights...including our first HALLOWEEN! EEEK! BOO!

C is not the only one turning 1 this year. Her friend Dale turned 1 a few weeks ago. Here we are at his birthday party. This year the Coral Gables Community Foundation was honoring Don II (Babo) at their annual Gala. The theme was Homecoming/ Prom... so D III went in his Gables High Band jacket...the drum line was very impressed, as were most gala guests (because DIII still fits in it!).
Here is Babo surrounded by "Tia Kiki" and my friends from the Junior League. He definitely enjoyed being with us.
One Saturday morning we hopped in the car, and onto the turnpike and headed WAY south to Goulds to the infamous "Little Farm". Our friends Melissa, Pete, Katie and Brette came with their wee ones. We had a really fun time...and C and her BF Miles shared lots of giggles in the pumpkin patch. They la-la-love each other. It's super cute!
Here are the 3 kiddos in the pumpkin patch. Ads, C and Milo...a very focused group as you can see. I will also add it was like 68 degrees, sunny and beautiful on this morning.
Here's C with DII in the patch... and below you'll see her with me. I loved this picture of us so much, it's currently my Facebook profile picture. Honestly...how did we make such a cute kid?!

With Tia Kiki and C's birthday coming up... Uncle Bill and Chippy came down from Ft.L to pre-birthday celebrate. Uncle Bill's birthday is the day after C's birthday (which is also Babo's birthday). Here we are the navy bunch all matchy matchy.
Here's one of the cutest going to church outfits of the month. I will say I love Sundays at St. Philip's...she puts on her pretty pretty dresses, we see the family and it's just a lovely way to end the week.
Another great highlight was having Victor "Toto" over for dinner. These two were instant friends and it was a lot of fun catching up with Victor.
There was a fun Lechon Asado sinner at St. Philip's this month. Here is C having a blast with her Tia Kiki.
...and finally, Halloween. Baby costumes are tough...so we opted for something easy to pull on and off...AND was cool for Miami (temperature cool). So, as you can see C was a fairy ballerina. It was fun and cute and she was so enthralled with the other kids. Above is a picture of us at the St. Philip's Halloween Block Party, and below is a picture of her on Halloween at Mimi and Babo's.
We hope you had a great month with you family in your corner of the world. C will be 1 on Sunday, her birthday fete is going to be on Saturday and will be documented and shared here soon. Until then, be good and safe!

XOXO

September in Miami (and California)

First steps were taken in August and come September we were walking around the house. Laps! Walking up and down the front walk to and from the house. At first she looked like a zombie...you know...slow and with arms extended in front of her...but by the end of the month there was more stability in the walking.
Here she is at her "Titi Ivon's" baby shower, playing with John who is 3 months her junior. They had a great time together. Now that she's walking play dates have been coming more frequently.
The start of NCAA football season and the SMU and UF shirts have started coming out. Here she is at Publix riding the grocery cart for the first time. She had a super fun time!
Here we are after church (Don't get jelly over my Missoni for Target).
Another major milestone in September was that we went out of town...WITHOUT her! C stayed home with Coco while D & I went to San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma for one of my BFF's weddings. There are over 300 pictures, so it was hard to pick just a few...for a fuller post on our trip please visit CSD Art& Illustration where I wrote about the trip and shared more pictures.
Here I am with the beautiful bride and the rest of the SMU Gamma Phi gang! The wedding was at the most spectacular farm. Here we are with the Californian side of the Slesnick clan!
Here we are in Sonoma at a fly fishing ranch for the rehearsal dinner.

Back home in the Gables, D and C had good times around the playpen...
...and we went to a few birthday parties. Here we are with our friends Melissa and Miles at Addie's 2nd birthday party.
Most special this month was Grandmother's 89th birthday! Here are Kathleen and Don with the birthday girl at her cocktail party.
...same night---Mimi with her 3 girls.

...and that's all folks! We had another memorable month in Miami and are inching closer and closer to C's 1st birthday! Amazing how quickly the first year went...yet it does seem like forever ago all at the same time.

August in the Gables

Another fun month full of firsts! The pictures are in no particular order...but I will gladly narrate along the way. Above you will see Ms. Babykins with her 9 month sticker. She started standing all on her own at the very beginning of August.
Tia Lucia came in town from Nicaragua and we went to Key Biscayne for a fun visit. Here is Babykins with Tia Lucia and Coco.
Potluck fun for all the kids at Casa Tolmach! Here the kiddos are showing off their sitting abilities. Adria is the best at this since her 2nd birthday was days away at this point. This night we discovered that C likes pasta, veggie sticks and turkey slices!
Here's our boyfriend Miles. Isn't he handsome?
Here all are the mamas with babies in Miles' room.
Linds came to Miami for work and got to got over for dinner and hang with us. Babykins was very excited to meet mommy's sophomore year roommate in college. She enjoyed the story of their room flooding...good times!
One of our funnest visits was to Ft. Lauderdale to see the Gappelbergs visiting all the way from Texas. Above you will see that smile comes from our first time in a wing.
Auntie K with babykins and Maddie who is such a big girl! Love her!
Tio Chris snapped this shot one Sunday night.
Big bows just for fun in this picture with Coco.
Playing the piano at Mimi and Babo's house.
Pool time with Coco at Tia Tex's house on a Sunday after church.
The summer would not be complete without a visit to the museum! Here babykins is enjoying the door...maybe a little too much!
Georgia turned 2! Look how big she is! (all the way to the right). Here are some of the kiddos.
C with one of her buddies, Dale who is only 1 month older than she is. They had a great time with all the Knights toys at Georgia's birthday party.
Crazy Tio Ernie took this picture of Los Slesnick at gallery walk in the Gables.
Here the Slesnick girls are matching in orange with our friends Michelle and Micah at our friend Daniela's 1st birthday party.
Fun times with our cousins! A gaggle of girls!

Loving on mom and dad.
Hanging out with Mimi.
Intrigued by Tia Kiki and Grandmother.

All in all it was a fun ...and very hot and rainy month of August.

Again Again!

See this face? This is not only the face of a child riding in the cart at for the first time...but its the face of a child who right when SMU goes in to score its first touchdown in the season opener against Texas A&M last night, takes 4 independent steps!

She had done this last week...once...but had not done it again. Now--- she has repeated the feat...and every time she does it, she looks so surprised and proud of herself. I WILL catch this on camera if it kills me!