The New Bed

Here are some fun pictures of Gabriel in his new bed. A comforter/pillow set and bed rail later, he is sleeping through the entire night (knock on wood).

Reading w/ Abuelos

Gabriel loves his Nana and Abuelo (baba). Here are some cools pictures of them spending some quality time together.

Sing, side, choo choo, san

It's been about a month now that Gabriel's swing set was "created". It took Steven many nights of assembling the frame in the garage and entire Saturday of putting it all together in the backyard, with the help of Jenelle's dad and Steven's parents. The minute Gabriel wakes up in the morning he runs to the sliding glass door that leads to backyard and repeats, "sing (swing), side (slide), choo choo (the glider) and san (sand). He loves to swing, but is still a little cautious of the slide (only because it's pretty steep for his age).

Ma...let me watch tv in style

Is he learning fashion early? Or does he just like to play with the zipper? We seem to find Gabriel exposing his burly chest a little too often when he wears pajamas with a zipper. He does enjoy walking around while airing out his chest. I guess it's just a matter of time to find him without any clothes on.

Handy Gabriel

Gabriel seems to take a liking to Handy Manny. For those who are unfamiliar with the Spanish-speaking handy man from Sheetrock Hills, his tools even talk, sing and dance. Gabriel loves to dance when the characters sing the chorus during every show. We got Gabriel a set of his very own (Ikea) tools for Christmas and he loves playing with his mau-mau (hammer). Steven & I recently updated our guest bathroom and Gabriel was a huge "help" every step of the way. He had his mau-mau in tow and tapped on anything he came in contact with.

Here are the before and after pictures of the vanity. Not bad for our first time :).

1-year old photo shoot...kind of

Hello everyone! I know it was been a while since our last post. It feels like the days have become shorter recently...thus is parenthood I suppose. We are hoping to keep the blog updated more regularly, thank you for bearing with us :)

Here is a shot from Gabriel's most recent photo shoot. We would have liked to schedule the photo shoot for his 1st birthday, but unfortunately our friend and photographer is moving out of state :-( at the end of the month.

He is now a little bit over 10 1/2 months old.

Pickwick Park

Steven's parent's have a great, new park in their neighborhood. It has 2 large jungle gyms, swings, small rock "walls", gazebos to barbeque, and a large walking path. It's a great place to bring Gabriel when the weather is right. We have been bringing Gabriel to the park well before he entered the world. Steven and I (and sometimes his parents) would make our walking route through the park to the walking path while I was pregnant.

When Gabriel was about 5 months old, we decided to let him try out the baby swing. He sat in it and was stiff as a board. We would swing him and he would just look straight ahead and not move a muscle, the only things moving were his eyes...and they were staring at us. It was as if he was thinking, "what is this thing?".

Nana & Feve (Steven's parents) take him to the park on most of the days they watch him during the week. he seems to enjoy the swing now.

It's funny to watch babies experience things for the first time. Everyday is a learning process for Gabriel.

Another comparison

Here I am at 7 months and Gabriel at 6 months.

Sittin' on the dock of the bay

Gabriel got a taste of his first kid birthday party this past weekend. In fact there were 2 in one day. I can only imagine what it will be like to host many of these one day. His cousin Lydia was in town from Atlanta and had her birthday party in the morning and then it was Mallory & Ava's party in the afternoon. We took him out on the dock at cousin Angie's house for some fresh air during Mallory & Ava's party.

Play time

Thank you to Aunt Cristina and Cousin Lydia for the fun activity chair! Gabriel is interacting with it more and more everyday. He is able to sit in it without falling forward, like he did a few weeks ago.

Tummy Time

Here is a shot of Gabriel enjoying tummy time...

Annie

Jenelle loves the movie Annie. It came on t.v. one night and Gabriel was so excited to watch it for the first time that he just had to dance :)

Any similarities?

For a while now many people have been trying to decide how much Gabriel takes after both me and Jenelle.

Here is a picture of me at approx. 6 months next to a picture of Gabe at 2.5 months.

I'm trying to round up a baby picture of Jenelle to compare to his, more to come...

Not a fair weather fan!

Here's a shot of Gabriel sporting his new Jags uniform. He wore it for the first time today during the Jags/Jets game. Turns out Gabe may have brought the team some luck as they played well and won the game during their final drive.

Although he enjoys professional sports and the Jaguars most, I could have sworn, as he is moving a bit more, that i saw him doing the gator chomp in his crib yesterday...perhaps there will be a blue and orange outfit in his future?