Our Girl is ONE!

We had a wonderful time at Cady's first birthday party. We had it at a beautiful park by a river, it was the perfect setting and we couldn't have asked for better weather! We had raspberry lemonade, cucumber-lemon water, wine, tomato-cucumber-feta salad, macaroni salad, a variety of sandwiches, cookies, dried papaya, chocolate dipped pretzels and cake. Here she is opening her presents!
And eating cake!

Here are the birthday girls with Jenny.

We're going to do Cady's hand print on canvas every year on her birthday. Here was the process on birthday #1. It didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. Next year, we'll do a practice print first :)

We're still waiting on our house. We are supposedly in the final stage of the short sale approval process, once we get approval in writing, we can get on with our inspections and get a closing date set. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

9 Months Old!

We've had a busy month! Not sure what we've been doing, but it's been busy and it's only going to get busier over the next few months.

Cady's 9 months old today. She went to the doctor this morning and she's 27.5 inches long and weighs 20 pounds. She's going to have a blood test this week to check for lead, since we live in an old house. Just a precaution. She's been eating all kinds of baby foods. She also drinks smoothies when we make them for breakfast. Yesterday she had some avocado from our tree. Today she had some curried lentil soup and pastina (little star shaped pasta). She seems to have a sense of adventure with her appetite, hopefully she always will.

Here she is doing her latest "thing," we call it the "crinkle face." She's also wearing her new teething necklace.

Looks what's happening now...

We walked in to Cady's room to see what she was doing. We were hoping she was about to take her nap. Nope, she was standing there, in her crib, laughing. So we're lowering the mattress today. We're also doing a lot of holiday baking. In the oven now, is a two-colored squash bread and butter pecan cakes. Later, more toffee crisps and some chocolate chip cookies.
Here's Cady's 7 month picture. We've been taking pictures of her on the 7th of each month, here she is in December! Two teeth (on the bottom), sitting up very well on her own, crawling (she goes a few steps then lunges forward), and now, pulling herself up to standing regularly.

We have our first tooth!

Look what we found this morning!

Cady's First Camping Trip

We spent the weekend at Silver Strand in Coronado. Cady seemed to enjoy camping, which is good since we have three more trips lined up. She saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, and had her feet in the sand. We stayed Sunday night, which was a first for us. It's amazing how few people are there, it's really nice!

We Took Cady Out to the Ball Game

We took her out with the crowd! No peanuts or cracker jack, but we had a great time. My old audit partner, Chris was in town again and got some excellent tickets to see the Dodgers and Angels play at Dodger Stadium. We met up with him for dinner at The Counter in Pasadena, then carpooled to the game. Cady was so good. She got a little cranky as we were getting ready to leave the restaurant, but she was fine once she ate. Then she slept through most of the game and the drive home. She had three celebrity sightings - Ozzy Osborne, Brian McKnight, and Larry King - who was wearing the weirdest yellow leather jacket.

Our Baby Girl Has Arrived!

Cadan Isabel was born at 2:20 in the afternoon on May 7th. Here we are, shortly after that...
And a little later that day....

Here's Chico checking Cady out when she came home from the hospital. He's been very good with her, and has snuck in a couple of licks on her head.

GG and Grandpop with grand-daughter Cady and grand-dog Chico...

Here's our girl...

Our First Anniversary

It was a year ago today that we were on the beach in Montecito having our gorgeous beach wedding, time flies! Our gift to each other is our trip to the UK.