The flip side of getting the new Mazda was that we had to let go of the VW Beetle. We would rather have traded in the Jeep which is older with way more miles, but since we had the hardest time fitting Selena and I and Kaylee with the baby … [ more ]

There was a lot of wedding related activities to do while in LA, but Selena and I did manage to get a good deal of sightseeing in. We went to the Getty Museum high on the hill in Northwest LA, which is just an exquisite location. We barely looked at … [ more ]

Easter 2011, a set on Flickr.

Rounding out the two weeks of celebrating Kaylee was having the day off on Friday, her actual birthday to celebrate the day with her. We tried to take her to an Easter Egg Hunt at the local nature center but they said that she was … [ more ]

Brookside Gardens with Grandpa, a set on Flickr.

Since my dad, Kaylee’s grandpa, was visiting from Florida for the weekend of her birthday and baptism we took him with us to the most photogenic place we know, Brookside Gardens, tucked away in the Glenmont area between Rockville and Silver Spring. … [ more ]

Kaylee’s Baptism, a set on Flickr.

The day following Kaylee’s big birthday blowout, we had her baptized in the Catholic Church. We thought combining the two events into one weekend would make it easier for those travelling from out of town to be there, but surprisingly only immediate family stayed over … [ more ]

Long before a TV series and themed food truck madness, Greg and his boys were completely engrossed in the Song of Fire and Ice series, which is what you might know as The Game of Thrones on HBO. He loved the book so much that he made me read it, … [ more ]

A big thank you to family friend Rosalba for buying Kaylee this walker with the spinning Elmo, and kudos to Selena for having the foresight to have a video camera nearby. This laughing fit makes me smile everytime.

I came home one day to find dad nowhere in sight and this scene in the crib:

Further evidence that Greg’s iPad is the “other woman,” as it’s now raising our child.

(I eventually found dad not too far away.)

Selena and I enjoy The Amazing Race and have talked about how we would do competing as a team. This season, though, with our new addition in the family, my mind has started considering if I would prefer to change up my teammates, and replace Selena with Kaylee. We wouldn’t be … [ more ]

Around the time Kaylee was born, I just wasn’t sleeping comfortably, and thought of our friend Alex’s super comfortable bed which had a feather mattress on it. I told Greg I wanted one. His reaction was kind of ‘whatever.’ So we settled on a layer of memory foam that seemed … [ more ]