Gay Pride 2008

Skylar attended her first Gay Pride Parade. A lot of her friends joined her, Izzy, Renee, Adrienne, Aiden, Allan, Dell and Dale. We arrived 90 minutes before the parade to get good seats, which we achieved. Thank heaven for Walgreens and their fabulous $5 folding chairs. Skylar did remarkable well during the 3 hour parade. Yes, I did say 3 hours. She loved the bright colors and waving and blowing kisses to all the people. She could have lived without the motorcycles, but sure did love all the festive music, that little girl sure can dance. We attached a video of Skylar's and Mommy's favorite parade entry.

Too funny

Little Skylar has been suffering from a rash and a continuous runny nose. The rash is on it's 7th day and luckily fading away. The runny nose is now on month #2. The good thing ( always have to find the silver lining is that Skylar has learned to blow her nose.

Today I heard Dolce, our Chihuahua let out a warning growl. She is the more tolerant of our two dogs to Skylar's loving antics.

I emidiately looked to see what was going on. Skylar had gone into her diaper bag, grabbed a wipe, headed over to the dog and was trying to blow her nose. Skylar trying to imitate mommy, held the wipe up to Dolce nose and was making the blowing sound, trying to teach. Skylar mistaked Dolce's growl of disapproval as a sound of confusion, so Skylar tried to teach further but then putting the wipe to her nose to show Dolce how it's done.

After a giggled a bit, I separated the two before warning growls turn into something more suffer.

17 years and worth the wait

George Michael in concert; what a talent, what a concert.. what an experience. He's depth and passion seem to have intensified with age. And that voice!!! My absolute favorites were Father Figure, Praying for Time and, of course, Freedom!!!

You can learn alot from a 1 year old

The lessons I learn from my little Skylar are amazing. She knows that the power behind a smile and a kind jester are magical.. No matter where we are or who we are around, Skylar will smile and wave and make a friend. It seems like she targets the scariest or unrulely people.

The other day we were walking in the park and passed by a lonely man. Skylar put on her biggest grin and waved frantically at him. She caught his attention then stopped us. With tears in his eyes he offered us two cherries and said.. 'no matter what a person is, white, black, asian, I always we must treat them all the same. Somehow, I think his words did not tell as much as his eyes, welling with tears and a heartbroken voice. Skylar reached out at touched his heart.

I think I've finally lost my mind

So Skylar's first birthday is right around the corner. I can't believe she'll be one years old next week. I started thinking about her birthday party in January and put some intense work hours in this entire month. Am I crazy.. All this effort for a party Skylar wont even remember. Who am I kidding this party is for Jason and I.

My first Mother's Day

Ok.. So I've proven to be a bad blogger. On posting in 3 months. To be honest, I forgot all about this site.. OOOppp!!!

I had my very first Mother's Day. As I enjoyed my day with my beautiful baby girl and my husband I had tears of joy in my eyes. I couldn't help but think about Mother's Day last year. I was so VERY pregnant and VERY depressed that my baby was taking her own sweet time in making her debut. A year ago Mother's Day I was in my second week of Early Labor, swolen feet, completely efaced, 2 cm dialated and the baby had dropped. Walking was a chore.

This year, I held my baby in my arms. She was able to say 'Mama' and give me big hugs. It was such a special day. We went to Golden Gate park and walked around the Conservatory of Flowers, Japanese Tea Gardens and Botanical Gardens.. So beautiful. My husband is so wonderful to plan a beautiful day

Opening Statements

Hello blog world. I have decided to join the 21st century and join you. What is there to say about me. I've been married since 2002 and a new mom to a beautiful baby girl born in May of 2007.

I've recently made the transition to SAHM ( stay at home mom). I 'm still going through some growing pains in the transformation. In my previous live, I was an HR Generalist for a high tech company. BIG difference.

Had I started this blog a year ago, or even 8 months ago, there would have been some interesting internal dialog as I continued sole searching in my persuit to my current destiny as a stay at home mom. And the first 4 months with an incredibly colic-y baby.. priceless. My life has started evening out so I'm not sure how entertaining my entries will be. If I have any spare time ( I say that with a sarcastic tone and an evil laugh) I might write some excerts from the diary I attempted to keep.

Until then. good night. I must tend to my angel who is whaling. hmmm....maybe the teething process will provide some comic relief.