As soon as he left, we hung out outside with papi. You didn’t want to come inside which made you very crabby. We knew you were tired but as always, you were fighting your sleep. After a long fight, you finally gave in. You’re currently napping on your little Mickey Mouse couch and you look so adorable and peaceful. Papa is getting some work done and I’m getting some rest. We love you little darling!

To start off, she’s now 18 months and definitely showing more personality. She is a silly little one and not a day goes by without her making us laugh. She’s going through physical therapy for the stiffness when she walks but she’s making progress.

We’re so proud of our munchkin and I’m excited to update on our daily experiences with her!

Would you look at the time?!?! It’s 6am– Unfortunately I can’t sleep and the simple answer to why I can’t sleep is because you’re not here.

I’m going to be blunt and honest with you; One day you’ll read this and there will be some answers on this site that you may seek. When that day comes you’ll be glad to read this.

For the time being some things will be different. I’m not sure how long they’ll be different or if they’ll ever go back to being normal, or at least what you think is normal.

Please know that there is one thing in the world that means the most to me and that thing is you. I’ve grown to love you since the first trimester you were in your mother’s belly and I will continue to love you til’ the day, well til’ the day I’m old and forget your name :p.

On another note here are some awesome things we did this past month!

Cheese!

On that very same day, you ate some cake of mine!!

Papi and Ale acting silly.

Your very first cubs game!

As you can tell.. You did quite a lot. You were also signed up at Gymboree for Thursday classes so that should be FUN! I’ll make a post within the day with more pictures of the cubs game. They gave you a “BAWLL” there that you loved. <3

Te amo
-papi.

Hey gator! You’re super cute. Within the past week we’ve accomplished a lot. We had some family come in from Puerto Rico and were out an about. Unfortunately you’re not feeling all that well today and have had a fever on and off all day. I hope you feel better so we can go out as a family!

Here are some videos you’ll enjoy when you’re older.

you were coloring!

Here’s a video of you and Mami looking at a bear while we were at the zoo

I love you.

Its been three months since I’ve written here;it’s actually been 1.5 but there was something wrong with the server which made the site go down for 3 weeks. Currently you’re sleeping while your mom and I play a cool game called “angry birds”. You will probably like the game too when you grow a bit older since you like destroying things haha. Today I was not able to join you guys on your day out– but it was a productive day for me. I was able to put your site back up after hours and hours of searching for the database backup. Silly me. I’m currently writing this from my phone :p and here’s a picture on my phone I think you should see.

I love you.
-Papa!

Today you spent all day with me. You must be getting tired of me. Even though it doesn’t seem like you are, but I have a feeling if I spent all day with myself I would begin to get tired of me. Today was a good day. The night before you, mom, and I hung out pretty much the whole night and watched some TV til’ you fell asleep. Watching you sleep is always fun, because you are very difficult to put to sleep. You think play time is always and bed time is never. Though I can see where you get it from. I mean look at me. I’m here writing a blog post about your day when I should be sleeping. You know how I am though. I dislike sleep and rather gain more knowledge.

When you woke up today you woke up with a smile. As always. I love when we all wake up feeling good. Even though I woke up to a pretty bad dream I realized that it was just a dream and watching you and mom smile at me made my day much brighter. Unfortunately mom couldn’t hang out with us as much as we would have wanted but that’s okay. After you woke up I fed you since you’re a silly little hungry hippo and that’s when our day began.

Around 2pm I checked twitter while you were hanging out with grandma for a bit. I was saddened to see what one of the trending topics of the day was. #RIPLaylaGrace was the third top trending topic for all of twitter. At first I glanced over it and had no idea what it was about, but shortly after I recalled mom was reading her blog about her illness. It really struck me and made me realize how fortunate we are to have a healthy baby. It saddened me deeply because I can only help but to imagine how the Grace family is feeling. I remember when you, mom, and I had to spend nights at the hospital so you could get better. I cannot imagine how they were able to cope with it. My condolences sincerely go out to them. When you grow older and are able to understand more about her illness I suggest you read her blog http://laylagrace.org – hopefully it’ll be up. This part of my post really and dearly goes out to them.

After reading the tweet regarding her I told myself that I need to cheer up and spend time with you. We did. We played entirely the whole day, which is nothing new as you and I love playing around and running after each other. Even though you can’t run/walk yet but you know what I mean, or at least you’ll know what I mean one day. Shortly after playing for a bit you and grandma went out to Target and Costco to buy some things. Most of which were for you. You came back and we went back to playing with your new toy. This was pretty much how our whole day went, amor.

Mom came home around 8pm and you were happy to see her, as always. We hung out and played with you as we watched MTV’s Teen Mom, and talked about dear Layla Grace. As of right now you and mom are sleeping, as you should be since it is close to being 4:00 in the morning.

Love,
Dad & Mom (who is sleeping, lol)

ps – you’re getting older.

Let me tell you baby – you’re becoming something else. I love spending all the time we spend together with you but you are now becoming a little monster. In a good way of course.

Today we pretty much stayed at home all day. We left moms place and came to mine quite early. We hung out and played together til about 3 when I had to leave and attend a meeting with a colleague.

I came back home around 6 to find out you had just woken up (great, I was planning on napping with you but you beat me to the nap). That being said I knew you would be ready for a fun night. After every nap you can usually go on for about 6 extra hours before falling asleep so yeah. I had about 6 more hours before I could do anything.

Once I got home we hung out. I chased you, you chased me same thing different day no?. Today you really destroyed my room. I had never seen my room as a mess as it was today. Its okay though ill clean it up for you, but once you get older you will be cleaning it up.

After the mess you made we hung out more watched some tv, used the internet together, trolled some people and that was pretty much it until mom got home.

When mom got home we pretty much did the same thing. If it hadn’t been too late I would not have minded taking a family trip to a store, but it was kind of late.

I have to go sleep now. I need to be alert for your important day tomorrow, or should I say later today.

We love you.
Mom and Dad

Here are some things to take into consideration when planning the first birthday.

- often the party is for the parents and not the child.
- pick a location where your child will be comfortable at.
- take into consideration everything you know about your child. Example: don’t invite a lot of people if your child gets dazed with a lot of people.

It was quite challenging choosing a location for my daughter’s birthday. At the end of the day we ended up celebrating at ChuckECheese.

ChuckECheese was ultimately chosen due to their great hospitality and reputation from others. They will host your party for 90 minutes and if you want to stay longer you can for no additional charge.

-TeenDad