Kidspace Play Date

I took a half day from work today after feeling nauseous and dizzy all morning due to my gallstone* attack the night before. After picking up Andy and having some lunch I felt much better, so we decided to crash a play date already in progress at Kidspace. We met up with Meghan & Hailey, Suzie & Leo, and Alice & Tessa. Suzie has a yearly membership so she was able to get us all in for free! And let me just say that kidspace is an AWESOME place! I can't believe I hadn't been. I went as a kid for school field trips, but it was at a different location and much smaller. Andy and I didn't even see half of it, so we really want to go back soon.

Here are some pictures of Andy from my blackberry:

Andy playing with Hailey

He scores!

After our friends left we stayed for another hour checking out the place. Andy got soaked here! Next time we'll wear better shoes. Good thing I had a change of clothes & shoes!

Spent 15 min in playing with the wall at the entrance/exit.

We had such a great day. Best half day ever! Looking forward to going back soon. I know G said he wants to join us next time. Check out Meghan's blog for some super cute pictures of all the kiddos like the one below [totally swipped it off her blog!].

*So I have a gall stone. Found out at the ER at 3am last Friday. Horrible horrible pain that I wish on no one. And I now realize that this is a pain I've been having since I was pregnant with Andy. A LONG time. I will be getting surgery but that is still TBD.

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Catching up...

First, we'll post some stolen pictures from Andy's playdate earlier this month. You see, Andy has many cute baby friends and we want to show them off! I took an early/long lunch on a Friday so that Andy and I could be in South Pasadena for our park playdate. Best idea ever! I really need to use my camera more - here are 3 pictures I "stole" from Meghan [Hailey's mommy] who has more pictures on her blog so go check it out!

Andy & Hailey

Me & Andy

Maya & Leo

The rest of this post will be random blackberry pictures Gerardo and I have taken of Andy throughout the month.

Andy and my dad. Loves spending time outside with his grandpa.

Andy enjoys listening to LL Cool J. Seriously.

Andy LOVES shopping carts, but maybe he just loves all the attention he gets from fellow shoppers.

Loves the swings.


Still working on getting him to hold his own bottle.


Crawled over to his great-grandparents and pulled up on their canes. Funniest thing.


1st broccoli - loved it! Couldn't get enough.


Favorite past time - bird watching with my dad. Andy knows that as soon as abuelito is home it's bird watching time.

Andy has baby friends!

On Saturday Andy and I ventured out to the Valley to meet up with some of my "on-line" friends. I had met up with these ladies for brunch when we were all pregnant and then again shortly after Andy was born [and now we all have our babies!]. We met on a message board on the Bump [Success After Loss board - pregnant after a miscarriage]. You can now find us on the Parenting After Loss board. S a.k.a California Girl was kind of enough to host this GTG at her beautiful home.

From left to right: Sara, Tracy, Audra, Anna, S, Mehgan, Suzie, and Nanette.

As you can all see Andy and I are not in the picture above. We were an hour late. *blushes* I don't even know how that happened! I have not been late to anything since Andy was born. I guess I forgot how long it takes to drive out to the Valley and the damn traffic on the 101. Suzie's awesome photographer husband took this shot of the ladies and they're babies.

Andy had a great time impressing all the girls and was really amused by the crying babies. Andy is the oldes by just over 3 weeks. It was so great to see everyone with their babies and how great momma's we all are. Especially Sara with those twins! Remind me never to wish for twins again - I don't think I could handle it and Sara is amazing with them.

I can't wait until all the babies are 6+ months. Babies change so much from then on. They aren't infants anymore! We all had such a great time we agreed to get together more often. Can't wait! It's great to hang out with other moms and I'm so glad Andy will have some friends his age. :)