March 2010

Chloe's new shorter haircut

Matt and Chloe doing our volunteer work for the San Diego Ocean Foundation. We got 2 free tickets to Disneyland for volunteering!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Only the beginning of the Easter Egg Hunts, starting with our Mommy and Me Egg Hunt.
Chloe's buddies, Christian and Gavin from Mommy and Me class Easter Egg Hunt.
Her cheesy smile. She said "Mommy take my picture"....
Very proud of her Easter eggs that she dyed.
She's been dying for us to take her on a train ride. Train ride at Balboa Park.
She is an expert scooter rider--Balboa Park Fountain.
Chloe at the zoo.
She loves to pet the goats!Egg Hunt #2 with our Preschool Co-0p gang.
Chloe at the Carlsbad Flower Fields.
She loved all of the colorful flowers.
Chloe and her new little friend Madison (Manina and Brent's niece).
Me and Chloe at the flower fields.
Me, Chloe, Manina, and Madison
Now Chloe really wants a little sister after spending time with Madison!

It has been a fun month of birthday parties, more parties, and egg hunts! Chloe really enjoyed getting ready for Easter this year, preparing our eggs for the egg hunts and dyeing her own Easter Eggs. Even though it was only March, she is already planning her own birthday party this year. After visiting the Railroad Museum in Balboa Park, she has decided that she would like a train party, with a train cake and cupcakes, train crafts, and a train to ride at the park. She wants to turn 3 years old now so that she can start preschool. We signed her up to go 2 days a week from 9am-1pm starting in mid-June for preschool. I was able to check out the preschool and I think it will be a good fit for her. Since I am finally starting to show, Chloe is very excited about her baby sibling on its way. She kisses my belly and asks the baby questions..."Do you like that food, baby?" My friends Manina and Brent came to San Diego for a visit in late March and were able to bring their niece Madison out with us during the week. We went to the zoo, the flower fields, the park, and to dinner with them. Chloe loved spending time with baby Madison and really hoped for a baby sister after that. She was very good with her so I know that she will be a helpful big sister once the baby comes.

Nana and Papa's Visit March 2010

Playing in the flowers at the fire station

Posing by the pond at the fire station.
Best buddies Gavin and Chloe

Nana and Chloe at the Fire Station

Chloe's Mommy and Me Class at the Fire Station
Papa and Chloe at Coronado Beach

Building sand castles at the beach

Papa, Nana and Chloe in front of the Hotel Del.

My parents came out to visit in the beginning of the month. We had such a nice relaxing time with them. We went on a tour of the fire station one day with Chloe's Mommy and Me class, went to ballet class, walked around the mall, gymnastics class, and Coronado beach. Chloe didn't want them to leave!

February 2010

Chloe dressed up as Snow White for our Princess Tea Party.

Chloe and Julianna eating their cupcakes at the party.

Chloe's friends from Mommy and Me class (they have been in the same class since they were babies-Bibiana,Juliana, Belinda, and Jace)

Listening to princess stories

A day in La Jolla.

Matt and Chloe practicing on her new bicycle.

Enjoying the sunny day at the ocean.

Checking out the waves.

Gavin and Chloe at the Mardi Gras party.
Chloe and Ben at the Mardi Gras party.
Chloe at My Gym for a going away party for our friends. We will miss them!

I have decided to update Chloe's blog once or twice a month now instead of every week. We have been so busy that I just can't keep up with it as much as before. Here are a few photos from February. Chloe got to go to a Valentine's day princess tea party with some friends from her Mommy and Me class. Chloe dressed as Snow White. They made princess crowns, wands, danced, listened to stories, and ate cupcakes and juice. We decided to buy Chloe a bicycle this month. One day while we were shopping at REI, she jumped on a bike and started riding it through the store. Apparently, she was ready for a bicycle so we found a cheap one on craigslist and she loves riding her big girl bike. Chloe loves her friends Gavin and Ben, she is quite the character and loves to do silly things to make her friends laugh.

She is becoming more inquisitive every day. She loves to ask question after question and she is usually not satisfied until I give her a detailed answer. We are letting her watch a little more TV now that she is older-she gets to watch a show in the morning for a few minutes while I fix her hair. Her favorites are Sid the Science Kid, Curious George, Super Why, Sesame Street , and Dinosaur Train. At night she gets to watch 10 minutes of Thomas the Train with Daddy before she goes to bed. We have to be careful with Chloe not to let her watch too much TV because she would sit in front of it all day if we let her. She loves to color, play with stickers, and playdough. She can spell her first and last name and she attempts to write her letters, basically she draws something and then says what letter it looks like. She is pretty good at drawing a C, O, D, X, V, U, W and M's. She can count to 20 and sometimes higher when she is in the mood (usually skipping the number 15).

30 months and 1 week (January 20, 2010)

Stretching in Ballet class

Shaking their sillies out

Chloe with some of her friends from class

We have started our new classes for the winter semester. We take Mommy and Me Mondays, Ballet Tuesdays, Preschool Co-op on Tuesdays, Wednesdays gymnastics and Finger painting, and Thursday and Friday are free to go to the park with friends. Chloe's new ballet class is adorable. There are 8 little girls in the class that have just as much energy as Chloe, so they are hilarious to watch (all between the ages of 2-3 years old). Chloe has gotten much better at listening to here teacher and I don't have to help her with the class.

2.5 years old! (30 months old) January 13, 2010

Shopping at "Wegmans" at the Strong Museum

Us on the steps of Sesame Street at the Strong Museum

Here are the last pictures from our trip to New York. We took Chloe to the Strong Children's Museum while we were in town. She got to shop at Wegmans, go on the carousel, listen to story time, play with the trains, and visit Sesame Street. We also took her bowling for the first time (she got to use a ramp and bumpers). For her first time bowling, she beat her Nana and almost beat Mommy:) We had a good flight home. Chloe was so glad to go to the park when she got home and we were glad to leave the snow behind us. Back to classes again! 2.5 is a fun age. She talks so much, plays independently, goes to the bathroom with little assistance, gets dressed, gets her own drinks, but she has major temper tantrums when she doesn't get her way.

29 months and 3 weeks (January 3, 2010)

Having breakfast and Nana and Papa's house.

Chloe loves playing with the cats when she visits Nana and Papa's. Her favorite cat is Phoenix, the nice cat.
New Year's Eve at Nana and Papa's with Uncle Joe.
Sledding attempt #2 with Daddy-Chloe not too fond of sledding.
It takes some adjustment to get used to the snow.
Sledding with Grandma, Uncle Larry, Kathy, Daddy, and Grandpa.
Alissa came to join us sledding. The girls seemed to have more fun eating the snow!
Us at my grandparent's birthday party.
Chloe getting some practice holding babies with my cousin Lindsay's baby, Jaden.
Visiting the Bondi's in Rochester. Chloe and Alissa had fun playing dress up.

After Christmas we flew in to Rochester to visit for 2 weeks and to surprise Matt's mom for her 60th birthday. The plane ride was a little tough for me because there was some turbulence flying into Philadelphia, so I got sick on the plane. Luckily, I had this wonderful girl sitting next to us on the plane that held on to Chloe for me while the plane was shaking. Flying when I am pregnant can be tough, but I was just so glad that Chloe did great on the flights. The weather was pretty cold in Rochester, but we spent some time catching up with family and friends. Here's a bunch of pictures from the trip so far.

29 months and 2 weeks (Sunday, December 27, 2009 )

The boat parade in San Diego

Matt, Chloe, and Santa at the library.

Chloe and her new dolly Zoe from Alicia.

Chloe and Matt working on her science kit from Grandma and Grandpa.

Chloe's note to Santa that we helped her write. "Dear Santa, I would like a dolly for Christmas. Love, Chloe"
Chloe's new dolly, Elizabeth from Santa.
New dollhouse and van.

Washing her baby dolls on her new baby changing center from Nana and Papa.
New scooter!

It has been so long since I have updated Chloe's blog! A lot has happened in the last month. The holidays were busy, I started a working part time at night, and we found out we are expecting in August! It looks like Chloe will have to share her blog soon! We are all very excited about the news. Chloe was told that Mommy has a baby in her belly and Chloe hopes that she has a baby sister. Finding out that we were expecting was the best Christmas present this year since we were trying for a few months. We enjoyed a nice relaxing holiday in San Diego this year. It was great! We went to a boat parade on the harbor and watched the boats decorated for Christmas, we saw Santa yet again at the library for story time. This time Chloe didn't cry when she saw him. Christmas Eve we saw Matt's family on the webcam and opened presents from Grandma and Grandpa, and Christmas morning we talked to Nana and Papa on the webcam and they watched Chloe open the rest of her gifts. I made a nice Christmas breakfast for us. The rest of the day we spent putting together new toys. Chloe made out pretty well this year for Christmas. She loved her new dolly Elizabeth from Santa. She also loves her dollhouse, scooter, and changing table. Later we spent Christmas over our friend's house for a nice dinner. It was nice not having to travel for Christmas day but we definitely missed our family.