Ok, here it goes. It's time to loose the baby-fat!!! Aaron and I are both begining a diet and excersice regimen. I think everytime I've gotten pregnant we both take advantage of it and let ourselves gooooooo! But, I'm already tired of being chonchita, as Aaron likes to call me. This is it! Here I go...full on. I am giving myself a due date of 3 months to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. I hope I won't need to bite my tongue. Aaron's doing Atkins. I am just going to wing it with trying to eat healthy, jogging and doing Power 90, my work out dvd, he-he! We'll see in 3 months!

Jocie at 4 months

Reaching out for the toy

Making friends with a teddy bear

Baby talk

Attack of the stickers. (Naomi's work.)

Jocie is getting so big. She's already laughing and giggling. She's trying to sit up. If I try to lay her down she will do a baby crunch to avoid going flat on her back. I guess she enjoys the view from a sitting up point of view . She is so alert and awake. She's reaching out and grabbing things. She has yet discovered how to put them in her mouth. She gets so hyper and excited exploring new object to shake around that she will start to giggle and end up mad out of excitement. It's funny. You'd have to see it to understand what I am talking about. She loves bath time. She loves to be held, rocked and sung to. She always has a big beautiful smile for you if you have something to talk to her about. She loves to have her sister tickle her and smutter her with kisses. She also loves to be entertained by her goofy sister. Jocie is such a good baby. We are working on getting her to sleep through the night (12hrs of uninterrupted sleep) She goes to bed around 7 pm and wakes up around 3 am for another feeding, and then go back to sleep until 7 am. I think it wil happend soon, I am not worried. Babywise rocks! Anyway, we are blessed to have another beautiful baby that I am ready for the third! .....In about 2 yrs from now. LOL!

It's official. She is now into the terrible 2s!

Wow! Naomi has turned 2 yrs old! The older she gets, the cutter and funner she gets too, as well as rebellious. It's almost as if she purposely wants to do the opposite of what I need her to do at times. I read that this is normal at this age and that a good strategy to avoid some of the battles is by, in my words, "tricking" her to think that it was her idea, or changing the scenario and again tricking her to think that she is in control. For example; sometimes when we're about to leave she will give me a hard time to let me put her shoes on. So I ask her "do you want to go the park?" and she will say "yes" so I say "mami needs to put your shoes on first before we go to the park" and then she will let me. Or, for time out I will put her in the crib, so if she's behaving bad all I have to ask her is if she wants to go in the crib and then she'll stop, if she doesn't, then "bye-bye" she goes in the crib. It's hard at times to the point that I'm continuously making a conscious effort to be patient and not melt down with her. She is so cute though, and a lot better tempered than other kids her age we know. Anyway, going back to her b-day. We had a little party for her. The family was invited and a few other friends who have babies around her age. The babies seemed to have a lot of fun. It's hard to organize something at this time of the year when it's not very cold, but still not warm enough to do something outside and our house is only big enough to hold a couple more people besides the 4 of us. Anyway, I think it went good. I am learning every year of the do's and don'ts when having a b-day party. Looking forward to another year of fun!