Ana Isabel Gallegos: 2010

12/15/10

Checking out holiday stuff around town

We went to one of our favorite streets that all the houses decorate for the holidays and Ana loved the lights. We walked around and she kept wanting to go into people’s driveways and yards.

We also went to the San Diego Zoo again this year for their Jungle Bells holiday nights and saw Santa. Ana did well, she mostly wanted to play with the stuffed animals next to Santa. We did go back to try to get better pictures with our camera but she started to freak out the second time. We did go on the skyfari tram thing there and she loved it. Ana loves all the Christmas lights!

12/6/10

Taking pictures for holiday card

So now that some of you have received your Christmas cards, here are some of the pictures we took that didn't make the card.

12/5/10

Holiday celebration at the Del

The Hotel del Coronado here lights up their hotel every year and it's one of my favorite things to go to. This year they had a celebration we went to that had the outdoor ice skating rink (which we didn't do) games and fireworks. Ana loved the fireworks!

11/28/10

Thanksgiving 2010

Happy late Thanksgiving! This year I cooked a full meal again and we had some friends over to share the meal. Our friend Derina's dad was visiting from Ireland and this was his first taste of this American holiday. It was also Ana's first Thanksgiving where she could actually eat the meal (and the leftovers).

Also this weekend we went up to the town of Julian, CA (a small, old mining town in the mountains east of San Diego) to enjoy their famous apple pie. It also happened to be their tree lighting ceremony, but we bailed because it was tooooooo cold to wait. Later we put up our tree, Ana was a very good helper.

10/31/10

Halloween 2010

Happy Halloween everyone! We had a great day, carved some pumpkins and took Ana out for her first trick or treating. Ana was a fairy this year and we went and visited about four houses down our street. She didn’t really know what was going on but liked carrying around candy and seeing the people.

10/16/10

Pumpkin Patch 2010

We went to the pumpkin patch today. We found a pretty good one, pick your own pumpkins, goats you can pet, hayride and corn maze. Got some good pumpkins too. Ana liked it ok, she mostly wanted to be around all the other kids and pet people’s dogs. She didn’t really want to touch the pumpkins, she weaved in and out of the rows without touching them.

10/9/10

Tom's birthday present

Sara got me a child seat that attaches to my trusty Schwinn for my birthday. I bought myself some shelving units and trust me when I say my garage is sexy. I just need a shop vise and I'll be in business. Anyhow, I digress. I attached the seat to my bicycle this week and today I took Ana on her first bike ride. It was pretty sweet, except I learned that I should not stand to pedal harder. The center of gravity moved too high and it got dicey for a second. Ana didn't get scared so it all worked out ok.

9/30/10

What does a cat say?

9/24/10

15 Months Old

Ana just hit the 15 month mark. For those of you keeping track she weighed in at 20lbs. 7oz. and 30in tall. Here a couple of pictures we took recently…she just got some new Elmo slippers and the first time she wore them she didn’t know what to think.