Under the Rainforest

under the rainforest Luca shared a moment with Katy (2 weeks older than Luca). Katy's mom is an ex-co worker of mine from work. They had a great time playing together under the rainforest.

Baby Cleavage

big smile on his face!!!

he's so cubby that he's got baby cleavage going on there!!!

First Orange

well, oranges are in season right now and here's Marco letting Luca suck on a slice of orange. Although he's not suppose to have any citrus fruit until i think 1 years old, (Marco didn't know that). Luca was fine with the orange and i'm not even sure if he liked it.

we will start with soupy white rice at 6 month and we'll keep you posted.

hand model

Luca is crazy about his hands... he would find them and just stares at it for a long time and be amazed by it. There he is in his car seat waiting for his parents to get their morning coffee at the local coffee shop.

Tommy's 21st Birthday!

happy 21st. birthday Tommy!!!!!

i can't believe our little Tommy is now 21!!!! i can still remember when he was born... time flys by sooo fast and look how big he is now! and Luca is starting to learn from his uncle Tommy how to hold a beer bottle!

Green Day!!!

here we are at our weekly Alameda Mom's group and today is St. Patty's Day. Every babies and moms today were all in GREEN-how fun!!! you can't see this but Luca actually wet through his pants and shirt... so much for the green shirt-off it goes!

Muir Beach

we thought Luca will be excited to see a real live horse other than seeing it from his books, but i don't think he gets it.. maybe next time.

i love this sun hat, it's soo big and it's got a huge flap in the back, i call this the Pope hat!

Last month has been raining here and there and actually pretty cold (35 degrees during the day)-- so cold that they thought it was going to snow in SF... but it never did.. but it haled here in Oakland and SF throughout the day. We went to Muir Beach the next day since snow never arrived and the sun was out, so we decided to go for a nice hike. This was Luca first visit to the BEACH!!! We love going to Muir Beach from Green Gulch Farm ,a Zen Center. They have a beautiful garden, 3 acres of vegetable farm, and a few horses there i think for horseback riding (?). We packed some sandwiches and fruit and off we go!! i thought Luca was dressed pretty warm with a blanket around the carrier but i think his hands and feet were cold since they were dangling out... sorry Luca it was our first outdoor hike--since then I've bought him a fleece booties, sock mittens and we packed our bags pretty well with lots of "what ifs". There's always gonna be a first to learn what not to do next.

nice hair

... i can already imagine him when he's in his 70's and what his hair might look like... combing to a side!

Luca's Baptism

Luca got baptised on 1/22/2011 12:10PM at Newman Hall Parish by Father Bernard Campbell. We wanted to baptise Luca before grandma Natalia goes back to Portugal the following week. Luca was 10 weeks old here and looking very mature, especially with the bow tie!!! I couldn't find him a baptism outfit and Marco didn't want him to wear a white dress so.... we just dressed him up and i made in a bow tie for this special day. i was also gonna make one for Marco -hahahah should've made him some buttons to match with Luca.

The service was about 45 min. on Sat. we've only invited family and our wedding party to join this special event. My brother Michael is the Godfather!! Afterwards we all went to East Ocean in Alameda for some Dim Sum while Luca slept through lunch.

doggies!!!

this was Luca's first time seeing a dog besides his stuffed animal or his black & white images of a dog. i still don't think he's very interested...

we were at temescal's farmer's market last weekend and they have a doggy daycare where you can drop you dog off while you're at the market- so berkeley. we really like coming here, it's small/manageable and not a lot of people there at 9 am in the morning. we usually get our blue bottle coffee and some yummy pastries, veggies, fruits, and $2 flowers :-) then we go for a walk along a small dried up creek near by and smell the eucalyptus trees-that's our sunday morning!!!