Sitting Up

Luca can kind of sit up on his own for 30 seconds before his big head weighs him down.

TEETHING

yummy strawberry!


i love my baby giraffe!!!

Luca has been teething a lot and he chews on everything he can get his hands on. He especially loves his baby giraffe which is made of natural rubber and it make this squeaking rubber noise when he rubs it on his gums. The strawberry is a little big for his mouth, but he still tries to put it in his mouth-the problem is keeping it in!

5 Months Old

Luca was 5 months yesterday!!!

Here's what he loves to do:

loves seeing mommy or daddy first thing in the morning loves to sit up or stand up (with help) loves his diaper being changed loves playing with his stuffed monkey loves to starring at his hands and fingers loves eating his fingers or yours loves to turn and roll on his belly loves typing on keyboard loves going for a walk in a carrier loves seeing water running loves to grab anything in front of him loves to play with cell phone especially with iphone with dual camera views! loves to smile loves to grab your nose and touch your face loves to laugh when he hears the word "play" loves to chew on his big toes loves to take baths loves to kick and hit his tummy loves to eat!

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!!!

my new friend

Luca loves his monkey! (thanks David)

we play with this monkey every morning and he is just as tall as him at 25". Luca gives him a big bite every morning and some how the monkey always ended up on top of his head!

bad day

there are good days and there are the don't put me down days...

ouch :-P

i was cutting his nails today and realized that i had cut his little skin. It didn't bled at the time until after a few hours of playing, i then noticed this on his little finger. mama is sorry Luca :-(

tummy time!

here's Luca at his rainforest gym working on lifting his head up.

Look how high he can lift his head, this only last a few minutes until frustration starts... :-(

The Perfect Lunch

finally i get to eat raw veggies again! before i was pregnant i would eat salads pretty much 4x a week. when i was pregnant raw veggies would not set well in my tummy, i guess it was too fibrous for me. i had to peel all sort of skins before eating it, like apples and pears and forget about raw broccoli... i really missed eating a real good fresh salad.

I cooked some steak the night before and we had some left overs, so i added into our herb salad mix with tomatoes, green apples, and i cooked a perfect boiled egg ever!!! it was just so yummy and i was sooo satisfied :=)

passed out

I've never seen Luca fallen asleep upright before - too cute!! and Marco was working too, talk about multi tasking!

the Merrill's

we got all bundled up and head off to visit the Merrill's in San Jose.

i love this knitted hat :-) our neighbor Cynthia knitted for Luca!