6 months old today!!!

At our 6 month doctor visit, she weighed in at 16 lbs and 2 oz. and is nearly 28 inches tall. She is in the 95th percentile for her height! Wooohoooo! 6 months old already . . . where did the time go? Not only is she growing at such a rapid rate but this little girl has so much personality! :)

loves books . . .

I still do her growth pics every week (Fridays) since birth. It's getting a little harder to keep her still!

27 weeks (just a few days ago)

week 1

She just cut two bottom and teeth and one upper tooth earlier this week.

chews on everything (just like her daddy did)

she ate rice cereal for the first time . . .

her pilates planks move . . .

awww here she is with cousin Elora who is 10 months old


and let's see who will get the toy first . . .

Here she is at her first visit to the Pumpkin Patch. She doesn't mind sitting on the ground. :)



For Halloween we dressed her up as an Ewok (from Return of the Jedi) and I was Princess Leia and Damien was Hans Solo. It was pretty funny. We did take her trick o treating for the first time but of course, she fell asleep after 3 houses. Here are a few pics . . .








About 2 months ago she got to go swimming for the first time at our friend's daughter's birthday party. She loved the water :)

First time at the L.A. county fair a month ago

On my birthday we went to Disneyland. Kaia had so much fun :)

taking everything in at Small World

Daddy's girl . . .

Last but not least this is one of my favorite pictures I've taken of Damien & Kaia . . .


I would share more pics but I need to go to sleep. So far I have taken a picture of Kaia every single day of her life. . . just watching her grow makes us super happy :)

5 months ....update

okay, finally . . . it's been so long since i've posted! i definitely have to post more often. kaia is now 5 months old and is getting cuter and cuter each day! :)

at 5 months she . . .
. . . is crawling
. . . babbles a lot but tries to say words
. . . has so much personality
. . . sits up on her own
. . . is very alert
. . . is teething
. . . has her daddy wrapped around her little finger
. . . is very strong
. . . won't sit still when i take her growth picture next to the owl
. . . wants to start walking
. . . loves being in the little pool
. . . still smiles & laughs in her sleep
. . . has the cutest giggles
. . . squeals with delight when we pick her up and throw her up into the air (she's probably going to love rollercoasters!)
. . . is so sweet when she puts her hands on our face and smiles
. . . gets excited to see us when we get home from work
. . . loves to watch nihao, kailan!
. . . plays peek a boo
. . . hums when i'm singing her to sleep
. . . is spoiled by everyone :)
. . . is loved




at her last doctor's visit (@ 4 months), she weighed 14 lbs 7 oz., 26 inches long, and her head circumference was 16 inches. she was in the 95th percentile for her height! she's definitely going to be tall! all her 3-6 month pants are capris (cropped to her knees).

it's funny, while we're in the car she can turn her musical mobile on & off. the music is so catchy i think we've memorized every beat!



her hair is still very short that sometimes we get asked "how old is HE?" or "what's HIS name?" . . . even when she's wearing pink. so i usually put a cute knit beanie on her. i've been ordering these customized beanies from a store on etsy called knittles. they're so cute!




she was recently in a magazine . . . privateer press' No Quarter. it's a gaming magazine. (love how she is holding the magazine up herself like 'hey check this out!')

our borders baby . . .

she is just full of soooo much energy!!! . . . and what a personality she has! :)

a year ago today . . .

we were doing this . . .

in this beautiful chapel

now we are changing diapers! :) i can't believe it has only been one year. it seems much longer since we actually started dating in 2001! on our wedding day we didn't think we would be celebrating our one year anniversary with a 3 month old baby!


i will totally recap our wedding photos soon! we had the best wedding photographers :) all the pictures they took were priceless. because of them, we were chosen to be one of the couples featured in the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Memory Makers scrapbooking magazine for DIY (do it yourself) weddings. as most of you know, i'm obsessed with scrapbooking so naturally i wanted to do everything for our wedding. it was a lot of work but so worth it for that one special day. :)

we will be celebrating our anniversary in las vegas at the venetian. we saved the top tier of our wedding cake so i'm hoping it will still be edible! it was hard to decide what flavor we wanted for our cake. damien wanted strawberry and i wanted red velvet. we compromised. i got the top tier. :)

12 weeks and growing

omg, it's been a long time since i've posted! kaia is 12 weeks old today! she is growing so fast. it feels like just yesterday we were impatiently waiting to welcome her into the world. so far i have taken a picture of her every single day of her life. she's so adorable :) here are her growth pics with the owl since my last post (@ 5 weeks).

6 weeks

7 weeks

8 weeks

9 weeks

10 weeks

11 weeks

12 weeks