Category: Miss Leyba

She was a little peanut sleeping on our walk.

Today she’s running around, chatting up a storm, and forever cracking us up. Here she is piling books and toys up on Daddy. I think there may even be a few clean socks from the laundry in there.

Can you tell she has us wrapped around her little finger?

Here’s a bonus photo from the weekend before I get back to packing up the house.

She’s suddenly very into wearing hats (instead of pulling them off at every opportunity). You can tell she put this one on herself.

Here we are at the end of March and I have so many photos to post! We’ve been so busy enjoying the beautiful weather, hosting family and friends, having play dates, and going to parties, we’ve been neglecting the blog a bit lately. Hope this monster photo post makes up for it. ENJOY!

Finally, the birthday post you have all been waiting for. It’s only taken me two months to post it. Hopefully we won’t disappoint you: we kept it simple!

First up: check out our beautiful party decorations!

Do you recognize them?! Our friend Brenda, who you may know better as  a Stealth Secret Agent, lent us streamers of birthday flags from her daughter’s party the week before. Aren’t they cheerful and creative?! They changed the whole atmosphere of our house — they went up and suddenly it was party time! We are so thankful. Thank you Brenda and Bug! xoxo

And party we did!

On the day of Miss Leyba’s birthday we did a joint dinner party for her and I with our closest friends in town. (Yep, our bithdays are less than a week apart!) You recognize these boys. They are practically Miss Leyba’s big brothers and wow does she love them. We ate delicious food and sang songs and played games and hung out. It was low key and perfect. They supplied party hats, stickers and matching napkins — check out the dog theme (perfect for our girl!). (The hats were such a hit, Miss Leyba still wears them around the house!) And the grownups partook of a bottle of Fumé Blanc from Chateau St. Jean that we had been saving for a special occasion. Yep, a glass of wine made the evening extra special for mama. YUM!

The next day we had planned a birthday play date for Miss Leyba with some of her closer friends. Unfortunately, two of the mommies came down with bad colds, another two mams had to go into work at the last minute, so it ended up just being super small: just one friend! Luckily it was one of her favorite kiddos and she was in heaven that he came over to play! (Thank you, Eveline, for saving the day!) Miss Leyba kept hugging and touching him too. She was so thrilled to have him over. It was ADORABLE!

Next year, when she’ll really understand what’s going on, we’ll go all out. In fact, I am already planning it. So get excited and start making your travel arrangements. ;P

Edited to add: I am just kidding! (My mom thought I was serious.) We won’t have room for you! But I promise to post lots and lots of pictures.

That was an unexpected break.

I can make excuses.

We’ve had two sets of house guests: one of David’s good friends from college and my aunt who was in town for a retreat.

I’m working on a freelance website design job for a friend from college.

Miss Leyba is teething. She now has four teeth about to break through, poor girl.

We’re possibly buying a second car… a very impractical but super cheap and cute red convertible that belongs to a family friend. David gets to drive it to work.

And I saved the best for last. In three weeks we’re saying goodbye to suburban sprawl and heading to a little town in wine country. We’re renting an itty bitty house three blocks from dear friends, we’ll be able to walk to town (restaurants, bar, post office, bike trail) and be just 5 minutes from our yoga classes (instead of 20!). We’ve been wanting to move there for about two years, so saying we’re excited is a bit of an understatement.

Yeah, we got a little bit going on.

But all you really want is a photo of Miss Leyba, right?!

Well, I’ll give you three.

Check out Miss Serious. This is her concentration face.

I now need to rig some sort of locking mechanism on my purse. Unloading it is the new, every day activity. I suppose I should just be pleased it occupies her for 30 15 minutes, instead of dwelling on the fact that she strews the contents across the house (currently in three rooms). Excuse we while I go locate my wallet. And my checkbook.