Fun Outside!

We are completely loving this warm weather! After we all get home from work and school each day we go outside as a family and play in the backyard. Abby is absolutely fascinated by the big outdoors and spends most of the time giggling. Today we had her sitting out in the yard on her blanket, while the dogs ran around with daddy. She was mesmerized by the grass and kept leaning over the edges of the blanket to pull tufts of grass out of the ground. She'd quickly drop them, though, and give us a funny face.

 Like most other 8 month olds, Abby explores the world with her hands and her mouth. We put her on this chair so she could get a better view of the backyard, but it wasn't long before she had turned around and started "tasting" the chair. This was too cute of a photo op to pass up.

We also found out this week that Abby enjoys crawling, but only on the bed. As soon as we put her on the floor she stops the traditional crawl and starts a crab like crawl. This is where she's sitting on her bottom and uses her legs to push herself around, our guess is that the floor is just too hard for her knees!

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Grape Escapes

Mommy and daddy had a great adult night this past Friday. They went to a fundraiser for Bost with BB, called Grape Escapes. It's a great event that brings all sorts of Arkansas wine distributors and wineries together in one place that you can taste all the wines you want! It also included an auction of all sorts of donated items, like the John Bell painting that we are standing next to in the picture. They raised a bunch of money for Bost, which is an organization that provides services for those with mental & physical disabilities.

Since we attended the event with BB, Pappa A got to spend the whole evening taking care of Abs. He did such a great job. She was fast asleep when we got home and she woke up in a great mood. Saturday, we spent most of it at the office finishing up the renovations. Again, Pappa A was Abby's babysitter. He's still got the touch with the little ones!

Here's daddy & Abs goofing off around the office after we had finished up renovations. We are so glad that piece of the pie is finished!!

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Family Fun and Shopping

What another busy and great weekend in the Ledezma household. On Saturday we headed to Dallas to spend time with some of the Ledezma crew. Grandma, Samuel, Bibi, Marisela and Saul were all there! Abs had so much fun hanging out with everyone and even had pineapple for the very first time, which to noone's surprise she loved; she kept leaning forward with an open mouth looking for more. 

Then on Sunday we spent the day outside. We first went shopping at the Southlake Town Square which is an outside mall. Abby got to try out her new stroller, she loved being able to look around at everything. The only problem was that it was very sunny outside so daddy had to share his hat to protect her eyes.

After shopping we spent some time outside in our backyard since it was just so lovely outside. We gave Abs her sun hat to wear instead of daddy's hat, but she really wasn't a fan. Most of the time she struggled to remove the hat.

The last picture we have to share is Frodo's awesome new haircut! He feels like a brand new dog and loves it.

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer

Eight months old!

Our little Abigail is eight months old. This week she's started waving bye bye and hello. It's a closed fist wave, but it melts our hearts! She's so friendly to everyone and loves to watch people, especially new people.

We are still making all of Abby's food and she seems to enjoy everything so far, except cauliflower -- she hated cauliflower. Next week she'll be starting a new daycare that's a little closer to our office in Fort Smith and part of the church we will be attending.  

She's still only crawling backwards, but this week she's started a spin move while sitting upright. It allows her to get a full 360 degree view of the world around her. She is continuing to become more vocal and has a whole repertoire of vowels and consonants.

 We are loving this warm weather too. It's been so beautiful outside and there are even flowers blooming! Abby wasn't too sure about them at first, but she quickly started exploring.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Family visit

What a great week! Mommy and daddy attended a conference at the end of the week and Abby had so much fun with her school friends in Irving. Her teachers had missed her and Abby missed them too.

This weekend cousin Reece came for a visit! The girls are finally at ages that they recognize, acknowledge and interact with each other. Trying to get the two of them to look at the camera and smile was somewhat difficult, but we got some great shots.

Much love,
Moises & Jennifer

Finger Foods!

Abby is now eating three meals a day, in addition to her usual milk intake. She's also started developing her fine motor skills and is picking up finger foods and putting them in her mouth. She especially loves Ritz crackers but she's not really a fan of these yogurt bites that mommy got for her. Ginger really enjoys them though and is more than happy to gobble up any items that Abby accidentally drops to the floor.

Abby has also learned how to clap, give kisses and even high five. High fiving is daddy's favorite, but mommy loves the kisses. Even if they are open mouthed, sloppy wet kisses.

It seems that along with the new daycare Abby has now been introduced to a whole new pool of germs and has brought home a nasty cold and stomach bug. She was not able to go to school on Friday and then mommy and daddy woke up yesterday with a yucky stomach bug. Fortunately, it's slowly passing and she seems to be feeling a little better, once she finally started eating some solid foods again.

 Tomorrow, we are heading back to Irving so we can attend a conference in Fort Worth.

Abby sticking out her tongue at lunch last week.

Bath time in her new tub!

Much love,

Moises & Jennifer



Abby our little Valentine

Well, it's been a very busy couple of weeks for the Ledezmas. We are settling into living in Fort Smith. Over the last couple weeks we've been trying to get our house in Arkansas organized and have been learning the ropes at our new job at BIC. We've really enjoyed every minute of it, but we are looking forward to the time when all the "dust" from the move is settled.  Abby has also started a new school, which was almost as hard as the very first day of school for mommy. Fortunately, daddy was there to help mommy stay strong. 

Abby celebrated her very first Valentine's day too! She's our sweet little angel and we can't imagine any better way to spend the day than to spend it with her and each other!