* These photos were taken by my friend the fabulously talented Breanna Powers of Powerhouse Studios. I am so thankful that she was able to be there! Baby Zander Augustus was born on St. Patrick’s Day 2011 at 7:55 a.m. 9 pounds 1 ounce, 20.5 inches. Here is the short version of my labor and [...]
Zander Augustus Espinoza was born on March 17, 2011! Yes, a St. Patrick’s day baby. He was 9 lbs. 1 oz. 21 in. Amanda and baby are doing well. I’ll let her write up her birth story in another post, but here’s some pictures from my phone. We had the amazing Brenna from PH Studios [...]
…has been testing my parenting skills lately. Roman is almost a year old now and is still having trouble through the night. He wakes up sporadically during the night and each instance is for a different length of time. He likes to sit up and scream facing the door. You know, just to be sure [...]
Roman Anton Espinoza 9lbs 1oz Amanda went into labor this morning about 5:45 a.m. We got to the Birth Center at 12:45 and he was born about an hour and a half later. Amanda did an amazing job in having a great natural birth. I had the amazing honor to catch Roman as he was [...]
Daniel and I finally voted today. This is the second time I have stood in an extremely long line to vote. You would think I would learn my lesson and do early voting. I stood in line for about two and half hours with Annabelle. Daniel came and joined us with about an hour left. [...]
Daniel and I have been trying to get Annabelle to say either “Da Da” or “Ma Ma.” I knew Da-Da had the advantage of being easier to say, but I still hoped. Yesterday she was making some “da” sounds, but not directly at Daniel. Just now Daniel looked up from his desk and started speaking [...]
Annabelle had a stomach bug on Sunday. She recovered nicely yesterday. Sweet pedialyte will make anyone feel better. She is at least learning how to use her sippy cup all by herself. And then yesterday I got to be the lucky recipient of the bug. It started yesterday afternoon. It felt like I was pregnant [...]
Dear Annabelle, Yesterday you turned nine months old. You are now 8 inches longer than the day you were born. I noticed your height the other day when your legs were hanging over my lap. I remembered how much smaller you used to fit into my arms. Even though you are 27 inches high you [...]
Yesterday started off like any normal day. Annabelle got up at 7:20 a.m. ate and went to church. She came home played and napped. Then she ate sweet potato for the very first time. She kept opening her mouth for more. She loved it! She came with us to our last missions training and played [...]
In the spirit of NaBloPoMo I am blogging today. It was a good thing I cleaned the house earlier this week, because we a had a missionary couple crash at our house last night. Dennis and Linda Collins are missionaries to Ireland. It was a pleasure getting to hear about their lives and their life [...]
