Matilda has been babbling in what sounds like German mixed with Mandarin for a while now, but she is finally developing a vocabulary.
In addition to Mama, and Papa, she can say (this is in order of when she started saying them) hot, bye, hola, agua, baby, si, shin (korean for shoe), no, elmo and cheese. [...]

One of my best and oldest friends had a baby boy on Saturday. They named him Dalton (love the name), after his great grandfather.
Dalton’s birth brought back alot of memories for Pablo and me. At first, the memories of painful labor and stress of sleepless nights came back for me. But after seeing him, the [...]

Matilda says Happy Father’s day to her daddy and other daddys out there.

We had our first heat wave last weekend and boy was it unpleasant. I don’t know the exact temperature, but it was in the high 90s. When you factor in the sun and the humidity, it was over 100 degrees. Matilda didn’t like the heat one bit and insisted on being air conditioned at all [...]

Matilda LOVES dogs. She points out every dog on the street she sees and even loves dog toys. Clarissa and Manny invited us to their house and Matilda got to really interact with their dog Leo. Leo is used to being abused by Manuel, who is 2 months younger than Matilda.
Matilda and Leo from Matilda [...]