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as always

haha

xmas time

her favorite soup

first day (or close to it) living in the bay area

big girl

yum

gaia at her grandmother's

she's already a master filmmaker

so freakin' funny, and she never did it again.

gaia destroying the wall :p (not really)

toddlers are good helpers

gaia in the kitchen

she loves ball pits :)

Gaia crawling

sorry for the huge delay on videos! like 6 months now, yeesh. there's much more to come. this is way back before she even crawled well - doing the army shimmy :)

blabbing and raspberry-ing all over auntie sharon, while the TV blares about the fires in LA

legs are getting stronger

Our computer was stolen on Oahu, Hawaii on November 22, 2007. I know I should have backed it up - in fact I thought I did. But apparently not so, which isn't surprising since we've been taking care of a baby for a year now. If anyone sees it, I'll gladly pay you for its return.

she makes so many funny sounds now

her first experience in the water. this is the river i grew up in, my family has come to this spot for the last 30 years every summer.

playing with grandma and grandpa

kids come up with the most interesting and creative ways to occupy their time

she takes it so seriously *lol*

playing with a ball on a string

Sasquatch meets a young female human at the supermarket.

she sucks on her toes frequently these days. i realized just how much she likes doing it when we put her in disposables for a few days while in the bay area. oh, and she likes going "arrrgh" like a pirate 8)

i think the sensation of driving down Mt. Diablo is what made her giggle so incessantly.

i loved when my parents made dolls come alive for me. she seems to love it just as much :)

babies are incredible multitaskers. she looks like she's not even thinking about her foot, but she's able to find the pedal instantly when i put her in that position.

she's quite a virtuoso already :p actually she's quite intuitive with instruments, always trying new things and somehow it tends to sound quite good even though it's supposedly random.

enjoying her new high chair :) we've fed her some fruit before but this was the first official trial.

bababa vavavava nananana :) sometimes she forgets she can do this for a week or so, and then suddenly will start talking again

she's really into this toy right now. loves hitting it and sticking it in her mouth without using her hands to hold it up :)

peaceful

she was having a giggle fit, this is just too cute

she's been discovering her mouth a lot. everything she grabs goes in her mouth now, and she likes to stick out her tongue and go "thbtbbt"

this is adorable.

after buying her a mirror with toys attached to it, we noticed that she really gained a lot of awareness just by learning how to interact with it. so we kept buying her new toys and watching her evolve. this is a progression during her 4th month of extra-utero life as she learns how to play with different objects. quite fascinating.

feeding and chillin at home

she's so much fun

she wasn't born with this ability, so it's a big step now that she figured out how to do it. i've found her soothing herself back to sleep all on her own by sucking her thumb! yay

sorry about the quality, seems it was too dark for the camera... but this is what i call "first words". i don't understand all this crap about "her first word was mama!" if it's english, then it's considered speaking? she's working on different consonants and vowels - so far i've heard C, L, M, N and probably all different open sounds. so cool.

a bit of movement in mah belly from the baby - it's subtle, look carefully

she finally has a recognition of toys and loves this thing we got her - it's a mirror with 4 different toys attached at each corner. she's totally fascinated with it

stretching in daddy's lap

she is sleeping better, and is therefore much happier. you can hear the intonation in her voice resemble more of a communication, not just a cry. of course, she does start to whine towards the end, but i just smile and feel blessed to have heard her giggle.

a good example of how she's very moody during breastfeeding... one moment it makes her smile, then something starts to frustrate her :(

bathtime with mommy... there's nothing more blissful

a good variety of Gaia's facial expressions