little miss sitter

Maya at 6 1/2 months old

loving her avocados and showing off her two new chompers

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our happy girl

loves the song "old mcdonald" it gets her to smile every time!

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she is still obsessed with the kitties and they tolerate her love tugs

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precious baby girl

I can't believe we have been blessed with her presence for half of a year already!

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she has been practicing her crawling technique lately

she will be sitting up and lean forward and post her arms and sit on her knees in a crawling stance

she will then reach for something that is just a little to far

and she will just flatten right onto her tummy.

she is sure getting the hang of it and will be crawling in no time!

I don't know if we are ready for that yet! :)

a year ago we renewed our vows....

I am kind of on a roll for slide shows so I thought I should compile one from our Renewal of Vows last year. In one sense I cannot believe it has already been a year and then I look at our precious daughter and realize it has been a magical one! :) I think I am going to try to make it a tradition to make a slideshow of each year of marriage from now on. It was so much fun to watch our videos together with a nice glass of champange to toast to second year of marriage!

P.S. Animoto is an amazing web site that helps make these videos. All you do is upload your photos, pick a soundtrack and they put it all together for you! It is pretty sweet! It definitely takes me quite a bit of tweaking to get EXACTLY what I want, but we all know I am a little too detail-oriented sometimes.
(side-note: in order to get a full-length video like these you have to pay a member-ship fee of like $20/year. But, I think it is totally worth it. And..if you do become a member you can make your videos into DVD quality so you can watch them on your tv at home! This is what we have done with a few of the videos so far and it is really amazing quality! Man, I think I should get paid for promoting this site! :)

Enjoy!

visit to see hannah and new baby caden

August 4th, 2010

Wow, already over a month ago we went to visit Hannah and Caden. He was just a tiny little guy then (about 7 weeks old I think). It is amazing how quickly you can forget how tiny they are when they are so brand new! She lives over in the East Bay out in a town called Walnut Creek and it immediately reminded me of why I would love to live in the suburbs! It was WARM and actually felt like summer there, the sun was shining, they probably have a Target, and parking doesn't seem to be an issue. But, the commute doesn't sound very appealing....apparently it can take upwards of an hour and a half to get to UCSF. So, I guess we are loving our location right across the street from UCSF for the moment!

Hamish and Maya had fun testing out all of Caden's toys that he hasn't had a chance to play with yet!

two precious memory-filled years ago today we became J & J Silber

and the fruit of our love...

July walk to Ocean Beach

 

 

 

grammy and josie visit

July 25th-31st 2010

Janet, Josie and Grammy also trekked out on the road to San Francisco from Iowa! We got back from our Colorado trip on a Saturday and by the next Sunday we were welcoming more family to visit! Janet dropped Grammy and Josie off at our place and they stayed with us till Thursday night while Janet went to spend time with her cousin who lives in Alameda. They arrived Sunday early evening so J actually had some time to spend with them before the work week started back in full swing. He is always teaching Josie something art/drawing related when she comes to visit. They get so serious and she just sits and watches him intently while he teaches away. It is really something to watch. Grammy brought out one of her water color paintings as my birthday present. She did a water color of a the painted ladies here in San Francisco and I just had to have a print of it! The colors are so vibrant! (and I didn't even brighten them in photoshop in the pics below).

Grammy and Josie accompanied Maya and I to her 6 month appointment and then we were off to our favorite thrift store down the street. The next day Kyle and Brandy came to visit and we all took a stroll to ocean beach (which will be its own post.) And I worked a weekday night so Grammy had the chance to have little miss all to herself. Per report she did fabulously and took her bottles without a fuss! Grammy even ventured out with Maya in the bjorn for a long walk to keep her occupied. The last night they were in town was quite the treat. Janet's cousin offered to take us out for dinner to anywhere we wanted to go in the city (she is a CA lottery winner). After having such a fun time two years ago at the Tonga room for my friend Mandy's birthday I thought I would suggest for our family to go there. It was such a hit! It is a hawaiin inspired place with live music and yummy food!  The Tonga Room lives on the basement level of the ritzy Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco's Nob Hill. We stayed up way past Maya's bedtime, but she did great and didn't even fuss until we were on our way home.

he is totally enamored by her....

and by the 6th shot we finally have a semi-decent family photo!

Many many thanks to Janet's cousin Judy for treating our family to such a nice evening!