22 months

Dahlia is now 22 months old, I can't believe she is almost two!  She is starting to talk more and more. She has recently started saying, "stop it!" "that's mine" and "no! no! no!"  She is really starting to develop a two year old attitude!  Dahlia still isn't walking, but gets around everywhere by scooting around on her bottom.  She was playing in the girls room; I opened the door to check on them and Dahlia scooted up to the door and shut it on me.  I opened it again and she shut it again.  She didn't want mama to bug her while she was playing!  Today Brian brought home pizza for dinner, all of the kids got excited and yelled, "pizza!"  Dahlia heard them and got excited and also yelled pizza! Which is really funny because she doesn't eat pizza yet.  She still has trouble with foods with texture; it will make her gag.  She does like playing with the food everyone else is eating and will sometimes lick it or nibble on it a little bit.  I know she'll get caught up someday with eating and walking, and it has been exciting seeing the progress she has made in other areas!

fourth of july

We had a fun, busy fourth of July this year. We started off the day making treats for our celebration.  In the afternoon we went to the Ochoa family reunion.  Then we were off to the free symphony orchestra concert in downtown Beaumont.  I always look forward to this.  It is held in a beautiful, historic theater and the orchestra plays all of the familiar patriotic songs.  Dahlia loved it and was clapping along to the songs.  When the concert was over, we found a spot to spread out our blanket to watch the fireworks, which are set off over the Neches River.  The city really outdid themselves this year! The fireworks were beautiful and really wish I had brought my camera!

beach vacation

We recently went on our annual vacation with Brian's side of the family.  It was our year to choose the location.  We decided on a beach house in Surfside Beach, Texas.  The kids loved getting to swim in the ocean every day.  We also loved walking on the beach each night as the sun was setting.  Dahlia loved being outside feeling the ocean breeze and watching the waves roll in.  She wasn't a big fan of being in the water.  All of the cousins had lots of fun playing together and staying up late.  One of the days we were there the guys went deep sea fishing and Dario caught a red snapper and a small hammer head shark.  They brought home the fish and we made fish tacos; the shark was surprisingly good.  During the week we also made a day trip to Galveston, went to a museum, an aquarium, a water park and a historic plantation.  We had lots of fun and are already looking forward for next year!