Diego took on his role as superhero very VERY seriously.
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Nov 012008
Diego learning to walk was memorable, it just happened a few months ago that he started to walk and yet it seems like so long ago. Betsy took some video of Diego at the time attempting a few steps. I loved it. Here it is after a few months of admiring it myself, my son was and is truly growing up!
Diego enjoyed his vacation. He loved all of mommy’s friends and he loved the sea! The beach was heaven to him, as he explored the sand and tasted it to boot. He also played with the beach toys we had from the rental house. He walked into the waves, again and again! As Betsy said, he got pummeled and yet he went back a few times; then he would pretend he had enough and then turned around and went at them one more time. That was the game for a while until he was truly tired.
Our son gives us pride, but also worries us. He can be afraid of not letting us go, but when it comes to experimenting with objects, animals and big ocean waters he doesn’t know what fear means!
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Nov 012008
As you saw in Betsy’s last post, Diego did a few things that were beyond our understanding while we were in San Diego. We worry, mostly because we think he is too young to even understand what he did, but also because we realized that he is completely fearless, to the point of possibly getting hurt. WE watch him all the time, but he does things that baffle us and then we feel we need to let him try them… if anything just because we know HE thinks he is perfectly capable of doing them.
In the following series of movie clips you will see him facing a BIG doberman (while being tied, he looked at it straight at his eyes, with a unfazed stare…) and then went on to “temporarily borrow” someone’s long skate board and actually pretended to skate… he has observed this from neighborhood kids, so I assume he figured out how to adapt what he saw to his size…
Then, I decided to ask him to get on the boogie board (see pictures from last post) and he did, no questions asked (actually no fear shown) and as I pull him into the water his face turned serious, focused and as I let him go into the wave, he grabbed the board and off he went! I run behind him, with one hand on the board just in case, but he was completely fine! and did it twice more!
Anyway, enough talk, here they are…
Oct 272008
Just home from an amazing 5 days on Mission Beach in San Diego with Wendy, Martin, Sandy, Michelle, Susanne, Jason, Meera and Matt. What a great time we had! No matter how much time we schedule to vacation together, it never seems to be enough. It was great to hear about Martin’s new bike shop – they already have their first employee! Meera and Sandy keep pounding away at their research and soon they’ll be double doctors. All I can say to that is ….WOW – what a tremendous accomplishment! It was great to meet Jason and I really hope we all didn’t scare him off. We are quite a boisterous and outspoken group when we’re all together. It was awesome to hear about Michelle’s new adventures in the world of private practice. She seems to have settled right in. Everybody is doing so many cool things. We are lucky to have such amazing friends! We uploaded some new pictures to the gallery. Hopefully you can see what a grand time we had at the beach. Diego was totally fearless and ran for the waves even after being pummeled multiple times. He even took a turn on the boogie board and tried skateboarding! Sometimes it scares the crap out of me that our kid is so fearless. I can’t even imagine what he’ll be up to when he’s fifteen. Rest assured, Marco and I will be totally grey-haired by then.
Oct 052008
It was an October weekend for the record books. Rain was forecast and while a few drops did fall from the sky it didn’t slow us down in the slightest. Friday evening we had AWESOME mole at Bita Olga and Bito Gilberto’s house. Diego adores his Bita and Bito and spent the whole evening playing with them so hard that he wouldn’t even slow down to eat dinner. Diego, Marco and I started the weekend early Saturday morning going out for coffee. The air was brisk and everything smelled fresh yet Autumn-ish with the recent showers. After that, Diego and I headed for McKinley Park for our weekly Stroller Strides class. It was a great workout (my quads are still burning some from the “wall sits”). Daddy took some pictures around the park while we were in class and then he took some shots of Diego at the playground. Note that Diego is sporting Laguna Seca gear courtesy of Chito and Grandma DiDi!
After that Diego took a nap and then we had a great visit and Chinese take-out for lunch with Nana Judy. Saturday evening we ran some errands and enjoyed a quiet evening at home. This morning we got up early and took our usual Sunday bike ride to Temple Coffee for coffee and scones. Diego absolutely LOVES hanging out at this downtown hot spot because of its laid back patrons and wide open floor plan. He can pretty much have the run of the place without getting too far into anyone’s space. The baristas are pretty cute with him, too! Then we stopped off at the Capitol and listened to a marching band send off a huge group at the Walk to Cure Diabetes. It was hard to tear ourselves away but we had to head home for a nap…
Here are more favorite shots of the morning. A special thanks to Bronwyn for giving Diego this great sweater. We love it!
I know I say it every day but I can’t believe how fast Diego is growing up. Most used words of the weekend: boat, ball, duck and hot.
Jul 252008
