Well Talia is in the stage of being a princess and I have been wanting to get her some dress-up stuff for a while, but I just haven't. Usually, her princess atire includes just wrapping one of her blankets around herself like a dress. I was going through some old stuff and found an old swimming suit. Talia gasped and said, "Mama, princess!" I didn't really want her to wander around the house in that, so I had to really look around and what else I had that she would think was better than a swimsuit. My mom had bought me this kind of maternity shirt when I was pregnant with Talia, but I've never worn it. (Sorry mom) It has beads and sequence on the neckline and along the wrists and comes with a belt with the same stuff. So as you can see, I put it on her, tied an old scarf around her waist to keep it up, and the used the belt as the "princess hat." She wouldn't take it off for the rest of the day!

It is so fun to see her use her imagination as she gets older. Her new favorite thing is to pretend she is different animals or people. All day long she kept telling me, "Mama, it's me Princess"

Then the next day, I went to the grocery store and they had all the dress-up on clearance! Now I had no exscuse. So I finally gave in and bought her a princess dress. She already had the crown and high-heeled shoes thanks to aunt Angie. As soon as she put this outfit on she told me, "Mama, it's me, princess "I know you!"" and she would hold up her skirt and twirl around. Princess "I know you" for those of you who may not know, is Sleeping Beauty. Take yourselves back to the movie, that is the song she sings about the prince. "I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream......." Anyway, that's all she knows. She doesn't say sleeping beauty or rose or aurora. She just calls her, "I know you. So all day long she was princess "I know you."

By the end of the day, the little lace layer was already coming off the bottom, oh well.

I've been meaning to blog for a while, but just haven't, no exscuses here really. I have really been wanting to put up a picture of my belly. But I didn't want to put up a picture of me in my sweats. So every time I go to the dr, and actually get dressed I have been meaning to take a picture, but I never seem to get around to it, before I change back into my sweats! As you san see according to my counter, I should be getting super close right? Well that has my due date as the 15th, but my Dr. said my due date was actually probably closer to the 20th. I didn't believe him and have kept in my head the 15th! Well there has been no change in the last 3 weeks, so I guess I have to stick it out an extra 5 days!!!! Grrrr! I have another appointment on Thursday, so I guess we'll see if there is any news. Maybe I'll get a belly picture up then, but don't hold your breath!

Baby Tag
1- Where were you when you found out? I was in our first GHETTO apartment in Kingsville, I actually went back to the store to buy another test because I couldn't believe it. Wuilman was traveling with baseball.
2- Who did you first tell? I went and bought an "I Love Daddy" bib and these little baseball booties and left them on the table for when Wuilman got home from baseball (we still haven't used the booties since we had a girl)
3- Did you find out the sex of the baby? Yes, I don't know how anyone could handle not finding out.
4- Did you have morning sickness? More like all-day sickness!
5- How much weight did you gain? A whopping 48 pounds, yikes!
6- Did you get any stretch marks? Yes! We'll leave it at that.
7- Did you have any cravings? Fruit.
8- Were there any complications? No.
9- When and where did you go into labor? I started feeling contactions while my mom and Wuilman and I were shopping for a carseat and just continued all night long at home.
10- Did your water break? No, the doctor had to break it.
11- Who drove to the hospital? Wuilman
12- Who was in the room for the birth? Wuilman and my mom
13- Was the baby born early or late? The day after my due date.
14- How long were you in labor for? I never know what to say, I had strong contractions all night long maybe at like midnight but didn't go to the hospital till 7 a.m. and had her at 12:35 I think
15- Did you have any drugs for the pain? Epidural :)
16- Natural or C-Section? Natural
17- What was your first reaction after birth? I couldn't believe what just happened, and I just wanted someone to pay attention to me! My mom and Wuilman were over with the baby and my dr was talking to a nurse about some dumb book they had read! Hello I just had a kid! Maybe this is the 100th time you did this today, but it's the first for me!
18- How big was the baby? 7 lbs 8 oz
19- Date and time of birth? Nov 15, 2006 12:35 am I think
20- Baby's name? Talia Rosa Rodriguez.
21- Does the name have any significant meaning? Rosa is Wuilman's mom's name
22- Did the baby have any complications? No
23- How old is the baby today? Almost 27 months
24- What kind of temperament has the baby had so far? When she was a baby, I think she was pretty close to perfect, not a lot of crying and whining, but she has definately come into her terrible 2's the last couple of months.
25- Would you change anything about it? I think it went as perfectly as one could expect. My mom actually told me during labor, this is happening too easily for you!

I tag Angie

So we found our puppy Cyndi! I called the lost pet hotline, made more flyers, I even put a lost ad on Craigs list. I thought I had heard Cyndi barking this morning coming from a near by garage but I couldn't tell for sure. Wuilman and I went to a couple neighbor's houses to see if they had seen her. About an hour later someone called and said they had her in their garage. They live directly in back of us. We got really lucky. I don't know if anyone even read the other post, but I just wanted to say that we found her! When we got her, Cyndi ran up to Talia and knocked her over so hard it knocked her shoe off. I wanted to get a good picture of them playing together but they are both too excited to hold still!.

Well I went to feed Cyndi (our puppy) last night and she wasn't in our yard. The last couple of days I have noticed there was a hole in in our fence where she could get into our neighbors yard.
The neighbors have a little Daschund puppy that she likes to play with. I told Wuilman about it, but didn't really think too much about it since whenever I open the door to go outside she comes running back. Well I guess she went over to the neighbors for a playdate yesterday afternoon sometime and didn't come back! When I looked into the neighbors yard I couldn't see her and the neighbors weren't home. Anyway, there is a hole in the neighbors fence that goes to the street and that goes to the next yard. So we drove around, as hopeless as it was to last night when Wuilman got home at 10:30 to try and find her, and made some lost flyers and put them all over. Talia knows that Cyndi isn't here at our house, but I don't think she knows that she probably isn't ever coming back. It's so sad, Talia will go outside and call to her. She even slept with one of the lost flyers last night! I am just super bummed out. We miss our "puppy Nene!"

Wuilman turned 30 this month! We had just gotten back from Idaho so we just hung out at the house and barbequed. I guess that is one benefit of living in Texas, that you can be outside in January without freezing! Since it was Wuilman's birthday I was going to cook one of his favorite meals from Venezuela that I've learned how to make, but when we got back he said he wanted to grill up a TON of meat. So I let him be in charge.

Everything was a little burnt, but nothing went to waste! Not at our house!

Wuilman is also not a big fan of cakes, but I talked him into letting me make one for him. It wasn't very creative, but it was pink! He likes strawberry :)

These are pictures of Talia outside playing with Cyndi while Wuilman was grilling. Cyndi must have missed Talia because since we've been home, she hasn't attacked Talia and knocked her over as much as she used to. She still licks her face all over (yuck) but she also lets Talia give her hugs!