Lucia's 1st Bath!

Lucia had her first bath on Saturday, and she seemed to love it, ok, at least not hate it! Of course she did great, while Rafa and I were all disorganized! The hard part was the toweling off and making sure she was warm enough.  I am sure we will get better baby girl, just give us some more time : )
 PS...I did have my bathing suit on : )

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9XMuxnzAhA

Pics below...

Meeting Lucia....

While in the hospital we were lucky to have had a few visitors.  My friends Noela and Nataliya came by with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and Olimpia came by with some essentials...diapers, chocolate, and almonds (something for all of us!!)  As well, Rafa's boss Charlie and his wife Susan came by and delivered some beautiful flowers for us.  It was nice to have visitors at the hospital, no matter how tired I was! I was so proud to show off how perfect little Lucia was ;-)

Marisa and Derrick came by a couple days later to our house, but I didn't get a photo :( but it was great to see them too.  I can't wait until our girls are all playing together one day.  And then Liza stopped by for a few minutes to say hi and then came back again to deliver an adorable little hat she made Lucia. It is so stinking cute, and the very first item with her name on it : )

I cannot believe Lucia is now 4 weeks young.  And while we have been to lucky to have family in town for the last 5 weeks to help us, I do look forward to spending more time with our friends this summer with our little Lucia!  This next week Lucia gets to meet Becca, Stacey, and Kristi down in San Diego...Cannot wait for that!

Just me and my girl....

enjoying this gorgeous 70 degree day....

Great Aunt Desi Visits

It was a great week while Aunt Desi was here.  We did a nice mix of touristy things and relaxing things too! We were all sad to see the week end but I think Bella was the saddest of all...she and Aunt Desi are best buds.

Great Aunt Desi and Lucia...

Our visit to Tillamook Cheese Factory, of course we tasted cheeses and ice cream, yum!

Then we hit up Blue Heron for sampling of cheese and dips, and wine and we also stayed for lunch.

They had a petting zoo too!

A couple days later we went to the Tulip Festival...and lucky for us the sun came out...it was gorgeous : )

On Saturday, we went to the Saturday Market downtown and ate some grub and walked around...again, beautiful afternoon!

What you don't see from these pictures is all the tasty food we ate during the week...I think I may be past my full term pregnancy weight now ;-)

Great week..thanks family!

Lucia's First Easter

Easter was pretty quiet for us...Rafa's family left two days before so it was just us 3 for most of the day.  Later we went to visit Olimpia for a delicious Easter dinner.  We were able to spend and nice couple of hours with her and Pawel and of course my favorite 10 year old Daniel.  It was a nice evening!

Lucia Kate does not, I repeat, does not like her fancy dresses....not yet anyway : )

Olimpia and Lucia Kate...

Delish dinner!

Olimpia and Pawel....

Daniel is a pro with babies, he knew exactly how to hold Lucia and was even singing to her to get her to relax...so sweet!

Figueira Family Visits Us...I mean Lucia Kate : )

Rafa's family came in from Brasil, his mom and sister for 3 weeks and his dad and brother for a week.  It was great having everyone here, especially Etna, Rafa's mom.  She was so helpful to us in the beginning days of having Lucia with us, I can't thank her enough for all the meals she prepared, the cleaning, and of course all the baby holding she did : )  It was sad to see everyone go, but if we don't see everyone again in the fall, we will definitely see them for Christmas and New Years...it will be Lucia's first trip home to Brasil!

Etna and Raquel at the hospital for a visit...

Out and about at Mcmenamins Edgefield and The Old Spaghetti Factory....

Tio Gu e Lucia Kate...

Can you see the joy on their faces?  I sure can....

Lucia Kate 4.21.11

So many pictures and videos of our sweet Lucia Kate...just not enough time to post them all!  For now, here she is at 12 days old....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytdA4gTWwdU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL