Sunday, October 4, 2009

Vote for Diego!

We entered Diego in the GAP casting call. You can vote for his pics once a day up until October 22 (you have to make an account first). If he wins he gets to be a GAPbaby model!


http://family.go.com/gapcastingcall/entries/ajkr2006/

(or click on the title above)

Will post more pics as soon as I take some!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Must run in the family....

I'll let these speak for themselves...




Diego's first attempt at gaming! from kelly franco on Vimeo.


Ahhhh...what a proud moment in the Franco household! Another little gamer/singer is born ! ;) (For those of you in the dark, Diego was singing while Daddy played guitar in Beatles Rockband).

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Hello my name is......

Let's see, it has been quite some time since I updated the blog.

Diego is 14 months old now.

He walks perfectly, prefers to almost run and definitely loves to climb. He has a new found passion for slides (he even has one in his classroom now).

He loves the water; when he hears me drawing his bath he comes into the bathroom and places all his toys in the tub and lifts his rather large bath-seat into the tub as well. He's even tried to use me as a step stool to get into his bath before he's even gotten undressed. He loves the pool and sprinklers and if none of those are available he will settle for the rain.

He has moved into a larger classroom at school and has 10 classmates now; he still has his same teachers. Mama went to "Special Friends Day" on Friday and got to have snack and do an art project with Diego and the rest of his classmates and their parents. Diego preferred to eat the chalk rather than draw with it.

He eats pretty much everything, except he'd be a meat-atarian if I'd let him (must get that from his father).

His new favorite thing is to find his belly when you ask him where it is; he'll pull up his shirt and smack his tummy. He also likes to find mom and dad's bellies as well, and loves to give dad zerberts (not sure what he has against my belly?).

His vocabulary has increased considerably...in addition to mama (although he still prefers to call me dada or uhnnn), dada, ball, uh-oh, hello and bye-bye, he has picked up dog, duck, and there. He can also tell you what noise a dog, a cow, an elephant, a sheep and sometimes a monkey makes. And today...I asked him what his name was and he told me "D-go" as clear as day. It's funny how fast they pick up these things.....guess I'm going to have to watch my mouth from here on in!


(You shoulda seen this one before I fixed the red-eye!)


At Lake Ponchartrain, it was all we could do to keep Diego from jumping in...good thing it rained so he got to play in some kind of water!






D's passport photo


Crazy hair day at school today...you have no idea how long AJ has been waiting to give D a "faux"hawk!

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Diego's Swine Flu Vacation

Last week, I had the flu at the same time that Diego's daycare was closed due to a swine flu outbreak in the staff and students and also while AJ was away. Aunt Becky came to stay with me and D. Diego loves his Aunt Bex; he instantly knew her and would rather play with her most of the time than with mama, which was good because I could barely get out of bed I was so sick. Here are some of the fabulous pics that Becky took while she was here.














Monday, August 24, 2009

Diego goes down slide all by himself

This Sunday was a very pleasant day with little humidity. Becky was in town finishing about a week long visit and we all decided to take a walk to the park. Once there Diego decided to show us how a 13 month old likes to go down the slide...by himself! Video taken with iphone so it might be a little choppy.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Another day in paradise....

Another day in paradise.... from kelly franco on Vimeo.

Oh when the Saints!

We took Diego to his first football game last night. Pre-season tickets to the Saints game are dirt cheap and we figured, why not?!?! We got him his own Drew Brees jersey, stuck him in the babybjorn, and walked from mama's parking garage the 4 blocks to the superdome. Everyone thought he was adorable! He loved watching the people, but I'm not sure he watched most of the game. We didn't stay the whole time as it was getting late; his next game will have to be an early one. We had a blast and can't wait for football season to really begin!



Friday, August 14, 2009

Full-speed ahead!

What a difference a week makes! D is walking everywhere. He is still slightly unsteady on his feet, but he recovers pretty well. In another week, I'm sure he will be running. Here are some pics of the little monkey (whose new favorite pasttime is hopping on pop, as well as reading with daddy).















What a difference a week makes! D is walking everywhere. He is still slightly unsteady on his feet, but he recovers pretty well. In another week, I'm sure he will be running. Here are some pics of the little monkey (whose new favorite pasttime is hopping on pop).