Our 2nd Wedding Anniversary

So we just passed our 2nd year anniversary and we decided that each year we will take a family picture to see over the years how much our family has changed.
Steve & I went out for supper for some really good Thai food. Lea was babysat by one of the Mom's that's part of the babysitting circle we created here.

Here's a picture of us before Steve & I went out for supper.


A picture of us when we came back home. Notice I changed my dress...that's because the shoulder strap of the first dress snapped when I got in the car so I had to change...HA!

Lea @ 7 months

Our laptop died!

Sorry for no updates for the past couple of days, but our laptop has died on us. Steve was trying real hard to revive it for the past couple of days, but with no luck. In the end we went out a bought a new one yesterday. The cheapest one they had in the store so lets see how long this one will last. :-)

Did you know?

Here are more things I've learned about the UAE.

1) an Emirati is allowed to tint his/hers car windows (all car windows even the windshield) at 100% so that no one can see inside. Anyone else can only tint their windows at 30% max and are not allowed to tint the windshield.
2) The UAE is the 2nd in the world to have the highest number of people with diabetes.
3) The first hospital build in Abu Dhabi was in 1966!!! A little over 40 years ago before that they had nothing here.

I've been reading a book called Rags to Riches, it's the story of Abu Dhabi. It's a little outdated, but the author is real good at writing about the history of Abu Dhabi and how it came to be. His family was very close to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi so he had some really good insight.

Lea's Play-pen

We got Lea a play pen a few weeks ago, but we only put it up a few days ago. Since it's been up here's what we see...

Hosting all the Babies & Mommies @ our house yesterday

Every Monday Lea & I go to a group called Bumps & Babes. It's for Mommies with Babies. The Babies get a chance to play together and the Mommies get to chat. The weekly meeting is hosted by one of the Mommies and yesterday it was at our house. It was a nice turn out, we had 7 Mommies and 6 Babies. Here are some pictures, I know that they're not great, but there's only so many pictures I could have taken while hosting the event.

A Day @ The Pool

We spent yet an other day at the pool today, it's great we really feel like we're at a resort. Here are some pics of our little fish.

Lea is very happy when she's in the water.

It takes a lot of concentration to swim after the ball.

Yup, Lea is getting a little chunky.

She needs all the toys at once.

Just chilling on the stairs of the pool.

It's an Oldie but a Goodie

Lea was 5 months old here and we were shopping for a high chair for her at Toys'r'us. While we were looking around we sat her down while we went about discussing which chair we should buy. We looked down and Lea was just there looking at us. Steve took the picture with his phone.

Getting Busy

Sorry for not updating the blog for a couple of days, but I'm starting to get busy.
Every Monday Lea and I meet with a bunch of Moms with babies around Lea's age. It's really fun, the babies kind of play together and the Mommies get to talk! On Tuesday Lea started Song & Dance. On Wednesday we have a swimming class which Lea loves, loves, loves! On Thursday I usually meet up for lunch or coffee with a couple of the Mommies that I met at either one of the activities and then it's the weekend. I thought I would be bored here, but it doesn't look that way at all.
Today our plans are to go to the pool at our gym because it's real hot outside.
I'll try to take pictures of all our activities so you get an idea of how things are going.
Till next time...

She's almost there

She's got no teeth yet, but she's almost crawling! It's been a couple of days now and I catch her going from sitting position to all fours.

Happy Mother's Day!

Lea gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers for my first Mother's Day.

Shower @ The Beach

It was a nice day yesterday so we went to the beach & Lea had a nice shower with Daddy at the beach.