New? Music

So, I haven't heard new music - well, new English music - in forever. I used to listen to music constantly, but now that I don't drive and listen to the radio, and don't watch music videos, not to mention the fact that I live in a Spanish-speaking country that doesn't play up-to-date music....

I actually happened to be watching a channel that I thought played Spanish music but at the time for some reason was playing a bunch of English songs I had never heard. I really liked this one, turns out it's from Twilight...ugh...nothing against Twilight...just don't want someone to think I'm a fanatic like everyone else...but I love the piano and how it turns into a rock song! and the lyrics are pretty poetic, too:

I was searching

You were on a mission
Then our hearts combined like
A neutron star collision
I have nothing left to lose

You took your time to choose
Then we told each other
With no trace of fear that...
Our love would be forever
And if we die
We die together
And lie, I said never
'Cause our love would be forever
The world is broken
Halo's fail to glisten
You try to make a difference
But no one wants to listen
Hail,
The preachers, fake and proud
Their doctrines will be cloud?
Then they'll dissipate
Like snowflakes in an ocean
Love is forever
And we'll die, we'll die together
And lie, I say never
'Cause our love could be forever
Now I've got nothing left to lose
You take your time to choose

I can tell you now without a trace of fear
That my love will be forever

and we'll die

we'll die together
Lie, I will never

'Cause our love will be forever

Here's a link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTvgnYGu9bg

Also, I saw the video for Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and like it a lot too - pretty catchy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fj2HVYlD_4

One more! and this one is in Spanish: Tu Amor Por Siempre, by Axel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMtBOR_U-pI

Almost walking...

Yesterday, I finally finished putting the child safety locks on the cabinets in the kitchen/dining room. It was so frustrating!! I'm afraid I have no patience. Every time I tried to screw one in, the screw fell on the floor...like 5 times. Or, I would get both pieces on and then shut the door and they wouldn't match up! Grrr...I was so tired and hot and sweaty too. I still have the drawers in her bedroom to do...then I'll be DONE!

On a happy note, Leyla was in a really sweet mood yesterday. She took a good nap in the morning and woke up talking, not crying! She was in a really good mood, you could tell she had slept well. We changed her diaper and took a bath and then played around the house. She's started walking on the wall now! She went to the cabinets, and surprise! they didn't open anymore! So she quickly lost interest in that! But she stayed standing and walked her way around the cabinet to the wall and to her bedroom! It was soooo cute. She was slowly making her way around, with ONE hand on the wall, moving one foot at a time...then she squatted down slowly to crawl and with her feet and hands on the ground and her butt in the air, off she went! I'm just waiting for the moment she walks on her own!!

Leyla's First Tooth!

Leyla got her first tooth right before turning 10 months old. It is the bottom left front tooth. Now you can see it better and the right one is starting to break through - I will try to get a better picture to post later!

More and More Videos

This video is of Leyla bathing. She has gotten to be extremely difficult to bathe! She wants to stand up constantly and refuses to sit down. It scares me because I'm afraid she'll slip!! She likes to pick up the bowl I use to pour water over her and throw it in the pila. Then she looks after it and says, "Ahha?" She throws her rubber ducky in the water too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJdtTOVx1I

This one is of Leyla in the garden. She was standing by the flowers balancing and playing with a ball Maria was passing her. She tries to pick my flowers too! At one point she kind of stands alone, when she's in the process of switching her hands. After I took the video too, she stood by herself - I think she forgot that she was standing and let go with her hand to explore the flower she had with BOTH hands. For about 2 seconds she was standing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhcoKvVlYo

Babies!

We had SO much fun last night - some friends invited us over for dinner and they all have babies! Mia is almost 2 and Aime is 11 months. They had so much fun playing together, and Leyla has never played with other babies! I really enjoyed watching them together. Leyla mostly stared at them - Aime was yelling and making lots of noise and crawling all over the place and Leyla didn't know what to think of her! She kept trying to bite/kiss Leyla too! and Leyla hit her! oops! and they all talked baby talk to each other. It was super cute. I hope we get to do it again!

My Flowers are Insane

Here's a picture of the flowers a few months ago, with Leyla in the stroller :)


Since then, they were attacked by something (ants, mold - not sure)and lost almost all their leaves. You could tell the plant was in distress, so we weeded really good and cut back the plant so it could start over - and this is what we found underneath!




If you think it looks like grass, think again - they are tiny, tiny, baby impatiens. How incredible is that? These flowers don't have seeds...I don't think...I have no idea how they grow like this. It's like they sprouted from the roots or something. They're insane.

Oh, and here's another one I found...


Yeah, that's right. That's the frame around our front door.

We have screen doors!

We had two screen doors made for the house. Marcos sanded them down really good and I stained them (3 coats), then we put on the hinges, hung them, and today we bought some springs for them so they stay closed. I think they look pretty nice!!





And here is yet another video of Leyla, this time climbing up the stairs in her Abuela's house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQ1dptqYjI