Our journey to bring Maelyne home...: Happy Mother's Day!!!

We celebrated my first official Mother's Day today! This Mother's Day is extra special because we finally have Maelyne home with us after a very long wait! Since it is a Sunday, we attended church as we usually do and had family lunch at the Alfresco's Italian Restaurant. It is also Maelyne's 15th monthsarry so we had a double celebration. Maelyne was napping when we got to the restaurant and we're glad she woke up before we were done so she got to taste some Italian food. Everything we had was delicious! I had spa pedicure the day before and the massage gift card my hubby got for me, I will have to make an appointment later. My flowers were beautiful! To also make this day memorable, we upgraded our cellphones so we can download a bunch of pictures of our daughter Maelyne!

Before we went home, we went to Walmart and bought 2 geranium flowers to plant in the backyard. One plant to honor and remember Maelyne's birthmother and the other for her late grandma Marina (Henry's mom). Hopefully both plants will blossom this summertime and live for a long time. For my mom, we visited her yesterday and took her out to dinner. I also had her hair permed so she looks gorgeous and gave her pink roses and a picture of Maelyne with a card for her grandma.

Last Saturday we attended Kaelyn Cherie's (Maelyne's niece on the Eguilos side) baptism in Long beach. She met the rest of her cousins and Aunts and Uncles there. As usual she thinks they are strangers but after a while she became comfortable with them. She was up until about 11:00 pm socializing. We can tell she enjoyed being with them.

Henry went back to his job on May 4th. I thought we would not survive without him but we did fine. I admit it is a lot easier when the two of us are here but we have to do the best we can to take care of our daughter. Maelyne will have some tantrums but they were manageable. We started going out just the two of us. I try to avoid the long trips (30 minutes the longest so far) because she sits in the back of the car by herself. For the last 5 weeks she always had someone right next to her everytime she rides in the car. I also left her one time with her Aunt Vangie for a couple of hours to test how she does without both her mom and dad. I could not help but think about her though so I hurried back to Vangie's house just to find out she did really good and was not even looking for me. But I did miss her.

A couple of good news we heard this week: Maelyne's cousin, Christine is having a baby boy and she's due the last week of September. On the Eguilos side, cousin Stephen's girlfriend is also having a baby sometime in October this year. So, Maelyne will again become an aunt! Both sides of the family are just getting bigger and bigger.