Coco at 16 months

Coco was 16 months last Friday! She had her check up last week and got her latest stats. She is 32 inches tall and 26 pounds, 2 ounces and is in the 90th percentile for both height and weight. We are soo blessed that she has had almost perfect health (just the sniffles and an occassional rash)

She is turning into a little chatterbox and has a growing vocabulary of probably 30-40 words. It is amazing how much she understands. If we ask her, "Coco, can you bring me by glasses?" she will usually pick them up and bring them over. If we ask her, "what sound does a duck make?" she will start quacking. One of the cutest things she does is say her own name. When we say, "Coco, what is your name?" She will say something that sounds like gogo.

Coco definitely likes her independence even at this age (yikes! ...foreshadowing???). She much prefers to feed herself, even though she makes a mess. Right before it is time to go to bed, she usually has one last burst of energy where she starts running around in circles. Thank goodness she is great at bedtime (**knocking on wood**) and usually goes right to bed without any fuss. She has a very active social life with playdates almost every day.



Coco's hair is getting long enough now that we can start doing cute things with it. Here she is all dressed up for Poppy's birthday dinner.






She looks sooo cute with her hair slicked back after her evening bath.













Coco chillin in her favorite chair with one of her birthday present dresses on.












Coco loves books, but the pop up ones usually don't last very long because she loves to rip the pieces out.

St Lucia

On April 21st we left for our first international trip with Coco to St. Lucia. (it was actually April 22nd for Chris since he discovered that his passport expired the night before we were supposed to leave...but that is another story). We were obviously very nervous about the trip...how would Coco do on the plane? ...how would she sleep?...etc. As it turned out, everything worked out great! Coco was a gem on both flights.

Our voyage was based upon a fitness retreat that Victor was asked to teach at the Cap Maison resort. The event occured from Thursday, April 28th through May 1. About 20 fitness fanatics from Westchester joined. We went down a week early to have some R&R before the event. Despite several days of continuous rain, the event was a great success!

One of the highlights of the trip was being able to finally dress Coco up in the many summer outfits and bathing suits that she received for her birthday.


Last summer, Coco could not get enough of the pool. She would sit in her little flotation device and splash around gleefully. For some reason, she was not so into the pool on this trip, unfortunately. She is also still a bit intimidated by the ocean. We think maybe the waves are a bit loud for her.

By the end of the trip, though, she seemed to love to sit by the edge of the pool and dip her feet in. Here she is sitting with Daddy in a cute little bathing suit that the Luisos gave her.




Poppy saw this adorable little "skirtini" in the Chasing Fireflies catalogue and had to get it for little Miss Coco!











While the main part of the beach was very overwhelming for her, we were able to lure Coco in to splash around in this little cove that was pretty protected from the waves. Maria from Chris' office gave Coco this cute little frilly one piece.








Chillin' with Daddies

Poppy was in Miami browsing through a baby store on Lincoln Road and saw these cute little Havianas for babies. So cute!

Roadtrip to Provincetown

We headed up to Provincetown to celebrate Grammy's 65th birthday. It was our first road trip in at least 6 months. Coco was a gem on the trip up. She slept for a couple of hours and caught up on her favorite Elmo video. It is funny how she already can make her preferences known about which videos she likes to watch. Unfortunately, she really only likes one video, which she is happy to watch over and over again...much to the chagrin of Poppy.

Coco got a little disoriented in the new environment and panicked at night when she woke up and did not realize where she was. I guess that is understandable given that she has slept in the same crib for the last 6 months.



One of Coco's favorite activities is walking Baby. It is so funny watching her personality develop. She tends to be very...er...determined. We went for a walk on the Moors in PTown at the very end of Bradford Street. I thought we would leave the stroller by the road, but Coco was very focused on walking baby across the dunes. Coco is a little bundle of energy and I was curious to see how far she could walk with the stroller. She kept going and going...we must have walked about a mile...I wonder where she gets that from??





Coco playing peek-a-boo with Michelle at Grammy's birthday luncheon. The gorgeous red dress was a gift from Granny Self.










Coco with the Birthday Gal.

I love it when Daddy gives me kisses!

Coco on the Dunes! The first of many many dune walks in her life!

You are the Sunshine of my Life

Springtime!!!

Springtime has finally arrived in New York!! Just in time. When Coco started walking, it was rough keeping her cooped up in the house all day. We had a foot of snow outside and everything was a sloppy mess. She wanted to run around and get some exercise (I wonder where she gets that from??) One of our favorite activities is to go on long walks. Rye has a lot of great places to go (Playland, the nature trails, etc).

This pic is taken from our neighbor's yard. Two weeks before it was taken, the grass was covered with a foot of snow. It all melted and hundreds of lavendar crocuses popped up! I don't remember it doing that last year. It only lasted a few days. I think the deer came by and gobbled them all up.

On one of our long walks on Rye Playland boardwalk. Coco loves to hold Nene's leash. She feel like a big girl. We usually don't let her keep it that long since Nene is not so crazy about it.


Coco grinning with some teeth! She has the same adorable two front teeth like her Daddy and Granny!

Cruising down the main street in Old Greenwich with Mr. Sock.

One year check up

Coco went to the doctor this week for her one year check up. She weighed in at 25 pounds, 6 ounces, which is the 90th percentile for her age. Her height was 31 inches, which is the 95th percentile. She grew one inch since her last checkup at 9 months.

She has about 10 words that she uses pretty regularly. Dada, Nene, Bye bye, night night, baba (bottle). Our favorite is her use of the word "hot". We originally used the word to dissuade her from touching the light bulb at the desk lamp in her room. Now she uses it to refer to any source of light. She will point to any light fixture, or the sun, and say "hot"! Our least favorite word in her vocabulary is "NO", which she has unfortunately mastered at a young age.

Last week Coco went to two birthday parties. One was at the Little Gym in Scarsdale where she got to play on the mats. Not easy to navigate the mats in skinny jeans. Next time Daddies will dress her in sweats.
For the most part, Coco has a great appetite. She could eat fruit all day long (grapes and blueberries especially). Although she is a little more picky when it comes to veggies and meats. She much prefers to feed herself. At the birthday party last week, she grabbed the piece of pizza and started chomping down.

One of her gifts for her birthday was this stroller. She loves walking around the house with it.

Coco's First Birthday

We celebrated Coco's first birthday on Saturday, February 5th. We invited a wide variety of our friends from NYC, our new friends from Westchester, Chris' colleagues from work and some of Coco's friends from her various playdates. There were probably about 80 people in total with roughly 20 kids.

I must say that I met Coco's first birthday with a mixture of emotions. I am so happy at how fortunate we have been. We are so incredibly grateful about how healthy she has been. She had the sniffles for a couple of days, but that was pretty much it (***knocking on wood***). She has developed into a beautiful, healthy and happy little girl. On the other hand, it is a little overwhelming how fast it is all going. It seems like just yesterday she couldn't hold her neck up on her own and now she is running around and insisting on feeding herself. I guess the only way to slow things down is to cherish every moment and live in the present. It is such a cliche, but so true.



We thought it would be special and more personal to have the party at our house, which presented some logistical problems given that we really don't have any parking. We were fortunate enough to get permission from the landlord of the office building accross the street to use their lot. We have been having a very rough winter and we still probably had a foot of snow on the ground. It has rarely been above freezing, so there was a lot of ice on the driveway. The weather forecast predicted snow and ice on the big day, which deterred a number of our guests from making the journey. Fortunately, the snow quickly turned to rain and I was able to chip a lot of the ice off the driveway.


Elmo came and was a big hit! Coco was a little freaked out at first, but eventually warmed up to him. We are very grateful to Eric Winterling who made Coco's stunning dress!

We were a bit overwhelmed by the generosity of our friends and family. It took two days to open all of the gifts. She received over 50 outfits, 8 pairs of shoes, jewelry, countless toys and books. She is definitely all set for spring and summer and has loads of entertainment for the foreseeable future.

My my...how different our lives are from a year or two ago!! Who knew being dads could be this much fun!!

Coco had the pinkalicous cake from Crumbs. It weighed about 80 pounds. Believe it or not, the whole things was gone within the week!! Special thanks to Reggie Luiso who helped us cut the cake with such mastery and speed!!