Chindy

I can't believe tragedy has struck again. On Tuesday (4/28) my cousin Victor lost his battle with cancer. Only 37 years old and his whole life ahead of him and this disease ended his life. He leaves behind a family that will miss him dearly. we're all left to cope with such a devastating loss for a 2nd time this year.

I know he is in a much better place. No longer suffering! reunited with his loved ones. the hardest part lies in the days ahead. never seeing him at family parties dancing with his wife or calling me Chindy and giving me that smile that brightened up any ones day. :-/

R.I.P. primo
We all love you and will miss you dearly.

1st birthday party

Firsts....

This weekend was filled with a whole lot of firsts!! some good and some terrifying.... lets start with Friday (4/26). We went to dinner to a cute little restaurant called Casa Gamino. As always, baby G didn't sit still UNTIL a little bolero group started singing. Manny asked them to sing for Gianna and it was the first time i saw her sit still for more than 5 minutes at a restaurant. She was amused by the guitar and the sounds. it was nice seeing my baby enjoying the music!

Then the morning of 4/27 came and along with it the biggest scare of my life. We started the morning off like any other Saturday. I got Gianna out of bed and took her to her play area in the living room. While Manny picked up our bedroom I was going to get breakfast started. It was around 8:20am. I turned to see what Gianna was doing and she was about to climb on to her rockabye baby elephant that she loves. i turned to get bread from the top of the refrigerator. It must of been a couple of seconds... when i turned back around Gianna was on the floor. Mouth wide open, unable to let a cry out. Initially i didn't worry. after all she is a toddler that just learned how to walk and falling down is part of her daily routine. I picked her up and her eyes were rolled back. she let out a faint cry and then her body went limp. My initial reaction was to try and get her to react. I screamed her name and her eyes were half closed. Manny ran to the living room and asked if he should call 911. at this point i was on the verge of tears. after about a minute Gianna finally responded and started sobbing. i hugged her hard and she hugged me back. she closed her eyes and wanted to fall asleep but if there's something i know it's not to let someone fall asleep after they've fallen and possibly hit their head. Manny took her outside to keep her distracted and awake. we tried to put her on the floor to walk but she refused. Slowly she started getting back to normal but i wasn't at ease so i called the advise nurse and she suggested a take her to E.R. to get checked out. once we got to the E.R. Gianna was back to her happy, normal, go lucky self. no broken limbs,no concussion and no major injuries.
It had to be one of the scariest moments of my life! i would have never forgiven myself if something happened to her while she was under my care.

On 4/28 we planned on taking a trip to the flower fields in Carlsbad but we ended up staying in L.A. We dedicated our Sunday to just us as a family. We took baby G to Griffith Park and she rode the ponies for the first time. She was one of the very few toddlers that didn't cry lol. She actually enjoyed it! after the pony rides we took her on a little train ride. We worked up and appetite so we headed to Plaza Mexico where we ate a our favorite Oaxacan restaurant "La Guelaguetza". We even spotted a celebrity! Guicho Cisneros from Los Dandy's. We didn't ask for a picture because we didn't want to bother him while he was eating.

After dinner we walked around and watched the Danzantes. Gianna enjoyed herself so much! seeing her run around being so happy makes my heart smile!