Easter!

Nico's 1st Birthday!

We celebrated our son's first birthday this past Saturday!  It's a good thing we kept it small because as it was, he was quite overwhelmed, fussy and a bit clingy to mama.  It's understandable, he's probably thinking, "What's the fuss all about guys? I'm just as cute as I was day the before!" 

We had mostly our family over for some burgers and cake. My mom was able to fly out from OK which was so great having her here. Big sister Ella was so helpful in opening up the presents. We also had both our kids dedicated. Ernie and Debbie Rettino came over and graciously prayed over our little ones and dedicated them to the Lord! It was quite special. 

Ok, so I've been lagging a bit. That's my personality, I get all excited about something and I'm all about it then it fades pretty quickly. But I'm excited to share a first for my baby girl! She had her first sleepover at Grandma Chiarina's house. She was so so excited because her favorite cousin Alina was going to be staying over too. So as you can imagine they had a blast! AND she did great, hardly even missed us. She slept well and even napped there too which I was surprised at. But, no sleeping in for mommy and daddy cause even though little man was still at home and he did sleep in till 8am, we were up for a community garage sale at 6:30. Needless to say, Ella will hopefully be having many more nights at grandma's in the near future!

My Sweet Baby Girl!

Just another fun video of little Ella who at the time was probably 2 1/2 years old. I just love her little sweet voice and silly expressions! Enjoy!

LIttle Brother Nico!

Just a cute video of the little guy (not so little anymore.) He's now 10 1/2 months and a whooping 20 lbs! He now claps, gives a high five, waves bye bye and just took his first step yesterday! But what mama loves best are his cuddles! He loves to be cuddled and is such a mama's boy.
Ella is definitely starting to show signs of jealousy which makes sense it would show up around this time. He's more competition for her now. She'll want to be held at the same time I'm reaching to pick him up or say things like "Nico wants daddy and I want you." Kinda sad but inevitable I guess. But mommy and daddy are giving her lots of extra lovin'!

Remind me...

never to go to those "do it yourself" car washes! I've been twice in less than a week and it still isn't clean, what a joke! Trust me, it wasn't like I was trying to be cheap. I did go to the actual car wash last week and of course, their system was down! My luck. So I've wasted more money than had I either done it myself, free, or just gone to another drive thru one. AND, I got all ucky and tired in the process! However, good news for those of you who still love the "do it yourself" ones. If you go to the one off Lake Forest there is a drive thru Starbucks right by it and so I was able to get two things accomplished today without getting the kids out of the car, now that's awesome!

Can you say GENIUS!?!

So my daughter was drawing by herself and then showed me what she drew. I WAS SO IMPRESSED. Sure an O and I may not be hard to draw (which she did do) but she also did an A! I was like, "Can you do that again?" And of course she won't.

Sorry, I'm now addicted. You probably will end up hearing about my whole day EVERYDAY!