Birthdays!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MOMMY AND DADDY!!!

And Happy 8 Months to Carmine!
More updates later, I am tired!

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Rece

Carmine...There is about a 2 month age difference, but here is an example where I really don't think they look alike.

This is his newest thing he loves to do. He even gets brave and lets go with one hand, but after a while he fell backwards and hit his head on the wall...bad mommy, next time pull it out into the middle of the room!

Our little photographer, Rece got ahold of the camera and we had about 7 pictures like this :)

First Ohio State Game!! GO BUCKS!!!!!!
This is what daddy lives for!

Rece and daddy playing tennis together on XBox

Carmine's favorite playpen ;)

The Reception!

The best part of course! Rece was a little freaked out by the dj's loud noises at first but in no time he was jammin'! We left at about 11:30 and Rece was wide eyed the whole time until he hit the carseat.

Daddy and Carmine both looked like they had been drinking (only one of them had!)

If you ever need to pick up girls take my son, because he had every single young pretty girl at the wedding/reception pick him up at least once through the night. EVERY SINGLE ONE!

This is the best picture I have of the two of us in a long time. This was in the car as we were getting ready to leave.

I have video of Rece dancing that I will try to get up here. Overall we had a great time and we also got some pictures taken of the 4 of us by the photographer. And the next day Keith and Hope headed to Italy while we watch their dog!! for 14 days!!!

The Limo Ride

My mom drove our car over to the reception with the kids so that we could ride over in the limo. I would have been ok driving over, but I know Hope wanted the whole wedding party to ride. We got some cute pictures.
me and Anupa

The Limo Ride

My mom drove our car over to the reception with the kids so that we could ride over in the limo. I would have been ok driving over, but I know Hope wanted the whole wedding party to ride. We got some cute pictures.

6 months/2.5 years

We had pictures taken yesterday. I think they turned out pretty good considering we had 2 tired boys on our hands.

Carmine at 6 monthsRece at 6 months
Rece at 2 1/2 years
Our Family

Carmine is sitting up on his own now. It isn't 100% but he does pretty good. He occassionally propels himself backwards when he gets excited. He is also newly really playing with his feet.

SWIMMING!!

This is a little late, as it happened last week, but oh well.

First we blew up the baby pool and Rece loved it! Carmine did not have the same love for the pool. We also had the elmo sprinkler on which Rece also liked. This is Rece the first swim.

But then we also went to a local pool to take them swimming. Rece did great! It was shallow enough that he could walk around a little. He didn't really like letting us go but did a couple of times. He even let daddy float him a couple times. He never really relaxed, but we are working on that, and there may be an underlying reason that I will go into later.

Carmine liked the big pool much better, it wasn't quite as cold. He actually kind of enjoyed floating. I didn't dunk anyone today, cause it was way to cold and I didn't even want to go under! I am not that mean!!

And lets not forget about yummy pool pizza!

Oh I am so missing my moms pool this year! I can't possibly go to a public pool by myself so we are stuck waiting until a free day on the weekend which very rarely happens.

And lets not forget the swinging! This was Carmine's first time in a swing and he loved it. Much more than Rece did at that age.

On a totally different note, my little boy is 2 1/2 today! I can't believe how big he is getting. Everyday he makes me laugh and everyday he surprises me. He is a lot of fun right now and he thinks he is the funniest person on the planet. He has got the biggest personality and I can't even convey it to the people who read this blog that don't actually know him. Even the people that don't get to see him often have only seen the surface of that personality. Those of you that will be at Uncle Keith's wedding will get to see it in full bloom. He absolutely LOVES dancing and being the center of attention. So between walking down the aisle as the ring bearer and dancing the night away at the reception he is going to be the life of the party. Aunt Hope already knows this and is ok with it ;) I doubt that he will ever know or understand how much I love him and what it means to me that I get to spend every single day with him. And I get to be the one who shows him all the new adventures and amusements of every day life.

Gymnastics Finale!

Rece had his last gymnastics class for the session last night! We will be starting classes again in 2 weeks! I wasn't able to go because I was at the MOMS club spring banquet, so Tony was on his own. And he said Rece was quite the pistol. He hasn't been feeling well so we kind of knew that it might be interesting. He just didn't want to do anything that the group was doing. But since it was the last night he got a little medal and an "award of merit". Tony said he was so proud of his award and woundn't put the piece of paper down. Then of course he crumpled it up! And of course he was excited about getting a stamp! Maybe we should get stamps for when we potty train?

Daddy helping Rece with his climbing.

Miss Stacey giving Rece his medal!
This one is a little blurry but he was so proud up there holding his award of merit!
And patiently waiting for his hand to be stamped.

Catch Up

We have had such a busy week. Monday wasn't too bad during the day, but then I went out with some other moms to the Cheesecake Factory! YUM!! Then Tuesday we went to the zoo.
It was so beautiful out. But it also made me start thinking about a double stroller.(this is how Carmine saw the zoo). I found one at Babies R Us that has every feature that I really like except that it would be $300 when it is all said and done. So we will see. But I just don't know how long I would be able to carry one of them and push the other all day long. Then yesterday we went and got Carmine's 2 month pictures taken. We were there forever. Then last night I had a partylite party. And Rece had his first gymnastics class. Unfortunately I couldn't go because of partylite, but daddy took him and said it went pretty well. Then today I hosted recipe club for mom's club. My house is a disaster and laundry needs done and I need to exercise but I don't feel like doing anything!!! Oh well. I don't think we are going to do anything tomorrow!

And the newest thing Rece has been doing, is when I go in the morning to get him out of bed, he wants to hang out in there for a while. He just wants me to sit in the rocking chair and he hangs out in the crib. We sing and talk and play games. It is kind of funny, but hey he wakes up happy so that is all I care about.
This is him showing me his nipples :)

And Tony and I have a question for all you readers out there. We have differing opinions on this. We just recently put this window picture frame on our mantle but now one of us thinks it should stay as is(propped up) and the other thinks that we should actually hang it. What do you think?

Trace Adkins

Tony and I had a date last night, we went to the Trace Adkins concert. It was a pretty good concert. Craig Morgan was really good. We had a lot of fun but I was exhausted this morning! These are the only pictures I took. I don't generally go for long hair, but I think his voice and body are what make him so SEXY! Craig Morgan is ok too but he was a really good dancer.

Out with the old and in with the new

With Tony's bonus this year we are doing some home improvements. We are getting new windows, new skylights, a new bathroom cabinet, some new lights and new hardware for the kitchen/baths. There are some other things I would much rather do, but these things really need done. We are started them and here is what we have so far!

Our living room lights before.....

and after!

Our hardware before....

and after

GO AWAY!

and never come back stupid bug that is going around!!!!! Last night Rece woke up coughing and crying at 2:30 am. Tony went in there to find that he had thrown up. So we rocked him back to sleep and changed his bedding. Then Tony slept with him for the rest of the night on the couch, where he threw up one more time. Everyone in this house needs to get better!

How do we do it?

Stay at home moms that is? (or dads)....



This is what happened at about 4:00 this afternoon! I have 3 sleeping boys in my living room. Tony didn't have to go to work today due to all the snow and freezing rain!

This is how Rece fell asleep. He is yet again sick. He has had a fever all day. He was up 5 times last night crying! More then Carmine! Carmine has his 1 month appointment tomorrow so I called to make sure he could check Rece over too. Everyone needs to get better! I think Carmine is almost better, but now Rece again. Hopefully it doesn't keep going like this.

PICTURES

Proud Papa!
Zippers are no longer safe!!
"Don't mess with me"

Fun in the snow

Today was the first day we got to take Rece out to play in the snow and on his swingset!! He loved them both. He was a pro at the slide by the end. It was a little slippery for him to climb up by himself so daddy got a workout.

Showing Rece how to make a snowball.