Alex's JCPenny Portraits--he'll be celebrating the big 2 on Friday!

We think JCPenny's did a wonderful job! Check out our little man and his awesome pictures. He'll be 2 years old on March 5th, and I'll be 26 the same day. :) Don't you just love his pics?

Clippies and Mommy and Daddy Day!

As you can see from the above pictures, Amaya finally has enough hair to wear a little clippie! Her hair is still pretty thin and pretty fine, but she has a little tuft on top that is just enough to hold in a little clip bow. I think she looks adorable in her little clippie and I am sure you do too! She is getting so big, so fast. I can't believe she is already 3 and half months old! She'll be 4 months on the day of Alex's birthday party--March 7th. She doesn't have a doctor's appointment until March 8th, but I am guessing she weighs around 10-11 lbs. by now. Still a little peanut, but getting there. Alex is turning 2 in a few weeks, and boy does he act like it lately. We have had tantrums galore, and we're not even sure what to do sometimes. We just stare at him and ignore him the best we can, and we've started putting him in time-out, though he doesn't understand the concept too well. He will usually sit in the spot we put him, but he screams the whole time. It's been interesting around here to say the least. He still has his loves--basketball, football, baseball, soccer balls, cars, and of course choos choos especially Thomas the train. In fact, Thomas is the theme we decided to go with for his birthday party. It's his absolute favorite thing right now. He makes special requests to watch Thomas anytime he sees the on-demand screen. On an unrelated note, due to all of the wonderful snow, Abe and I were home with our kids all week, so on Monday we dropped them both off to daycare and decided to have a Mommy and Daddy date day. Plus we needed to celebrate our birthdays and Valentine's Day. So we headed downtown to Fogo de Chao and shopping at Filene's Basement. I came out empty handed, but Abe got a cool new hoodie. Looks like I'll finally be going back to work tomorrow, and I am excited for it! I've been home far too long! Enjoy the photos of our little princess in her clippies and some of our other pics from this weekend.

Amaya in her Moby Wrap, she can now face forward! This is what he does in the morning...pretends to play xbox, just like Daddy Little Ice Princess Amaya in the snow!

My little helper helping me clean the pantry and the kitchen on a snow day
Little drummer Boy..LOL..he does this all the time!

Me and Abe getting ready toleave for our day with no kids!

Amaya's 3 Month Pictures!

Amaya turned 3 Months old on Sunday, Feb. 7th, so we took her to JCPenny's and had some 3Month photos taken. She looked so sweet in her pink dress, and we even got some little smirks! Amaya's not much of a smiler yet, but she grinned a few times for the camera and we got some really good shots. What do you think?

Snowed In!!

Below are some pictures of today's blizzard! Altogether I think we got somewhere in the range of 30-35"--the largest amount of snowfall in Maryland history! Alex loved playing outside with our neighbor, Hayden, who i about a year older than him. They played with their sand buckets, trucks, and of course shovels! We even made a pth from our house to theirs so they could back and forth. He loved it so much, he cried when we had to bring him inside for a diaper change, lunch, and a nap. Enjoy our pictures of the crazy, historic snowfall!

This is what we saw when we opened our front door at around 9 AM, far from the storm being over and already anowed in!

Alex and our neighbor Hayden playing with their beach toys on the path we made between our houses!

The flag in our front yard is almost buried!

Helping Daddy shovel us out!

Our neighborhood about 9 AM this morning

Abe in the path that he shoveled by our cars

Running down the neighbor's walkway

Me helping him conquer a mountain of snow!

 

Happy B-day Abe and Matthew!

 

One thing we are good at in our family is sharing birthdays, and wehad out first set of sharers celebrate theirs this past week. On Wednesday, Februrary 3rd, Abe turned 28 and Matthew turned 4 years old. We celebrated the two events with a family party at Mary and Dave's house on Sunday, Jan. 31st. We had lots of good food, and two cakes! A strawbery shortcake for the big birthday boy and a Toy Story themed cake for the little birthday boy. We all had a fun day,playing games and hanging out with family! The on Wednesay, Abe and I got an unexpected day off together since my two tires went flat on the way to work that morning. While the car was in the shop getting all 4 tires replaced, we went to Target and had lunch at TGI Fridays.It was a really nice day together--just the two of us. Then, later that evening, we sang to Abe and even Alex sang to his Daddy! Only he says "Happy to me, Happy to me" over and over again! Haha. We then had more strawberry shortcake with a Spiderman candle. Yeah! Our real present will be next Monday when we spend our day off on President's day celebrating both of birthdays and Valentine's day at Fogo de Chao. We defintely are keeping our fingers crossed for no blizzard that day! Enjoy some photos of us from this week!

Alex helping Daddy blow out his candle

Julia helping to feed Amaya

Amaya and her poor chapped lip..she'll be 3 months old on Sunday!

All bundled up against the cold weather!

The two together!

Amaya in her little tights!! LOL.

All dressed up for the birthday party!

 

 

 

"Goscars" and "shashi"

Alex's is almost 23 months old now, and his language skills are developing rapidly. He pretty much repeats or tries to repeat everything we say and has a pretty good command on the things he sees everyday. One of those thing is our beloved cats--Oscar and Lexie. Alex refers to them as "Goscars" and "Shashi". He LOVES our cats! He chases them around the house, much to their dismay. He pets them non-stop and he calls for them at random times when he's in a friendly mood. He also loves to yell at them! LOL. I guess he sees Abe and I scolding them all the time for jumping on things, eating what they shouldn't scrathing things, etc. and he follows suit. Oscar likes to jump on our counter and eat our bamboo and Alex shouts"No, Goscars get!" Or he'll say "shew" to the cats if they come anywhere near his snacks. It's pretty funny to watch. It's been really inetersting to watch him start to notice the cats and start to love them as his "brother and sister". It gets a little crazy aorund here with two kids and two animals to take care of, but we wouldn't have it any other way! On another note, Amaya is almost 3 months old and smiling more and more everyday. She is very attentive and alert and loves to be held and talked to. She recently had RSV and it was so sad to see her lethargic and sick, because she's so full of life and happy. She is now getting better and we are so thankful that she has pulled through the RSV okay. She now weighs 9lbs. 6 oz. and is growing everyday. We can'twait to see who she will look like and act like as time goes on. Enjoy the pictures from the lat few weeks!

Our two babies! One calm and one wild!

Vintage--A pic of me at 2 years old. Is it just me or does Alex look like me???

Alex watching Thomas--his favorite show ever!

Little peanut Amaya..love those little leggies!

The girls! Julia and Amaya

Okay--someone needs a hair cut!!! LOL

 

Happy Birthday Lola!!

January 6th is Ms. Medy's birthday, so we celebrated with her at her hosue on Sunday. We had lots of good food, a yummy chocolate cake from Geresbecks, and watched her open her presents. She got a lot of really nice things, including some gift cards and a birthstone necklace from the grandkids. It has each child's birthstone in birth order and "Lola" engraved on a disc in the middle. She really seemed to like the kids' present because she wore it all day! We also watched the Ravens kick the Patriots' butts Sunday afternoon in their first playoff game. Yay Ravens! Now we just have to hope they can beat the Colts on Saturday! We all dressed in our Ravens gear, and since little Amaya doesn't have any Ravens gear yet, we dressed her up in her first pair of tights and a pink dress. She looked so cute! She's finally starting to fit into more clothing. When we took her to the doctor on Friday, she weighed 8 lbs. 11 oz! It's only the 5th percentile, but she's growing really well considering her tiny size at birth. She's also very healthy and developing normally. Speaking of doctor's visits though, Alex had to be seen Friday as well,and he has RSV :( So he's been home for 4 days with a fever and a terrible cough. His fever is finally gone today, so I am thinking he'll be good to go to daycare tomorrow! Enjoy some of our pics from the week!

Me and Abe in our Ravens gear with Amaya

Really cute pic of Abe and Amaya

Amaya smiling in her first pair of tights!

Staying home from daycare and eating breakfast on his special tray