Let's Catch Up

The summer has been going by rather quickly and I can't believe its almost August. We have 5.5 weeks until the new baby arrives and we are trying to get everything in order before that time.

We finished Nathan's new room. The final touch were the fish and shark decals. He loves his "fishy" room and we are so happy that he is happy with it. I wanted nothing more than him to be happy with his Big Boy room.

We finally made the trip up to New York for our first Mets game at CitiField. Nathan and Randy had their matching Mets outfits and they looked adorable.

There were many sights to see at the ballpark. Too bad we pick the 100 degree day to visit.

We had great seats. Pujols hit a homer right below where we were sitting.

This was the ride home. I think it says it all.

And with our new addition only weeks away, its time to say goodbye to the Corolla. We are upgrading to a super cool Toyota Sienna Minivan!!!

Making Room for Baby

Nathan has been promoted to his Big Boy Room! The theme of the room is boats and fish and we have 99% of the room done. The only thing left to do is put the fish decals on the walls. But here are pictures of where we are so far. He has already slept in the bed twice this weekend and loves all the room to spread out.

Here he is in the queen size bed. Doesn't he look small?

Every 2 year old has got to have a Steeler shrine.

He even has a fishtank to go along with the theme.Didn't Randy do a fantastic job with the painting?

We moved some of his toys upstairs to make room for baby stuff downstairs.

"I Saw the Fishes"

Nathan has made us super proud again. This time it was showing off how smart he is. We have been practicing writing letters with him. Up until now, I hold the crayon in his hand and write his name in big capital letters. Then he tries to mimic it by scribbling all over the page. Well, yesterday morning while I was making breakfast, he yelled for me to come see his letter "A". I of course run in, expecting to see a scribble, and this is what I found.

I was so proud, I just had to take a picture with him next to it.

Then, later in the day, we went to the Adventure Aquarium on the NJ Waterfront. Nathan is the perfect age to enjoy seeing all the different types of sea life. He has been talking about it nonstop since we got home.

Here are the 2 hippos that are on display at the aquarium. Being 6 months pregnant, I feel like one of them...

Who can resist one of these cheesy photo ops?

So update on Baby Boy #2 - He is a mover and a shaker already. At 27 weeks, he is very active. The books tell me he is the size of a head of cauliflower. Looking at my belly - I can believe it. We still don't have a name picked out yet. We're hoping something will "come to us" in the next few weeks.

Our 2011 Vacation!

We just wrapped up our 2011 vacation in Washington, DC. We first stopped in Baltimore to catch an Orioles game at Camden Yards, then we headed to DC to tour all the major sites. There are too many pictures to post so I created a slideshow just like our previous vacation. We had a really fun time even though the heat was almost unbearable...at least for me. I plan to remain in air conditioned locations for the rest of the summer.

Weeks of Excitement

First, I'd like to tell all 3 of our readers that I'm sorry that this post is so long in coming. I'm sure everyone is biting their nails waiting for the next post. Well - here it is.


The first major event that happened since I blogged, is Easter. Nathan is amazing at egg hunting. He found all 12 of them with no problems. And this year, he was much gentler with handling the eggs which is great since they were all real.


Here he is with his Easter basket on Easter morning. The Easter Bunny brought a soccer/hockey/lacrosse set that Mommy and Daddy have had the honor of playing with each day since Easter.

The next thing that occurred in our super fun world was Mother's Day. I had a great day that started with a delicious Jersey diner breakfast.


Then we spent the afternoon chalking out in the driveway.

Look at what Nathan quickly drew up! We know where his loyalties are...We also started a very important project on Mother's Day weekend. We are converting the spare bedroom to Nathan's new Big Boy bedroom. He is already loving his new bed. Randy is doing a great job so far at painting the room. More pictures of the transformation to come.

We are obviously moving Nathan in his new room to make way for our 2nd amazing little boy. He doesn't have an official name yet, but I promise we'll have one before he arrives in September. Nathan talks about his "little brutter" every day and can't wait to play with him. He has also decided to share 2 of his 17,000 toys that he has with the baby. Isn't that generous of the "big brutter"?



To go along with the big boy theme, we decided it was time to get Nathan to his first dentist appointment. The first part went well...until the dentist actually wanted him to open his mouth. I won't go into detail about the 10 minute exam, but let's just say it involved restraints, tears, and screaming. Thank goodness we only have to go every 6 months. After the appointment was over, Nathan was so proud of himself that he told everyone at school that day that he went to the dentist. I'm glad his recollection of the event is not quite reality... The one thing that did come of the appointment was the dentist's recommendation to get Nathan to stop thumb sucking. I asked what we should use to get him to stop, and he said "Just talk to him about it and convince him he doesn't want to do it". Ha - I thought to myself. Logic on a 2 year old? No way would that work. But sure enough, we had a short conversation about it that evening and hasn't sucked his thumb since. It has been great.

Here is a picture of Nathan and Grammy during one of her visits.

So that's an update on us. I'll try to be more regular with my postings.

Dyeing Eggs

This Easter, Pap Pap, Nonnie, and Uncle Bobby joined us for our annual egg dyeing festivities. Pap Pap is a professional egg dyer and likes to make crazy multicolored eggs.

I think Unlce Bobby needs help posing for pictures :)

Easter Egg Hunt

Last weekend we traveled to Pittsburgh for Logan's Baptism. We also got to see Jen and Stephen's new house. I didn't take any pictures while with them, but check out their blog as I'm sure they are going to post pictures on both events as soon as they get settled into their new house.

On Saturday, Nathan participated in his first Easter Egg Hunt. Nathan got to see his buddy Luke at the Egg Hunt.

Look at all those eggs in the basket! That's my boy! Look at how cute my boys look...

Grammy and Nathan after gathering the all the eggs.

Nathan was scared of the Bunny so Grammy and Charlie posed for the picture.