Tuesday, November 27, 2012

thanksgiving/turtleback zoo

I am officially the worst mom ever and did not get a pic of the kids on thanksgiving day :(but we had a good time, minus getting no sleep the night before from crazy jack and then jack being kinda insane the whole day but hey! what can ya do! next year he will be running around with all the kids like a big boy and we might actually be able to eat dinner and enjoy some drinks in peace!

on friday since john was off I wanted to do something fun, the weather was awesome. it was about 50 degrees and nice to get out of the house since winter is coming and we will be stuck inside more days than not!
daddy and gia on the way into the park

 jack was real excited
 love his lil face
 checking out the penguins, hope these videos work

 on daddy's shoulders!

 checking out the bears
 huge and scary, and one of these was in our garage a couple months ago - EEK!

 hey jack!
 checking out some animals



 my life in a nutshell, minus you john!
 in the reptile house....
 making a lizard face

 chasing this poor bird thingy around lol
 girlfriend LOVES tiger like stuffed animals. this makes #3 of the greenish one and she got 2 more. she was a mess when i tried to take one away so what the hell, we got her all of them.
 outta my way! lol

love our little family day trips!!!

disney on ice

a couple saturdays ago i took gia to see the disney on ice princess show with her two friends (and my two friends, their mamas) gianna and avery.these girls have been 'friends' since they were itty bitty and it is so cute to watch them actually be little girls and play with each other now. gia asks me ALL THE TIME, where's a-ee, where's yanna. AHHHH so cute! they loved the show, it was adorable.

all ready to go!

 love her!
 avery checking it out




 gianna and becky
 ariel

 blurry but she was so happy!





 tangled!

 at lunch afterwards
 coloring
 she legit will NEVER take a pic with me, it is so annoying :(
 the 3 musketeers!


 cuties
 saying goodbyes!

so much fun! we should do it every year...


8 Months!

Wow, the time is officially flying. I cannot believe this guy is so big :( the past month has been a learning explosion for him, that is for sure! he can now officially do the following things:
-CRAWL!!! at about 7.5 months he mastered this skill. now he is moving like crazy!
-pulling himself to stand. this to me it nuts, he is doing this a month and a half earlier than gia did
-eating some solids, like cheerios and puffs. i gave him a couple teeny bites of pancakes last week and he gobbled them up too!
-has his 3rd tooth (top right) and the 2nd top one is coming in any day now
-is so happy and fun! loves his sister, and chasing her around. i am really happy they get along so well for the most part. gia wants him to be wherever she is and gets legit sad when he is napping or when we first leave to go somewhere alone
-still sleeping ok at night, though the past 2 nights he actually slept till 6 am. i am PRAYING we are turning a corner. naps are twice a day like 30 min to an hour or so, not too fab !
-still nursing, not sure how much longer but for now it is going well so we will keep on keeping on :)
-overall just a great happy kid, he learns so much everyday i love it!!!

here are some shots from our photo shoot...
i feel like he is getting so much older looking, thinning out a bit and is super long!


 gia reallllly wanted to wear the sticker and was having a meltdown as you can see here lol
 happy guy
 he was making silly faces
 love this shot

 giving hugs
 starting to look alike i think
 jack kept shutting his eyes...


love you jack-a-roo!!! you make our little family complete :)