Time to EAT!

As in something other than breastmilk... oh boy! We started to give Gia solids last week and it was pretty funny. She had no idea what was going on at first and wanted to play with the bowl and spoon. Then she started to get the hang of it, though I still think most of it ended up on her bib. Here's some pics of the action :)
First bite...

 What is this?!?!

 No don't eat daddy's finger!

 YUM

 Here, I'll help

 More please!

 Right over here...

 That's it!

 lol

 Hey Mom

Hereis a video towards the end, she was starting to get it!

Fruits and veggies soon to come!

Gia and Mya

We went to visit Liz and Ryan and Miss Mya last week, and there was just cuteness overload! I didn't think since they are over a year apart that they would really be interested in one another because Mya can play and walk and all that and Gia can just sit up lol. Well I was wrong! When Mya first woke up from her nap, I stood Gia up and the first thing she did was grab for Mya and gave her like a hug - AHHHH SO CUTE! Mya was so good with her, she is a sweetheart. Here are some pics for you to enjoy :)
Mya waking up from her nap

Scoping each other out

 Cutie Pie

 Mya teaching Gia to read

 So pretty <3

 Us and our girls, so weird since we became friends when we were like 10

 Mya going in for the kiss

 Myas trying to make her cheeks as puffy as Gia's

 Smile!

Heyyyy

 Oops Gia fell lol

 Myas so cute

 If this doesn't melt your heart, nothing will. Little hugs :)

So much fun. I can't wait for baby bea #2 and for when we have a full house of kids all running around.  Hopefully in the future we will live closer so we can all get together way more often!!!
Love you guys <3

gia's first christmas

We had such a great time over the past few days celebrating christmas and then getting snowed in by a huge blizzard! We had christmas eve at our house for the first time. It was a success! I baked cookies, made yummy appetizers and we had a seafood feast :)
We used our dining room for the first time ever, pathetic right?!
Here is Gia being a good girl while we set everything up...

The table all set. We got these fun red wine glasses that were nice and festive and we used our china for the first time too!

Gias Seat

Sadie was all ready to go

 Gia all dressed and ready in her jumperoo

Some shots from dinner

All ready for Santa with my Gigi <3

The next morning we woke up and Santa had definitely made a visit during the night, look at all those presents!

We were trying to get a family shot using the timer... came out pretty good!

 

Sadie of course had to get in for a picture

The aftermath

 Gia getting ready to open her presents later in the day at Mimi's

 

Gia and daddy

Aunt Lisa and G

My nephew Brandon

Some family pics :)

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I feel so blessed to to have my amazing husband and daughter, I am truly so lucky. The one person missing this holiday was my mom. I miss her so much. She is doing better but she still needs lots of prayers!

5 months!

wow wow wow, where does the time go? i feel like i am so busy everyday with gia and now with the holidays that time is just FLYING. kind of scares me. i just want to push pause!
gia can so so many things now it is awesome. she does this screech/squeal thing that is almost like her way of showing how happy she is to see you, I LOVE IT! then yesterday i felt her first tooth coming in, EEK! she's just so happy and fun to be around and SO inquisitve, she pays attention to everything and always wants to explore. She has also discovered Sadie, and it's hysterical. If only the dog would pay attention to Gia!!!
Here are her 5 month pics, she discovered there was a teddy bear sitting next to her and wouldn't put it down.

Her faces just crack me up. I love her more than anything and am so thankful everyday that I get to spend my life taking care of this little munchkin!!!
One more month till we start solid foods, that should be fun :)
I promise to start blogging more, need to keep all 5 people who read this updated lol!