Happy Birthday Jackson!

Wow - 3 years went by in the blink of an eye.  It seems like just yesterday when then placed you on my stomach and you promptly pooped on me.  Ahhh....the memories :-)

We celebrated with the family today - everyone came to celebrate Jackson's 3rd birthday.  It was great to see everyone and the kids all had a blast playing together.  The food from Pazzo's was excellent, as always - we couldn't have asked for a nicer day.  Unfortunately, Poppa Marques was feeling under the weather, but was still able to come celebrate.

Jackson got all kinds of great new toys to play with and some really cute outfits (for me to play with LOL).

Bryan was nice enough to walk around in the basement with us, giving us some ideas/suggestions/opinions on some of the things we are looking to do down there, which was nice.  Made us think of a few things that we hadn't considered which is always a good thing - gets the imagination going.

One of the cutest things that happened all day was that Lexi fed Tyler.  Well...sort of.  Tyler had finished his dinner and had gotten out of the booster chair.  We put Lexi in and was feeding her some ham and orange melon.  Tyler pulled himself up and was standing next to the booster chair looking up at Lexi and she started feeding him melon!  She would grab a piece and put it in Tyler's open mouth.  It was absolutely hysterical and went on for a little while.  Now that is what I call sharing :-)

Happy Birthday dear Lexi!

I cannot believe how fast this past year went by. I remember like it was yesterday (no, really, like it was yesterday) pushing out my beautiful baby girl. And here we are four teeth, lots of hair, walking, talking, year later. Totally amazing.

And what did I do to celebrate this wonderful milestone? Took Lexi for her 1 year checkup where she got 4 (yes 4!) shots and a finger prick to check her blood for lead. Bad mommy. Not exactly the nicest of things to do on one's birthday. Luckily she is young enough that she won't remember.

Her ears are nice and clear. She does have a yeast infection (man, I am getting good at this diagnosing stuff) and is now weighing in at 20 lbs 5 oz (25-50%), 29 3/4 inches (75%) and a head circumference of 46 1/2 (75-90%).

On a more serious note, my mother in law is having surgery today on her thyroid. The surgery wasn't until late this afternoon, and so I think it is still going on as I write this. Hopefully the surgery is going smoothly and she will have an easy recovery. We are keeping our fingers crossed for her. We love you Vovo!!

Birthday gathering

I think last night was one of the best night of sleep we got in a long while. Nicolas only fussed slightly twice and went back to sleep as soon as he got his pacifier. It was great! He also suprised me this morning by rolling from his back to his front all on his own - a first!Today we had the entire family over to celebrate my birthday. I figured it was a good excuse for everyone to visit with Nicolas :-) Both sets of grandparents were able to come visit, as well as Uncle Bryan and Auntie Rebecca, and Auntie Tina and cousin Bella. Nicolas gets so distracted when he is nursing that I had to go upstairs when he got hungry to nurse him or it would have taken hours!We had a great time playing with everyone and visiting. There was a bocce game and everyone had fun writing on the front sidewalk with the chalk that Louie bought.