the abc's of tony's 1st day of kindergarten

Adorable Bright Cutie Dressed and Excited to Formally Greet

His Incredibly Joyful Kindergarten teacher.

Learning to Make New Open-minded choices

Perfecting his writing and asking Questions when Reading

Smiling at his Teacher and Understanding new Vocabulary Words

while eXplaining his Youthful Zest for life!!

baby talk...

we had a dr. appointment on friday 8/20. john, anthony and i were led into the u/s room. right away we saw 2 hands...2 feet...2 kidneys...bladder...everything is looking good so far...

oh wait.

what's that??

oh boy! it's a boy!

meet vincent "vinnie" robert d'angelo

our little bug's a boy! and this little boy (the 5th total now for my side of the family in 5 years) is measuring just perfectly. we go back in 3 weeks for another ultrasound of him to finalize some measurements (not because anything was wrong, just because they need him to be a little bigger to get the accurate measurements). she saw all the major organs, etc., but needs to get good measurements of them...i'm not going to complain about another peek at my little man.

i have been honest when asked all along...i would have loved a baby girl knowing i have an amazing little boy at home and that this is most likely our last (last with treatments anyway - it's all up to Him now if we're meant to have another). but after everything we went through to get to the point of even being pregnant this time. after losing our little one last year just weeks after the excrutiating loss my sister had, we honestly couldn't be more thrilled to have a healthy baby boy!

to infinity...and beyond!

my sweet and spunky nephew harry b turned 3 on 8/9 and the family celebrated with a party at corinne and dave's house! good times, good food and lots of fun for the kiddo's!

if you didn't pick it up from the title, harry is just a tiny bit obsessed with toy story 3 after seeing it as his first movie earlier this summer! so of course, the decision was made for a toy story birthday party!

harry got the complete buzz lightyear and woody costumes...such a decision to make before halloween, but he'll certainly enjoy wearing both between now and then!!

here is a link to the rest of the photos from his special day!

hope you had a great day and as much fun as we did harry! kiki, johnny and tony love you very much!

deep creek 2010 - recap

we have been back from vacation now and completed an entire week's worth of work and i'm now just finally getting around to the vacation recap. so much for blogging on vacation...we were having too much fun enjoying the lake, the pool, the house, our family and just plain relaxing!

the weather didn't cooperate with us nearly like it did for last year's trip (kinda overcast), but it still made for fun times. i personally was only out on the boat 3 times (didn't settle well with my stomach, weather aside). but everyone had a great time tubing, and the guys went fishing pretty much every morning. a couple of catches, but they released everything back into the lake.

here are just a few, very few, of my favorite pictures from our trip

mama and tony enjoying an evening boat ride

cheesing big with daddy's hat on!

checking their fishing lines

tony did plenty of sleeping on the boat too...not a single boat ride was taken where he didn't fall asleep for at last 1/2 hour...one day was almost 2 hours!

tony was a fish! he showed off a bunch of his swimming skills he's learned from swim class and was doing a great job with or without his floaties!

tony tubing (with daddy hanging on from the back of the tube).

i took a bunch of pictures, and you can check them out here if you like.

i just want to thank my mother-in-law and father-in-law for doing the legwork in researching and locating the house and for giving us the opportunity to pitch in and enjoy the week. it makes all our hard, long hours at work worth it if that's how we get to spend our money and time off on vacation!!