Busy Times

Sooo . . . where where we? Ahh yes, busy times in the household. When we returned from our trip North we immediately had things to do. #1 - Have Nathan meet his cousin Logan. Grandpa Leo, Babci, Kerri, Rob and Logan all came over for some pizza and a meeting of the little ones. In the pictures you can see a blow by blow recreation of Nathan being his very active self (nearly knocking out poor Logan before he's had a month on this earth to build up his muscles!) and seemingly biting his ear off. It will be fun to relive the pictures someday when they are older. Days later we took a trip down to Kerri and Rob's place to have dinner. Grandpa Leo finally got those pictures he wanted - holding his two grands at the same time. What a cute handful.

The following weekend we went down to Nonni's for a quick visit with Leo's Aunt, Uncle and cousins who were stopping thru on their way from Florida back to NY. The kids were super cute together. It was a quick visit and we were just there for the night. It was not such a pretty day on Saturday otherwise we would have stayed for some pool time.

Saturday evening we had some friends over for an impromptu cookout and hang out. Sunday we had mom and Ed over for dinner. It was moms last supper before her big surgery. Monday she went in for the back surgery that was planned for a while. As mentioned in previous posts, she did just fine and is on the mend. She went home that Thursday and was already meandering around the house, stretching out and testing the boundaries. This past weekend, Greg came down to see her too. He stayed with us, but we made a couple trips to Creedmoor to visit. In honor of Greg's B-day I made my famous vodka sauce, chicken parm and a special dessert - yellow cake and homemade whipped cream just like our grandma used to make. It was delicious and so fun to have Greg with us.

On the Nathan development front, while we were away in NY he seemed to make these new and wonderful sounds, literally overnight. One day, regular coos and agoos. The next, loud half-talking noises. He got his tongue involved and new vowels we never heard him utter. It was fun to hear the new things he had to say, especially realizing both Leo and I recognized and heard them at the same time rather than having one of us tell the other about the event. We are so lucky we are present to experience each new milestone. As I write, he is making raspberries and getting gobs of spit everywhere as per his usual. He shrieks in delight and even giggles now and then. We're hoping for a full roll over this week and maybe discovering his tickle spot for more laughing out loud.

Nathan had his four month check up the other day and he is doing great. He weighed in at 15.4, 25.5". He was 62nd percentile in weight, and 70th in height. A normal little guy. The doctor even complimented his skin saying it was softer than some other babies because he was still 100% breast fed. That made me proud on so many levels.

This week I have plans with friends, Nonni will probably be up for a visit and of course time with Gigi. She needs him to help her heal, since we know babies have that magical power!

Oh yes, and the Four Month Pic. I have been asked . . . here is it. Enjoy!