Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Sum Bday, Haircuts, Cat Visits, School Pictures, & Easter Fun


Happy Birthday Summie! Small group at dinner, but we went to Press Club in Sac and had tons of laughs. Always fun to try a new place and they did NOT disappoint....I would highly recommend it!


This week we headed to the salon for real haircuts. Giada is WAY better with letting me comb her hair but she only lets Steph cut her bangs unless we are at her salon....so off we went. I decided to chop my hair off too. I was trying to grow it out to donate but got impatient. Gino is always pulling on it and it's just a mess, I'm so happy I cut it! Thanks Steph!

Cat and Harper come to visit! Cat is a friend of mine from the Muir Hall Dorm Days at Cal Poly, she then met Jenny Fiori Williams in Spain and they became very good friends. So random that they met there and so fun because now when Cat comes to visit Jenny...I get to visit too! We took all the kiddos to the park for a picnic. Thanks for visiting Cat, great to see you!

We sat the boys down for a photo...
But Giada thought they wanted her in it too..
Gino saying hello to Landon
Caleb, Giada, Harper

School Pictures! Giada told me she smiled, but I didn't believe her! She has set the school picture photo bar pretty high with this one! I asked her about Tom the photographer she said "He was so funny their was a frog on his head and it fell off and then the frog was on his camera, he was so funny"

A couple kids missing, but it is a small class. Giada seems to really enjoy her time at school with Teachers Patty, Jan and new friends!
So Easter weekend was a busy one. We were busy Saturday morning so Giada spent some time at Nanas... they did some Easter egg dying!
Is it even Easter without the photo with the Easter Bunny? Giada was happy to jump up, say hello and talk about how he eats carrots...

Gino...he was a little unsure...Giada kept trying to tickle him to make him happy...
When we let him get down to crawl on the bench, he was much happier...oh and to lose the hat too!
Saturday night more Easter egg dying! Hilder and Sum stopped by so we conned them into helping.
Hilder kept messing with Giada and this great one was captured. "Hilder what are you doing?"


This is not a girl that keeps her colors separate....not in painting...not in play dough...not in egg dying!
The Easter Bunny stopped by our house. Gino is so small his Easter Basket doesn't quite compare...it didn't seem so bad until I looked back at the photos - lol!

Easter Bunny knew this girl likes to dress up...
Gino just liked chewing sister's stuff....
"Oooh Puss and Boots movie!"
Gino thinks everything is so funny...he always laughs, scrunches up his nose and snorts while laughing
Love my new chew toy
Look I found eggs!
We headed to the Coldani Family for brunch! Aunt Patsy enjoyed some time with Gino..
And Grandma Barbara enjoyed reading Giada the story of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears!
I didn't take many pics that morning, sometimes we are better than others, but we snapped a family pic. Sure looks like my eyes are closed...terrible!
Fun on the ranch...Mike took Giada out to pet a baby calf....highlight of her day!
Headed to the Fuhrman side for dinner! Fun having both families in town but lots of running around. Also means more Easter Egg Hunts for Giada!
Up in the tree...she didn't mind climbing...
Through the roses....no trouble...
"What is pops doing?"
Ran and Bud joined us!
During the hunt Gino passed the time chewing things....you see a common theme here....he spends much of the day, chewing everything!
Also playing with Matt and Steph!
Happy Easter!!

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Easter pics, Easter fun run, birthdays, 8 mon pics, kiddo update


This week we celebrated lots of birthdays! Dinner with the family to celebrate Nonno!
Puss and Boots theme to celebrate Lucca! His dancing to the movie is hilarious- wish I had it on video!
And last but not least....Happy Birthday Francesca. The kids loved the Blues Clues theme and meeting Blue!
Aubrey had fun in the tent!
Giada made a new friend Gianna and the birthday girl Frannie wasn't sure what to do with all these people!
Best buds!

This weekend was the Easter Fun Run...the kids ran much better this year. The dogpile at the beginning of the run was classic but they all jumped up and took off! Mike put a video together below. I hope she stops running like me with her arms down! lol


This week we visited Ron and Kerry Hilder.... they had Giada climbing in their famous front yard tree in no time....along with snail science experiments....it's always and adventure with the Hilders!
Gino still loves bathtime!

This week after the rain Giada wanted to take a scooter ride to Matt and Stephs...she quickly gave up the scooter for puddle jumping! Pajamas and cowboys boots...she was quite the sight!

I love artichokes! She asks for one every night when I ask what she would like for dinner!
This weekend was Lodi Spring Wine Show...always a fun one for us to see so many familiar faces and fans of the oil. The new flavors were a hit and we were award winners again!

Springtime Easter pictures with Heather Jean Photography. We feel so fortunate to have so many photographer friends always doing fun things to capture the kids! Giada was so excited to hold the baby chicks and hasn't stopped talking about them since.



Forgot to post these 8 month pictures!
8 months old
- Jabbering up a storm...no real words I can make out yet.
- Easy to laugh and thinks his sister is hilarious!
- Still easy going, and only cranky when he is tired or hungry...I'll take that.
- Terrible sleeper, up hourly the last 3 nights, but I'll blame that on teeth hopefully. I need to really work on that...it's getting WAY old at this point and at 9 months, I stop night feedings...so I had better get on it!
- Eating all kinds of baby food, doesn't seem to care what it is that he is eating. He really grabs for and wants real food. I'm just to nervous about choking and haven't given him much yet. He eats those puffs and seems to like those quite a bit!
- CORDS, he loves cords. He crawls from room to room to find them and outlets. Something Giada didn't care about..hope this passes quick!
- He has started letting go of things and thinks he can stand....and he is mistaken, he falls every time!
- Bangs on everything...tables, faces, whatever is near him. If he has a toy and can make it louder...all the better.

Giada Update and Giadaisms
- Finally is letting me comb her hair every night!! I put a million creams etc, on it and it's not too painful for her now! Progress! She only want's pig tails, but atleast she is letting me put her hair up!
- Likes to dress herself everyday...and it takes forever!! I try to get her to pick out one part the pants or the shirt, so I can pick out one part to make it kind of match...and she always wants to pick the shoes too. She usually prefers a dress or skirt and sparkly shoes....I'm wondering if she really is mine - lol!
- About half the week now Giada has no nap. Now I wouldn't be so sad about giving up the nap IF she went to bed earlier...but she still goes to bed at 9 or 10...that does not work for me. So we are figuring that out!
- She told me " I'm teaching Gino to say steak - not yet but when he talks he can say steak!"
- We were cooking dinner one day and she said "Dad, when you turn into a girl you can have these" (She meant her measuring spoons) He said, "Oh when will that be" She said" When you turn into a girl"
- Giada told me " I wont say your stomach looks big again, but when I was in your tummy it was big and now its just kind of big!" Oh really...thanks Giada!! This was an improvement I guess from last week when she told me my stomach was big...not it's just "kind of big" - Ill take that as a compliment ;)

Monday, March 26, 2012

Go Kings, Peyton's Birthday, Gino Jeep, Raley Kid's Day

Don't worry - we are teaching Giada the important things in life! Go Kings!
This little guy is growing up. We have a picture of Giada in this jeep too...I'll have to pull it out and compare!


Celebrating Peyton's Birthday! The girls ate more sprinkles then they put on their cupcakes.

Always hard to get a group photo of the kids!
Playing around at Go Bananas!
Pops found Giada Tinkerbell gardening stuff - knee pad, shovel and gloves. She especially loves it when she comes across a worm or snail! The other day she put a worm in some water and told me "this worm just loves taking baths" she doesn't realize he isn't actually swimming....he's no longer living. :)

We got rained out at this event last week...so off we were to it this week. Thanks Renee for the heads up on this event, it was a fun one. Bouncy houses, parachutes, frisbees, bats, balls, coloring, hula hoops and much more! Looking forward to the next one. It was not overcrowded and everyone was super nice...kids had a blast!

This picture was as we were walking in.....not sure what they are doing, but it's funny to see their little personalities in action.

Giada loved Dinger!
Hey batter batter.....
Clearly the kids had no interest in our photo.