Celebrating Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Pizano

Current Mood: Exhausted

Happy New Years Everyone and Merry Belated Christmas!!! Today was a very special day for the Cardoso family, Grandpa and Grandma Pizano came up from Oxnard to visit us and to exchange gifts.

Talk about running around and preparing for their arrival. I was like a headless chicken trying to get things together, from wrapping their present, fixing their present, cleaning the house, bathing Mia, getting Alex fed (which I ended up feeding him in the bathroom while I watched Mia play in the tub), getting myself ready and doing other odds and ends things. Phew, finally I was done and they showed up in the early afternoon.

Once they arrived, Mia as so excited to greet them. All she kept talking about all morning was "Grandpa and Grandma coming". Well when the time came to actually see them she clammed right up and clung to Daddy. We could not get her to warm up for anything, until we opened presents that is haha. Alex made his grand appearance once I woke him from his nap and they were so happy to see him too! I dressed both kids in their holiday best and that was also a treat for Grandma and Grandpa.

We wasted no time and went right to present time. I wasn't sure how Alex would be since he was woken up by me AND was hungry but to my surprised he only cried a couple of times (very briefly) but for the most part he was excellent. Mia played Santa. All dressed in her poofy white holiday dress and donned with her Santa hat she opened all her gifts, and her brothers as well. Both made out like BANDITS! and got the cutest things.

Once the presents were all opened, I quickly fed Alex while Mia dove into her new toys. She couldn't wait to sit on her new princess table and chair set (thanks to Grandma and Grandpa) and scribbling on her new drawing set given by her Auntie Gina.

Once Alex was fed we all got to visit for awhile, until Alex grew tired and went down for a nap. Mia on the other hand was like the little engine that could, though she skipped her nap and was tired, she never let on and kept playing with her Grandparents. At one point she had her Grandpa laying on the floor and coloring with her. She showed off her skills on how well she can say and recognize her letters and surprised us all when she spelled out Grandpa and then said the word!!! WHOA! Amazing huh?! She later sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baby Baluga for them as well.

It soon got late and it was time to for them to go. We said our sad goodbyes and they snuck out of the house while we distracted Mia. She always gets so upset when they leave so we try to lessen the heartache by distraction and not bringing attention to them being gone. She did good, but I think it was mostly due to the fact she had tons of new toys to play with! haha

Overall the visit was very nice and we all had lots of fun. I am glad we finally got to get together and celebrate the holidays with each other.

Week 11

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas Everyone! Happy Saturday! Wow what a week! Alex not only hit his first double digit week but now he already added another number! I really can't believe my little man is already 11 weeks old... time is flying by and not showing any signs of slowing down!

This week has been full of adventures. The biggest one being that I took him and Mia out (ALONE!) for the first time on a shopping trip. I really had to pick up his pictures from the studio in Moreno Valley. It has been storming all week and I mean BAD! and that day was no exception. Though the weather was good to us on the way up, on the way back home it was a nightmare! I ended driving through TWO huge downpours that really scared me! We made it back home safe but I will NEVER do that again!

A not so fun thing also happened to this week. Alex got his first shots! NOOO! I know it was horrible! Poor baby, the good thing is, he took it like a champ and though he cried a little bit he was fine the rest of the day. He never got a fever or cranky either! YAY! While at the doctors he was measured and turns out hes another big baby just like his sister was. And just like his sister he is above average in his height but below average in his weight. They aren't to concerned about the weight and neither are we. Mia was the same way and didn't start becoming average until after she was a year old!

Another HUUUUUUUUGE thing happened this week! He laughed for the first time! Though it is still pretty tough to get him to laugh I still have managed to do it a couple more times. Its the cutest sound I have ever heard and I love hearing it. I hope he laughs more and more...

Another huge even that happened this week (this week seems to be full of huge events) is that he not only took his first San Diego trip and introduced to his Cardoso side of the family for the first time, but he celebrated his first Christmas Eve! He was such a good boy and considering the long drive and him not being able to sleep as much as he wanted too while at the party he did really well. He only cried a few times and was MUCH better than Mia was at his age. Everyone loved meeting him and couldn't get over how cute he was or how blue his eyes are! Yep, he definitely stole the show.

I had alittle scare this week regarding my milk. Not sure if it was because I was sick or that I lacked more sleep than usual but it seemed to get less and less everyday. It got so bad that I could/can no longer pump to make extra for those nights Adrian can feed him. It has really started to concern me and I felt that formula supplementation might be around the corner, however, yesterday it finally started to show signs of coming back! YAY!!! I just need more rest than anything else... too bad that is so hard to come by these days.

Well thats about it for my little Coo Bear this week. I have so much going on playing Santa and getting ready for today that my mind is elsewhere. Hopefully I covered it all. Well I am sure I will have many more stories to share after we celebrate his very FIRST Christmas!

Tummy Pics!

The one thing I regret not doing during Mia's pregnancy was taking more tummy pics. Infact there are less than a handful of preggy pics of me and only 1 belly showing which was taken when I was about 4-5 months pregnant.

With this pregnancy I really wanted to make up for lost time, yet I never seem to find the right time to do it. I am now 7.5 months along and I only have a handful... and nothing recent with my tummy as big as it is.

So today we decided to go down to Temecula Duck pond and take some tummy pics. Adrian was armed with my camera and I dressed in my only blue maternity shirt and we took some pics. Of course it wasn't easy with Mia running around and trying to jump into the pond every 2 secs but we did manage to take some pics. I am happy. I am not a Mama who shows off bare belly (though I wish I could) mainly because I have TONS of surgical scars that didn't heal right from my gall bladder removal not to mention a C-Section scar, so though I have to cover up I still think they came out nice. I am happy with them =)