Eliana at 3 Months!

This is Daddy's Little Princess at 3 months old. It doesn't seem that long ago that Eliana was sleeping nearly 20 hours a day. She no longer looks and feels like a newborn. You pick her up and she's got weight to her. She smiles like this at us all the time. When she sees you she gets so excited that she starts to kick and flail her arms. She's happy all of the time. She's wonderful, and Daddy loves her.

Yo Gabba Gabba!

Sensory overload: Evan with DJ Lance Rock

Plex with Daddy and Evan.

Foofa with Evan and Mommy.

Evan and Toodie waving.

Muno! (OMG, I just noticed you can see the guys face in the Muno costume.)

We found out that the Yo Gabba Gabba gang was having a private event at the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and managed to get tickets through our wonderful friend Patrick. So we saddled up, and made the 2 and a half hour trip up from Philly to go and meet Muno, Toodie, Foofa, Plex, Brobee, and DJ Lance. Eliana stayed home with Nana and Poppop. She was a little too little to be there. When we got there the scene was chaotic. Kids, (feral kids,) were popping balloons on the dancefloor, and the balloon popping was quite loud, even for me. It was making the younger ones cry, including Evan. He was already on sensory overload from all the people there, the constant balloon popping was too much. But then DJ Lance climbed up into the DJ booth for his set, and Evan's tears turned to smiles again. The characters began to mingle with the crowd and the rush to take pictures with them was on. It was nuts. It was a feeding frenzy. We managed to get some photos with the characters, but it wasn't easy. We had to muscle our way in and I felt like a paparazzi at a Red Carpet Event. Evan had fun though. We went over to meet DJ Lance, and Evan exchanged high fives with him, but when DJ Lance picked Evan up, Evan SCREAMED, which I wasn't expecting. Evan LOVES DJ Lance, but, I guess the whole thing was a bit overwhelming. Evan had a great time and talked about it all the way home. Yo Gabba Gabba is going on a 60 city tour this year.

Happy Birthday to Me (Mommy)!

Today was my birthday. It was a great birthday. One of my favorites even though it was dark, cold and rainy. Very unusual weather for May 18th I have to say. But it didn't matter how dark it was outside because all of the candles on my cake and love in the living room lightened up the whole house. It was bright, warm, and sunny in our home.

My day started off with two boxes of Dunkin Donuts! Pete brought me a box and a few minutes later my parents came in with a box of donuts!! Score!! I guess it's pretty clear that I love Dunkin Donuts. And so does Evan. Can you guess what kind of donut is my favorite?

Evan is Mr. Birthday. His cousin Ava used to be the same way, so I guess it runs in the family. She still can't resist sticking her finger in a birthday cake. Luckily for Evan he was born into a family that will re-light the birthday candles over and over again till they are melted all the way down to the icing of the cake. It started way back when, Mom would always proclaim after the birthday person would blow out the candles "I missed the photo! Do it again!" and we would until she got the photo she wanted, sometimes we wouldn't even relight the candles we would just pretend to blow them out so that she would get a good photo. I do the same thing. It drives everyone crazy but it's fun. And now we have Evan. And now we must light the candles over and over again and sing at least a dozen times just so he can blow them out again and again. Tonight even after the candles were taken out and the cake was cut and everyone settled into the family room, Evan climbed back onto the dining room chair, squished all of the candles back into the cake and politely pleaded for one more time. And we did, Evan, Daddy, Eliana and I, till we drove Daddy crazy.

Last night while putting Evan to sleep he jumped up and started to tell me all about my birthday present.  He was so super excited about it, he told me about Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and described everything he saw in the store, he went on and on.  He was so excited about it that he couldn't wait to give me my present and he wanted to go downstairs that instant and give it to me.  Pete said that he let him pick out my present all by himself and the first thing he picked out was a princess dress.  But Pete didn't think it would fit-ha! He picked out a present all by himself from him and he also picked out a present from Baby Sister.  I loved them both.  They were perfect.  He was so proud to give them to me.   

Yes, it was a good birthday.

And I can't forget, my most favorite birthday present ever, my angel princess Eliana.

She was just what I wished for.

By the way I share my birthday with my cousin Scott's beautiful daughter Stephanie, my friend and fellow blogger Ben and Pope John Paul II who my Mom swears we are related to somehow. I have to admit he kind of does look he could be related to my Dziadzia (pronounced JAH-jah for all of those non-Polish types). Happy Birthday Stephanie, Ben and Uncle Pope John Paul II!

**Ben just reminded me that we also share a birthday with Reggie Jackson and Tina Fey. Thanks Ben!!

***After Ben's reminder I looked up May 18 1975 and found that I celebrate the same exact birthday as Jack Johnson

Fun Weekend

Took Evan to the FDR Skate Park in Philadelphia. Evan enjoyed watching the skaters, but I think it was a little overwhelming for him. It tends to be a little like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome down there. After about half an hour he told me "All done." 

Daddy When He Was Evan's Age

3 Months Old Today! -post by mommy

Eliana is 3 months old today. She must have been so excited about turning three months old that she couldn't sleep last night. She woke up in time to hear the birds chirping and to see the sun rise. And she didn't cry, she wasn't upset, she just wanted to be up. So I sat her up on the bed and she was happy just be awake and looking at everything. She ended waking Evan up around 9 with her little hollars. And once Evan is awake, everyone is awake. He likes to start the day off by cuddling with his baby sister then moving on to the drums. It was a beautiful day so Daddy took Evan out to FDR skate park and then to the airport to watch the airplanes take off. And Eliana stayed at home to celebrate her birthday by enjoying some warm bottles, taking a nice long cuddly nap and trying out her new bathtub with a nice warm bath. Later on in the day everyone started to make their way back home. She hung out with Nana for a bit excitingly chatting with her. She gets so excited sometimes, waving her arms and then her feet kick before she gets the "words" out. Daddy made his way back home with Evan and spent the rest of the evening with his little princess while Evan helped Nana and PopPop in the garden. Eliana wanted to take another nap so Daddy took Eliana to cuddle while Mommy and Evan had dinner together, went for a walk to see the tree-man and also had a warm bath before bedtime. It was a nice day to turn three months old.

Broobee Toodee!

This is the face Evan makes everytime he hears Yo Gabba Gabba: