Ansonia Harvest Festival 2008

running at the Schnabel's video

funny dance

Jonathan likes our new rug...

Palm Sunday

We had a busy day going to church, Nonnie's and Aunt Paula's. Lots of good times and good food.

silly boy

Last Thursday's snowday pictures...

Jonathan's first experience walking through a winter wonderland!

We're dancing elves!!

Hey, I just made a total elf of myself. Check it out by clicking the link below.

Check out our dancing skills!

This elfin' greeting brought to you by OfficeMax®.

Christmas brunch

Every year my dad's family has a brunch. It is a nice time to see everyone, have some laughs and do a grab bag. Jonathan really enjoyed the party!





That was good chocolate...

Just a couple more...

Sorry, but these were too cute to pass up... my dad had these on his camera. : )
Love it!

Train Conductor

It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!

Happy almost halloween... tomorrow I'll have some pictures to share of Jonathan's first real costume... he is going to be a train conductor. Choo! choo! My mom also did one of those fancy carved pumpkins. Do you have your own fancy pumpkin that would make the Great Pumpkin proud? Email me and I'll post the pictures!!
dcms@alum.dartmouth.org
Have fun!

Latest Jonathan video

Sorry this is so dark, but we were using the digital camera and not the video camera, which needs to have its battery charged! It's still funny, I think...

Turn the volume up to hear it better!

Fun "fall" weekend

Jonathan walking, yes, walking around at the Harvest festival on Saturday. And a picture from picking a pumpkin today at the farm. Of course Saturday it was about 80 degrees and humid, and today it was in the 70's! Not exactly your typical October day...

fire truck playhut

Jonathan playing in his new fire truck playhut! More pictures on the flickr site...

Maria's shower

This weekend was Maria's bridal shower. It was a lot of fun! On Saturday we made the traditional Canestri cookie boxes. I made snickerdoodles... a fun cookie that apparently everyone has eaten before except me! They are really good though, a butter cookie with cinnamon and sugar. Well, if it's got cinnamon in it, it must be good, right?? Love it! All the food was great, and we all looked cute, and Maria got a ton of stuff! : )
Gotta love showers!

Walking (well, almost)

A picture of Jonathan with his walker toy. He can walk well with it, but still won't walk by himself. He's taken a few steps by himself, and can play the drum while standing... but hasn't taken that big leap of faith yet.

North Haven Fair

We took Jonathan to the North Haven Fair today. The heat made it impossible for us to stay more than an hour, but he still got to see cows, sheep, pigs, bunnies and chickens. Not bad. And I got cotton candy! Woo hoo! I don't know why, but cotton candy is the most exciting thing to me about fairs. I love it. There is something about it that makes me happy. : )

Day Care- day 1

Jonathan's first day of daycare was today. I guess he did pretty well. The teachers said that he only cried once, when another little boy, who was also new, started to cry. Poor things!! : ( He was fine the rest of the day though, and one of the teachers even noticed that he likes music, so he must have been dancing or singing! He is still getting used to the kids and the teachers, I'm sure, but it seemed like he did a lot better than I did today. I kept looking at the clock and wondering what he was doing, and whether or not he was crying and/or throwing a fit. He ate breakfast and lunch and took a nap in the morning for about an hour. He slept on the way home in the car- I think he was exhausted! And we had to let him take another nap around 6 because he just wasn't going to make it to bedtime.

For those of you keeping track- he has 5 teeth (going on 6) and is now standing up (occasionally) by himself. He has taken about two steps before falling or holding on to something, but he gets really excited when he stands and starts trying to jump, which he really isn't ready for!!

Happy Labor Day!

Tomorrow is Labor Day... the first holiday of the school year. Conveniently, it falls just a few days after we start school. Most of us feel we need a break already, or at least we need to start slowly. Going back to work is weird enough when you have summers off, but going back to work after a year of taking care of an infant and taking a few classes is torturous. Partially because you haven't done it in so long, but mostly because you have to get another person ready every morning. (I used to barely be able to get myself ready.) So far it hasn't been too bad in the morning, because I get everything ready the night before. The only problem is that the days start to run into one another because I come home, feed the baby, make dinner, play with the baby, put the baby to bed, get the bottles ready, get his bag ready, think about what I'm going to take for lunch the next day, make sure I know what I'm bringing him for lunch the next day, figure out what I'm wearing the next day... and then go to bed. Forget grading and planning, I'm not sure when I'm going to find time for that. Anyway... I know that EVENTUALLY it will be nice to be a teacher and a mom. Summer vacations with the kids, Christmas week off every year... there are definite perks, I know... but getting to the point where it is nice to be a teacher is going to take a while. Right now it is just like, wow, I wish I didn't have to wake up so damn early, I wish I didn't have such a long commute, I wish I didn't have a mortgage that I have to work to pay... etc. Anyway, enough of this vent. I just think back to not having Jonathan and I wonder where the hell all that free time I had went!