So, May brought Cricket, Anthony and Riley out for two weeks to visit, bringing the news that they are also pregnant again. They are due on January 9, which was Giulia's original due date. We're exactly two months apart, so we'll have another set of close cousins. We had some fun playing games with string and needles trying to find out if we're having boys or girls. I think we decided Cricket is having a girl and I'm having a boy. We'll see this winter. :D
we had lots of fun seeing Riley and Giulia together and watching all the new sneaking ways they've developed for getting each other in trouble. Actually, just Riley was sneaky, Giulia as always was very obvious in her hair pulling and toe biting. When you leave teeth marks, it's very hard to pretend you're sneaky. But still, they seem to like each other very much and enjoyed each other immensely.
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| May 2008 |
Giulia also had her first dance recital at the end of May, luckily, we had our camera by then....because we got lots of pictures of that. Aunt Cate put on four Hans Christian Anderson shows. The little mermaid, The ugly duckling, Thumbelina and the Nightingale. Giulia was an egg in Duckling and a bumblebee in Thumbelina. The egg dance was a follow the leader where all the eggs were supposed to follow the mama duck and do what she did. It was adorable! The bumblebee was a free dance where they could dance however they liked and G stole the show Friday night. She was dancing across the front of the stage and everyone laughed, so she did it again in the other direction. Cute! The entire show was amazing! Cate has such vision and I am always amazed at how well her shows turn out. Nightingale was like a small cirque du soleil. Her intermediate dancers were trees and garden flowers and were on stage almost the entire time. It added such great visual effects! Cate's advanced dancers were amazing. It's nice to see them show to show and watch their growth.
June....we've gotten to see baby #2 quite a few times. At our 12 week like usual, but when we had our 4mos, the Dr. asked us if we were going to do the genetic testing and we said the only thing we cared about was spina bifida because that is the only one you treat differently in utero. He told us there was no need to worry about that because that was easiest to tell on the ultrasound, so we went and looked at the baby. Then, our 20 week appointment which is when you normally find out the sex, we got to see the baby again, but we avoided the bottom region so we still don't know what our little darling is and that's fine. It's moving around fine and smiles at us, points it's fingers and gave us some good pics. It has a totally differently chin than Giulia did, so this one might have my jawline instead of Mic's. I have a scanner now, so once it's hooked up I'll scan one of the ultrasound pics in to share too. That should only take another two months or so. :D
We have gone camping several times and have made some trips up to Mammoth mountain. One with Giulia and one without. Giulia loves being out doors and climbing rocks. We have to be careful of rattle snakes out here, but so far we haven't found any. I hope it stays that way. Giulia and Mic have been swimming out in Grandmama's pool and we've spent lots of time with family. The end of the month was the best thought, because Annie, Taylor, Vivian, Ray and all his clan came out for a week. We knew Ray was going to make it, but we didn't think we'd see Heather and the kids till Nov when they'll come out for a month uncle Ray is on Cruise. All of my sibs were here again and it was great. 8 Grand kids 10 and under, mine will be #9 on our side, were busy swimming and bringing out all of Grandmama's fisher price people and houses. Giulia didn't skip a beat and jumped right in. She and Therese are 8 mos apart and really enjoyed each other. She and Rachel are 9 mos apart the other way and I believe they think they are sisters not cousins.
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| June 2008 |
We had lots of get togethers and reasons to celebrate. A BBQ at our house where Mike blessed us all by making his fabulous ribs, Colum's bday, a huge bike ride for the boys, a surprise baby shower for me (thank you very much!) and our monthly tea party on Sunday. The pictures will tell it best, but it was all wonderful! I wish our family could be together like this more often. Kids grow so quickly and I of course now enjoy my siblings and their spouses and actually want to hang out with them.
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| Marshall visit, June 2008 |
Remember, family is the greatest blessing. don't take it for granted because you won't always be together.
God Bless and take care!
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