Amore~

Valentina

Wishing you mucho Amore on this sweet Valentines Day!

ciao!

Little Night Owl

We have a little night owl in our home

Little night owl's bed time routine starts at 6:45 p.m., after bath time, brushing teeth, & saying prayers, little night owl crawls into bed around 7:30 p.m., with her favorite night time books, for Mommy-O to read.

The reading session goes for about an hour, due to little night owl's request to read certain books a second time around. After the reading session is over, little night owl wants to say "Good-night" to Daddy-O for the second time around; she pitter-patters to the living room where Daddy-O is watching TV; they end up building castles with blocks, wrestling, doing gymnastics, playing hide-and-seek...I can go on with their night time activities!

By the time Mommy-O makes herself get out of bed to retrieve little night owl, it is almost 10, what? where did the time go??? Little night owl is clearly full of energy, and not at all ready for bed.

It takes a lot of soothing from Mommy-O & Daddy-O to get little night owl to bed...which leaves Mommy-O completely worn out~

little night owl having breakfast sometime after 10:00 a.m. due to sleeping in

BECAUSE in the end, little night owl only wants Mommy-O. It can only get easier, right?

New family member

Last Friday we welcomed "Caillou" the Beta fish to our family. When I talked to Estella about getting her a pet fish, she screeched with excitement, although I don't think she really knew what I meant exactly because after we chose our Beta fish at the Pet store, she said "Bye-Bye fishy!" and walked away, heading back towards the fish tanks that were more on her level, were she continued to put her two little hands in the fish water~urrrg.

Anyway, after struggling with a curious-tired (way past her nap time) two year old, at a pet store, we're happy with our new family member, and we hope he's happy too.