Meet the Easter Bunny!

Today we went to see the Easter Bunny at the mall. We needed some fresh air and some springtime inspiration, since last week we were really under the weather! We lucked out and there wasn't a single person in line. We walked right up and sat with the Easter Bunny. William had no problem walking up and giving him a big high-five. Grace didn't want to sit on his lap, but was perfectly happy to sit next to William with her own Easter egg. Such a sweet picture!

Easter Bunny 2015

We're excited for Easter!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from William and Grace! The day started out pretty happy, but unfortunately as the morning wore on the two of them lost the luck of the Irish... Grace has a runny nose and was pooped by noon, and William's cold went to an incessant cough and fever. Here's to a brighter morning tomorrow!

Mother's Day

It was a very sweet Mother's Day for me! We woke up early and headed to New Smyrna Beach for the day. William is in love with the water, so we had a good time splashing and running on the beach chasing birds that were fishing. Matt ran after William solo for a while, so I could lay out and read my book - nice and relaxing :) We had Mon Delice for lunch - love those subs! - and then we headed home to make it in time for dinner at Matt's parents' place. We had a de-lish grilled out dinner with everyone and wrapped it up with some ice cream pie made by Matt. A wonderful day with my boys (girl in tow)!

New Smyrna Beach on Mother's Day

BBQ at the Orosz's

Sonni and Helen's first Mother's Day with their boys

Happy Easter!

From our family to yours!

 

William's First Christmas

Merry 1st Christmas, William!



Christmas Day

For a first Christmas, I'd say William had the best! We did so many fun and festive things over the past few weeks. From picking out the perfect Christmas tree to baby Secret Santa to Christmas Mass and actual Christmas Day!

Home Depot special - our best tree yet!

William likes the bells on his stocking

William's very 1st Christmas present - Mr. Potato Head from Coleson!

Baby Secret Santa!

Matt and I brought William to church on Christmas Eve at St. Margaret Mary and William did great. With all the people and singing there was constant entertainment. 

Good spirits on Christmas Eve

More into spit bubbles than smiling for the camera :)

Christmas morning we were up and at em around 7:30a. French Toast Casserole for breakfast (and a big warm bottle of milk for the little guy) and we opened all our presents. William made out like a bandit. He received presents from all over!

Wagon from Grandma Tisone

New truck from Aunt Eileen

I like your new watch band Dad!

New xylophone

 

Fun new toy!

After the morning nap we headed over to Matt's parents' house to open presents with everyone. William got a stocking full of goodies and lots of presents!

William probably saying, "Ooooo..."

A stocking for William

Fun with Uncle Andrew

Cruising around while we open gifts

 

 

A great day! William also turned 11 months on Christmas, which is why the 11 month post is delayed... We'll get on it. A wonderful first Christmas and looking forward to many more to come!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all and to all, a goodnight.

Santa Claus

William met Santa Claus for the first time! It started out like this...

Bottom lip sticking out...

WAHHH!!!

And then everything was okay!

It actually wasn't Santa that made William cry. One of Santa's little helpers was a bit overzealous in trying to preemptively avoid a crying baby and in doing so made William very upset. The man was holding a glowing twirling wand and kept shoving it in William's face. Glowing twirling wands do not make William smile though. As you can see in the first picture William is a little leery of what the guy was doing and then boom - waterworks! We kind of said... I think he'll be fine if we just leave him alone... and we picked him up, calmed him down and put him back on Santa's lap. Good to go! Smiles all around. A great first picture with Santa!

Pumpkin Picking

We are ready for the fall weather to hit Florida and all the exciting holidays that will be a first for William. Here we are picking out his first pumpkin. We had two visits to the pumpkin patch already. I am slightly obsessed with all things fall and didn't mind going twice at all, but the real reason we went back the next day was they only accepted cash and I only had a few quarters on me to buy the smallest pumpkin available. The pumpkin patch was a little worrisome for William and the volunteer at the patch reminded William that in a couple months this will be the least of his worries once he meets an old man with a white beard wearing a huge red costume. Santa! The second trip was a success though and William came out with a great big pumpkin.

William's 75¢ pumpkin - the perfect size.

I don't know how I feel about this pumpkin patch...

Here we are with the final pumpkin pick.
I actually didn't coordinate this picture.
The volunteers arranged it!

1st 4th

I mentioned in my last post that we spent the 4th of July in North Carolina and so this was William's 1st 4th of July! We had a relaxing day... William played on his mat, while Matt and I went for a little hike. Later in the afternoon we enjoyed the party up on the mountain. No actual fireworks this year though. We headed home and got the little man down at his usual bedtime. It will be fun to see his reaction to fireworks when he's a little older :)

4th of July playtime

4th hike

All American baby

Like I said... that mountain air will get you!

Happy Easter!

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Meet the Easter Bunny

William met the Easter bunny for the first time this past weekend. Baldwin Park had an Easter Egg Hunt for all the kiddies and we stopped by to scout out the event for next year when William will be mobile enough to grab some eggs!

William also got his first Easter basket! A little early since we will be in Virginia for Easter. No candy for this baby, but he got a few goodies for the beach (towel, sunhat, tote), bath time (train bath toys, rubber ducky) and bedtime (book and bunny).