Old Video Clips Of Our Little Nino

Check out all of these old video clips of my Nino that I just found! I'm sitting here crying like a baby watching them... seems like it was just yesterday he was this small! He is so bright and brilliant and talented and just the joy of our lives... Now, besides that, he is getting ready to go into big boy school... and what a little brain God has blessed him with! We are so proud! He is such a beautiful, smart, precious big boy. Where did the time go? (He is somewhere between
20-27 months old in these clips)







(in the middle)


Hope you enjoyed those as much as Josh and I did!

VPK Grad Pics & Kindergarten Round Up

Could It Be? My beautiful little Nino is graduating pre-kindergarten already and moving on to the big kindergarten this August???

Today, his little graduation photos came in and I just about cried. While I wasn't too thrilled about spending 40$ on 2 photos... I had to get them both... and of course grandma and grandpa needed them... how could you pass them up!? Sorry for the crappy scans.. but you get the idea!! (BTW, those dimples drive me wild!)

Look at this precious gift God gave me!!!

After school, we had a "Kindergarten Round Up" at the school Antonio will be attending next year. He is really excited about going to kindergarten and really loved his new school (especially the playground!) We also bought him two uniform shirts with the schools name on it.

Party and Family Game Night

Tonight we had family game night after going to our cousin Adriana's 9th birthday party. I didn't get many photos at the party unfortunately, but I will post what I did get. Antonio really enjoys our family game night and we have so many laughs!! We played "trouble". All in all, it was a really nice day today :)
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Party Photos:

Gio and Cousin Elizabeth:Silly String fight in the parking lot before going home!

Game Time!

Feeling So Much Better Praise God!

Our Gio is finally feeling SO much better after a few days on his anti biotic. Praise God! He is eating more and more each day and is now able to keep his formula down without spitting it back up. It really hurt me seeing him so sick like that, I was up for days just watching him and comforting him. I HATE when my babies get sick, especially when they are so young! Today for the most part, he was back to being his wonderful, energetic, playful self. He is even starting to dance while sitting ! Its sooo cute! He does the "butt scoot" haha! He sure knows how to keep a smile on every one's face!! Here are some photos of my poor baby during the time he was sick.

:( Breaks our hearts...

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Napping, feeling really sick from his fever :( Before leaving for the doctors office (second visit):Second visit to the doctor:

Giovanni is sick for the first time :(

My poor Giovanni. Most "firsts" are wonderful. This one unfortunately is not :( As hard as I tried to prevent it, after being around so many people who were sick in the past few months, Giovanni woke up with the symptoms we were praying so hard he would not get.
Last night was a little rough. Giovanni did not do as well in his crib as he usually does most nights. I got around 1.5 hours of sleep because I was up all night holding and comforting my baby. It just seemed as if he did not want to sleep unless he was in my arms. He also felt a little warm to me. By 7a.m. I had no more energy and asked hubby if he can take over for a little while so I could get some rest. He is so great and of course said yes. I told him to keep his eye on Gio because although he was acting fine, he felt a little warm to me during the night. When I woke up from my nap, Josh had said Gio was being slightly cranky. I felt him and he felt really hot. I took his temperature and it was 101.4 and I got really upset [of course]. I quickly called the doctor to make an appointment and stripped him down to his diaper. I gave him Tylenol and put him in a luke warm bath for about 15 minutes which brought down his temperature. I was able to get his fever down to 99.1 right before I brought him in to the doctors office.
When we got there he was weighed. He now weighs 23lbs and 8oz. Exactly one pound more then last month :)
The doctor checked him out and his lungs sounded perfect and his ears looked great. When she got to the throat... it was not as good. She said his throat was extremely red and icky :( She said at his age, it is most likely viral. My mom was there with me and knew that although it is uncommon for such a young baby to get strep throat, it was not impossible... and since his throat was so red and icky, we requested a culture just to be safe.
Well, it came back positive for strep throat :(
My poor little tiny baby got strep throat at 7 months old. I feel so terrible. His temperature keeps coming back and I have to continue to repeat my steps to lower it. He is on an anti biotic so I pray this works quickly to get my baby better! Alternating Motrin and Tylenol as the doctor recommended, he feels better. We are all so worried about him. Antonio is being such a good, helpful big brother helping mommy and daddy out with everything.
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Getting the fever down with a luke warm bath :(Before the doctors office:At the doctors office:At home not feeling well :(

aww breaks my heart to see him this way :(
*In Jesus' name be healed!*

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