Learning to Swim!!

Antonio is doing such a good job swimming without his floaty! His favorite thing to do is swim underwater! Sunday, for the first time ever, Antonio was brave enough to hit the water without his life preserver on... and he did GREAT! He is really getting the hang of things! Now all he wants to do is swim, swim, swim. Here are some shots we got of him (and a video!) swimming on Sunday and his little (almost) night time swim with his cousin tonight :)

Little Juliana watching Antonio

Before he took his floaty off:

There he goes! My big boy!!

Excuse the big belly lol
My little rocker about to take an (almost) night time swim:

Here is the video... and please dont mind the huge melons, I swear

I dont look that big if you dont focus on them haha.

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He READS and SPELLS!

*Just a little brag, I'm so proud of my baby*

I can't get over my little Antonio. He is 4 years old and just amazes me more and more every day. I am not saying he can sit down and read a whole book... but my little baby is READING words. Lots of words! And spelling too!
I can no longer spell things out to my family, husband or friends so that he wouldn't know what I'm saying... because he knows exactly what I spell out every time! LOL.
We were at my parents house the other day and my dad said "Maybe we can go to the b.e.a.c.h. today" (spelling out the word beach) and Antonio replies... "YESSS I want to go to the beach!"
Tonight, Antonio is having a little sleepover with his cousins and my niece asked me if I wanted to play cards. I said "sure, but I will be much better off once Antonio goes to s.l.e.e.p." and Antonio said "Hey I know what you spelled! SLEEP!" These are just a few examples of what I'm talking about...
He also reads the shows that are on T.V. If I am flipping through the channels, he knows what is coming on before the picture shows up... its amazing. He knows his whole alphabet and all of his sounds and he is now putting them together.
Last year, when Antonio was 3, he read all the stores that we passed on the road... but I'm pretty sure he knew most of them because he recognized the writing or the symbol of the store (which is very smart too) but now he is reading and spelling words with no pictures. I'm so blessed and amazed that God has given me such a bright little boy! My mom said I was reading in kindergarten, looks like my baby is well on his way to doing that!

Karen's Visit

Today our friends Karen, Mike and their children came over. She is preggy like I am :) Her little girl Jenna is due in about 7 weeks :) Karen and I have known each other for about 4 or 5 years now. Since Antonio and Justin were tiny babies :) Now she is on #3 and I am on #2 aww :)Justin and Antonio playing pirates Nathan:
Aww the 2 preggy's and oldest boys:

Jenna meets Giovanni <3

22 Week Ultrasound!

Today was another ultrasound for Giovanni. It was so sweet to see the huge smile from ear to ear on my husbands face the whole time. Giovanni looks so much bigger since our 16 week ultrasound! I just can not wait to get our 3D one!! Everything looked GREAT with Giovanni praise the Lord!! After the u/s, we went to The Cracker Barrel to eat... yum! When we got home, a Walt Disney World planning DVD came in the mail and we watched it getting so excited for our Disney trip in 19 days!!

My Boys before we left:
LOVE them

Daddy and Big Brother!

Papa and his "Mini-me"

Antonio has been on a "papa" kick lately. Every time we are at my moms he has to dress exactly like papa. Here are some photos of them tonight in their PJ's cleaning the lanai and tending to Antonio's garden... he sure is papa's joy.

Happy Birthday Francesca!

Yesterday, we celebrated my goddaughters 8th birthday which was on the 27th. My niece Francesca. We had such a great time with family and friends and the kids had a blast!

Splish Splash in the Pool

My baby in the pool today... I just LOVE this child <3

FLYYYY

A "Melissa's eye view" of belly boy:

My Jumperrrr

Antonio trying to beat-box hahaha he just keeps me laughing <3

Setting up Giovanni's crib and bassinet :-D

What a fun "baby" day we had today! Josh was off and I had an OB apt. in the morning. The little munchkin sounds great :-D
We get to go for another sonogram on Monday and I'm so excited!
When we got home, Josh and my dad put together the crib and bassinet which came in the beginning of the week! Woohoo! I can finally get started on the room! So far I already folded and put away all of the newborn clothes I have and hung up all of the 6-9 mo stuff! So exciting!!

Its such a great size and great quality... I am VERY happy with it!

I cant wait to put the mattress in and set up his crib theme.

I don't want to do that too early though.

The beautiful bassinet:

SO gorgeous in person!
Wish the true colors showed up,
such a beautiful shade of ivory and green..

A few photos from the past week :)

Here are a few photos of my beautiful boy from this past week I just wanted to share :)

Rub a dub dub little guinny in the tub <3

Playing with his new fishy

Giovanni's Homecoming Outfit!

Had a wonderful day today with my mom and sister Andrea. Pizza Hut and Babies R Us is becoming a tradition for us! Giovanni got 3 more outfits!

My mom bought his homecoming outfit that I picked out! Its sooo gorgeous in person, I wish the photo would do it justice but it just does not, its so much more "rich" looking in person.. I LOVE IT and it is so soft! It reads "handsome man" with a crown of course :)

My sister got Giovanni a gorgeous outfit for his Christening party after he takes off his Christening outfit so he is more comfy. I did this with Antonio and it worked out great. Again, the photo just does not do it justice! This one is all white with tiny raised white crowns all over it :)

I got Giovanni a little "rocker" outfit.. it was just so cute I couldn't resist!

And a few odds and ends :)

Giovanni 20 weeks, 3 days in the belly :)