Comparison

4 year old pics

It was 27 degrees out, we spent 7 minutes running around this park and got a few good ones......

Luca is 4

Watching Yogi Bear

Lunch at Red Robin

Gia enjoying Luca's birthday cupcake

The Fords helping us sing happy birthday to Luca

I can't believe he is 4. I know it sounds insane but I literally feel like he will be going off to college soon. It goes by way to fast and I just really want him to stay 4 forever. Luca is such an old soul. He enjoys the old cartoons (Yogi, Tom & Jerry, etc) over the new ones. He likes to sit on the porch and just watch people. He says things like certainly and sir and ma'am. On his birthday he woke up and we had all of his presents sitting there ready to open and he said, "lets just wait until after breakfast." He tells me daily that he is thankful for his family.When he gets tired he wants me to cuddle with him. He doesn't say he is tired, he says he just wants to rest his eyes. His days are filled with pretending to be Yogi Bear (rob or I have to be boo boo) or Buzz lightyear. He doesn't like pizza, but loves hummas and pita chips. He is nice to his sister, treats her pretty well, opens doors for her and gives her toys when she is crying. He likes to dance with her and hug her A LOT. He changed my life the second he was born and has made me be a better person all around. I consider him one of my best friends and a melt when he calls me mama..... he is more then I could have ever wished for.

His birthday was great. Because it fell on a tuesday we have had family parties on various weekend but it left the day free for us to spend with him. We dropped Gia off at Rob's parents so Luca could have both his parents focused on him. We went to his favorite place Red Robin (shocking he chose it since he has only been there once or twice in 4 years.) then went to see Yogi Bear. He requested brinner for dinner, so we had pancakes and sausage, his favorite and after dinner gchatted with the Fords and all sang him happy birthday. When we put him to bed and asked him what his favorite part of the day was he said eating brinner.....love that kid.

Christmas!

Driving down to Grandma and Poppi's

Loves his bike!

Gia christmas night

Gia christmas morning

Sadly these are the only pictures I took on Christams! Traci was snapping away so I decided to just enjoy the moment. Traci-Send me pictures! We had a wonderful Christmas as expected! We headed down to Lebanon for the morning and afternoon then up the Bellenghi's for dinner. The kids got a TON of gifts and I found myself just sitting back and feeling so grateful for all of our blessings, which is the point of it all, right?

Christmas Eve

Luca and Daddy

The Floreys

The other Bellenghis

The boys playing pitch with Maw maw

Boys doing what they do best, margs, pico, and guac

Rob and his folks

We celebrated Christmas Eve this year at the Bellenghis, it was a nice low key evening, just wanted needed with the craziness of Christmas and Birthday preparation. After dinner we had a little pitch tournament then took the kiddos home so we could put out cookies for santa!

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Birthday Party number 1

The only decent picture we got of all 4 of them.

Because Luca's birthday falls right in between Christmas and New years weekends we decided to do a few low key parties with the family. Today was with the Shimmin/Ford clan and the next one will be with the Bellenghis. Luca wanted a Buzz Lightyear party and in honor of keeping things simple this year I just picked up some decorations at Target. Traci also made some cute cupcake toppers. It was totally simple and I am SOOO happy I did it that way, we just got to relax and let the 4 little ones entertain us.

Later in the day we celebrated my dad's birthday (from the 13th) with dinner. It was a great day with the family and we left extremely exhausted and full of love. Here are my favorite pictures from the day. We tried SOOO hard to get a cute picture of all 4 little ones and as you can see we never really got the perfect one.....but they are all adorable!