Sophia's new table

Nana and Nonno bought Sophia a very special Easter present this year...a new play table for her bedroom! It's so cute and Sophia is so proud of it that she loves to take our guests to her room an show them. We're thinking there will be many tea parties held at this table in the future:
Sophia's reaction when we told her there was a surprise for her upstairs...she LOVES surprises!!

4 month old Preston and April so far...

This month is going by way too fast for mommy! I'm going back to work on May 10th so I'm treasuring every moment I have at home with Preston. He's made our family so happy and I just love seeing his face and hanging out with him all day. BUT I also love the idea of helping support our family so going back to work is bitter sweet for me. Can we just win the lottery already???!!! This past I co-hosted a baby shower my very very dear friend Kelly(she's having a little boy in June) so we're going to have twin families! We both have a little girls too:) It was a "football" themed shower and we held it in their beautiful backyard. Brian came too and watched the kids and Sophia was of course so excited to see her "Uncle Ryan" who is her favorite person right now:)
Brian and I have finally started decorating our new home. We basically moved here in December, put all our things down, had a baby and never looked back so now we're putting pictures on the wall, planting flowers, and making it our HOME. Nana snuck over on Saturday while we were at the shower and planted beautiful flowers in the backyard(typical NANA) what an amazing surprise to come home to! Sophia loves running around on the grass and watering all the plants too! This week we're planning for Preston's baptism so mommy will be shopping away! Here are some pictures from the past few weeks:

Preston loves to grab and hold onto his toys now, but mostly still loves to eat his hands and fingers:)




PJ also loves pushing to a stand! We think he'll be walking soon...ha!

He's still sleeping in our room mainly because he doesn't make a peep and sleeps for 10 hours but also bc mommy can't bare to put him in his crib just yet!

ET Phone Home? Brian got this picture of Preston hanging out with his friends:)

It's a miracle...they're both smiling! Wohooo!!

I love this picture. She's getting so big! She looks like such a little lady here:)

Sophia loves running and hiding around the side yard. This day she wanted to play with just 1 shoe on!



Me and my monkey's at Kell's baby shower

Mommy-to-be on her big day!

Yummy fingers and garden fun!

One of our favorite pictures of Sophia was one of her fingers in her mouth at 3 months. We managed to catch PJ with his little fingers in his mouth today. Apparently they both discovered their fingers(and how good they taste) at just about the same time!! Sophia stayed home from school with me today and we played in the garden and watered the flowers and plants which is Sophia's latest favorite thing to do. The Easter Bunny even brought Sophia her very own "bee" watering can:) She also LOVES to put Preston's binky in his mouth for him(whether he's crying or not) this week and loves to help put lotion on him after his bath. Brian and I frequently hear Sophia "reprimanding" herself. There's one recurring one about applesauce "no, applesauce, throw, no, Sophia". A month ago I scolded her for throwing applesauce off her high chair and apparently it really affected her b/c she'll reprimand herself about it in the backseat of the car out of nowhere! Ha! it worked! Here are some of mommy's favorite pictures of kiddos from the past few days:
Preston 3.5months

Sophia 3 months

Sophia loves Preston's play gym. Preston might not be on board with her company...

Nonno bonding with PJ:)

One of Sophia's fav's caught on camera: inserting Preston's binky whether he wants it or not. Preston's saying "here we go again"

Spring time in the garden with Miss Sophia:) Mommy asked for a "silly face" and this is what I got...




All in a day's work!

Easter Weekend!

Our Easter festivities kicked off on Friday when our good friend Kaiyin came for a visit from Santa Barbara with her kiddies. We all went to lunch and then hit the carnival at the mall! Sophia LOVED the train ride! Saturday morning Nana came over and Sophia colored eggs for the first time. Nana brought over an art smock and we moved Sophia's table into the kitchen and got started. Sophia was SUPER excited, she loves being creative so when she saw all the colored water she was grinning from ear to ear. In the middle of coloring eggs she turned to me and exclaimed "THANK YOU MOMMMMMY"!! Needless to say this was the highlight of her Saturday. We then hit the mall for a picture with the Easter Bunny. When we arrived Sophia yelled from across the room "Hi Easter Bunny", however when we got closer the tears came streaming down. Once the "picture" was over she said a very brave "Bye Easter Bunny" . So they ended as friends but we're pretty sure Sophia doesn't want to see him anytime soon. Sunday morning we all went to Church followed by brunch and an Easter egg hunt at our house. The "Easter Bunny" knocked on the front door and left HUGE Easter baskets for whole family!! Lastly we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Tees's house for dinner. We had a nice visit with all our family there and Sophia really loved seeing her G-ma and G-pa Tees!!

Carnival to kick off Easter weekend!


Coloring eggs was the highlight of Sophia's weekend(and maybe the Easter Bunny knocking on the front door)!




Sophia's Easter dress...it's the same dress she wore in October for our wedding anniversary but she only wore it once and it still fits so we turned it into her Easter dress:)


Baby Preston looked like this most of Easter weekend:)



Let the Easter egg hunt begin! Sophia LOVED running around looking for all the eggs the bunny hid. They were filled with jelly beans, stickers, and bunny marshmallows!


Preston being his happy self at Grandma and Grandpa Tees's house! Mommy is wearing bunny ears from Great Aunt Carol:)

Grandma Tees worked so hard all day making us a nice Easter dinner!

Daddy and Preston:)

Some silly shots of Sophia, 'cuz lets face it...this weekend was really all about her!
Sophia made a big ole' mess of the Easter grass...it's still all over the house but it brought her so much joy we couldn't take it away from her:)

So proud of her colored eggs!

Hiding from mommy(aka the paparazzi)

Sophia gets excited at Starbuck's...mainly b/c she usually gets a rice crispy treat

Sophia likes to sing to Preston. Preston may or may not like it Ha!!