Big Bear Sept 09

This past weekend we spent in Big Bear with Brian's good friends from high school. We went to Oktoberfest(yes in September) and stayed at Dave's dad's cabin. We left our peanut at home with Nana which was nice but of course we missed her like crazy and couldn't wait to come home and see her.

6.5 months preggy at a beer festival...FUN!!

Jerry, Dave, Brian, and Denise enjoyed drinkin' some German beer!

New York New York!

We're so behind on blogging I'm not sure where to start! We spent a week in NY with Sophia and Nana for Kelly Stevens wedding. It was Sophia's first flight and when all is said and done she did an EXCELLENT job and made us so proud. Thankfully on both legs we sat next to people who LOVE babies!! We stayed in Roslyn, Long Island which is only 20 minutes from JFK so we took 3 day trips into NYC via train and subway(VERY ambitious of us). We took a tenement tour of the Lower East Side tenements which took us inside a real tenement from the early 1900's when the immigrants were first coming into NY. Nana LOVED this!! We were also able to see my dog Boo who we've since given to our dear friends Kelly and Rob(the bride and groom). He's adjusting perfectly to the NY lifestyle and he has a view of the Statue of Liberty from his window everyday!! On our last visit into the City we had my family come out from Rhode Island for the day which was such a treat as we don't get to see them as much as we'd like to. Some other highlights were of course Magnolia Bakery for some banana pudding, a stroll down Wall Street where BT scored some awesome ties, and an afternoon at the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy where Sophia enjoyed her first italian meatball!!! The week of travel was topped off with the beautiful wedding of our good friends Kelly and Rob. What a perfect trip! Here are just a few pictures of our adventure:

Can't go to NY without eating a thin crust pizza in the West Village!

Sophia loved her monkey backpack and leash

Sophia was obsessed with the tracks. We had to distract her by walking her around until the train came.

Nana and Boo reunited at Kell's apartment!

We had the bride with us in the City one day to chaperone us around and help us with the dreaded subways!

Nana and Sophia waiting for the tour of the tenements

Wall Street

Sophia helped us master the subways(yeah right).

Sophia scarffed down 2 giant italian meatballs...made her Italian family VERY proud!

Rhode Island family at the Feast of San Gennaro

Nana and Sophia all dressed up and ready for the wedding. This is before Daddy did Sophia's hair in piggies!

There's the bride!

Sophia was poooped after a long week of running around the City + a late night at the wedding

Nana teaches Sophia her last name AND we have a front tooth!

This week Nana Paola taught Sophia to say "Tees" after we say "Sophia Lillian" which is soooo cute! And alas we have a 3rd tooth. It's her front tooth and it finally broke through this past Wednesday at 13.5 months. We think this tooth has been causing Sophia a lot of agony so we're happy it's here! We had Grandma and Grandpa Tees over yesterday for lunch and a swim! We had to postpone our park trip due to it being 100 degrees out! Here are some of our favorite pictures from the past week!

Sophia LOVES the neighborhood kitty that visits our backyard. Every time we open the blinds Sophia announced "Meow" whether kitty is there or not!!


Sophia's new love is cream cheese so we spread some on a waffle and she goes to town. Most of it ends up between her fingers and on her face and nose like this:


Grandma and Grandpa come to visit!! Sophia was sooooo happy!


We bought Sophia some "water shoes" so she can walk in and out of the pool without burning her feet.


It's pool time! We decided to blow up the pool in the back since it has a shaded cover rather than take her to the big pool. She LOVED it and played for a 1/2 hour all by herself.


Until DADDY joined in the fun!


Grandma Tees and Sophia having fun with buttons!

Peanut #2 in 4D!

We had the most amazing doctor's appointment on Tuesday. Brian flew back from a business trip JUST in time for our 4D structural ultrasound! The doctor was soooo proud of the pictures he got that he gave us not only a DVD but a CD of jpg's to "share with our family". Baby looks "perfect" according to doc and is measuring 1 week ahead(so was Sophia!!) which puts my due date at NEW YEARS EVE! Party at Cedar's Sinai!!We kinda figured this anyway since Sophia was a week early also. Here are a few of the MANY pictures we got of our baby boy:)

Here's the "perfect" picture of him. He looks sooo much like his big sister already!!


And a nice shot of the umbilical cord:)

A day at the zoo!

We had a fun day at the zoo on Sunday. We bought an annual pass and Sophia is really learning her animals. She now loves to make monkey, kitty, doggy, lamb, and cow sounds! Her new favorite saying is "bye bye" and she's been saying "mommy" a lot which makes my heart melt:)She knows some sign language and says "more" while signing which is VERY helpful to us!! Nana also taught Sophia her last name this week...Nana says "Sophia Lillian" and Sophia says "TEES" with a BIG smile!


Daddy and Sophia checkin' out the zebras:)


Nana and the "hot" lil' Tees! It was almost 100!


"The monkey's are this way!!!"

20 weeks! 1/2 way there~we have a cantaloupe!!!

20 week baby bump with Baby Tees#2!


Belly shot from 20 weeks with SOPHIA just for fun:)

Sophia's hair do's and her school carnival!

Sophia is 13 months old(as of yesterday)!! Many days she comes home from school with a new hair do that the girls give her at school and we love it!! Mommy isn't quite brave enough to do the pigtails yet so we're happy she gets them at school. Thought we'd share a few pictures of the do's she come home with. She also had a school carnival this evening which Nana, Grandpa, and mama all went to b/c Daddy was traveling. There were lots of different animals and bouncy castles, pony rides, dinner and snow cones!

Mohawk 'do! (We don't think she fancied this one from the look on her face!)


The 3 pony 'do!


And today she had the 1 pony 'do!


And last is the 2 pony 'do!


Sophia and Caroline daring each other to touch the turtle at the school carnival!


Nana and Sophia hangin' with the pony!


She was pretty brave with the bunny


A lil' blurry but TOO cute!


Here's a token "just 'cuz" picture!


Token #2


OK we'll stop!!