Mommy Monday - Jan 2014

With the roar of the holiday season coming to an end, January was a pretty slow and quiet month for us. We found out that it rains here A LOT this time off year but the kids kept busy with all their new toys and playing with friends.

Age: 3 years
Height: 3ft 4in

Weight: about 37lbs

Favorite Food: Spaghetti with meatballs

Favorite Fruit: Bananas

Favorite Movie: Disney's Frozen

Favorite TV Show: Sofia the First

Other: What few days that it wasn't raining Lilly loved being able to go to the park. We watched lots of movies lilly was a fan of pretty much any princess movie, but Frozen was her favorite by far.

Age: 1year+2months

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: 22 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 2 bottles a day and real people food, no more jar food!
Favorite Food: French Fries
Favorite TV Show: Sesame Street

Other: Logan was very happy to play at the park on the few nice days we had, but what he liked even more was going to the gym with Mr.W and playing with the basketballs. We also found out that Logan really likes Sesame Street.

" If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It"

So I stumbled upon something recently that has triggered a sudden obsession, and its an obsession shared by many people of all ages... I want to go to...

Its #2 on my bucket list, and it all started when I saw this completely adorable and pretty irresistible purse on the Disney store website.

 

(I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the hopes that I get this beauty for my birthday in a couple of months.)

But that was it... the trigger. Ever since I saw it I am all things Disney. Lucky for me, I have a three-year-old daughter so I can get away with my little movie marathons. But I'm stuck. 

 I even found and decorated this box to start my fund with.

 I just started it this month, but I'm thinking that if I keep saving for the 2 years we have left in Italy, we can take a family vacation to "the happiest place on earth" once we are living back in the states.

Wish me luck                  

Mommy Monday - Dec 2013

With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays I didn't have a chance to post much but here is the december update on the kids.

Age: 3 years
Height: 3ft 4in

Weight: about 37lbs

Favorite Food: Macaroni & Cheese with Hotdogs

Favorite Fruit: Bananas

Favorite Movie: Any cartoon Christmas movie

Favorite TV Show: Sofia the First

Other: Lilly really enjoyed watching all the different Christmas movies and helping me get ready for Santa to come. Her favorite part of the month was all the cookies we made especially the ones we made for Santa. And they must have been really good cookies because he brought her lots of toys this year.

Age: 1year+1month

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: 21 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 2 bottles a day and real people food, no more jar food!
Favorite Food: Cookies

Other: Logan had his first real Christmas this year (he was only a month old last year) and this included lots of cookie eating and present opening! Logan isn't walking on his own just yet but he does fine getting around holding onto the couch and to our hands. 

Christmas 2013

This was our first Christmas in Italy, and it was a pretty good one.

I participated in the post Christmas Revue and we got to do all kinds of things with the kids, we decorated cookies and the Christmas tree, We were even sent a special guest by Santa. This was Logan's first real Christmas considering last year he was only a month old, and between that and his birthday he made out pretty well in the gift department. All in all it was a good Christmas for us, the only thing that would have made it better would have been having the rest of our family with us to celebrate.

here are are few pictures of our holiday season...

Happy Holidays everyone!

Mommy Monday - Nov. 2013

Age: 3 years
Height: 3ft 3in

Weight: about 35lbs

Favorite Food: Pasta

Favorite Fruit: Bananas

Favorite Movie: Search for Santa paws

Favorite TV Show: Ni Hao, Kai Lan

Other: Lilly had a lot of fun helping me get ready for Logan's party. On our trip to the circus she even got to sit on an elephant! Me and a friend took her to see the movie "Frozen" Lilly had a pretty great month.

Age: 1 YEAR!

Height: 2ft 4in

Weight: about 20 lbs

Diapers: size 3

Eats: 2-3 8oz. bottles a day, and lots of other food too!

Favorite Food: Cake

Other: Logan turned one this month! He had such a good time at his party and got lots of new toys. but i think his favorite part was eating the cake. He has also learned to wave "hello" and "goodbye". We even went to his first circus! It was a pretty fun and exciting month for Logan.

30 Days Of Thanks . . . Week Two

Left to Right ; Top to Bottom

I'm Thankful for...

1. Music and the messages its able to send
2. My fuzzy footwarmer
3. My morning coffee
4. Our Military and the sacrifices they've made for us.
5. Hot Chocolate on chilly fall nights
6. Movies for entertaining us
7. My Glasses for helping me see things more clearly.

SANTA! Oh My Gosh! SANTA'S COMING ! ! !

Yes.

I am one of those people. You know the ones... The ones that get way too excited for Christmas, way too early. Yep, that's me! 

I think that fact that i have to order Christmas gifts super early due to being overseas and all just makes it worse.

This year we will be introducing a reindeer to the kids... Kind of like the whole Elf on The Shelf thing but way cheaper. I just couldn't bring myself to spend $30 on a doll, so instead I found this cute $6 reindeer.



I plan on doing all the same things with this as you could do with the elf.

There are only 43 Days until Christmas and me and Lilly watch at least one Christmas movie a day thanks to Netflix. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies.

• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• A Christmas Story
• The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
• Polar Express
• Elf
• Home Alone
• The Santa Clause
• Jingle All The Way
• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty The Snowman
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Mickey's Christmas Carol
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Christmas with the Kranks

The list could go on an on. I promise not to post about Christmas again until after Thanksgiving.