Sadie

 

Alright we are just stupid. I know we are, but when you meet Sadie you will see why you cant resist. A friend of Derek's bred his pure bred black lab with a pure bred yellow lab and had just a few puppies remaining to find homes, 2 black labs and 1 yellow lab. Literally at 6a.m. yesterday Derek asked if I'd like one, and I being stupid, said yes. First I wanted the yellow girl that remained, then switched to the black girl that remained. And not kidding, 3 hours later Derek came home with our new Sadie. She is really cute and for the most part is just a typical puppy, some pee accidents but she is only 2&1/2 months old.  We bought a kennel this time though - to train and make my life easier since in about a month another addition is going to arrive in this house.

We took her swimming yesterday and she totally liked it! She didnt freak out trying to find a way out of the pool and swam a bit with me and the kids, it was so cool! Even though its adding to our chaos, she seems to give Rocky a bit of companionship which has helped to keep them both happy. I like that we have a kennel this time around so I can just put her in there and not worry about losing my favorite shoes when I leave the house. :)

Old, New and Stuff In Between

 Pictures of the "boys" room with the big boy beds all set up. Just have to fill the drawers with the other piles of clothes laying around the house. 

This is an old picture of my Nana that was just emailed to me today.  She was basically my mom, and is the lady I'm named after (my real name is Giovanna).  She was quite the gardener. I miss her so much. 

Decided that since one remodel is done, time for another.  Derek demoed our guest bathroom about 2 weeks ago (aka as the "boys" bathroom according to our kids).  

Pictures below of the remodel almost complete.  Just waiting on someone to come over and tile the shower.

In baby news, today's appointment revealed he is measuring almost a week ahead, which was kind of exciting.  I'm feeling over all good, just feel like I have 80 year old hips so I'm kind of over that feeling. Trying to enjoy these last few weeks as a family of 4....

Our Boy Can SWIM!!!

Bobby can swim with no floaties!

Yesterday we spent the whole day with Derek's family at their house swimming.  It was my father's (in-law) birthday and hot!  Most of the family was with us and we had a great time hanging out, swimming, playing and eating.

Around 4pm yesterday Bobby was taught how to swim by his Papa Bob! I was inside the house playing cards, and I could hear my father (in law) and Bobby yelling at us to look outside and watch - I watched as my little 4 year old son leaped fearlessly into the pool, come shooting up to the top of the water and doggy paddle back to the side of the pool, push himself up and crawl out of the pool to repeat the process again!

I'm so happy he can do it, but now REALLY nervous! I know that Bobby can swim good enough with no floaties, but he cant touch anywhere on the bottom of the pool except the steps to get in so he may overestimate his ability to swim all over the place and get tired...we will still be on high alert but at least my heart can rest a little bit knowing he understands much more now.

Wish I could have captured it on video, I'm sure this week he will be at it again, so I'll have to try and record his latest accomplishment

We are so proud of him! He's the youngest on that side of the family to learn how to swim....what an awesome day yesterday!