Pietro's Birthday

This is a little after Tday. I remember making hand-turkeys in kindergarden. The teacher painted each finger a different color. That was my very favorite project the whole year. I wanted to try it with Amedeo. He really liked it! I'm glad because he has been anti-art lately.


And December 5th is Pietro's birthday. Traditionally, this is the first day we get any signifigant snow fall. We got a few flurries, but nothing good like in years past.
As you can see, he is VERY excited about his present.


Grandpa and Pietro playing tennis together. Pietro has been staying up very late playing his games...I am glad it's a hit, but I hope he is getting enough sleep.


I made a chocolate pudding cake for dessert. It has cake on the top and the pudding on the bottom. It goes together in a crazy way...you make a batter and put it in the bottom, then you sprinkle dry ingredients on top. Then you pour coffee all over, making what looks like a giant cake-y disaster. It was delicious. I would make it again and again.


One very happy Pietro.

Zoo Day

The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, we went with James and his sister and parents to the Baltimore Zoo. The boys had a great time together. It was rather cold...but we saw lots of activity from the animals.

The train ride was fun for the boys. It doesn't take you near many of the animal exhibits...and it is short...but, boys and trains are hard to keep apart.



Cookies!!!

They enjoyed the children's part of the zoo...lots of animals to pet and fun things to see...



Amedeo fell asleep in the car on the way home. I managed to carry him in and put him on his bed. When I checked on him 2 hours later, he was in this position, sound asleep. He is still in diapers for naps and bedtime. I didn't put one on him this time since he was already asleep...so his clothes and shoes were soaked with pee. I learned that soaking the shoes in Simple Green and water works well. The drying rack in our dryer works great to get them dry again.




Next...a few pics from Pietro's birthday...