Friday, December 30, 2011

Her Hands

She has found her hands and she can't get enough of them!!


I find it so adorable that she folds her hands and then sucks on her little fingers.
She is often looking at her fingers and begins to coo.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

12 Weeks Old

12 weeks already! 
Wow where does the time go.

Carmella is growing so fast and it is hard to believe that she is 3 months old.
She is really beginning to engage in conversations and is often checking out her surroundings.

She still has her hands fisted up but she is beginning to open them up and examine them (or pull mommy's hair). Carmella has definitely found her hands this week and she is always sucking on them.

We started reading some books that she got for Christmas and she is really enjoying our time together. Surprisingly we can get through about three book before she loses interest.  

12 Weeks Old, baby!!

I had to include this picture because her hair just makes me laugh.
You would think that with all that hair we would be able to do something with it but those little hairs in the back just like to stay up.

Monday, December 26, 2011

First Christmas

For Carmella's first Christmas we spent time with the Ferraro side of the family.
The celebrations began Friday afternoon when grandma LuLu arrived from Tahoe to help us celebrate. 

Sophia's present all decorated for Grandma Lulu

 
Carmella's hand print ornament
Daddy and Carmella hanging out

On Christmas Eve Carmella put on her fancy dress
and we headed off to meet The DiFiore's and Auntie at Church.


After church we headed over to Gary and Kari's house for Christmas Eve dinner.
All the cousins ready for the Christmas celebrations to begin and excited to open presents.
(too bad Carmella is showing her pouty lip)

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Carmella was such a good girl Christmas morning, she played under her gym while mommy and daddy opened gifts.

Then it was her turn
 
 Carmella got lots of great board books and cute clothes.
We're so excited to start reading together!

 
Before we headed over to Nana and Papa's house
Daddy fed Carmella so she would be fueled up for some more Christmas fun!

 Our Annual Family Christmas photo (2011)

Nana and Papa telling Carmella all about the Christmas fun at their house.

 Someone was fighting her morning nap so she could see what everyone got for Christmas.

It was a wonderful Christmas filled with lots of laughs and great memories.
 
Carmella received so many wonderful things,
including this Raiders onsie which I think is Daddy's favorite gift too.


 Grandma Lulu dropped by to say Merry Christmas before she headed back to Tahoe.
 After a morning of fun, everyone got cleaned up and met back at Nana and Papa's house for dinner.

Another Christmas cousin photo shoot

Gary and Christopher hanging out.

 Kari and I decided to be part of the photos instead of behind the camera all the time.

Carmella, Kari and Madison enjoying some girl time.

Merry Christmas everyone!!
We hope you had a blessed holiday filled with family and fun.
Ours was a first we will never forget and we're can't wait for the many more to come!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Cross Eyes

Daddy loves it when she makes this face. Well more like when she crosses her eyes, but I kinda think its creepy. But we're documenting everything so why not this too!!

Scary crossed eyes...

Uncrossed eyes, much better!!

And just so in case you were wondering all babies cross their eyes at this age because they're still developing their eye muscles.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

11 Weeks Old

Oh my 11 weeks old already!!
Carmella is loving her play gym and can spend up to 30 minutes just looking at the toys and lights. Her little movements are becoming more coordinated and I have even caught her grabbing onto toys for a few seconds.  She has found her hands and enjoys sucking on them to pacify herself. 

Look at me 11 weeks old!!

She can even stay sitting up with some back support. 
Oh but look at those sweet cheeks!!
 
This week we're getting ready to celebrate her first Christmas. Oh what fun that will be!!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hanging out with my "great" cousins

Spending time with my Auntie's and great cousins is so much fun for everyone!!

Some cuddle time with Alayna

 Hanging with Alyssa
Along with singing some songs Alyssa was teaching her some Spanish

 Adios/ chow for now...... (a little Spanish and Italian)

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Spending the night at my Auntie's


Chris had a business trip to the Pacific Northwest for a week, so we decided to go spend some time with Aunt Cindy and Auntie Annette. We packed up what felt like the whole house and headed out (which is really only 10 minutes away).

It was a great week filled with lots of fun! Carmella was loved on and entertained by her great cousins Alayna and Justin. Mommy and Carmella learned a lot about traveling and had to find new inventive ways to take naps that weren't in the swing or stroller.

Carmella spent some quality gym time with Alayna and was so good about sharing her toys.



She was a great little sleeper and slept through the night in her travel bed. 


  I have to admit that I love this travel bed and I can't wait to use it again in a few weeks when we go to Oregon for Uncle Stephen's wedding.


Thanks Aunt Cindy, Uncle Mark, Alayna and Justin for a FUN week, now we're off to see Auntie Annette. I hope we can do it again soon..... lets say sometime in January when Chris has his next business trip.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Beautiful Smiles!

Finally I was able to catch her smiles on Camera (must be the new camera)
This is just the beginning of her little smile...

She is still thinking about it....

Ok someone is happy!

 
 Oh and there is my sweet baby girls smile!!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

10 Weeks Old

Someone is 10 weeks old! Wow we are in double digits now.
I can't believe Carmella is already 2.5 months time flies!

Wow she can't even believe it has been 10 weeks.

Carmella is always smiling and she is beginning to vocalize even more.
Her little coo's are turning into squeals and she is so excited to hear her own voice.

I love this picture.... she is telling me that she is 10 weeks old and she is the boss. 
Well technically she is the boss but she is the BEST boss ever!! 

This is the same bear suit that we brought her home from the hospital in this was the last time she wore it. As you can see she is too big for it, wow she really is growing fast!

Monday, December 12, 2011

Giuliana's birthday party

On Saturday Carmella's cousin Giuliana turned one!!
Everyone had a blast at the party and Chris and I had the opportunity to finish a meal and have uninterrupted conversations due to the fact that everyone wanted to hold and dote over Carmella.

We had a fun day celebrating Giuliana!


Look who is one!


Yummy cupcakes! I think she like the chocolate.


Carmella and Cindy


Sleeping with Judy Ann.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Playing with Cousin Madison

Carmella loves her cousin Madison!
She smiles at her and can't seem to stop starring at her.
On Friday after school, Madison and Nana came by to say hi and Carmella was fixated on her cousin. 


Looking forward to lots of fun times with these girls!

Friday, December 9, 2011

A Blow Out

A nasty dirty diaper blow out!!
You hear about them all the time but when it happens to you it's a whole different story. 
Thank goodness we were able to contain the blow out to only her pants and her onesie didn't have to be cut off. 

And just so we can embarrass her when she is older we captured it on film. So if you have a sensitive stomach then DON'T scroll down.........






















Ewwww yuck! Change me mommy!!