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Went great! The big kids had no problems and were down right excited. I guess I’ve been talking it up enough. I spoke with Nicky’s counselor about his back, mostly to warn her because the first time the words “I can’t do that, I have a rod in my […]

We are sitting at CHOP waiting for the doc and Nicky is playing brick buster on my BlackBerry. I ask him, “How can this game be more fun than all your Gameboy games?” (Its a tiny, gray scale screen with a game from the beginning of time where a ball bounces around breaking […]

… Noelle said in response to this sight.

It was pretty awesome.
Here are the kiddos after tubbies and before bedtime tonight:

That belies the true state of the evening. I must admit that I really dislike this 3 year old stage. Who me, listen to you? Carlo is particularly bad because he thinks everything […]

As I’m buckling Carlo and Noelle into the car for the trip to gymnastics, Carlo looks up at me and says, “Mommy, you happy now. Me clean. Me no poopy.”
And, yes, I was happier at that moment than 10 minutes earlier. The boy had poop from the sole of his foot to his […]

Can you believe it? I can’t. To me it’s as if he was my son since the day he was born.  I didn’t know it at the time, but that doesn’t change the reality of it.  He is such a joy and a love.  How lucky am I?!?!?!