It's been way to long.....

Sorry all; I been terrible at keeping up with this blog lately. Things have been hectic! Well as you all know Antonio turned the big ONE a month and a half ago, July, 11th. We delayed his party until my parents got home the first of August! However that gave us the opportunity to have a bunch of little partied for him. On the actual day of his birthday we woke up and I made blueberry pancakes for him. Antonio LOVES blueberries; I'm surprised he hasn't turned blue! We went to Toy's R Us with him and got a couple toys for him; of course a toy computer was one of them from Papa! I made cupcakes for his "cake" however he was very unimpressed!

The following weekend his Aunt Nelly and cousin Angelina came for a visit! We went to his 1st Mariner game and he did great! They played the White Sox and Antonio got to meet Omar who currently plays for them. Omar remembered me and came right over to us! I introduced him to Antonio and he was great with him. Antonio on the other hand just stared with a concerned, curious look on his face. We made it through 3 innings and decided to call it a night before a meltdown occurred! It was perfect too because we saw the Mariners score a run and Omar hit two hits! We were winning when we left so to us it was a GREAT game! The night before Nelly and Angelina left we had a mini birthday party with a mini cake and presents!

About a week later my mother in law came to visit for a few days! It was great having her here, cooking every night! Grandma and Antonio hit it off GREAT! They both loved each other! Antonio learned to walk the first day she was here which made Grandma so happy! :) It was sad for everyone when she left! That following weekend my parents came back from their year long Europe trip where the went EVERYwhere! That was a great reunion! They hadn't seen Antonio since he was a month old and were very surprised at how big he really was. We had skyped with them almost once a week but seeing them seeing him via a computer screen didn't do him justice!

The following week my daycare lady was on vacation for two weeks so my parent came over a couple times each week and spent some quality time with Antonio! It was pretty much a forced bonding time for all involved but it turned out well! The daycare lady came back from vacation and things have gone back to normal! Finally! However, Antonio has been teething and has been fighting a cold all at the same time and its been hard on all of us, especially him! I am hoping he is at the end of it now! In the middle of all that we had Antonio's 1st birthday party! (A post to come about the party....soon) So as you can see July and August have been pretty busy, hectic months with all the visitors, lack of daycare etc. Oh, and we started swim lessons the end of July. Antonio seems to like them, though is still pretty cautious!

I hope to catch up on a couple blogs in the next few days with pictures etc! Hope you haven't given up on the blog yet!