Boys, boys and more boys...

Our lil' man Joey had his 4 month check up and weighed in at 15lbs even! Both his height and his weight came in around the 50th percentile. I can't remember exactly (the sheet is somewhere in this mess of a house), but I want to say 52% for height and 56% for weight. I would have thought for sure lil' chubba lub would have been off the charts :) He had 4 vaccinations and with the first shot just growled at the nurse...the last three brought on a tear and a quick little cry and that was it. Tough guy!

Where's Waldo... I mean Nico?

So here is one of those times that I kinda just let Nico try and figure it out himself. He was standing on our neighbors retaining wall and decided he would try and scale down it. It was a LITTLE bit taller of a wall than he anticipated. Below he is hanging on for dear life yelling "HELP...HEEEELP"

As you can see from this shot he was a little frightened.. I still managed to quick take a pic before assisting him down. Ha!

We tried Joey on some solids... 4 months is a little early, but eh why not! This was applesauce.

It looks like he knows what to do...but we weren't very successful and then he yacked up what we did get down. I guess we will go back and try rice cereal first.

Always happy...

Making pancakes with Dad!

Nico would live outside if he could..

Joey's first time in the excersaucer. He loved it!

Mama and Joey

Self portrait attempt #2

Nico helping Joey with the nukie!

Mario video taped Nico running around... this was Nico's facial expression as he watched himself.

He thought it was hilarious and at the end would laugh and laugh and then say "agaaain" and we would have to play it over and over again.

Then of course he had to get into the excersaucer because his brother did :)

I remember when Nico's feet didn't even touch.

Here and there...this and that

Lately Nico has become a bit demanding. He will ask for things and end his sentence with "NOW".. this picture is of him saying over and over... "put my oatmeal on the table....NOW"... he says it with a little grin and it is so hard not to laugh!

The unhappy frog :(

I am sure he gets this from Mommy- he will pick up his phone, open it, dial....

Then say "hello? hi"... and walk around muttering..

then say "Bye" and close the phone..

Fat and happy.... look at that belly! You could pop it with a pin..

Wrestling again...

On the counter eating dinner again (shame shame)... believe it or not this is Nico chanting "broccoli, broccoli"...

Tired Joey

Standing in his drawer to turn on the music!

The "Burley Boys".. or in this case the "Nukie Boys"

Nico took my camera during our walk and the next few pics are ones he took ...they crack me up.

Quite artistic

Lately every time we have to get dressed or change a diaper it is an argument. Now he will wrap his hands around his legs and curl up like below so we can't change him. Frustrating!

Joey at Easter

The jumping Morelli's!

This face says it all..

The zooooooooo

Poor Joey in the background in the stroller

Boys will be boys....right?

Look at my handsome little ham hock! Those great big eyes... oh what color will they be??

WARNING!! ABOUT TO GO OFF ON A TANGENT! I took the boys to Edinburough Park today to let Nico blow off some steam.. We met Grandma Corky there.. Nico is and always has been my little daredevil. He will usually try anything once (unless it is food related).. he loves to jump and climb and bounce and test himself and his limits. Does he get hurt sometimes... YES, but would I ever stop him....NO! Some parents look at me like I am crazy when he is teetering on the edge of a wall with a 5 ft drop off. I know he is only 2 but we always say "be careful, you could fall and get hurt".. then we let him make his own decision. Of course he has gotten hurt and had his share of bumps and bruises but I would have it no other way. I don't want to generalize because I have met some pretty woosie boys and some daredevil girls (I was one)... but Nico is ALL BOY. We were at Children's Museum yesterday and there was this little girl with her mom about to go down a slide. She had to be about 1 1/2 maybe a tinch younger and this slide was no big thang...possibly 7 feet long and not a steep incline. The mother literally held onto her hand at the top of the slide and was reaching down holding onto her about 1/2 way down the slide. My mother in-law Gina was at the bottom ready to catch her and her mother looked TERRIFIED. Both of us just wanted to scream "LET HER GO".. she slid down about a foot and a half and started crying... LORD. Meanwhile Nico and his cousin Geno start wrestling down the slide headfirst laughing and screaming the whole way.

OK so pictures to make my tangent above make sense... There is this wall in the gym area of the indoor park and it has two LARGE steps. When I say large (tall) I mean like over half of his height. It takes him quite a bit to crawl up them. So he is standing at the edge with his little toes hanging over the side and looks at me and raises his eyebrow as to say "Can I jump Mommy?".. I say "Go ahead, be careful".. so as you can see from the first picture, he is jumping down rather timidly..

"Oh ok... I got this. Let me crawl up and try it again"

"I better get a running start"

"Yeeeehaw"

"Weeeeeeeeeee"

"Alrighhhy then"

OK by this time I was practically peeing my pants laughing. Those three mothers in the picture below were looking at me with the most judgemental eyes for letting him catapult himself off the steps like that. They each had little girls, playing nicely, quietly...