visit from Macie

On Sunday Joe's brother Phil and his wife Michelle stopped by with our ADORABLE niece Macie for a visit. It was so nice to see them and especially the baby. It was a good test for us to see how the dogs would react to a baby. Niko loved the carseat, was trying very hard to get his teeny tiny self off the floor and into it. Then Zoe just wanted to lick her ...she was really good, until she saw the stuffed animal hanging from the carseat and she was trying to snatch it like we couldn't see her. Too funny. Macie was soooo mesmerized by the Christmas tree lights so I just held her facing the tree and she fell asleep. Until Uncle Joe touched her head and she had a fit. Oh well it was a fun morning.

Jaden Sebastian Fasetti

Here he is.. born December 12th
7lbs. 13oz. 21 in.

He is so cute! I am mad b/c I have no pictures of me holding him and I was at the hospital 2 times!!!!! Even worse.. the camera was in my purse! So, I am stealing some of kristi's pics. lol

7 months..3rd trimester begins

It's been a while since I did the belly pics, but I am really only doing it on the "months." Everything is going well so far. Having trouble sleeping. Doesn't matter how many pillows I use or don't use, I just can't seem to get it right. The peeing a million times a night is getting old... I know, I know, "just wait....."

I go to the dr. on the 10th, I will do another update then.

Next time I am going to try to take these when I am not in pajama's and when I don't look like crap. I think I need to get Joe some photography lessons.... lol

I don't know why this first pic makes me look wide.... could be b/c I am pregnant, but really, I feel like my whole body looks stretched.

Thanksgiving

Ok, well this post is going to go backwards..... Thanksgiving was very nice this year. We decided that Thanksgiving would be at our house this year and I think Joe and I did a pretty good job as "hosts." My mom and I cooked....that was a first time for me. We started early with baking then to the turkey.... I must say, cleaning then stuffing a turkey is disgusting..... BLAH! I don't eat turkey and I think I know why....gross...

After dinner and dishes it was time for....ROCK BAND! For those of you who have yet to experience Rock Band for Wii... It is HYSTERICAL! Here are some pictures of the concert...

Joe and Ryan.. I believe this was a Sabatoge from Beastie Boys... too funny. Look at the sweat on these two... They aren't even drunk!

Joe on guitar, Ryan lead vocals and me sucking at drums... I am HORRIBLE at drums. Doesn't help that I am wetting my pants from laughing!




Check out that FACE!!! That must have been the "solo."





I think this was another solo.. my cousing Lisa on drums.


Joe and Gram....


Mom and Joe's dad....look at that cheese!

Ryan....

Joe and I......

I look like a dork, but I was mixing a salad and was caught off guard...figures.





And I saved the best for last.... This is Joe playing guitar...to the song "Roxanne." If you listen closely you can hear my mom, Joe's mom, and my aunt laughing hystericaly! It was too funny. My camera work is bad becuase I too was laughing. My mom told Joe's mom that we may be taking a trip to the hospital if I kept laughing ...They were sure it wasn't good for me to be laughing that hard.

Holy CRAP!!!!!

99 days!!!! WE ARE NOT READY FOR BABY YET!!!!.....

I am the lucky one that has the holidays coming up so the party planners decided a shower would be better in January.... My luck, I will be a month early!

Eeekkk.....!

dr. update

Had the glucose test....gross but no big deal. Waiting for the results on that.

I measured at 26 weeks.
Heart rate: 156
my weight is up about 7 lbs.

I will have updated pics soon.

24 almost 25 weeks...

Is it me or is there a huge baby in there? It is like all of a sudden I woke up like this..... I wonder what month 9 will look like. I am no good at taking the weekly picture, so I am going to stick to the monthly picture... 6 months. Eeek!

I saw this quote in the paper today....

Rosa sat , so Martin could walk, so Barack could run.......

Isn't that cool? We have come a long way.

GRRRRRR.......

I MISSED IT!!!!!!! I fell asleep!!! You think my husband would wake me up for the speech?! ? NO! He let me sleep! He knew how excited I was ( I like this stuff) and I couldn't wait to get home and start watching all the news programs and what do I do..... FALL ASLEEP!!!!!!

Congrats Obama!!!!!! Only 77 more days of BUSH!

Practice makes perfect...

Or so I hope. Joe and I had the opportunity to babysit for Jess and Mike on Saturday while they attended Dave and Laura's wedding. We had a great time. Although I think it was the longest I ever babysat, it was SO worth it! Peyton was SUCH a good girl and I was great to spend some quality time with her. She is still a PEANUT! Here are some pics from the day....


Joe's FIRST time feeding a baby. He did VERY well, at least I think Peyton thought so.

7pm and we are FINALLY awake! So we tried to get some "activity" time in.

And this was the scene for most of the day. Atleast for my bathroom breaks. I couldn't help but hold her the ENTIRE time!

I wish I had a picture of Joe trying to put Peyton's pj's on... I left him to the task since he needs more practice. I was getting a drink of water in the kitchen and I here "babe help, I look like Britney Spears in here... I don't know what I am doing!" You would think HUGE hands would make holding a teeny baby easy.? It was like he was trying to put clothes on a barbie. For those confused on the Britney Spears comment, think back to the bad mom pictures...

Oh, and Peyton was fine, VERY patient with Uncle Joe and all the fumbling. He did get the pj's on....backwards. But we didn't tell him that. "buttons in the back babe."

Thanks again Jess and Mike, we had a great time and can't wait to do it again.

It's been a long time.....

Since I posted last, and I apologize to those who actually read it... Here are some pics from the NKOTB concert. We had GREAT seats..

Here is a video (I think) from the concert. I love my little camera!

Attention Parents...

Now open in Algonquin!!!!!!! Yay....! I thought it was the 24th, but I have been told it is open! I love new stores!!! The one in Schaumburg is a hole!!!!

Step by Step......

Oohh baby.... I know I am retarded....but I have been waiting since 1989 to see these guys in concert!!!! I am cracking up because I am going with my sister....2 pregnant girls screaming their brains out for New Kids On The Block....lol Friday is the big night.... I know some girls have gone to the earlier concert, I hope it is as good as the show you saw...

EEEEKKKK!!!!

21 weeks (5 months)

ugh..... not a good picture!
I just think this looks like flab....
And this just looks like I am BLOATED!

Congratulations John and Kari

On Saturday John and Kari tied the knot. I feel really bad b/c I did not get ONE picture of the bride and groom together... or the bride. But, here are some other pics from the evening...




We actually took a good picture!!
Me and Michelle
Benji, Matt, Joe and his bro Phil
Phil and Michelle... dancing, kinda.
Ok so the boys are gay...... they did this throughout the entire song "Summer of '69"

catching up 4 months

Here is me at 4 months. Don't know what "week" but I do know it is 4 months.

And I don't know why the stupid picture posts above the darn writing!!!!! WTF!@#

dazed and confused...

So we started our baby registry today. Need I say more. I have to say, AGAIN, I am very disappointed in the bedding choices. We registered for the fish, not sure if I can fully commit though. Here are some others I thought were cute. Tell me what you think. I don't know if I love any of them....:-(

decisions, decisions....

there just isn't the same amount of cute choices for boy bedding as there is for girl bedding....This one is in contention though... stay tuned.

Moment of Truth

Well Here HE is......This is the first picture of Joseph Salvatore Scimeca. As you can imagine Joe is on cloud 9. It was an exciting day, and nerve racking! I was more worried about consuming 32 oz. of water in a 15 min. time period, while trying to get my 3rd graders packed up and ready to go home. I know they thought I was nuts as I was trying to explain their math homework while sucking down 2 bottles of water.

Anyway, after driving over EVERY pothole on the way home my bladder was ready to explode. I get Joe in the car and we were off to the dr. After signing in, we sit, I try to ignore the throbbing of my bladder.....the ultrasound tech peaks her head to inform me she will be late because the B$#%@ ahead of me decided to come 20 minutes late to her appointment. The tech must have sensed the sheer panic in my eyes, or the 32 oz. of water I just chugged because she informed me that I could infact....relieve myself. What the ????#$@! What was the point of the chugging???? So I got over it and went... OH MAN!!!

Soo.... I hiked up the shirt, unzipped the pants, yes we want to know the sex lady..... lets go! So she lubed me up and the conversation goes something like this:

Lady: Well...um...well...it's definately a boy...

Joe: YESSSSSSS!!!!! (fist pump)

Me: How can you tell, where is IT?

Lady: Well it's right there..... (still have no clue) He has his hand on it.

Me: Oh GEEZE! GO FIGURE! Already they know that? crap!

Joe: Stupid giggle

Lady: Oh, now he is sucking his thumb.

Me: EEwww, we are definately talking about that!

So after about 20 minutes, we got to see little Joey bouncing around like he already needs ADHD meds.... jk, but he was SUPER active, I hope this isn't forshadowing...

Everything is normal, all arms and legs are there so now we just wait.....

Ok, the picture is small, but I think if you click on it it will get bigger.....