Baby Anthony Saku Mancini is here!! YAY!!

ok so after a crazy town pregnancy and a RIDICULOUS birth experience our little family is complete. We never thought we would have even one and now to be blessed with 2 amazing little souls is just unbelievable. Honestly we just can't stop pinching ourselves! Our little man even gave us a nice p[resent for Christmas and woke up only 2 times last night so we got two really good chunks of sleep! YAHOO!!

So this year was obviously a toned down holiday, we have not had any visitors or anything ( little immune system and all) so here are a few pictures to tide you all over until we get a chance to see everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and look forward to meeting you all in the new year!

Epic road melt down...over a shovel

Who doesn't  love to play outside?!?! Layla Rose had a great time playing in the snow...made some mini snowmen and shoveled. But do we use the shovel we got special for you,,,oh no, we want the BIG shovel LOL. Then get mad because it is too heavy, but even better get REALLY mad when we try to help! LOL!

 

 

This is the result of taking away the right shovel :)

GIVING UP! haha!!

Pre baby famiyl fun day!

So with just a few short sleeps un our newest edition arrives we were super lucky to have a fun day together doing all kinds of fun things. Our options are pretty limited since I am waddling around at the pace of a turtle but we had a super fun time and look forward to Baby #2 to share things like this with him too!

ok so first stop...Fairview, good place since lots of things ot see and plenty of places to sit down! LOL! so we decided to give Santa a try...somehow that didn't work out, the line up was 1hr long and Layla Rose freaked out at the amount of people so somehow that turned into a chocolate ice cream and the ipad...

I have to admit though, watching her eat the cone was worth it, I never laughed so hard at the disaster of her holding that cone for dear life!! she wouldn't let go, I had to scrape the melted ice cream off with a straw and then bribe her at home to trade it for a bottle. It was a soggy mess!!

 

Next was swimming at the pointe Claire pool, I have to say that our little dragon fish was AMAZING! we switch lesson 3 weeks ago and WHAT a difference, she won't even let us hold her in the water anymore, so we have to put the bubble on her! she only lets us hold her hands. She is so good and she jumps in like a wild woman!! So fun!

 

 

And we finished off the day with an attempt at a gingerbread house and the Muppet Christmas carol...Super fun finish but needless to say perhaps a bit to young for the gingerbread house...lol

Fun Day with a snowy Dragon!

Today we had a fun afternoon! after crazy hair day at day care we had some fun playing in the backyard with the sled and then in the pillow pile!! These moments make the toughies easier to take!

Pink stay puffed marshmellow!!

Daddy showing how to make a snowball

Faster daddy! faster!!

look how tough Bongo is ...staying inside

Pillow Pile...

Gymnastics a la Layla Rose

These are not the droids you are looking for

Our fur babies!

The one and only time

Ok folks, so as my due date approaches I am excited and can't wait for this little guy to complete our quartet. But as I show more people often go to touch my belly or ask if they could feel it move etc. Then I get those people who insist I take pregnancy photos or do a maternity shoot or a cast of my belly. I totally understand that for most women maybe these things are fun or nostalgic or whatever but for me they are not. I have never ever posted a photo of my belly because of what it looks like. It is not a memory I look at with fondness and the reason for that is the pain I am in and the reminder my belly is of the difficulty of the pregnancy. Many people do not know but I have ot inject medication into my belly and this causes very big and very sensitive bruises. Because I know most of you make these suggestions without knowing, here is the one and only belly shot you will ever get. I gope it helps to explain why I do not allow anyone to touch me and also why I do not look at pregnancy with the same emotions as everyone else.

 

 

This is not to say I am not happy to be having a second baby, I am THRILLED! but the process for us is complicated, emotional, physically draining, expensive and overall wrought with worry.  This pregnancy alone I will have injected my self 259 times, taken 1554 pills, spent almost 50 hrs at the hospital , had 2 operations, given 28 tubes of blood, done 8 cultures,  and quite frankly taken my BP so many times I can't even begin to count it. All of that said...2 wonderful kids is more than worth it, but explaining this process may help my friends and family understand why I do not let ANYONE touch my tummy. But you can be sure you will all be able to hold our little bundle when he gets here!!