Twinkle Toes

Here's my little man, or as my friend Billie calls him, "Twinkle Toes." The kid looks for any reason to dance, including his bedtime lullaby aquarium. What a wacko!

We have had another busy week as usual. Ok, that line is getting old, Who *isn't* busy these days?? Anyhoo, I got my promotion at work, *YAY*, but have had a cold all week so I haven't really felt like celebrating. YiaYia is coming tomorrow from Greece (duh, where else do YiaYia's come from?) and I have to speed clean my house, or as mi madre says, give it a "lick and a promise." Can't have YiaYia thinkin' that her son and grandson live in a pigstye!!! I am just gonna clean a little, 'cause within one week of her being here, everything will be torn apart and shiny! Woohoo!

The Mardars are coming over tomorrow to take their stinky nephew out for a few hours so I can get some work done. Thank God for them. We love us some Mardars. Oh, yeah and did I mention my friend Billie? She has been watching Matt for the last 6 weeks since we took him out of day care and has been awesome! She knew I was sick this week and not feeling my usual spunky self so one night she gave Matt a bath before I picked him up and tonight she made me dinner to take home and heat up. How incredible is that? In addtition to watching my munchkin torment her munchkin all week, she did all that great stuff for me! Love ya Billie!

Matt got two teeth this week, one I knew was coming in and another one, a MOLAR, I noticed when I was tickling him tonight. My baby is getting his molars! What the hell?!? He had a follow up appointment with the ENT this week and his ears looked great so no tubes for now!!

We are getting excited about next week as our dear friends Keith and Danielle are getting married! We'll be home in the 'burgh for a few days to visit everyone. Hope we have a little cool weather- I am getting tired of this heat. Have a great Labor Day weekend everyone!

Grammy PJ and Pappy Bruce

My Mom and Bruce are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this month! They came to Miami to stay with us for a long weekend, then set sail on a cruise to Key West, Cozumel, and Coco Cay.

At the end of the cruise, they stayed another weekend with us. Two weekends in a row- we were so excited!

Matty with his Pappy Bruce

My independent, stubborn 16 month old had a fit when we went down the slide together, so I let him go by himself and Pap caught him at the bottom. He made such a big splash, but climbed up the steps and did it over and over again!

WEEEEEEE! I love his face!!!

Baby Becks

Matthaios is a natural soccer player! He has been playing with a little foam ball for a while now and Daddy felt it was time to graduate to a big boy ball. He did great! He is very coordinated ( I think so anyway) and can kick the ball while it's moving toward him. He even shuffles his feet so that he can kick it with his (dominant) left foot. It's too funny. When he really gets into it, he grunts when he kicks hard! Dad (and Mom too, of course) is very proud of him. Plus, he looks so adorable when he's all sweaty!

Weekly Review

"Hey, Mom- whatcha think of my new kicks?"

Girls Night in!

Me and my girls- Karen, Martha and Michelle with our Mojitos.

Matt with his mad skills. The nursery is slowly transforming into a big kid room. What is going on here?!?

This past week has been another crazy one, so here ya go, the highlights in no particular order:

- Matt had another ear infection (do I sound like a broken record?) which I took him to the doctor for on Monday. On Friday, he had a high fever so back to the doctor we went and she said he has pneumonia. WTF??? More antibiotics and tons of diarrhea. I feel awful for my little guy, but he has been such a trooper. We took him out of the day care and now my friend Billie is watching him at her house until Yia Yia arrives next month.

- My Aunt Sheila and cousin Marchelle are here this week visiting from PA. Marchelle is looking at colleges in the area and they are both enjoying this (ugh) hot weather we've been having lately.

- I had an interview last week for a promotion at work which went very well. Hopefully in another week or two, I'll be movin' on up!

-My girls came over on Saturday for a "Passion Party" and we had a blast! If you ever get invited to one- don't pass it up- and please invite me!!

- Me and my main squeeze went on a hot date over the weekend for dinner and a movie. Foti knows how much I am in love with Matt Damon so he took me to see 'The Bourne Ultimatum' and I was in hea-ven!!! This is the best movie I have been to in such a long time!! Go check it out- the car chase and fight scenes are the most realistic I have ever seen. Oh, did I mention Matt Damon is hot?

-Matty got hix sixth tooth on Saturday- now he's even, 3 on top and three on the bottom.

I guess that's enough for one week. I am pooped and it's only Monday. Sigh.