Birthday pictures Part 2

We decided to throw Gianni a little birthday party with a few friends and family the day after his birthday because Saturdays just work better for most people. It was really fun! I made invites on Photoshop with a little train on them saying "choo-choo Gianni is two" and we threw him a little choo-choo train party. It went about how you would expect a two year old party to go, kids running wild around the house while the adults munched and chatted. Gianni had a blast and I couldn't have asked for anything else.

Unexpectedly we got some snow, which Gianni was very excited about. He spent most of the earlier part of that day gazing out the window saying "s-NO!"

 All bundled up

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Checking out the white stuff

 At the party

 Gianni's little cousin Brody, he loves to play with this kid!

 Party food

 Our friends Loren and Kyle's little cutie Cole, can you believe he is 7 months?!

 Brody's little sister "bella" (isabella), riding Thomas the train!

 Brody helping Gianni hold down the button that makes it go.

 Playing mini Foosball

The two little babes, so cute!

Present time! 

New "choo-choo" train :) Thanks aunt "Ya-Ya" (Nicia)

Yay! A talking Lightning McQueen! (Thanks Angelina and Ty!)

Brody was a very good helper when it came to unwrapping presents :)

His first tricycle! Thanks Uncle Justin

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Big boy truck from grandma and grandpa Sanelli! He loves this thing although it took about 4 grown men to put it together it was worth the wait :)

Mooostache!

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The things he learns...

...from the "responsible" adult figures around him. (don't worry, his wasn't actually punctured, so no helium was inhaled)

Late birthday pictures Part 1

Sorry about the delay, we have been sick for the past 2 1/2 weeks and are slowly recovering, and I feel terrible not having posted pictures sooner of Gianni's 2nd birthday! But here they are, better late than never I guess :)

These first set of pictures are from January 13th, his actual birthday. We semi celebrated that day, but had a party planned for the following day, so we just had a chill day. I made his favorite breakfast (bacon, o.j., and crepes with berries), then later we took him out for a birthday dinner, opened presents, let him watch his favorite movie (cars aka lightning McQueen), had a birthday cupcake, then off to bed :)

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Yay! A new big boy potty! Thanks mommy and daddy! (now, are you ready for some embarrassing pictures?

So happy to be sitting on his big boy potty... 

...and that is about all he did on it.

 So excited to blow out the candle

Enjoying the yummy cupcake

 the remnants 

 Presents!

 Snazzy new church clothes

 Yay more toys!

Cool new skateboard! Thanks Grandma Horne for all the awesome presents!

I also have a super cute video of Gianni singing happy birthday to himself with us, but I can't get it to upload :(

Gianni is 2!

How time flies! I mean really, I seriously gave birth two whole years ago to this little boy who is in no way a baby any more? I can't believe how little he was, and how much he as grown. He makes us laugh so much and we just love him. He has brought so much joy and happiness to our lives, we just can't imagine life without him. Happy Birthday Gianni, we love you!

 Brand new, weighing in at just above 7 lbs.

The last two pictures were taken from his 1st birthday, I cant believe that was an entire year ago!

Gianni's First Hair Cut

So here is the straw that broke the camel's back and the crowning moment that led us to break down and get Gianni's hair cut.

We were in the Salt Lake City airport waiting for our plane, it was morning time and Gianni still had hi jammies on (classy I know), and might I mention that they were blue monster p.j.'s. Any one who knos Gianni knows he has a little bit of a cord fettish; computer cords, phone chargers, lamp cords, anything that can be plugged into a wall.

So, at the airport Gianni at one point found Domenic's laptop cord and was carrying it to him. This man passes by and says "Well at least you will know where to find HER, just follow the cord".

I guess Gianni must just be one beautiful little boy because that is about the 7th time I have heard some kind of comment about how cute "she" is. Blame the dark long eye lashes and the curly hair.

So here you go, Gianni's first official hair cut. Are you ready?? Beacuse here come so major picture overlaod okay??

 Pre Cut

 getting our capes on

 Explaining what I want

 The infamous haircut book

 Oh boy, this is going to be fun...

 "Aunt Niciaaaaaa SAVE MEEEE!!!!"

 That lollipop saved the day, holy cow.

 Gianni hates messy hands, and his hands had gotten sticky with lollipop juice and then his cut hair stuck to it, icky.

 20 minutes, 2 lollipops, 3 women distracting him, and one haircut later we have one cute little man.

Oh man I miss those curls, but I do have to admit he looks adorable.

Disaster

Ever wonder what happens when you leave a hot pink crayola in your pocket on wash day? Well I will tell you....DISASTER, and a very unhappy Britnae. I had the unfortunate opportunity of finding an extra full load of whites in the dryer covered with hot pink spots on every single item of clothing. It looked something like this...

Things like Domenic's shorts, swim shorts, my swim suit cover-up, clothes I had borrowed from my sister in law (yikes!), and much much more were destroyed, so I thought. I hopped on the internet hoping to find some kind of cure for my chicken pox whites.

I found suggestions like "I used WD-40 on my clothes and it came out great", to things as complicated as "okay all you have to do is use 2 max caps of tide HE + 1 cup Oxiclean in blue bottle + 1 cup borax + 1 cap full Clorox 2 + 1 cup Shout spray + 1 cup white vinegar, distilled + approximately 1 gallon of very hot water".

Considering I had limited patience and was already on the verge of throwing the whole load out, I decided to go with one of the simpler suggestions, Oxi Clean. Okay, I knew this stuff was supposed to be amazing, but I mean it really is AMAZING!

I ended up pre spotting all of the load with the blue bottle of oxi clean pre- spot (in the blue bottle), then soaked the clothes in the laundry room sink in HOT HOT water mixed with the powder oxi clean for about 4 hours, and then washed the load again in hot water with more powder oxi clean.

I know, a TON of oxi clean but it really did the trick!

So, moral of the story...Don't leave crayons in your pocket! But if you do, use oxiclean (and get a cosco size because you will use a lot).