Coming this July....

First came:

Then came:

Then came:

 

 

 

 

Baby Scotti!!!
Due July 7th. 

 So excited to be an Auntie!!
Congratulations Christine and Jonathan!

Surviving Fatherhood..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It's a tough thing, parenting. Especially when you're on the dad side of things. Luckily...there's beer, and sober Mommas. :) 

Lists

 

 

 

Z is a passionate child. He loves and hates with so much of himself. The list of things that Z doesn't like is surprisingly(?) long.

He doesn't like...

when I put jelly on his PB&J.

when he's under a blanket and his socks are on.

when he spills milk on the table, or yogurt on his shirt.

when his popsicle is too cold.

when there is green stuff in his Auntie Ginnie's chicken soup.

when his show is too loud.

when his show is too quiet.

when he has fuzzies between his toes.

when I clean up his toys and he's "still playing with them" (even though he hasn't looked at them since yesterday).

when I don't leave the backup camera on all the time in the Murano.

when I turn the radio on.

when I turn the radio off.

when Elara has the toy he "really wants to play with."

when we forget to do "what we did today" at bedtime.

when his milk gets warm.

when you buy yellow oranges (navel) instead of orange oranges (clementines).

when the cheese isn't square.

when the cheese isn't yellow.

when his chocolate chip cookies have raisins in them.

when we have to return the library books.

when people go back to their own houses.

when we tell him to leave his shoes on in the car/plane/church.

when his stuffed animals have to take a bath.

when he can only have two vitamins.

when someone he wants to play with is holding Elara.

when Elara "fuzzes" for even a second.

The Scottis certainly got it right when they gave Z his Christmas present. We won't ever see him on Z's list, he loves his new friend, "Scotti!"

A Very Corriveau Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santa came to visit Zachary and Elara several times this year, lucky babies! The first round was at the Corriveau Christmas party. The little ones cleaned up nicely, and we enjoyed catching up with the family and introducing Elara. I also enjoyed my early Christmas present from Paul--I got a new lens for my camera. Lucky Momma!

Cohorts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Z really and truly adores his baby sister, and there is no one Elara finds more entertaining than her big brother. The very second she starts crying, he is telling me that she's upset. As if I couldn't hear the Princess Diva's demands on my own. He delivers her toys, and pacifiers and blankets, "because," he tells me, "she needs them!" Zachary's antics now bring Elara into full hysterical belly laughs. Jumping jacks, transformations, spinning until you fall down, or his latest thing, saying the word "nuncio!" Because, of course, "she likes it when I say nuncio." And she does. Whatever "nuncio" means.

Mirth

 

 

 

 

 

This last picture totally sums up Elara's personality. Well, at least the happy part of her personality!