Spring Fever Take 2!

Temperatures rising into the low 70's will give even the grumpiest snow meiser a case of Spring Fever and two consecutive days in a row of said temperatures are almost more than I can handle. Unfortunately we wasted most of the weekend indoors (mostly shopping for Spring/Summer clothes), but at least we got to shut off the heat and open up the windows in the house. We didn't spend all weekend shopping though, we did get to spend Sunday morning at the Smith Playhouse in Fairmont park with some of my other "Mom" friends. Here are a few pictures from our morning.

A task of epic proportions

Okay, so maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but come on, getting 8 kids together for a family portrait is not an easy task. Think about it, 8 kids, aged 10 months though 13 years old, not an easy thing. And it's not even just the day of that is complicated, it's the simple task of 3 busy sets of parents with even busier kids finding the time to all get together. We did pretty good, it only took us 2 months to find a Sunday that we were all free. Then, after we found a date we had to decide on what the kids would wear. So, the day finally came, the kids looked great and all came prepared with their best smiles, with the exception of Alyssa that is; she wanted no parts of the picture and made this well known. I was fully expecting the two youngest to keep trying to crawl out of the picture, but instead, I had to sit next to Alyssa as she kept trying to skootch out of the picture I kept skootching her back in. Notice Alyssa's posture in the picture below, that was par for the day so we just went with it.

Spring Fever!

When we woke up this morning it was a balmy 64 degrees in the Bonavita house (in spite of the thermostat being set at 72). Isn't it funny how after all the short winter days and long winter nights that 64 degrees outside calls for shorts and tank tops, but 64 degrees in your own living room calls for sweatshirts, sweatpants and two pairs of socks?

That's okay though, being chilly afforded me the opportunity to cuddle with Alyssa, which is something that she never lets me do. And after we were done cuddling I decided to look through a few old shots from last Spring when we were enjoying the great outdoors and then share them with you all. Enjoy!

Finally, the joy of having a girl!

Within the last month or so, Alyssa has finally let me start to do some more girly things with her. First was when she finally let me paint her toenails. I'd being trying to do this for months but every time I got out the nailpolish she would run in the other direction screaming "NO!". Well, she finally let me do it and now I've created a montster. She has done a complete 180 and now wants me to paint her fingers and toes everyday. I actually had to hide the nailpolish in the hopes of breaking the habit that I created! Here are a few pictures of her showing off her pretty pink toes.




The second "girly" thing that Alyssa gave in to was letting me braid her hair. Her hair is super long and I've been wanting to do this for months but she would never let me. Finally the other night not only did she let me braid her hair, she let me put it in a French Braid. Woo hoo!

Let there be curls

As you all know, Dave has pretty curly hair. We had hoped that the kids would get his curls, but well, you know how that goes. Alyssa definitely has some curls but they are mostly in the back and are more or less just nice waves. Up until now, it has seemed that Nate was also going to go the way of the non-curls, until his bath today. When I was drying his hair I noticed that there was some waviness where there was none before. A quick application of some of Daddy's hair gel and voila! We have curls! Not sure if they were brought out by the conditioning shampoo that I used or what, but who cares, I have photo documentation of curls.

The Naterator is hitting some milestones!

Our little big man is getting, well, big! On his 10mth birthday he started walking full time and then today he started clapping! Yay! I've included a couple of links, so enjoy.

Nate can walk! @ Yahoo! Video

Nate claps! @ Yahoo! Video

And while we were trying to capture Nate clapping, we got this one. Don't worry, no babies were hurt in the making of this film.

Nate's new booboo @ Yahoo! Video

Looks like we're going to have some models in our midst!

Sorry that I haven't posted in so long, I've been slacking. Stay tuned because I'm going to try to get in here and add some backdated posts :)

Anyway, on to our news. Alyssa had an appointment yesterday with a local modeling agency http://www.mainlinemodelagency.com/ . They loved her look and are very interested in working with her. Even better, I had Nate with us and they said that they are very interested in him as well! This is so exciting, I will keep you all up to date as more information becomes available.