Meijer Gardens

Before Thanksgiving, Chiara, Norah, Nonna, Oma, and I went to Meijer Gardens to walk around and see the Christmas decorations. It was a lovely brisk Michigan afternoon. We shoved Norah and Ethan into the double stroller and bundled them up, they seemed to enjoy themselves!!

Christmas PJ's

Norah and Ethan can't wait for Christmas! It was very difficult trying to get them to face the camera at the same time, they were more intersted in the play kitchen.

Thanksgiving 4

James always brings 10 or more different board games when he and Chiara come to visit. They always have a lot of fun playing, Jim's brother Mark even came over because he had such a good time last year!
Norah had fun putting in and taking out Ethan's pacifier from his mouth. She would also push it to the center of his mouth if he was sucking it on the side of his mouth. Norah likes to have order in her world, and Ethan just needed to accept that!

Thanksgiving 3

Marco and Nicholas tyring to look cool, Francesca and Ethan, Chiara and Alessia, the three girls, and all five of us. It was a fun night.

Cousins

These two are adorable! Norah enjoyed her Thanksgiving meal, she kept asking her parents for "more" - it was very cute!

Thanksgiving 2

We continued our feast at Nonna's house. Here is Chiara and Ethan, James and Chiara, and the two people who gave Ethan his drop dead gorgeous looks!!

Thanksgiving

Ethan's first Thanksgiving was great. First we stopped by the Bradford's for a late Thanksgiving lunch before making our way to the Jasinski's for Thanksgiving dinner. Here is Kerri and Mark, Ethan and Aunt Kerri, and Jim and Aunt Tess. Ethan really seemed to enjoy watching everyone enjoy the food! (He did have some sweet potatoes and turkey later on!)

Cheerios!

Ethan loves Cheerios! He also loves posing for pictures. We were eating dinner tonight and Ethan had some cheerios stuck on his bottom lip (see bottom picture), anyway, I'm getting the camera out and ready and as soon as I aim it at him, he gets this big smile on his face. It was hillarious!

Halloween 4

After leaving Grandma and Grandpa Bradford, Ethan and I stopped by Nonna and Jeri's. Ethan was facinated by Nonna's mask and kept wanting to touch it. Uncle Nicholas and Sunny stopped by too.

Halloween 3

Ethan with Grandma and Grandpa Bradford. Aunt Kerri stopped by before getting into costume for the night.

Halloween 2

Ethan and I stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Bradford's. The first year I met Jim he took me over to his parents house on Halloween. It was maybe our second date or so, anyway, they had their whole front porch decorated with bones, smoke machines, spider webs, strobe lights, scary music, everything Halloween. His parents were even dressed up to the nines! Needless to say, I thought they were pretty crazy for putting that much effort into Halloween, but all the neighborhood kids loved coming to the Bradford's house and getting scared.

This year was a little more toned down, they still had the bones and smoke machine out though. Ethan thought it was pretty cool.

Halloween

The Bradford Cousins, Ethan the Tiger, Emily the Pirate, and Addison the Ladybug!

Fall Fatty

Fall is here, but we still have to take the dog for a walk! Ethan enjoys his walks, he usually talks and laughs at Zero the entire time.