I'm BACK!

I can't believe I forgot my password for this blog! Am I to add memory loss to my issues! LOL! Don't worry - I changed my password to something I will NEVER forget!
I can't believe "summer" is over! Jonathan started school on the 2nd - 8th grade! On the 22nd he will turn 13 years old! A teenager! Isabella starts school on the 13th & then it will be just Dante & I. After the holidays I hope to start a Mommy & Me class w/ Dante. BTW my baby will be turning 1 on the 24th! Where did the time go? Where did my little baby that fit in the crock of my arm go? He's crawling all over the place & walking by holding on to things. He climbs on & off my bed & the 3 steps in & out of my kitchen. Today, after we (yes - Dante too!) ate pizza Dante wanted to kiss me...wet, sloppy, pizza breath BUT it was the best kisses ever! I love my husband w/ all my heart but his kisses are NOTHING compared to the kisses from my kids! I can be down in the dumps depressed or miserable in pain & 1 of them will come & plant a kiss on me & it's like heaven on earth! Who needs Prozac! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!

So this summer has been pretty great. Lots of trips to Wawayanda, Bear Mountain, The Bronx Zoo, Jersey...local parks & MANY friends' BBQs & pool parties. Dante got his 1st taste of pool & ocean water & LOVED it. He's like a little fish just splashing away! He got a little taste of some sand which he didn't care for so much cause he never did again. Mulch on the other hand...must be the fiber in there! He's a little dare devil - not afraid of anything. He loves the swings & going down the slides @ the park, being tossed in the air by his Dad & swung around by his Uncle Carlos. He's a huge foodie. Sweet potatoe fries & regular french fries are some of his favs. He'll have a bowl of mashed potatoes, likes to eat corn on the cob, chicken, spaghetti, baked ziti, grape tomatoes, bananas & maduros. He apparently either likes or doesn't mind spicey foods as he's accidentally had buffalo wings or extra spicey General Tso chicken & smiled instead of cringing. He's so amazing! All my kids are amazing to me. But since he is my last baby I have been paying extra close attention to him, his querks & every little thing that is baby like about him. I am happy to see my kids grow but I am really going to miss them as babies!
Now that fall is around the corner I am looking foward to all that fall will bring. This does NOT mean that I'm looking foward to the cold weather - summer will always be my favorite - but I am looking foward to pumpkin picking, apple picking, dressing the little ones for Halloween, Disney, the fall dance, basketball & the cute boots & sweaters I'll get to wear. Most of all I'm looking foward to all the family time we'll get to spend together - especially around the fire pit!
I'll be back!! <3