Stomach Virus STRIKES HARD

Last week we had a surprise visitor...the rotavirus.
Luca woke up on Tuesday and had thrown up in the night and fallen back asleep in it. Here's a pretty photo with his hair sticking up and a thermometer in his ear.Then Rob got sick about an hour later. That lasted 24 hrs. for both of them. Then Sabrina got it on Thursday, stayed home with Luca, and then Thursday night....LUCA got it again.

It's Sunday and we're all ok now.
(did we mention Luca's babysitter might have it now?)

Hair BUTCHERING—chop chop chop

This is my BEFORE shot

As you can see, I am not happy with mommy and
daddy's decision to get my hair cut at a salon.

Straight BANGS.

CHOP JOB!

Here's my AFTER shot.
They tell me it will grow out!

PS--never go to a mall to get your hair cut

Circus — Dinner at Kalyani's — Potty Time

Kalyani and her mommy.

Waiting for a delicious Indian meal that
Kalyani's mommy made for all of us.

Darwin and Ramesh reading to Luca.

Ramesh, Kalyani's brother.

The Moscow circus was performing at Queens college.
They had lots of flexible and strong people on stage.

Luca ran UP and DOWN the aisles during
the intermission. He was copying the older kids
doing the same thing and tried to play with them.

This is pretty amazing...

...and so is this.
Luca did his first poopie in the potty
a few weeks ago so I bought him his own chair.
So far he doesn't show much interest in it.
I was hoping for early potty training!

Snow storm of '08

A cute video of Luca in his snowsuit sitting and trying to walk in the snow.

Luca's first snowman.

Putting on the finishing touches with plant life from our back yard.

MY SNOW ANGEL

It's tricky to walk in this stuff.

Happy

Dancing with Hilary at a play date (supervised by both parents, of course)

ONE & 1/2 YEARS OLD

Jaleela and Luca. She's almost 1.

Luca's babysitter, Inshani, and her daughter, Jaleela.
Luca shares everything, including his 1/2 eaten banana.

Luca needs to see everything I'm doing in the kitchen now.
His perch...the counter.

A trip to the Bronx zoo, mid-winter.
The bug carousel was open!

Enricka gave me this cool moped sweatshirt.

Sesame Street LIVE! We went with
Giacomo, Dorian and their mommy Jenny.
ELMO was like a rock star!

Elmo balloons - $10 each

Giacomo showing Luca the ropes at the playground.
It was 60 degrees. Beautiful day for running around Manhattan.

Luca at the playground.

At the end of the day and after missing a nap,
Luca was POOPED!

Our Wedding Ceremony Video

The wedding ceremony in the chapel at City Hall, New York.
We were in and out in 5 minutes!

Mommy & Daddy...MARRIED

We started the day by taking the 11:28am LIRR train into Manhattan.

Luca was dressed up with black cords, a while oxford button up, a tuxedo jacket, a pink stripped tie, and converse hi-top shoes.

All smiles with his ticket in hand.

Luca and daddy sitting on some steps in city hall reading a book.
The three of us were photographed to appear in the New York Post wedding section.

Renee, Luca, Sabrina and Kalyani.

Mommy and Daddy are getting married!

Signing the paperwork.

My 2 best girls.

OUR OFFICIAL WITNESS...Jonathan.

Luca passed the time doing some clean-up.

Once we were in the Chapel, the ceremony took about 5 mins.
A few minutes to get situated and about 2 mins. for the judge to marry us.

The judge let Luca sit on her podium. It was very sweet.

Rob putting the ring on my finger.

Holding hands

Me putting a ring on Rob.

I now pronounce you husband and wife.

Kisses.

Wow. That was fast.

We're legal.

Happy family.

Post-nuptuial subway ride.

I made this bouquet.

Kalyani caught the bouquet. She's next!

In the middle of 9th Avenue, Chelsea.

Post-Nuptial dinner at Blossom, a vegan restaurant.

Jen and Frank

Jeremy, Jeff and Jonathan

Renee and Jen

Jeff and Jeremy, enjoying appetizers.

Frank, Jimmy and Rob mingling before dinner.

Darwin and Kalyani

Rob and John

Jonny made one of several toasts

Amy and Renee

Cutting the cake

That's a HUGE bite...but delicious.

Rob's turn.


Just kidding around.


We danced for about a minute to some house music.


Vegan RED-VELVET wedding cake.
It's a family tradition (not the vegan part, just the RV cake part)


The very end of the night....