1 month

I can't believe we have been living here for a month already!! Where did the time go?

I still feel like it was a week or two when we arrived!! I still have stuff in boxes to get orginezed and all my decor to hang up!

The apartment is looking way better though, they steam cleaned the carpet and it looks 100% better and doesnt smell like cigarretes anymore! Yahoo!!! I sure hope by christmas the house is organized!!

At the beginning of the month, we went down to New Jersey for Liam to meet my family. The drive was gorgeous and we made it down in less than 4 hours. They all loved Liam and he especially loved the extra hands to carry him around and all the atention. He was really good all the way there and back, and he didnt even wake up! He also went to his first "soccer practice" with my twin nieces.

Liam is growing so much! He smiles widely and follows us around the room. He recognizes when Kyle gets home from school and is starting to reach his arm towards the mobile.

Kyle is doing good; busy with school, but enjoying it. He has a friend in the program that is LDS and we have hung out with him and his wife a couple times. Its fun to finally meet someone, and go out. They have a 2 year old boy and a newborn baby girl. We also hung out with some of his program friends and enjoyed some tasty food from Turkey!

We miss you guys and wish we could be closer!

Here I leave you with some cute pictures!!

Liam in a Chacabana

He loved his plastic tub bath!

With me at the soccer practice

With my grandma.

Already a month old

I can't believe how fast time passes by when you have so many blessings in your life. I still remember when we got the call from the hospital to let us know they were ready for us, to induce me. The feeling I had while getting ready and driving to the hospital. So excited to see him, meet him and connect with him. I remember the love, support, and peace that Kyle's presence brought me that day. I experienced almost all feelings that day, including deception and sadness, but all of them where replaced by feeling complete once I saw him for the first time.

Now a month has passed by and I can truly say that I have enjoyed every bit of it. From feeling overwhelmed, not knowing what to do, to the smiles, coos and diapers!

I'm happy to report that Liam weights 10 pounds 14 ounces (gained 3 pounds in a month!!) and measures 21.5 inches long. He is a very observant little guy who enjoys to talk, sign, and dance with me. He loves to take naps on daddy's chest and to swing in his little swing. For the most part, he wakes up every 3-4 hours at night time and goes right back to sleep. He still pays tons of attention to his surroundings and to faces, loves bath time, specially when we wash his hair, and smiles to you if he thinks what you are saying is funny. He has learned to push himself up with his feet. He also keeps his head up and tries to reach the mobile toys with his hands!! Sometimes, me and Kyle think he's too smart for being just a month old!!

We miss you guys a lot, and we are so sorry that you can't see him grow. Please know that we talk about you guys to him all the time and he will grow up knowing that he has an amazing family in Utah and Italy.

Pictures!!

Hello Family!!
I just wanted to take a moment before Liam wakes up to share some pictures. We promise to post a least once a week pictures and stories about our adventure here in Syracuse. Meanwhile enjoy some pictures of our little guy!!

                                           So independent!

                                           
                                          Morning talk:

                                          Everything is better if I hold your hand:

                                                     Keep holding:

                                                     Love that kid!!

                                           Sleeping time:

                                                    After a good feeding:

                                           Our daily morning smile:

Everybody Free to Wear Sunscreen!!

Everybody's Free(to wear sunscreen)
By Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99... wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year old I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.