My Life as a Mama with CF

Here are some of our most recent pictures! Here's Alida having some fun playing dressup with a towel on her head :) Giovanni with Adam. This kid has some serious shoulder rolls! Sleeping in the swing. Giovanni on his first Easter! It's a little blurry, but I caught him smiling! Here he is with a less blurry face :) Adam and Alida on Easter Sunday! I know, we need a complete family photo....we have one of me with Giovanni that we took while Alida was napping ( to be posted soon!)...we'll get the hang of this family photo thing one of these days! Alida playing with Grandma's scarf, who knew it would make such a great full body robe! Giovanni in the swing :) Tummy time! Still working on that neck strength... Alida having fun wearing the many bows Aunt T sent her! Smile! Alida leaned on my arm just as i was taking the picture which is why it's a bit blurry, but it's still a great smile! Trying to talk :) ...

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been so long since I last updated the blog for you. Here are some pictures of the last 2 months with our newest edition, Giovanni Maximilian Librande! :) This is shortly after coming home from the hospital! Giovanni was our little oompa loompa! Alida, Adam, and Giovanni! Alida wasn't so sure about holding her brother, so we tried our best, but she never really got her arms around him. Our little man! Born at 6 lbs 11 oz and 18 in Alida's first real ponytail! Having fun outside with dad! Posing for the camera!  Alida LOVES Giovanni's baby swing! She decided to rock her baby in it too. Giovanni and Grandma He's getting big! Brother and Sister! Givoanni's first official full tub bath! Scrub a dub dub! Look at those eyes! Alida's first nail painting! She enjoyed it! :) Having fun with Elmo and her bucket, which she calls "buckee" Giovanni...

Hi everyone! So tomorrow Adam and I go in to get the ball rolling on meeting our little man! Since Giovanni has found his comfy spot lying transversely (sideways) the doctor is going to try turning him so that he's head down. If he tolerates being turned, then we will be induced and Giovanni will be in our arms either Wednesday night, or Thursday sometime :) If our little guy does not like being turned (if his heart rate drops or he just won't turn) then we'll be having a c-section (which isn't my first preference, but God's will be done!). We will be leaving our house around 5:50 am to arrive at the hospital at 7 am. They won't officially start trying to turn him until 8:30 am, so sometime after that you'll probably be hearing from Adam saying that we either had the baby, or we're being induced! We've been trying to prepare Alida as best we can about having a new baby in the house. She's been having fun tucking all of her animals and babies in...

Hi everyone! Things have been pretty steady here at the Librande household, just getting ready for baby Giovanni! My mom through a baby shower for Giovanni and me over the weekend which was a lot of fun! We played a baby name game where we had to guess the top 2 boy and girls names from several different decades including 1880, 1910,1920,1950 etc. and ending with 2000! Needless to say I didn't do very well...but John was certainly a popular name for most decades! We also played a game called 'daddy knows best'. My mom asked Adam 10 questions, and then I had to guess what answers he gave her. I got 4 out of 10 correct, but I was pretty close on several of them, so Adam and I aren't too out of sync when it comes to parenting! We received alot of great baby clothes, diapers and wipes at the shower, and definitely seem to be set with baby clothes size new born-3 months! I don't have pictures from the shower to share, but my mom does, so I'll try to get some pictures...

Wow! I don't know where to begin with all that has been going on this past week, so I'll let the pictures do the talking... We certainly have been enjoying our extra time with Adam during this Christmas break from school and the extra days that he's gotten to have off of work for the holidays! Here Adam and Alida are playing dress up- below is a video of how the process worked... unfortunately the video is sideways, so you may have to turn your head, or the computer screen...enjoy! The Very Hungry Caterpillar is quickly becoming a favorite of Alida's, this girl definitely loves story time! She didn't want to wear her clothes, but Alida had fun wearing her new apron from grandma! This is the new party dress that Alida got from her Great-Aunt Janell and Uncle John. She wore it to our friend's wedding which took place during Mass on the Feast of the Holy Family! And of course, no outfit is complete without movie star sunglasses! Her...