starting to climb

Aaron has figured out how to start climbing on things. He's figured out if he pushes his toy box on it's side, then he can climb on the empty TV stand, and then get to the computer. This is a video of him doing that while I was working on the computer.

#2 on the way

Aaron was in the middle of crying, but paused and smiled for the camera.

Mom and Aaron while visiting some of my old roommies from BYU. It was almost 10 years ago. Yikes!

Playing outside in the leaves.

We're happy to announce the arrival of Palmieri #2. I'm due May 22nd. We'll know at the beginning of January if it's a boy or girl. I personally think that it's a girl, and Paolo thinks it's a boy. We'll be happy either way.

halloween 2008

This was our first trick-or-treating outing with Aaron. We went to my sister, Maureen's, work and did it there, and then we went around our house that night. I think we went to 10 houses. Enough to take some fun pictures. The only thing he got to eat was a sucker. We recycled the rest and gave it to those that came to our house.

What a ham!

This was at Maureen's work. He got hold of a sucker and refused to let it go. He managed to get the wrapper off really quickly and he went to town! This was the end result.

Aaron with his cousins Annicka and Park.

Getting settled in

I think that Aaron has food in his mouth at least 50% of the time. That's why he's not so skinny. He's not fat either, but quite solid.
One of his new favorite things is to make a series of faces. His latest to the list is making indian noises with his hand against his mouth.
I thought this Sunday outfit was 24 months, but it turns out it was really 18 months and fits snuggly. Bummer I thought we were going to use it longer, but he sure was cute on Sunday.

We're finally starting to feel more settled into our new house. I've found almost everything and we've gotten some of our list of things to fix up done too. There's nothing like a place you can call home.

New House

We moved this last saturday. I forgot how stressful moving is. It's nice to have a house of our own. I was trying to put the baby locks on the cupboards and draws. It was MUCH harder than it seems. I had to go buy an electric drill, but it didn't make it a whole easier. While I was sweating away, Aaron was doing what he does best- pulling everything out of the drawers. Ironically I was working so hard to prevent this. So that's what the picture above is.
He was making some good faces today. He woke up quite happy (and then it went down hill after that). Aaron's language skills are getting better. He understands more of what I say to him and can follow commands better. He's picked up two new words. The first is "ciao ciao" and the second is "grazie". Which are hello/bye and thankyou. After I warmed up his milk this morning and handed it to him, he smiled and said "grazie" and did the sign for it before he started eating. It was the sweetest thing ever.

This is the new house. Our new address is: 3713 Christy Hill Way, SLC UT 84118
It's a split level entry, and this is as you come up the stairs. The house is almost completely tiled except for the bedrooms.
This is the family room just to the left as you come up the stairs.
To the right is the hall that takes you to the bathroom and 3 bedrooms.
This is the upstairs bath. The rest of the house was not in a state to take pictures of. The basement has storage under the stairs, small laundry room, living room, and one small bedroom. It's nice to have our own place, but stressful knowing we have to pay for anything that breaks!

Le smorfie di Aaron

Aaron's new thing is that he makes this squinty smile that is really quite cheesy. Today he was doing a lot for me while I fed him some applesauce.
Laughing his head off while I made airplane noises and crashing noises as the food went in his mouth.
So much fun this little one.

There's not a lot new with us. We were really glad when Paolo came back from his little trip to Italy. We're plannin on moving this Saturday. We'll put in our new address when we post pictures of it. Julie is going to change jobs. She's moving down to Intermountain Medical Center (new hospital in Murray) because it's closer to our new house. She'll still be in the ER. That's all for now.

New House

Aaron is about to hit 15 months. I used to think that he'd get into a lot of things that he shouldn't, but it keeps getting worse. His new love is under the kitchen sink and getting into the garbage can. More than once have I found stuff from the garbage in his mouth. Yuck! Aaron wanted to come sit down inside after taking out the garbage. I love my little guy!

We just bought a new house in Taylorsville. We'll have pictures and the new address to come in a later post. Paolo just went back to Italy for 10 days and took the camera with him. We're not moving until after he comes back. We're really excited to have a place of our own with a yard!