A Match Made in Heaven?

My son is only 6 and half months old, and he has already received his first kiss! We may already have a match made in heaven. This is how the turn of events unfolded...

Hi Mom, how you doing...I love the camera!

Lily is pretending to be bashful, which she is not at all to impress Simeon.

Hey Simeon, maybe can I play with your Pluto? Don't do it Simeon, it's a ploy!

I told you it was a ploy! I think I kind of like this?!

Simeon, watch out, she's going in for the lips man!

Oh man, you are making me blush! Will you marry me?

Welcome to our Christian Family Emma Catherine DiNuzzo!

This weekend we had the privilege of being selected as the God Parents of Emma Catherine DiNuzzo. Dave and Catherine are some of our close friends who live in Colorado Springs (Catherine is the wise mama who encouraged me to do cloth diapers). Emma is such a sweet thing who loves to use her vocal cords at times, and who has a need for speed in the swing.

Simeon loved the trip because he got to play with Lily, (who just took her first tumble on to a concrete floor) and play with all of their toys. Lily also showed Simeon how much fun it is to play with rocks at the park, and even put them his mouth! (Mom forgot the camera for that venture :( )

Emma was baptized at the Air Force Academy Chapel. The Deacon is a close family friend of the DiNuzzo's, and presided over the ceremony. Emma was a gem through the whole thing, and barely hollered in the process of getting the water poured on her forehead. But someone else by the name of Simeon Christian Cassidy was trying to be the show stealer as he babbled and squawked the whole time.

Waiting for the Baptism to begin.

Proud parents of their little one, Dave, Catherine, and Emma.

Washing away that original sin! Emma's clean as snow!

The Cassidy's and the DiNuzzo's.

Look at our little God Daughter...she is so precious!

Sleeper Do

It's just so hard being me. I sleep, eat and play. I read some books, eat some more, dirty a diaper and sleep. I play, play, play, read, play, dirty a diaper, and eat. What's even worse, is I get set on Mama and Papa's fluffy pillows, and I fall right to sleep. It's just so hard being me.

Rice Cereal and Baby Mum-Mums

Look at my big boy teeth!

I think I like my spoon most!

Did I really eat my rice cracker?

We are recently have come into a new venture in life: Solid Foods! We have started out with just some rice crackers and rice cereal, both of which he is getting more fond of, but still wanting mostly me. Jeremy got to experience his diaper this morning after 4 rice crackers and 3 small helpings of rice cereal from yesterday. :) I think he mostly enjoys chewing on the soft spoons.

P.S. For those grandparents who were worried about Simeon's poopooh cycle of 7 or more days need not worry no more....he is officially regular! I am welcoming any volunteers to help change diapers!

My first puppy dog

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Cassidy. I love my new Pluto. I have some videos of me playing with him, but we are having some problems with loading them on Blogger. Stay tuned and hopefully they will pop up. (That also goes for Grandma and Grandpa Hall and the Moose package that you recently sent!) Love you too!

Our neck of the woods

Can you believe that it's the middle of the November and we are having 75 degree weather? It's been an absolutely lovely fall here! We have been trying to take advantage of it by getting outside as much as possible. Two of Simeon's favorite things to do is to watch the ducks and the geese in the pond right outside our apartment, and see the leaves blow in the wind on the trees. (although that will be coming to an end here real soon) Simeon is getting to be so much fun as he is so responsive, and mimicking a lot of the sounds that we are making. We are about to start solids so will have a hole new part of his life to video and take pictures of!

This last weekend we had a big football game rivalry between the Augustine Institute, and FOCUS staff (mostly from HQ). Jeremy ate it up even though he was considered to be fraternizing with the enemy. (FOCUS wanted me to feed a fake playbook to the AI team) Before hand, we enjoyed a chili feed at one of Jeremy's professors house, while enjoying Denver football with about 40 AI students and FOCUS staff. We kicked off our football game at 2PM. With there being about 35 children in total, this mama didn't watch much of the game, but I did get to enjoy playing with Simeon with several other children. In the end, the AI won and Jeremy got to come home a proud papa.

Please continue to pray for us as it is looking like we are going to move, as it's just a matter of time in finding the right deal, and the right apartment.

Reading Moo, Baa, LaLaLa, Part II

Reading Moo, Baa, LaLaLa

Hide and Go Seek

Nummie, nummie, nummie

Happy Feast of all Saints Day and All Souls Day!!

We had a wonderful weekend celebrating our Catholic holidays (with a couple of extra days off for both Mom and Dad) and enjoyed warm beautiful fall days with the little boy. We tried to have a low key weekend as we have been pretty social lately, and just needing some time as a family.

This weekend we got to witness another baptism of a friend from Church. There little boy, George was welcomed into our Christian family on All Saints Day, with a beautiful Mass. It was fun to got to, as there were about 20 adults, and almost twice as many children running around! We know we got to see the water sprinkled, but the rest of the time we were trying to get Simeon not to flirt with the many young ladies there!

As you will see from the pictures, Simeon has just been hamming it up lately! Seems like everywhere we go, he is attracting friends, as he always has a smile to melt any strangers hearts! The little Mexican ladies at Church are about to steal him from me, and adopt him as their own grandson! (grandparents hint, hint :) No personality at all as you can see. We can't wait for any and all visits as it just seems like he changes daily! If you call, don't be surprised to hear him babbling in the background. He is going to be a talker...wonder who he gets that from...Papa?


So we are asking for any and all prayers that we can get right now. We are considering moving to south Denver. Yes, I know what you are thinking. Didn't we just move? Shouldn't we be just starting to feel adjusted to our area, and feeling good about life? Well, the answer is yes to both of those statements. I guess we just like to shake it up all the time! No, really our reasoning is that we are really starting to get closer with the community that lives in South Denver, Jeremy's drive is killer wasted time in the day (and gas), and cheaper cost for our apartments. Nothing is for sure, we are just thinking about this potentially. But please pray for us, because the thought of moving make me want to vomit, and yet I know it could be whats best for us. It's challenging when you move to a new (big) city for the first time, and you have to figure everything out all over again. Please pray for us as we way all of our options and look into some specific rental properties! We'll keep you updated! And don't forget to do your civic duty! Get out to vote!

P.S. I have know idea why our post is posting so weird...