Hi

I'm Andy

 

Overall I am a pretty happy kid.

I love to dance with my brother...

and I love... Oh no...

Maybe she wont notice the smell.

Trouble

I meant to write about this a while back. Life seems to get away from me though and when I finally remember it turns out to be long ago. I just can't not write about this story because it needs to be remembered.

Back when Andy was just about 3 weeks old we had a traumatic experience here. Since Andy was born mornings are really slow for me. It is a major challenge for me to get out of the house by 9:00 so when there isn't anything going on you might find me in my PJ's around 11:00 or 12:00. I know it is bad but I do make sure I am ready for the day by the time I serve lunch. Well it was getting to that later part of the morning and I had jumped into the shower after I got Andy down for a nap. After the shower I quickly ran down to the family roon check on him because he was fussing. While I was taking care of him Nathan called down to me letting me know he needed to use the bathroom. At the time he was potty trained but he liked a lot of help. I called up to him and told him to get on the potty and I would be up soon to help.

I continued to take care of Andy and spent a couple of minutes nursing him (remember I had just gotten out of the shower... this might be TMI but I was just in my towel). I hear Nathan and I call up to him asking if he needs my help. He lets me know that he is ok so I forgot about him. After a couple of minutes I hear the toilet flush and I hear water start running. It took me a few seconds to realize that Nathan cannot reach the sink to wash his hands. All of the sudden I realized that the sound of water running was really loud and was much more than would come from the sink. I put Andy down and ran upstairs as fast as I could.

To my dismay the toilet is overflowing and the whole floor was already full of water. I get down to turn off the water to the toilet and as I am doing this the fire alarms start going off in the house. I don't know why they are going off but I have toilet water all over everything and I am getting really upset. I kick Nathan out of the bathroom and then I start to try to figure out why the alarm is going off. I start to run down stairs and I look over into the family room and I see that water from the toilet has leaked into the floor under the sink and is now running through to the fire alarm in the family room ceiling leaking all over my floor right next to Andys car seat where I had set him. Nathan is crying Andy is screaming and I am in a panic trying to get dressed.

It took me a minute to realize that I need to get to the breaker box so I could stop the alarms. I finally get to the breaker box and for some reason I cannot get it open. This was the perfect time for my sister to call me. I am a mess because the water is still trickling through the ceiling and the cannot get the alarms off. She tells me nicely that everything will be ok and that I just need to calm down and take a second. She tells me to call Jake and that she will check back with me in a few minutes. I call Jake in tears and ask him what I am doing wrong and why can't I open the breaker box (I still wasn't calmed down). He pretty much told me the same thing that my sister did plus asked if I was ok and if he needed to come home. I finally got the alarms turned off. It was on the same breaker with the bathroom and hall light which made for an interesting clean up. I pretty much had an hour of crazy.

When questioning Nathan later I found out that he had put a roll of toilet paper down there. I had to keep the power off for a while to make sure everything was dried out. Looking back I laugh really hard. I know I am not the greatest under pressure and this proved it. Thankfully our ceiling survived and we found out that there is and opening under out sink that we need to take care of. So life goes on. Nathan learned not to put anything extra in the toilet and I learned that our fire alarms work.

Turkey day and little ones

Thanksgiving has come and gone and we at the Cefalo home have much to be thankful for.

First we have 2 of the cutest little boys (this is my blog so I can say that here). Nathan has been a sweetheart. He is getting so big and smart. It is breaking my heart because he is growing up so fast. I love to see him grow but I hate seeing my baby get bigger. For the past couple of months he was been doing preschool. It has been so good for him. I find that we are doing more and more projects on our own time because he loves activities and learning. I spend a lot of time reading him books and making crafts with him. Over the holiday we took a break from his classes but we decided to keep up the crafts to keep him busy. He is so proud of himself when he finishes them up. This was a painting we did with his hand prints to make a ship for Thanksgiving.

Andy is growing like crazy. He doesn't fit in anything. It is so fun. He is such a happy and sweet baby. I had a little mini photo session with him the other afternoon. Sadly I didn't get the best smiling pic of him because he likes to laugh at me but as soon as I put the camera up he gets this serious look like "what is that?". It was funny. I like what I got though.

Lastly was Thanksgiving dinner. We did our own dinner this year. We stayed in Elko because of Jake's work schedule. It was fun to make our own dinner and start our own traditions. Dinner turned out great but we were sad to not be with family. It made us all the more thankful for the many things they do for us.

We love you all and Happy late Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas :)

Halloween and Blessing Andy

As I said in the last post the family headed to Utah for the holiday weekend. Jake had some time off and we needed to bless Andy so off to Utah we went.

Andy's blessing was very nice. We had lots of friends and family come. Jon and Tami had reserved the community center in their apartments for us. It was a nice middle ground for everyone to meet. Jake did a wonderful job. It was wonderful to see the priesthood in action. It was also so sweet to see all of the people that love our family.

We had many friend come but I didn't get a picture of everyone. I was busy talking... :) I had to post this one of my sweet friends though. They have seen me through everything and I heart them.

After the blessing we got ready for halloween. Halloween is now the favorite holiday around this household. Nathan loved every moment and every spooky thing we did. Jake and I definitely played into his obsession. One of the favorite activities was pumpkin carving. Nathan loved it but he hated the messy part. If anything it was fun to watch his expressions as Jake did the carving.

Andy also enjoyed the carving

I think it turned out pretty cool. Nathan wanted to spooky pumpkin and he chose this :)

After the pumpkins it was time to get dressed. For months Nate had been obsessed with Starwars so Jake and I though it would be fun to dress up. If you asked Nathan anytime in the last month what he wanted to be for halloween he would say " Masta Yoda". We really didn't have a choice in the matter. Andy even got in on it and dress up as a wookie. Sadly he didn't like how itchy his costume was so we only stayed dressed for about 2 minutes. It's ok though.

Nate using the force

Now it is time to gear up for Thanksgiving...and maybe a little Christmas...to take away some of the heartbreak of taking down the Halloween decoration. It's all for Nathan...

Halloween is near

As the countdown to halloween enters its final days we have been getting Nathan excited. That doesn't really take much. We really only need to take a trip to the store and walk down the halloween idle. We have found that Nathan is crazy about all things halloween so the little things go a long way.

Early in the month we made a trip to the store as a family and bought a few decorations.

Sadly the train on it was broken within a day due to curious little boys but it is still cute.

Next was halloween cookies. We bought cookie cutters last year and Nathan has been asking to use them forever. They lived up to all of the hype. Nathan loved them.

The cookies started to crack and it was tragic.

Thankfully it tasted good so the sadness was short lived.

There was lots of yard work to be done. Grandma and Grandpa Cefalo came out and helped us get things ready. Nathan enjoyed being a helper to Jake and grandpa. The yard is now ready for winter but we will still have some major work to do since we have a ton of trees and they are currently losing their leafs.

Lastly we started doing a home preschool with some friends this month. Nathan has loved it. This week we did. H is for Halloween. We were in charge so we dressed up in our halloween costumes and after we did our projects we made cookies and wassail and took pictures.

Andy also took part in these activities as he snoozed in his swing. Sadly no pictures but I promise he is cute. We are heading to Utah this weekend to bless Andy. I am pretty sure we will have plenty of pictures to blog next week :)

Happy Halloween!

Since we moved into our house last December we have been in a constant state of updates and fix ups. We finally finished our bedroom. Meaning we finally had the chance to paint it. I am thrilled. As I have said before the colors that were in this house were unreal. It is so nice to have things finished and feeling clean. I just have to show this before and after. It just makes me smile. Now onto decorating ;)

Life goes on

So a year ago yesterday was the worst day of my life. It is crazy how 1 year can change so much. I have a personal journal that I keep and yesterday I was reading through it looking back at this past year. As I have said I am an emotional basket case when pregnant. It was kind of funny and sad to see where I was at during different points. All I can say now that time has gone by and life continues is that the Lord knows us and he loves us. A lot of hurt has gone away. I still feel the loss but as I get to look down on my sweet baby boy I know the Lords plan is perfect.