Happy 1st Father's Day

Woke up early this morning to get Anthony's cereal, banana's, and bottle ready...YUM YUM! Daddy fed him while I got Robby's Father's Day breakfast ready: chocolate chip pancakes, sunny side up eggs, and bacon. Anthony let daddy and mommy have a nice breakfast without being interrupted...except of course for his grunting and groaning he did in his bouncer! He was making daddy a present! That poor bouncer...it is where Anthony takes his morning poopy every day! It's always exciting to see what color his poopy will be...green, orange, brown? (Only a mother can say that!) As soon as breakfast was over Anthony decided he was tired, so daddy and A took a nap. They are actually asleep right now. Isn't that cute!

Look at the cute Father's day gifts Anthony got his daddy:

Anthony had fun dipping his feet in paint.



This past week Robby went to Boise, ID for a football camp. He and two other coaches were invited up there to help coach the camp. He had a great time. Here are some pictures of the famous BLUE field. Check out the mountains in the background...they are beautiful. He also brought us back some clothes. There is already talk about moving to Idaho...yeah right...it snows there!!!!!!!!
This is the view from the pressbox...which is HUGE!



Can't wait to dress Anthony in his Boise outfit for a football game this year!


Yesterday Robby went down to Port Bolivar to help his dad work on the "still standing" beach house (or I guess bay house). The deck and stairs were washed away, so they spent the day repairing that. We were very lucky to have our house make it through IKE! I guess the houses on the bay side had better luck...but not all of them. Robby took some pictures of things that were no longer there! Guess it will be next summer before we get to enjoy the place again. There were houses right behind ours that were completly gone. All 3 houses in our family made it, but need some fixin.
This used to be our downstairs bathroom
Front of our the beach house
This was where a house used to be, right behind ours. Half of it was gone so they knocked the rest of it down.
This is the front door to our house (with NO deck or stairs)
This was Uncle Tiny's place about 5 houses down from ours...GONE. Just a trailer for now.

6 YEARS & 6 MONTHS

Today is Robby's and my 6 year anniversary. I am so lucky to be married to a great guy. And love him more than ever! We are so happy and blessed to have our little family. For 5 1/2 years of marriage it was just the two of us and wonderful, but now our lives have changed forever...for the better, b/c we have little A to make our family complete! Thank you Robby for loving me, taking care of me, and making me laugh, (and of course putting up with me :). I love you.



As you know on June 11th Anthony turned 6 months old. I took his picture today with the blue teddy bear to show how much he has grown. He is getting to be such a big boy. My mom and I took him to JCPenny's to have his pictures made for 6 months. They turned out awesome. He was in such a great mood. Take a look!

Go STROS

Last night we took Anthony over to our Aunt Janet's and Uncle Shelby's house to take pictures of him in his Astros outfit. They are HUGE Astro's fans and have hundreds of signed baseballs (well...it seemed like hundreds). I am going to try to upload some of the pictures to the Astro's website and send them in...maybe they will think he is sooooo cute that he'll be put on a billboard, just kidding! But that would be pretty neat. Anthony seemed so natural holding the bat, maybe we have a baseball player!

ENJOY

oh man, oh man...where do I start???

Goodness, I thought that being out for the summer would make it easier to blog and keep up with my growing boy...but guess not! So much has happened since I last blogged. This will be a long one:

Anthony is almost 6 months old. He will be turning 6 months on Friday, June 11th. He is just getting so big and starting to do soooo much! I am so blessed that I get to stay home with him this summer. Right now he is sitting up without help. He does fall over now and then so you have to sit with him. Also, he loves tummy time now because he's wanting to crawl. Maybe he'll be doing that by the end of the summer. He gets up on all fours and and gets in the push up position. What a big boy. Oh, and he doesn't just yell anymore when he talks, he actually has conversations with me and Robby. He says "da da da da da" and "bla, da, ga, da, bla" He is getting those consonants down. I've been working on "ma ma" but he is not ready for that one. Then he waits and lets us talk back and then it's his turn again. Here are some pictures of all his new tricks.








Last weekend Anthony went to his 3rd birthday party...he has lots of friends already. Our friends, Aric and Lindsay, have twins girls who turned 2. So we went to party with them.
Daddy let me wear his hat




After the birthday party we went to Fun Fest in Texas City to see Robby's parents. His dad is on a cook-off team. The food was delicious. Here is Grandpa and Anthony and Grandma Cici and Anthony.






A couple weeks ago we went to Dallas to visit. While we were up there we hung out with Ruth and Tim (friends of mine that got married in April. I was in the wedding and by-the-way, as soon as Ruth sends me the CD of our pictures taken at the wedding I will post them...they are amazing). Thanks to LeeAnn, my photographer. She did Ruths wedding also. But on our way up there we stopped at the new Buc-ees in Madisonville. This place is huge. We are "beaver believers" so we had to stop and check it out. We were in there for about 45 min. I got Anthony a little stuffed Buc-ee beaver. And took his picture next to the big statue of Buc-ee himself.





My friend that I graduated with from college is expecting this month, so we stopped by to see her. Thanks Melissa for having us over. And good luck with the new member of your family.





I thought this was cute. Robby always gives Anthony the last bottle of the day. And this is how it ends each and every night. I usually have to wake Rob up to go to bed.


Friday my mom is coming for about 4 days. I think we are taking Anthony to have his 6 month pictures taken while she is here.
Enjoy,
The DeSanto Family

5 Months Old

5 months

Well, Anthony is already 5 months old. He is doing so much now. It is amazing how much he's grown. He still loves his feet, but hasn't tried to eat them yet. Could be because he's a chunky-monkey!!! He loves his cereal and his vegetables. We started with peas and he liked them, then we went to green beans (the faces are so funny) and he liked those too. He talks A LOT! Sometimes even at 3 a.m. We just leave him in the bed to talk to himself until he falls asleep (on those nights he doesn't get up til 7 or 7:30).



I love you too, Brady!

Hanging with my dogs

He is such a big boy and doesn't like his swing any more. He is ready for bigger and better things. So daddy had to get up into the attic to get his Einstein activity bouncer down. He loves it!!! He bounces and holds his body up pretty good. But it's so funny because he wants to put the toys that are on the bouncer in his month but he can't because they are attached and so he gets really ticked...you should hear him get mad (sounds like he's pooping).
I want that FROG!!! In my mouth!!!

Summer is almost here!!! I can't wait to be home with Anthony all summer. There are only 13 more days of school. I am no longer a 1st grade teacher...Yay!!! I have been wanting to get out of the classroom for a couple years now and do something different. I applied for a Reading Recovery position for the district and got it. I will have to leave my school and move to another school. I will REALLY miss my school, but am very excited about my new job. I will still be working with 1st grade for the most part...but won't have to worry about all the grades, 22 parents, 22 library books not being returned, sub plans and the list goes and goes forever. There will be a whole new kind of stress though.

This weekend Anthony experienced a couple new adventures. He went swimming for the first time and swung in a big boy swing. He had a good time. Saturday we went to Bella's 1st birthday party at my friends house (Emily-her link is on my blog, Richard's Reflections). It truely was the most perfect birthday party for a one year old. It was completely centered around all the babies. Usually it seems like 1st birthday's are more of a party for all the adults...this was not! I just loved the swimming pools set up. The babies had such a good time. Thanks Emily for having us.
Birthday Girl - Isabella Grace

"I think there's water in my eyes!"

I made some new friends

Aren't I cute?

"Higher Daddy!"

Well, enjoy the pictures. He will be going for his 6 month checkup the second week in June. I can't wait to see how much our chunky-monkey weighs.