What We've Been Up To

I've been dying to post some pics, and since someone wants to be held all the time, it's been difficult. But that's okay, I don't mind it :)

Addy loves her baby cousin, it's the cutest thing

You know you're spoiled when you sleep through Christmas with this many gifts! Someone's loved.

And besides being held, he loves to spend his time crying. Or pooping, which has given him the nickname "Little Pooper".

Proud daddy

"No more pics please!"

This was our family picture at Angela & Charlie's wedding. I wish I had more pics, but when you're in the wedding, or have a child hanging off your boob, it's sometimes a bit difficult.

My handsome little guy :) Happy 6 weeks today Jakey!

Happy Birthday Baby Jake!

This is Jake Tyler Silva, born on 11/18/10 at 0023. He was 7lbs 14oz, and 20 1/2 inches long.


I think his eyes are blue, but his pediatrician said they're not. Either way, they're perfect!










First family photo just after delivery



Very proud daddy. Mario is so good with him.


I'm not mad in this pic, maybe just a little tired


On Friday, his first day home! Mom & Dad put a sign & balloons out to welcome him :)


Jake & Grandma

Cousin love. Addy finally has a cousin, whom she calls Brick.

I wish I had more time to blog/discuss, but he's screaming as I type. So I'll leave you with this video, I hope it works (with sound

All Ready

Just need a baby & a name. We've got the crib together, all his toys organized, plenty of diapers, he's even got more clothes than I do! I hope he stays "3m" for enough time to at least wear everything once. Here's the rocker with his crib, and his safari themed bedspread. The crib has a lot goin on.

Here's his super cute "lamb" swing. I can't wait to take his picture in it, it's furry with lamb ears at the top, so cute. His play pen in the back. And all his stuff on the desk to the left. It looks completely chaotic. It's more of an organized disaster.

He's even got a pretty good collection of stuffed animals.

I got this as part of a gift for my bday. Isn't that sweet?

We even had a baby shower at Saint Agnes. Mario's department threw a party for us, how awesome is that? We didn't take any pics of the gifts, but we got some adorable clothes, some bath stuff & then they all pitched in for a Target gift card. We totally scored. His department is awesome! I did get a pic of us, and a pic of the cake, how cute :)

12 more days until he's due! I type that both excitedly & nervously. I've been off of work for a couple of weeks now, and it has been such a blessing. I've been able to get so much done, as you can see from his room. But I do hope he waits at least 12 more days before he makes his debut. Seems like every task I complete I'm adding a new one to the list.

Khristie's Gift

I wanted to share with you guys the awesome things that Khristie sent for the baby. Since they didn't make it in time for the shower, I couldn't show 'em to those of you who were able to make it. I love these hooded towels that she made, mainly because I don't have any towels for him yet. So that worked out perfectly!

And how super cute are these onesies?! You're so clever :) I LOVE THEM & can't wait to put him in them!

What great gifts, thank you so much Khristie!

I got some other amazing gifts at the shower that I want to share, I'm just waiting to get some pics in for a post of that.

The Littlest Guitar Hero

One of our most favoritest things to do when we have company over is play Guitar Hero. Because really, it's good times had by all. Here's Addy playing AFI with her Uncle Mar. Like two peas in a pod.

The Nursery

We finally picked out a color for the nursery, and ended up going with a mint-y color. I think it looks beautiful. I really thought that if we found out he was going to be a boy I was just gonna do everything blue, but after going shopping, there's just not much cute blue stuff. I couldn't really find a theme I liked that was blue, and I completely fell in love with all the baby animal prints. I wasn't really sure how I felt about the mint color, but we saw it in a store paired with some animals and it looked super cute. So here's the before pics of the room...
And here's some after pics.
I realize it's hard to see the color, but you can kinda tell. It's definitely not so bright. That desk is going to double as his changing table, so that's going to save us some money! I can't wait to put the crib together and put the room together so I can post more pics. Until then, here's a new belly pic...

Summer Update

So this little guy (isn't that the cutest pic?)is in this bellytotal weight gain? Well, we wont talk about that.

Things are going well with us. I wish I had something exciting to post other than more ultrasound pics, but that's exiting too :) I haven't posted any after pics of the house because we haven't done anything to it. My bad. However, I did buy kitchen curtains, so I don't feel so "country" now. They certainly don't compete with Khristie's, so I really can't post 'em now!

We had an awesome housewarming party last month, but I have no pics to prove it, so can't post those. But we got some really awesome gifts!

We plan on painting the nursery soon, so maybe I'll bust out the camera for that. We've got a safari theme going, so we're looking for some cute greens/browns for that. Very exciting!!