From Albert’s Facebook: I spent part of the night playing frisbee with Ella instead of doing work or cleaning because she asked after waiting patiently for me to finish my work out. I am behind in work and the house could be cleaner, but I am vastly content.
Third Haircut
Kite Flying and Hanging Out with Friends
Elia December 2017
It is our job in this blog to relate the month from November 16 to December 15 right as we leave for our trip to Disney World for Elia and Albert’s birthday and the holidays with Erin’s family. In this time too is Thanksgiving at our house with Albert’s family. In Albert’s family Elia is the youngest granddaughter with the next oldest being Curie, and the next oldest cousin being Dylan a full 6 or 7 years older than Elia. This means that as Curie gets to a point where she can play with the cousins, Elia will always be younger without a cousin with a comparable age for her. On Erin’s side in her immediate family, even if her sister has a child immediately after getting married (if they decide to have children), it would mean a 5 year age gap between Elia and the next child. Fortunately, Continue reading “Elia December 2017”
Happy New Year 2018
Snow
Curie November 2017
So this is written almost at the end of December. The end of the year is always full of holidays, family, and friends, it can be a time of stress as well as happiness, gratitude, and joy. Curie in November sang “American Tears” in the Veterans Day performance with the school, which was very touching and amazing at the same time. She would practice at home and would sing about the “reveneers.” Later we found out she meant “pioneers.” Elia liked the song too and today will sing with Curie if they sing the song. At the performance, we went this year which made Curie very happy (we didn’t last year) reminding us of the need to come to these things. Albert recorded the video and Erin took pictures. Continue reading “Curie November 2017”
Visiting Virginia Hospital Center 2017
VHC L&D and NICU 2017. We have a lot of pictures to catch up on, Christmas, Disney World, Collages etc… but we go to the VHC every year to leave a basket or chapters for Labor and Delivery and NICU to thank them for taking care of us when Curie and Elia were each born. Usually, we don’t see any familiar faces anymore as the people who took care of us like Emma, have moved on to other places. This time however we were able to see Analisa in NICU who took care of Curie and even remembered us an the circumstances that she took care of us. This was six years ago, so that is pretty amazing. Apparently Rey is also still working NICU but was not there. In any case, it is a nice tradition to take the kids to see where they were born and to thank L&D and NICU for everything they did for us. Oh and a weird tradition, a while ago we started taking our picture there in the corner mirrors so this is no different except it is in the NICU lobby.
Albert’s Birthday 2017

Yesterday was Albert’s birthday, and I have never seen Curie cry so hard as when she took out the birthday card that she made for him and saw that it was wet. Her water bottle had spilled in her backpack and blurred the card’s picture.
She was lying on the stairs, sobbing, inconsolable. Eventually she asked me to come closer, and she laid her head down on my lap.
“Mommy,” she said, “I worked so hard on that card.”
“I know, honey.”
“Now you can’t even read the words.”
“Did you write ‘happy birthday’?”
She shook her head, no.
“Did you write, ‘I love you?'”
She nodded yes.
So we got out brand new markers – that always seems to help – and made a brand new card. It took a long time, but it was well worth it. This girl really loves her Daddy…