A great weekend!

Wow, what a great weekend we had. We were so thankful to have my mother, sister Teresa, Grandmother, Aunt Bonnie and Emily down for the weekend. They all came to town to spoil Miss Mattie, go to the craftshow in Buffalo, get our pictures taken for our 4 generation photo, and for my Tastefully Simple party I had today. Mattie loves visitors because that means more attention for her. She babbled her little lips off today speaking to her great grammy, it was too cute. Yesterday was a very long day. We had the photo's taken, and then went to the craft show. It's my annual kick-off to Christmas shopping. I always have fun when I go there. This year it was even more fun with all of my company in tow. My Aunt Jo and cousin "Breezy Bree" Brianna came and met us there too. Mattie had a lot of fun, getting her first glimpse of a Christmas Tree, and all the craft fair hoopla! Guess what else Mattie did for the first time? She sat on Santa's lap. Of course we had to get her picture taken when she did. He was a sweet "Santa" and the donation for the picture went to the ASPCA of Buffalo, so how could I refuse? She didn't know quite what to think, but it was so funny. It will be a memory I will never forget. :) On our way back home yesterday, I came down with Pink Eye, which is just soooooooo much fun. I don't think I have ever washed my hands so much in a day as I did today. I had a nice turnout for my tastefully simple party. And who wouldn't want to come for free yummy food? :)
On a sadder note, our babysitter Amanda was put into the hospital for an emergency appendectomy yesterday. Poor thing. Come to find out, she had gangrene in her appendix. How scary. So mommy and Mattie are hanging out at home tomorrow to try to keep everyone's exposure to Pink Eye to a minimum, and the rest of the week is still up in the air for daycare! I have a busy week ahead...so here we go again!!!!!!!!!!!

We Survived Halloween

We survived our first Halloween with Mattie. It was such a long night. I left work early, then Scott, Mattie and I headed over to his mom's work to show her off. After that we headed to her house so little Tooch could take a nap. Then we went over to Scott's grandparents house, and they just gobbled her up. Funny little story, maybe TMI, but funny anyways. Everytime we go to their house, Mattie decideds to fill her diaper. Usually, she overfills her diaper. :) So last night was no different, and she filled it big time, with her costume on and all. Good thing we don't cheap out on the diapers. :) Anyways.... we then made 2 more stops, one at Aunt Marians, the other at Aunt Kathy's. Lets just say, by the end of the night, it wasn't just Mattie that was pooped out.
So now we look forward to Turkey day, and can't wait to get her a funny Christmas costume to take her pictures in. It doesn't seem possible that it was almost a year now since we found out that we were going to be parents, and how much our lives have changed in that year. I can't imagine my life without Mattie in it, and don't remember a day before she came. She has opened my eyes to so many things. I used to consider myself pretty selfish, but not anymore. I do everything for her. Don't get me wrong, I love Scott, but there is no words to express the love of your own child. On that...I say goodnight....more to come tomorrow.

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Mattie's First Halloween

It's an exciting time in the Lomoglio house. Tonight we had some friends over, and we had a little pumpkin carving party. Since it is Mattie's first pumpkin, I decided to do a carving from a pattern. I carved her favorite Backyardigan (she likes any of them, she is too young to have a favorite, but I just think she likes this one the best). It turned out pretty good. Mattie is going to be a duck, and those who haven't seen her in the duck costume...where have you been? I have taken like 100 pictures of her in it. :) But I will attach some, and also some from tonight's festivities. Mattie's friend Shelby (the Shelbster) came over and let us get a picture of her in her cute lion costume. She is getting so big and jibber jabbers all the time. She is such a smart little cookie, I can only hope that Mattie will be like her, Jill and Brian have done such a great job with her. That crazy guy trying to look like Lil'Jon is Pete,he is nuts, and we had to listen to him try to rap all night. I think it should be illegal for whilte guys to attempt to rap.
We are sad that we aren't going to be up in Canton for Mattie's first Halloween, but its too hard to get up there in the middle of the week. Atleast we were up there for our Halloween party at the beginning of the month. And I am sure once she is older, we will be living up there and spending all of our halloween's up there. I can only hope!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Mattie likes to beat me up!

So my little bruiser has already claimed her first victim, ME! Last Thursday she bonked her little head into my tooth. She didn't cry, but I wanted to. It hurt so bad. I went to bed, woke up the next morning, and then bit down. Something didn't seem right. So then I brushed my tongue against the tooth, and the front fell off. So needless to say, I am now one tooth short of what I had last week. I had to have it pulled, which was an hour and a half process because it kept breaking when they would try to yank it out. Come to find out, it was a double rooted tooth, so I have a big gash up my gums.
That little Mattie, giving me problems already. :)
She had her baptism this weekend, so I was deathly afraid of smiling, because I didn't want to scare everyone away with my redneck set of teeth.

Mattie did so well at church. She slept through her baptism, but the woke up once she heard the choir sing. She didn't make a peep throught the rest of the service. What a good little girl. She wore the same gown that her Dad,her Uncle Brian, and their cousin Geoff wore for their christening. She looked very cute in it. The bonnet was worn by all of them too. My grandmother made a pink underlay for it, instead of the blue one the boys wore. It was a nice day, and we had a great gathering of people at my grandfather's house. I love all of my family and it was so nice to share such a special day with all of them. We all are very blessed.

My First Post (10/12/06)

Hello,
Thank you for reading my blog. If you don't know me, you soon will, very quickly. My name is Renee, I am wife to Scott, and mom to Mattie. I am a first time mom, and loving every minute of it. Its 11:45 pm and I can hear my little girl tossing and turning and grunting like crazy in her crib. She is my world. I love to listen to all the little noises she makes, and I watch her sleep all the time. When she sleeps, I want to wake her up just to see her smile. She smiles most after she has had her beauty sleep, but don't we all? :)
I will be writing more, I just wanted to start off small. I have a lot to say, and not enough time to say it all now. I look forward to meeting people and discussing my life, sharing stories about my baby, and making new friends.