Welcome to the World Gia!

Jasper's newest cousin, Gia Beverly Parrino, arrived on March 23, just one day shy of Jasper's 3rd bday! These two will have some fun years ahead celebrating their bdays together! He did a great job holding Gia and kept commenting on her funny little nose and little features. Gia is the daughter of Autumn and Matt Parrino and the little sister of Dominic. Congrats guys!

23 weeks

Instead of a sign, here is Jasper holding up "2 and 3" for 23 weeks! Jasper has gotten into the habit of wanting to lift up my shirt and show everyone the baby. I tell him that they can see the baby through my shirt, but it's still so cute that he's already a proud big brother!

Official Big Boy Bed

Jasper is the proud owner of a nice, new twin, big-boy bed. Not only was he definitely outgrowing his convertible crib, but his baby brother or sister will be needing it in a few months. We have yet to get a comforter/sheets for it, but he had to sleep in it before we could get that done - the anticipation was definitely getting to him! He has so much more room now and next month, we'll be switching rooms so Jasper and the new baby can have our bigger master bedroom and we'll get Jasper's old room. We'll post pictures of that soon!

Army crawl!

We went to the cool wooden playset at Pleasant Hill Elementary tonight to snap some photos and play. And play. And play.

They've got a line of about 10 half-buried tractor tires that force you to Army crawl to get through the 'course.' Jasper did it like a champ.

Happy brithday, Jasper!

This is Natalie's normal day off and, of course, today is Jasper's birthday. So I took the day off work and the three of us - four counting Cozmo, obviously - celebrated in style. (You'll see Coz sneak into a few of the photos.)

After his normal routine of milk/cereal/nutri-grain bar for breakfast, Jasper noticed a strange pile of 'stuff' in the corner, covered by a blanket. He moved closer but we wanted to hand him the gifts so we told him to sit on the floor and close his eyes. The last photo in this post is his effort to do that, although his eyes didn't stay shut for long.

He got a Toy Story 3 scooter, which was an immediate hit. He also received a Handy Manny lap desk, the Moon Dough diner, some clothes and some stamps.

We headed to Buck's Fish Bowl and Grill at Bass Pro Shops in Altoona for lunch, where we ate and bowled a few games. (Jasper beat his mommy!)

What a great birthday!

Jasper turns 3

Jasper turned 3 years old today, and we don't quite know where the time went.

Seems like he was just turing two, or one, or six months. And it really doesn't seem very long ago that we made the quick drive over to Mercy when Natalie was in labor.

I've done this the last two birthdays, so I better keep it up. Here's a look at Jasper on each of his birthdays, from his actual birth day through today.

Happy birthday, big guy. We all love you so much and are thankful you - and your little brother or sister to be - came into our lives.

New scooter

Just a quick video of Jasper riding his new Toy Story 3 scooter, which he got for his third birthday today. More birthday photos to come.