Scianna Family

New Portraits

When Robby was two weeks old I took him to have portraits taken. I wanted to capture the time when he was still teeny tiny. Since Aubrina was close to 18 months old, I also had her portraits taken, and also got some shots of them together.

I thought I'd scheduled it for a time of day when Aubrina would be happy - after she woke up from her nap. As toddlers usually do, she surprised me when she put up a fight over everything. She did not want to be there! Most of her pictures include her paci, her blankey, or some sort of snack. Although they're not the typical perfect looking portraits, I still love them because they show her personality.

Here are just a few of my favorites:

From Robby 2wk & Aubrina 18mo

From Robby 2wk & Aubrina 18mo

From Robby 2wk & Aubrina 18mo

From Robby 2wk & Aubrina 18mo

From Robby 2wk & Aubrina 18mo

Robert Anthony Scianna

On March 17th at 12:16pm, Mark and I were blessed with our second child, Robert Anthony Scianna. He was the perfect little St. Patrick's day baby! Weighing in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 20 inches long, his measurements were EXACTLY the same as big sister Aubrina's when she was born! We thought that was pretty amazing.

Robby has been a wonderful baby. By his one week appointment he was already up to 8 pounds, and at two weeks he weighed in at 9 pounds. He is mild mannered unless he's hungry, and he's very strong for a newborn. Immediately after he was born he was turning his head, and at four days old during his first tummy time session he lifted and turned his head in both direction.

Now that he's four weeks old he's starting to coo and he's awake and alert for longer periods. He's such a joy!

Big sister Aubrina is doing great. She loves Robby and gets really excited any time he's around. Every morning she peeks into his bassinet and squeals with delight! When I lay him on the floor she gets right down there to lay next to him and cuddle.

The past several weeks have flown by and I usually feel like I'm running a madhouse, but we're so excited to have two beautiful little angels now!

It's a big one

Good thing Mark was here for this one. It might be hard to tell from the picture, but this was the biggest spider I've ever seen that was not a pet. It's body was about the size of a quarter... no joke! I've been getting better about my fear of spiders and bugs since Aubrina was born (I have to protect my baby!), but there was no way I was going to handle this one!

From Mark Leaves for the big trip 2-4-10

Scianna Family Pics

On Christmas Eve the whole Scianna clan got together to take family pictures. Here are a few of our favorites:

From Scianna Family Pictures

From Scianna Family Pictures

From Scianna Family Pictures

First CSA Delivery

I'd heard about CSAs awhile ago (Community Supported Agriculture) and had always been interested in trying it out. It's basically fresh, organic produce from a local farm that they either deliver or you pick up each week. The past few weeks I've been trying to simplify as much as possible, and what could be simpler than a weekly delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables?

I've been researching, and a lot of the CSAs around here require a year-long membership that you can only join when someone else drops out, or only have produce in the summer, or have a designated place where you have to pick up your order. I also found one that will ship it to you through UPS. But my friend recommended one that she said was awesome, and they will deliver it to your door. I checked it out, and it's the best one that I've found in the area! It's called farmfreshtoyou.com. The farm is located a few hours north of Sacramento, yet they still deliver it by hand to my house in Campbell.

The produce is amazing, and it had to have been picked that day - the cuts on the broccoli and greens were fresh. I signed up for deliveries every other week to start out, just to see how we like it. Since right now it's only me and Aubrina, it's plenty for the two of us, and I even had enough to share. Can't wait to see what we get in our next delivery!


The Jungle

Today we went to the Jungle with Grandma and Auntie Amy. Aubrina LOVED it! She spent hours going up and down, through the obstacles, down slides, in the ball pit, riding on the kiddie rides... it was a good thing Grandma and Auntie Amy were there because I couldn't keep up! Here are a couple videos from today:

Happy Valentine's Day!

This is the beautiful bouquet of three dozen roses Mark sent me for Valentine's Day. He's so thoughtful - I'm the luckiest girl in the world!



Here's Aubrina saying her new favorite word over and over again on Valentine's Day :)

A few cute pictures

Here are a few pictures of Aubrina from the past few weeks that I thought were super cute.

This is at school, scooting along on the scooter.

From Aubrina

This is one of Aubrina's new favorite activities - standing on her head. She's also learning to do somersaults, and she surprised herself when she did it for the first time by herself.

From Aubrina

She's also climbing onto and into <italic> everything </italic> now! She climbs onto the tables every chance she gets.

From Aubrina