Happy Birthday Anthony!

Wow! Today our baby is 4! I was thinking about how much I love being Anthony's mom - it is such a different experience to have a boy when your first born is a girl. I am so glad we are getting to experience it. He is such a boy - he loves to wrestle, play with trucks, balls and pretend he's fighting with whatever is handy - but yet, he is so sweet and mushy too - from the day he was born, he was that kind of baby that just melts into you and loves to cuddle. Anthony loves his big sister and has played many "girl" games (see pic of him in ballerina costume), but I think his favorite person to be with is his Daddy. Any time Jon is around, Anthony is all over him - and Jon spends a lot of time on the floor with him wrestling (and getting lots of kisses at the same time!). Anthony has lots of nicknames (but not Tony!) - when he was a baby, Sophia started calling him Nino and then morphed into Nins and Ninster and then we started calling him Bubba, which has stuck and also morphed into Bubbs, Bubbalicious and even Delicious. Ahhh, we love him so much!!!

Summer!

Finally! It's pretty much here! Sophia has her last day of school on Monday and Jon has been done for over a week.

I love summer! I wish I had off work though - it's so hard to be the only one that has to go to work :-( But, I come home to dinner every night :-)

I love country music - but especially in the summer! There are so many great songs that just sound like summer to me. I was talking about country music to Bethany recently (she's not a fan) and was telling her that what I love about it is that so many of the songs tell great stories and they express love in so many different ways - not just romantic love, but love between friends, parents and their children etc. ... and, it's nice to hear romantic songs that don't have to use the words "shorty" or "boo" :-)

Enjoy the playlist - you just might become a fan!