Scotipino

Wanna-be Swagger Wagon

scotipino — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:45:48 +0000

When your wife says, “I am never driving that car again” because she felt unsafe after sliding in the rain a couple times, it makes the decision to trade in the Honda Pilot for another car pretty easy. Since min-vans were out of the question, we instead got the wanna-be swagger wagon. We ended up with a 2009 GMC Acadia SLT. Check out the new ride.

Santa Visit 2011

scotipino — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:11:04 +0000

Ivy was very excited to visit Santa this year after our nanny spent much of the week talking about Santa and Christmas. She saw Santa at the mall and immediately knew who he was. She was impatient in the line, but luckily it wasn’t too long. As soon as we were ready to see him though she got scared and didn’t want to visit. However, Santa was great and talked her through the whole picture process. There were no smiles, but at least there wasn’t any tears!

Decorating the tree

scotipino — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:38:13 +0000

Ivy was really excited this morning when we started with Christmas decorations. She even helped us decorate the tree. The whole time we were putting it up, she kept saying “pretty!”….that is, until it got dark and the lights turned on. She got really scared of the tree when it was lit. She was inconsolable. Only thing that helped was turning the lights off and even then she stayed as far away as possible. I wonder how she’ll react to Santa….

Big Girl Bed

scotipino — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:32:55 +0000

Ivy had a big week leading up to her birthday. Not only did she get a sweet slide, a fun party and got to hang out with her cousins, she also got her crib converted to a big girl bed. Actually, we probably could have done it a couple weeks earlier because when Logan and Dane were in town, she managed to climb out of her crib. We were a little worried that she wouldn’t stay in her crib. In fact, the first night, she actually rolled out of bed and we found her on the floor. She was fine though and Robin just scooped her up and put it right back without even waking up. Nowadays, she does pretty well. She climbs into bed by herself everyday and so far no more rolling out of bed.

Slides make things all better

scotipino — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:00 +0000

For her 2nd bday present, we decided to get Ivy a slide. Robin had to convince me but we ended up assembling it in the basement. It was a good choice because now Ivy has a way to release all that energy when time spent outdoors is drastically reduced during the winter time. When we gave her the slide, Ivy couldn’t understand why we wanted her to go into the basement. In fact, she started out refusing and screamed from the top her lungs. All it took, though, was one look at her new toy and all was better!

Ivy Turns 2!

scotipino — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:29:47 +0000

For Ivy’s party this year, we decided to stay in town rather than holding the party in Chicago like we did last year. The best part was we still had a great turnout. We had grammas, grampas, aunties, uncles, cousins and Ivy even made some new friends (Robin’s coworkers are a great pipeline for Ivy’s network of friends, i.e. they brought their newborns to the party…LOL). Robin did a great job with the decorations. We had Toy Story theme complete with hay, straw hats and even a horse (no kidding)!

Ivy the Owl

scotipino — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:09:32 +0000

Last year, Ivy dressed up as a lion for Halloween but only because the owl costume that we really wanted was sold out. This year, we ordered said owl costume early. We went back to Boo in the Zoo and, of course, went trick or treating. Ivy didn’t really get the concept though. She would ring the bell and try to go inside the houses. Then after she got some candy, she would dig through her basket, pick her favorite and abandon the rest. We finally gave in and gave her a sucker while we carried her home.

Boordy Vineyards

scotipino — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:19:05 +0000

Our favorite vineyard was having an event the same weekend as Logan and Dane’s visit. For the parents, it meant good food, live music and, of course, wine tastings. For the kiddies, it was a place to roam free and burn off some energy. Everyone had a good time and by the end, everyone needed a nap.

Fun Times at the Pumpkin Patch

scotipino — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:25:18 +0000

Cousins Logan and Dane came to visit for Halloween. They only stayed for the weekend but we had plenty of fun. We had a hard time getting on our way to the pumpkin patch because it took forever to figure out how to install/configure the car seat layout, but we eventually got there and the kiddies had a blast. In all the commotion though, I forgot to grab the camera so we had to rely on our phones to capture all the fun. Enjoy!

Hair! (Finally)

scotipino — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:15:29 +0000

Only took nearly two years but Ivy finally looks like she has hair. It even looks like someone styled it…but this pic is all natural.