B, B, B...

Mateo is just trying new words...each night, part of our bedtime routine is to sing a version of Hush Little Baby that has a mom showing her son all these different things. She starts by showing him a humming bird. Mateo now always points to the picture and says, "B, B, B". Well a couple of nights ago we were watching our friends Maggie & Lily Kelley, Kate and Andrew Fronza, and Charley Petrik play soccer in the YMCA league in town. Mateo say a bird fly across the sky and he shouted, "B, B, B". He spent the rest of the night pointing out every bird he saw fly (and some imaginary ones too).

We think he is really going to like soccer...I am not sure if that comes from his Central American heritage, or if its because boys love to kick balls around...but he seems thrilled every time he has a ball...and he's been practicing kicking. Of course, it is still like three more summers before he will be old enough to play, but we won't be surprised if he likes it.



I finally got around to upholstering the chair from Matt's youth for Mateo. We brought back some great purple striped fabric from Guatemala that matches our purple paint color upstairs. Thanks to some great advice from Aunt Paula from Tennessee, it took us only about 20 minutes to do it together and Mateo loves it. Boys will be boys though...we had it done for less than two days and he was kneeling in it facing backwards and he rocked it over right into a face plant on the floor. I don't know who was more freaked out, Mateo or me when I heard the story!

Better run, we are off to go pick some berries with Nona today. Yeah for Oregon Summers!!

Love from Silverton, Sarah

Six hours, eight minutes

Matt was kind enough to pre-order me a copy of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hollows (the seventh and final installment of the best book series of all time)...and he went to the book store Friday night at midnight to pick it up so that I would be able to read it when I woke up on Saturday. Well, as the title of the blog might suggest, I holed up yesterday and finished all 750+ pages in just a bit over six hours...

We had been to see the Harry Potter #5 movie on Tuesday, which was nice, because I had a more teenager image of the characters...and seven does justice to alot of the previously hanging out storylines...I won't say anymore to protect those who don't read as quickly as me!

Mateo is over the hives, but the cough is back today...so we don't quite know what to think.

Hope all is well for everyone...hugs from Oregon, Sarah

Hives...

So we have a new experience at our house--Mateo is apparently allergic to the Amoxicillin (in the Penicillin family). He was started on antibiotics yesterday for Day 7 of upper respiratory infection stuff...well 24 hours later and he is head to toe in hives...Benedryl is working slowly. Doctor recommended that he be checked every hour all night for respiratory distress...so it will be a long night at our house.

Other than that, things are well here. MamaNona is almost back to 100%. She is driving herself all over, and is even coming to watch Mateo on Friday morning so Matt can do some outside work. We are so thrilled that her recovery has been so full!

We are trying to get Papa to come for a visit in October. Southwest is having a fare sale, and we need to see him more often. We will get to see him next month at his parents 60th wedding anniversary party. That should be a kick!!

Gotta run...love from the Millers!

321 days to go...

I can't believe it...in less than 11 months from now, we will be in Italy on the most anticipated vacation I have ever taken. For the past 3 1/2 years, my book club has been talking about going to Tuscany to celebrate our friend Kristi Rose's medical school graduation and to be together in one of the most spectacular places in the world. Well, the talking has finally become a reality. We have a deposit paid on a villa in Greve which is about an hour south of Florence, and we just booked frequent flyer tickets for all three of us to go. May 28, 2008 we will depart for Milan Italy.

Here's to an adventure like no other and to some free flowing vino!!

It takes a village to raise a child...or a village of children!!

We celebrated the 4th of July with our church friends...Jon Fronza managed to capture a picture of all the kids who were mostly soaked from the slip-n-slide at the Petriks.

From left to right in the picture: CeCe Petrik, Maddy Broyhill holding sister Amelia, Britton Ullan holding sister Darby, Charley Petrik, Andrew Fronza, Maggie Kelley holding sister Eloise, Lily Kelley, Kate Fronza, and Lucy Fronza. Of course, you all know the only one not holding still for the photo is my pride & joy, Mateo!

We are so grateful to have a group of friends who love our child as much as we love theirs.

We're grateful to have reasons to celebrate!!