Christmas!

This was a Christmas of firsts; first Christmas for Dario, first time putting up a nativity scene (next year's will be bigger!), first time having Christmas lunch at our house, first time I ever made turkey and gravy, and our first Christmas as a family.

Dario Christmas Dancing and Pics

Merry Christmas to everybody from Darietto, Marco and Diana!!!

Re-arranging

We've rearranged the furniture in the living room and suddenly we have more space and a more livable living room. Will show some pics as soon as we finish up.

Dario has been great; still on 2 "meals" of solids a day but he still loves his mamma's milk! He can now sit up on his own with hardly any help at all (before he topples over that is) and...A TEENY TINY TOOTH IS COMING THRU!! A couple days ago it was just a bump in his gums, now it's an actual spot/strip of whiteness. Perhaps in a couple more days it will have surfaced! My baby is growing up!!

Older video

And some 5 month old video:
This is the first day in the incubator. It was hard at the time but now I can see how far he's come and developed completely normally and healthily.


This is one of the first times I changed his diaper. Isn't he tiny?


This is when he was about 4 weeks old. (there is nothing wrong with your computer; there is no audio)

More video!!!

So it's not only Dario, but I've made some of my own small achievements:
1. putting video on the blog
2. selecting and then cutting down some video into smaller chunks to then post

Although I STILL don't know how to make a lovely DVD with all the video I have, complete with menu, music etc. It's only a matter of time...

This video is from Nov 9.07
This is Dario chatting and rolling:


This one is him playing with his feet:


And this one is Nov 25.07 eating and making a mess:

New Video!

Using a digital camera has its advantages: I can take loads of pics and post them so that people far away can stop by and see what's up. Kinda like stopping by for a coffee. We took hundreds of pics at the beginning, which were mainly of the same pose, ten times over,to make choosing which ones to develop a complete chore. Now I don't take as many for a few reasons; its mostly just Dario and myself and I can only take so many pics of Dario in the high chair, Dario on the bed, Dario on the play mat. Another is that there isn't as much daylight and hence, much more darkness which means using a flash and I don't particularly like pics with flash; they just white out the real colours. So, here is a video of Dario laughing at daddy with the cereal box. It is true when they say that the best toys are boxes and containers.

I will promise to take much more video and update regularly on his small but large achievements.

Playing with the cereal box and laughing: