Jacob and Elaena

So our little miss turned 4!!!!! She is getting so big! She is just so smart and its hard to believe she has 1 more year until Kindergarten!! She is around 3 feet 3 inches tall and is a whopping 32 lbs.! Now Jacob on the other hand... well he had his 2 month Check up a few weeks ago and is 24 inches and weighs... 14 lbs. 13 oz!!!! He is huge, he weighs half of Elaena! We had a really fun time when Grandpa and Grandma Ginos, Logan and Great Grandpa and Grandma Miller and my Grandpa and cousin with my mom and sisters came to visit for Jacobs' blessing. (4 generations on both sides, and Elaena wouldn't pose for the pics!) We enjoyed having family around and wish we could more often. Here are some of our adventures... OH WAIT... I am pleased to announce that mr. big boy is and has been sleeping through the night for 12 days now!! He goes to bed around 9 and is up between 5 and 6. He is also starting to smile so much more. Enjoy the pics!(Minor difficulties with the pics...)

For my sister-in-law Courtney

First off I have to say a couple thanks... Thank you to Courntey and my best friend Anjuli and my mother-in-law Tammy. Thanks to Courtney for interesting me in cloth diapers (mainly the pre-folds) and to Anjuli for the interest in them (mainly the pocket diapers). And a special thanks to my mother-in-law Tammy for sending me the covers and prefolds. I LOVE, ABSOLUTELY LOVE cloth diapers!!! So anyway this is for Courtney about the pocket diapers I have. I use them for outtings, they are just as easy to change as a disposable except you keep it. I also use them at night, I double the insert and don't have to change Jacob all night. I got them from Thailand on ebay, 12 for 83.99 and free shipping. You can find them here at the sellers store: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/ponkanditpa. There is cheaper ones and they seem similar except you get double the inserts too and that is here: http://stores.shop.ebay.com/New-Baby-World__W0QQ_armrsZ1. I really like the coloured ones better than the "white" (more like yellow-y creamy colour than white), because they are a slightly different material. The material the "white" are made out of seem to feel a little wet on the outside but are not, it just feels a little like they are. But I think it is just the diaper breathes a little and make the pee a little cold. But the colour doesn't feel like that. I think too that the inserts will be a little small for the largest size so I will make some for the larger size. But anyway they are all-in-one meaning they fit through all the sizes your baby goes through. Here are the pictures of the smallest size to the largest, and the insert and the pocket where the insert fits. (Oh and Brandon can fit his hand in the pocket!)

Time Flies!!!

Wow, how time gets away from you... Well Jacob is already a month old and doing wonderful! Since almost the beginning he has kept a consistent schedule, bedtime around 10 pm, gets up between 1:30-2:00 to eat and then again around 6 and goes back to bed for a few more hours. It's wonderful! He is a very good eater I might add, he has gained 3 lbs. since we left the hospital! He was weighed yesterday at the doctor and is already 11 lbs 8 oz!! On the other hand our little miss is almost 4 and is 32 lbs. soaking wet! Elaena has been a wonderful helper and is always wanting to hold him. She is growing up so fast and getting so smart. Brandon is still working both our jobs (except I do all the paper work from home) and is a full time student and made the honor roll last semester!! I on the other hand am still trying to recover and trying to keep the house in order. Oh and as of last week I have lost 28 lbs already!! Other than that we are all well and alive so here are some pictures...






Elaena and her cousin Mason
Jacob and his cousin Jackson

Jacob is finally here!!!

So we wanted to let everyone know (and sorry we have not posted in months) that a new addition to our Ginos family has arrived!! Arrival was April 13Th at 12:07 am via c-section. After many hours of active labor in the hospital on Easter, Jacob was not able to handle the stress of a regular delivery and the umbilical cord was believed to be posing more complication then originally thought. The doctors had concluded a c-section was the safest choice to bring Jacob Wesley Ginos to our family. With all the excess fluid, and measuring big the doctors thought he was slightly on the larger side but then he seemed to be plateauing and our doctor thought he would be close to 7.5 lbs but Jacob came at 21 inches long and 8 lbs. 15 oz.!!!!!! We were all pretty shocked! He is a little chubby adorable baby looking a lot like his dad and sister. We are all excited to have him welcome our family and Elaena is so overjoyed!

Me right before being admitted...

His first bath!
Elaena and nanny checking out his dark hair
Jacob on the left and his 2 1/2 week old cousin Jackson on the right... he has Jackson by like 3 lbs. and 3 in.!!

IT"S A BOY!!!!!!!

P.S. Pictures to follow as soon as we get them scanned into the computer! The u/s tech said she saw a "bulge" between the legs but could not get a clear picture of said bulge but was sure the baby was a boy. She got some other good pics but he basically was doing sommersaults and would not keep still. We are so excited to welcome a new baby boy to our family!!

Well needed update/long post

So we have not updated or posted in awhile, ok a long while! Between being busy and the computer running slow and well, just plain laziness I am just now getting around to updating! So here are some old/recent photos! But first here is a picture of Brandon, Elaena and Renny for Miss Afton as requested

Really she is not squeezing him as tight as it looks...


Brandon and I somehow agreed we wouldn't cut his hair all winter... we both lasted about 2 months and couldn't stand it anymore!! So here is before:

And After:

The pumpkin patch with Elaena's pre-school class. Here is George, Elaena and Kylee




Her class:



Carving pumkins


Our Friends Ben, Anjuli and their adorable little Bradely came over to carve with us

At the Church Halloween Party

Rides on the hay ride

Trick or treating with Aunt Tory

Grandpa and Grandma Miller came to visit, it was so great seeing them and so sad to only see them a couple hours! We miss them but had an awesome time and was glad we could see them, Elaena was so excited and talked about them for days after they left. Thanks for everything!!

Our new addition

We just wanted to share with everyone that we are expecting a little bundle of Joy in April!!! Since the due date is never exact we are shooting for April 18th! I am just out of my first trimester, I am around 12 1/2 weeks. Elaena is sooo excited to be a big sister. She tells me all the time that she loves our baby and gives me kisses and hugs on my belly. We know she will make a wonderful big sister!! Here is our little baby!