Sunday, October 11, 2009

Sisi's 1st Birthday!

Number 1! What a year for little Sisi! We celebrated the birthday the day before on the 4th to have a joint party with Gimmy's mom, Sara. Her birthday is the 4th and it was a Sunday so we could have a few more people come by to share the day.



I made a Mexican lunch of shrimp and bellpeppers with red rice in tortillas with avocados and limes and for desert I made chocolate cupcakes. I think the Italians liked it ;)


Cupcakes!

Mario and Gimmy enjoying the cupcakes!

Sisi and Gaia, they both have their pointer finger in their mouths! Gaia is 2 months younger than Sisi but she is a big strong little toddler. She is already walking and she knows what she wants! They are so cute together!
The party!

Me and Sisi with Gaia and Roberta.

Playing with Mario.

Blowing out the candles! Sara turned 78 years old, we decided to get the numbered candles insead of the small ones ;)
Sara, cutting her birthday cake. it was a semifreddo ( not quite gelato but similar) of strawberry and lemon, yum!
With the Godmother, Teresa.

Sisi and Gaia
Gaia is afraid of Gimmy's beard and would cry whenever he got too close to her.

Sisi (and me) opening her presents.


Sharing toys...
Gaia and Sisi both wanted the pink phone, whenever Sisi had it in her hand Gaia would go and grad it! Sisi was not sure what to do since she is not so used to this type of play.


On the next day, Sisi's real birthday, was the day she started walking on her own.



We went over to Pizzo to have a tartuto (gelato).



We let Sisi try it, but I dont think she likes it much. How is that possible?!
Going to the sea.

It was too cold for a swim but we let Sisi play in the water around the rock like she loved to do in the summer time.


Little climber!


The next day we went to see the new park they just opened in the city of Catanzaro. It is a huge park and they were still working on it then we were there. It was a great park with lots of pathways to walk, ponds, play areas for kids of different ages, a skate park and they were building a ice rink.


One of the ponds with some swans.



Back at Nonna Sara's house, dancing with Babbo.

Sleeping next to Mamma.

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