Moment Of Realization

In two years I will be mothering two teenagers and one two year old. Oh. My.

E' Solo Gesso

Recently the grandparents sent some sidewalk chalk to the boys. Because of our neighbors I was a little apprehensive about actually letting them use it. Matthew wanted to play with it right away. I asked him to ask M who being Italian and all, would know if it would be acceptable. Matthew explained "We can draw with it all over the sidewalks, and it won't last long, and it will be cleaned up as soon as it rains." M seemed rather hesitant, and said it would probably bother our neighbors (who don't like seeing or hearing children play). So I told Matthew to hold onto it and we would play with it on our next visit to the U.S.
Then Gabriel was trying to convince M, and since he was speaking Italian, M realized that it was only chalk, solo gesso, so he let the boys go outside our house and draw all over the sidewalk.
I wonder what our neighbors will think?
So far I have heard nothing from them. Personally I like the non fumare sign the boys made, but maybe the big PACE and PEACE speak loudest of all...

In other news, in fact the latest and greatest most up to the minute Baby News, Luca just shy of 8 weeks old, rolled over today from his tummy to his back. I happened to have the camera ready!

Doesn't he look mystified?

Splish! Splash!

I was takin' a bath!

When all of a sudden, this thing came out of nowhere and got my face all wet! It felt weird.

Mamma mia!, I didn't know what to think!

But that's okay, the rest of the bath was fun fun fun! I got to kick and kick.

And after all that, we had a nice cuddle.