One more thing...

We are blessing Mia this coming Saturday on May 10th. I am so excited. We are keeping the ceremony very small and intimate, what Giacomo and I both wanted. Our immediate family is coming to our home to help welcome our little Mia and bless her. The man who married Giacomo and I will be performing the ceremony. She will be wearing a gown that I wore and my mother also wore when we were blessed :) I am so excited to see her in it. I found the most beautiful shoes for her as well yesterday. They are satin with a bow on the strap. Very simple and classic :) My brother and Giacomo's brother will be the godparents. Yes, there are no godmothers. We are doing it 2008 style. ha ha. They were so honored and happy to rise to the occasion. Giacomo did not have religious instruction growing up and his family did not support the Catholic Church. I also disagree with some of the church's views and we therefore felt we wanted this to be a blessing with no strong ties to any organized religion. It is recognized in the catholic church as a baptism however, so if Mia decides she wants to continue her religious education as a roman catholic, etc., she can still do so. I am looking very forward to it. I think it will be a very special day for all of us. There is this poem that I have chosen which I believe is so true to what being a parent is all about. My brother will be reading it during the blessing. It is as follows:

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you, but, not from you; and though they are with you, they belong not to you.
You may give them your love, but, not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but, seek not to make them like you;for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,and he bends you with his might that his arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;for even as he loves the arrow that flies,so he loves also the bow that is stable.

So, that is that. I am going to enjoy a nice cup of morning tea...Oh! one more IMPORTANT THING! Mia slept 8 hours straight last night from 93r0p to 530a and just woke to eat and went straight to sleep again and is waking up now! It's 830! So she slept for 11 hours! We are so pround..hopefully this is the trend. We fed her a lot of cereal last night and I gave her Tyelenol because her gums seem to be bothering her. Yes, we are pretty sure she is teething. The hands are always in the mouth chewing them and there is non-stop drool!!

Gotta run...I actually hear her now! You go Mia!

Talk to you all soon...I'll be sure to post a bunch of pics from the blessing this coming Saturday!! Ciao!