Here's.....COLE! :)

Please welcome Addie's little brother, the newest member of our family. Cole Robert Silvestro was born on 3/12/10 at 6:06am. He is a big boy at 8lbs 6oz and we are absolutely in love with every inch of him!



First minutes of life

After he gets cleaned off, some snuggles with mommy.

...and Daddy :)




And Uncle Dan found a picture of Addie on her first day and a picture of Cole on his first day and put them side by side (Addie's on the left). Definitely a resemblance :)
Addie is excited to meet her little brother and teach him to dance and laugh :)

Thank you to the family for all the congrats and warm thoughts.

Love,
Monica and Steve

Thawing out!

The weather is FINALLY becoming consistently warm enough to play outside. With a light fleece nonetheless. We are celebrating by spending as much time as possible outside.

We put together the tricycle that Yaya and Poppy got Addie for Christmas. She LOVES it.

We met some of our Arlington friends at a huge park about halfway between there and Rockville. Here are Addie and Reese flying a plane :)

Yesterday afternoon Addie and I scouted out this cool lake not too far from where we live. We hung out by the water...

...did some serious searching for rocks and sticks in the field...
...and found "fairy caps" (acorn tops) by the water.

Thank you spring, for coming....you have NO idea how we missed you!!