Merry Christmas!!

The Germani Thanksgiving Acronym

The Germani family is blessed beyond measure. Here is our 2010 Thanksgiving Acronym

Trains (its no secret that our boys are extremely thankful for this form of locomotion)
House (we are indeed very thankful for a roof over our head)
Apple pie (yummy, mommy's favorite)
Navy (and all our armed forces for the freedom they put their lives on the line for everyday GOD BLESS THEM!!)
Kangaroos (they can jump really high)
Savior (the sacrifice of the Almighty God in giving his son so that we might have eternal life is really the only reason we can even begin to be thankful in the first place)
Germani family (we love ourselves, just kidding but we are thankful for each member of our little family)
Ice cream (do we need to explain this?)
Very comfortable beds
Insects (yeah, I guess we are thankful for these since according to Rocco, bees are insects and they make honey!)
Night time (cozy time for sleeping in those very comfortable beds)
Grandparents (what a huge blessing they are!!)

Dion and Diesel (our part time doggies that are very sweet)
Art (we all enjoy exploring our creativity)
Yo yo's (cuz who isnt thankful for yo yo's?!!!!)

Roman's Latest Milestones

As I was updating my blog in the previous post, I realized that our little Roman has had some big miles stones that should be noted because after all he is the BABY and were not hitting these miles stones again with another one (unless God intervenes in some miraculous fashion)so here goes...

already noted in previous post but worth giving a little more attention too. Roman has his OWN bed that does not have four sides holding him in. He transitioned fairly well although it was a challenge to keep him in it for the first couple of weeks. The freedom from the usual cage was just too tempting for him and he kept (and still does on occasion) getting up to go potty or give us kisses (love that one!) or get a drink of water...etc...but pretty much he stays in it now and seems somewhat content.



Roman also had his first day of preschool. He loves it!! He is my high energy extrovert and LOVES being around other kids and well anyone who will give him attention. He is attending a pre-school program at our local high school which is essentially run by high school students so there are plenty of girls to give him plenty of attention!


Roman also went on his first field trip to Pumkinville. He had lots of fun running around with 2 high school girls who gave him tons of attention. Mommy didnt even need to be there (but I still went so I could capture the milestone on camera).

Oh and then there is the potty training thing....which is a huge milestone for all of us because we are essentially done hunting down diaper coupons. Hip Hip HOOORAY!!!! He doesnt even need a pull up at night any more which was a gift WAY beyond my expectations. Its probably because he likes to get up so much and go potty just to enjoy the freedom but whatever...I'll take it!! Whatever shall we use our extra $$ for each month?!! *insert happy face here*

Summer/Fall

Wow, we're a little behind here in the blogosphere so here's a rehash of the last couple of months. Part of the reason I've been having a hard time getting this thing updated is because my husband is a photographer (part time) and when we do anything together as a family he takes the pictures (obviously) but he takes them in raw and by the time he finds time to put them into a format that I can use its long past the date and they are hidden in some file that I cant locate..blah blah blah...anyway I had wanted to put stuff up from Father's day and I have yet to see the pictures taken from that...so we are going to skip that for now and I'll put up some pictures of what I have now from the last several months
Roman finally graduated to a real big boy bed (I think this was back in the late spring early summer. He's been doing great and we have left diapers behind as well. He was a champion potty trainer and it only took him a week and he's never looked back!

Cousin Noah came to visit over Rocco's 6th birthday. Rocco and Roman love their little cousin and are constantly telling me that all their old baby toys are for baby Noah(he's not much of a Baby any more)

The best man from our wedding and his wife came to DC for a conference (they live in Minnesota)so we got to show them around DC a little bit and took them to our favorite restuarant in DC (Meskerem) for some Ethiopian cuisine. It was great to reconnect with them.

Roman had some fun in really cool globe sprinkler sent down from Johns sister "Aunt Lynnie" in our back yard.




We got free tickets to a Joe Gibbs fair in Prince William County (Youth for Tomorrow)thanks to our good friends the Royers and they had monster trucks there which was pretty cool plus all kinds of fun rides for the boys.

Mother's Day

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

These are the children who call me "mommy"....yes, I know how unbelievably lucky I am.

I never fully appreciated my own mom (and my mother-in-law) until I had kids. There is so much in life that I have learned from these little guys and am still learning about myself (I thought I was done after college)like how completely self absorbed I was-haha I had no idea! I am not really a sappy person by nature but since becoming a mom..well you know as the quote says above "motherhood is new" so watch out people....I may just cry my eyes out over absolutely nothing--ugh! anyway, I do feel like a NEW person as a mom and its a good and welcome change. Its a journey that I am glad I am on and I honestly dont remember what I did with my self before I had kids...seriously what did I do?!!

Hodge Podge

Here are some things that have happened over the past couple months...


To say we got a lot of snow this winter is probably the understatement of the century. The boys enjoyed riding their snow tubes down our makeshift track in the back yard and this was after a good amount had even melted away!!


The boys had fun going on our annual trek to the Car show...below they are being entertained by some really "homely looking birds". The boys however thought they were pretty cool though...except Roman needed some extra convincing....he was a bit frightened at first.

After our 2 weeks being snow bound John decided to take us all to Disney on Ice. The boys had a good time seeing all their favorite characters....and it was SO nice to get out of the house!!!

Romans favorite..."Buzz Light Ear" (he cant pronounce the "ya" sound yet)

Welcome to the Jungle.....

Roman turned 3 on December 27 and it only took us about a month to have a little party for him. Oh well, he still had fun and I think the other kids did too...so thats all that matters right?!

Here are some pictures from the Jungle party...

I love this picture, mostly because Roman did the thumbs up without being prompted and Ethan got a crazy face in the bottom right which I think is hysterical!

Getting ready to chow down on his monkey, the ears are already gone.

The Monkeys were definitely a favorite...I have to say these were so fun to make and SO EASY....just check out http://www.bettycrocker.com/baking if you are interested. The 3 year old all decked out with a chocolate mustache!


Cant believe my baby is 3!!