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Things are going well here at the Raia household despite the nasty colds we caught that everyone in NY seems to have had (well almost). Baby Andrew seemed to escape it though so that’s good, since he’s young and all.

Mary Elizabeth has become quite the artist. Sure she’s been drawing with a pen/pencil/crayon since she was 1 years old, but she really has been very involved in her coloring skills in the past 6 months. And loves to try to copy what you are drawing. She went from doing big round circles, to little circles, attempts and successfully can draw triangles at times, can draw crosses too (and has drawn a nice cross with a black sharpie on mommy & daddy’s bed sheets- whoops!)… but now she even draws little faces.

You may have to tilt your head slightly to get the idea… otherwise you might see 8’s and 7’s- but its really two round circles for the eyes, a circle nose and a squiggle for the mouth! We are very proud of our smart little girl!

 Recently, we have done a bit of shopping. So their spring & summer wardrobe is turning up quite beautiful thanks to some good Gymboree sales! Grandmas have helped a bit there too- with no complaints either! haha. They will be needed anyway as we realize we have a lot of Events coming in the Spring. Anyway, in addition to the clothes we had Mary Elizabeth’s wooden letters repainted to match her room since we didn’t think Drew would want the name MARY hanging over his crib!

It looks adorable with her Hello Kitty Themed room. In addition we thought we’d get smaller, boyish letter’s for Drew, so that means no ribbon. We haven’t hung them yet but I layed them against the wall – resting on the changing table to share for now, a bit tilted but you get the idea…

We also have some new VIDEOS we put up- well they aren’t really new to us, we took those video clips in December & January but hey better late then never. Drew has already changed and learned so much more since then so we’ll have to take some more and put them up quicker!

Well that’s about all for now, we’re gearing up and hoping to stay healthy for the upcoming surgery on March 11th. We have decided to go with the original drug used in the last sclerotherapy/injection round. Reason being, the other drug has been used before and a lot- but overall not as much as we’d like to feel safe about what risks are involved. There was success with the last round, we are praying for even more success and also less swelling this time.

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