Amelie Faith Varela!

Jack's newest cousin arrived on October 19....Amelie Faith Varela!  (Obviously this blog is 6 weeks overdue but we all know I'm a tad behind on the blogging so we'll just let this one slide).  I don't remember the exact stats but she was a big girl - about 9 1/2 lbs and 21 inches I believe.  We made the trip to Cali to see her a few weeks ago.  She's just a precious little butterball with tons of hair.  And, man, can the girl eat!  She put Jack to shame.  She loves to be held which was just fine with her Auntie Jill.  I was a total baby hog and held her so much even Jack got jealous!  Maybe I need to have another baby so Jack will want me more than his daddy. 

Jen & Obed had everyone over including Grammy Delora and the kids so all the Sandoval kids were there.  We missed Mel & Tyler though!  It was a treat to be with all of my siblings and I realized this little baby was surrounded by so much love. Here are a few pics of our sweet little Amelie with her new family!

The gang – Papa Joey, Uncle Christian, Grammy Delora, Big Sis Marseille, Mimi and Aunt Donna holding the little butterball.  Jess and Donna will be having a baby boy named Charles next May and we’re so thrilled!

The proud grandma’s…Mimi and Grammy.  Whatever happened to calling your grandma, grandma?!

Me and Amelie.  I just want to smush her!!  But I really can’t say that word now because the Jersey Shore has ruined it for all of America.  So I’ll just say squeeze from now on. 

We attempted to get an adorable picture of all three cousins – you know, the kind you show at their wedding.  But alas, Jack was there and wanted nothing to do with it.  We caught one decent one before he decided he wanted to throw Amelie on the floor.

Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

With all of our traveling and crazy work schedules, I just realized that I haven't blogged in about 3 weeks.  So although Halloween seemed like forever ago, I wanted to finally get the pictures up.  Since Jack has a new infatuation with animals, we wanted to dress him up like one.  And seeing as how he loves to growl like a lion the decision was easy! I think we loved the costume more than he did as you will see in some of the pictures but we thought it was so adorable!

We were lucky enough to have Gigi visiting from Chicago so she was able to join in all the Halloween festivities.  We always love to be with family for any holiday so it was fun to have here here!  On the Friday before Halloween Jack had his school costume parade and party.  All the kids in the school dressed up and sang songs to the parents outside.  This was very cool for Christian and me because it felt like our child's first real "school" event.  This is the stuff parents live for right?!  We got to stand with all the other parents, snap tons of pictures and adore our child.  But Jack has the cutest class ever - we love all his little friends!!

Then on Halloween we took Jack out for a some Trick-or-Treating.  He didn't like it at first but as soon as he realized that if he cooperated he would get candy then he was totally on board.  But instead of saying Trick-or-Treat he would just growl like a lion.  It was awesome.  But we actually think he had more fun handing out the candy at home.  Whenever the doorbell rang he would run to the door (in a diaper of course), and start passing it out.  I love that he's such a generous kid. 

I have a LOT of cute pics and I don't think they need explanation so they are without captions.  Enjoy!