Happy 2nd Birthday, Chiara!

Two years ago today, Chiara Antonia was born on Easter Sunday! We will celebrate her birthday with cake and presents on Monday, so today I'll just share some baby pictures... (I'm sorry that these are out of order, but blogger is not letting me move them around at the moment.)


This was taken on the day of her Baptism when she was 4 weeks old.

This was taken two weeks after she was born. Thankfully, the Church celebrates Easter for more than one day. We spent the 1st Easter Sunday in the hospital, but we got to celebrate on the other Sundays!

I included this picture of Chiara with John Paul, so that we will all remember to pray for him as he undergoes another big surgery today. The Rosamonds visited us a month after Chiara was born.

Here is Matteo's 1st big brother picture! He was not able to come to the hospital when she was born because he was sick :(

Who would've guessed that such a serious baby would turn out to be the funny little toddler we have running around the house today!

Here are the girls with their new little sister on the day she was born!

And here is Chiara in her 1st picture, umbilical cord and all! She was one of our smaller babies, weighing 'only' 9.5 lbs!! (And, I'm hoping that her new little sister will follow in her footsteps!)

Thanks be to God for our precious baby girl!! May He continue to bless her!