Tulips and Happiness

This spring I had a very plesant surprise. Gorgeous tulips blossomed in my front yard, red by the driveway and yellow by the house. We couldn't resist the beautiful backdrop.

Tommy first tried to grab the tulips by the rock, so we gave him one instead. I had the hardest time getting it in his hand as he just wanted to eat it. Thankfully we got a handsome picture of him before he decided to taste the tulip.

"She loves me, she loves me not...."

Apparently they don't taste too yummy.She loves me!

Easter Pictures

Tommy got an adorable outfit for Easter so we decided that we needed to take some pictures. Thankfully he was in a pretty good mood.

During October General Conference Sunday morning session Tommy crawled for the first time. We thought it would be really fun if he started to walk during the April General Conference. More because it would be a really easy way to remember than us actually wanting him to walk.

Tommy is really really close to walking so we thought we'd give it a try. He is very good at standing and has taken a couple steps on his own. So we tried to encourage him to walk this past weekend, but he just wasn't in the mood. Instead he got a new tooth! What a nice Easter present. His other top tooth is close behind, but not quite there yet. He'll be 11 months next week and only has three teeth!

Now that General Conference is passed we are NOT encouraging Tommy to walk. He already gets into enough trouble as is. What a little ham!

Time To Go

Every year for Thanksgiving or Christmas we put together movies. This is the movie from this last year. It's noticably shorter than any previous years, but it's still lots of fun. I tried to post it a long time ago, but for some reason it didn't work. After posting that last video John suggested that I post this one too. Enjoy!

Sock Attack

We were folding laundry and Tommy came crawling in the room. John dropped a handful of socks on Tommy's head and Tommy looked up at me with a frozen surprised look on his face. He was waiting to see my response, so I laughed and he laughed. This is the result.

Mrs. Wolfgramm goes to Washington

I'm in Washington DC right now with Clean Energy America to engage in discussion on how nuclear power is a Clean, Reliable and Affordable source of energy for this nation's future. It has been a very fun and interesting trip. We have done several radio and one panel discussion at Georgetown University. That was a very interesting event with me and Timpla, the other speaker, who are vounteers, an ex-navy nuke and then two professional anti-nuclear experts. Again, very interesting.

I'm having a wonderful time and will get to spend this evening and tomorrow with Stephanie and her fiance, Dave. I do miss Tommy and John tons!

9 Months and one Week!

Tommy is now as old as long as he was in my belly. What a difference 9 months has made! This is a picture from last weekend. It was his first time on the grass since he was only a few months old. He didn't move. Too scared to crawl, but he still enjoyed eating the outdoors!

I don't know what it is with babies/kids and technology, but Tommy loves my cell phone. I had put it on my purse and my purse on a chair in the kitchen. Tommy comes crawling into the office with my cell in his hand and a HUGE guilty smile on his face.
We got Tommy this walker a while ago and he doesn't like sitting in it as much as he likes standing on the edge.
Tommy had an early birthday present last night, or should I say his mommy got an early birthday present. His Aunt Maren and cousin Deric brought over several boxes of toys! (His other cousin, Jocelyn was sleeping in the car). As you can see below, Tommy was in toy heaven! We surrounded him in the toys and he didn't move. He also got a large box of books too! Tommy loves the toys and thanks Deric and Jocelyn for sharing their toys with him!

I could not get a picture of Tommy looking, he was too busy showing off his new toys to Deric. Thank you Kevin, Maren, Deric and Jocelyn!

Ravioli

About two years ago now, actually very close to two years ago b/c it was on my birthday, all the girls in our family got together to learn how to make Grandma Angeline (Paoli) Paulson's Ravioli. It was a wonderful weekend, and now after two years I finally made them for myself. Believe me, it was MUCH easier to make with 7 women.

It took me all morning, with Tommy, to make the filling. Then in the afternoon I filled the ravioli. As I was making them John started to say something but then stopped after the third word. He said, "There are so..." many other things you could do with your time. I knew exactly what he was going to say, I just looked at him and said that he doesn't understand and couldn't understand.

I'm Italian, I enjoy cooking. I like being able to serve a good meal that people enjoy. Right now I feel like I'm so busy working and going to school that it's not often that I get a chance to be a housewife and cook! (Dishes weren't done until the next day...)Here's a picture of the first bunch I made. I had to wait until the next day to make any more b/c it did take all day to do. They were very yummy. The couple we had over John and I know the husband for work. The wife is vegetarian, so I was able to experiment with cheese and spinach ravioli stuffing. They were very yummy. I also made Gargonzola sauce which was very delicious.


You can tell that the cheese ravioli is on the left because it flattened out and didn't keep it's shape as well as the meat ones did. Although Tommy didn't get to eat the ravioli, he did have some meat and spaghetti baby food. He obviously enjoyed it!

This is one of the few times when you can tell that Tommy has eyebrows, when they're filled with food!

We also enjoyed ravioli with John's parents, brother and sis-in-law two nights later and there are about 12 in the freezer. I think it will be a while before I make them again, but they sure are yummy.

Ciao!