the future is here

ok, so please fast forward THREE YEARS and here we are. seriously, that is just ridiculous. how can it be that in my last post ivan was still in diapers?!  time is going a bit too fast for my liking. it really needs to take a chill pill. literally i feel like i blink an eye and a week goes by. anyway, i am trying to ease back into this blogging thing again. i feel sort of overwhelmed though... too much time has passed for me to mention everything that has happened, but i'd think the biggest change in the past three years, besides the boys' amazing transformations, is buying our home in the germantown section of philly.  it was one of the best moves we ever made mainly for the reason that there are trees around, LOTS and LOTS of TREES!! living in port richmond for six years, i resigned myself to living in the concrete jungle, but moving here made me realize how very much i need green in my life. it makes such a difference to me mentally, emotionally and physically. it makes me feel so much more peaceful in spirit and clear-minded. it seems i can breathe easier here.  not to mention, my neighbors are so wonderful, as are our close friends in the neighborhood. so yeah, germantown is clearly the place for us. 

do you see how the boys are growing like weeds?! sometimes i look at victor and i see a lanky, stretched out miniature man, and my baby ivan, his body is no longer, for lack of better words, babyish and squishy (although, thank god, he still has some delicious, kissable cheeks.) that is the strangest thing to me, that my boys will some day be men, too old to climb into my bed, curling up close in the early morn. how can it be that i miss these days already?