Eddie runs the Philadelphia Marathon and Pics of the girls!

Philadelphia Marathon

     The first weekend in November Eddie ran the Philadelphia Marathon. Eddie, Emma and I just went for the weekend. Lyla stayed home with her grandparents. Emma was so excited to watch her dad run a race and we cheered him on at different miles during the race. Eddie's goal was to run the marathon (26.2 miles) in under 3 hours and he rocked in the marathon and finished in 2 hours and 59 minutes. That averages out to 6:50 per mile! Eddie had a custom bib made for DWARFISM AWARENESS and he wore it proudly during the race. Here are some pics from our fabulous weekend in Philly!

We went to the Philadelphia convention center to pick up Eddie's race number

Inside were all these different vendors

Kid zone

Our hotel

Eddie and his friend ran the race together

My DIVA daughter ordered room service!!!!

Enjoying her chocolate chip pancakes!

The race from our room!

Eddie just finished

Here we are pointing to the Dwarfism Awareness bib

Emma was sooooo sleepy!! She fell asleep in the car!



Current PICS of the girls!

The girls playing outside together 

Just waking up in the morning and hanging with mommy and daddy in bed!

Lyla got her first pedicure and YES she wanted red toenails!!!

eating some ice cream!!!

We went to a party and my girls were all dressed up!

Lyla and me (I tried to fix Lyla's red eye but her eyes look a little weird. LOL)

Halloween 2012!

      Well Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast and the news said it was the worst storm in 100 years! Luckily for us we were ok and never lost power. On Halloween people came to my neighborhood in vans/cars packed with families to go trick or treating. Our neighborhood was one of the few who didn't lose power and there were no down power lines or trees (Our neighborhood is new and our power lines are underground). Besides having no internet for a week we were very fortunate! Here are my beautiful girls all dressed up and ready to go out for Halloween! They were police officers! Emma showed Lyla how to go from door to door and get candy and Lyla LOVED getting all those delicious treats!!!! Emma went around the neighborhood 3 times! Here are a few pics!

I love the donut purses with the handcuffs!

Lyla had no interest in wearing her hat

The girls with some neighborhood friends

Posing for a quick pic with my girls! Long Island was a bit chilly.

We took a break from trick or treating and went to Applebee's. Lyla finally put her hat on!



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Some pics of us hanging out at home during Hurricane Sandy!

Watching t.v and me talking on the phone

Lyla and Eddie taking naps

The girls goofing around

We made lots of delicious treats! Here are chocolate covered lollipops! Yummy!!!

Celebrating Dwarfism Awareness Month! and Pics from Lyla's 2nd Bday!

Dwarfism Awareness!

I have been waiting to publish this post till the end of the month because a lot has been going on over here for Dwarfism Awareness Month. At the end of September we were very fortunate to take part in NewYork officially becoming a state that recognizes Dwarfism Awareness Month in October. The LPA had a press conference at a hotel in Time Square followed by a banquet dinner reception. This was such an exciting day for the LPA and we had such a nice time supporting the cause. Here are some pics from NYC!

Lyla hanging out right before the press conference

Emma before the press conference

Daddy kissing his girl

Gary Arnold - President of the LPA

Joe Zrinski- LPA District 2 President

New York State Assembly Woman -Nancy Calhoun

Amer Haider- founder of Growing Stronger

Some LPA friends

Daddy and Emma

                                               

Lyla, Eddie and Emma

me and my girl

Emma and Lyla playing with our LPA friends

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In the meantime, I decided that I needed to do more to help raise awareness. I did the article in our local paper, I went into NYC to support Dwarfism Awareness Month but I still felt like more needed to be done. So I spoke to my Principal at my school and told him that I would like to raise money for the LPA through donations. It was a month long fundraiser with all the faculty and staff involved. On October 24 all the faculty and staff wore green (I designated this day for everybody in the school to wear green in honor of Dwarfism Awareness Month and of course my Lyla Rose!) I am happy to report that my school raised..........$1,186 for the Little People of America! It was touching and needless to say I was speechless. Here a just a few students and staff members wearing green. I am in the pic on the left side and my principal is on the right. Next year I am adding more schools in my district and hopefully if that goes well we are going district wide. I will do anything to help raise awareness for my daughter and all of our LP friends!

Thank you Laurel Park Elementary!

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Lyla's 2nd Birthday Party Pics!

Here are some pics from my beautiful daughter turning 2! She is very special and EVERYBODY loves and adores her!!!! She had two parties. The first one was at the Beach with some LPA friends. The second one was at Mama Lombardi's Restaurant with the immediate family.


Beach Party

Mama Lombard's