Why Madeira is the best suburb of Cincinnati

I live in Whoville+Mayberry= Madeira, OH. Located right outside Cincinnati, Ohio. Seriously. It is so cute. We had a 100 year celebration of the start of our town/suburb. It was complete with Dr. Seuss-looking yellow cupcakes with blue strange sugared funky glass looking candy on top and famous Graeters icecream and Coffee Please Coffee. Our Mayor was there. Someone wrote a Madeira song and told us to get out our hankies. haha, I mean sniffle sniffle. The boy scouts and girl scouts sang. Hundreds of people stood in the sun while person after person gushed over the wonderfulness of the town.

We have only lived here for a little over 7 months so I am still taking in its cuteness.

We can walk anywhere mostly with sidewalks...the butcher, the baker, the florist, the tailor, the dry cleaner, the library, the shoe repair shop (I'm not joking), a nail salon, an autobody shop, a lawnmower shop, an old train station restaurant, the grocery store, many parks, our church, hair salon, pilates and yoga studio, coffee shops (including Starbucks), a few very delicious restaurants (one with sushi-YES.), bagel shop, hardware store, religious shop, a lot of cute boutiques, 4 pharmacies, way too many banks, the high school, middle school, and elementary school. There are kids walking and biking everywhere. It's safe and people wave to each other and are friends with their neighbors. On our street everyone wants to retire in their home. These are tiny old homes. They just love it here so much they are willing to loose tons of money and add on to their houses again and again. Someone just sold a house on my street and is desperately trying to buy another house on our street that is bigger than their 2 bedroom was. Everyone is outside and loves to keep their yards nice.

And we just met a man with 3 rottweilers down the street. Oh. My. We accidentally let Davy (our daughter) pet one of them not knowing what it was. She looked so friendly. I swear the dog was smiling. Besides the rottweilers that we just found out about. I think its a perfect street. Oh and minus the incessantly barking hound dog behind our house. Besides those animals, Whoville+Mayberry=perfect.

Sorry for the haitus. I had a little baby.

BABY!

So, Easter came and went and unfortunately no peep sushi was made. However, I bought all of the ingredients. Even though there seemed be a peep shortage in the small town or Madeira, Ohio. Someone seriously took all the peeps and made off with them like a bandit in the night. Thankfully some other candy companies sell peep-like products.

Anyways. I was planning to make the little suckers on Easter with my family, but I started feel a little more and more uncomfortable to the point that I wanted to move as little as possible.

Easter was a long day. We woke up, had some Easter bunny-mania, went to Easter Mass, made some food for the husband extended family party, went to my mom and dad's house with the siblings, congratulated my newly engaged sister and future BIL, then packed it up and went to the husband extended family party. Everyone there guessed when I would have the baby and just how big that baby would be and what kind of little body parts would be in the diaper. Mostly everyone was wrong. Except for the Grandma's. Grandma got the weight almost exactly and then Great Grandma guessed the date (then changed it to 2 days later due to peer pressure) and she guessed almost exactly the weight too! Momma's know best. The prize will come at the Baptism and Baptism after party this weekend.

Now for the big news. Gianna Maria made her entrance to this side of the womb on April 5th, Easter Monday, at 12:11PM. Woohooo. She was 19 inches, and 6lbs. 15 oz. She was 17 days early. Such good timing for this Momma. She came really fast! If you want to know the details I will save another post for that. I know it can be a little TMI for some.