Movie Monday-Cinema Paradiso

Here is another great foreign film introduced to me again by Colleen. This story is so sweet and genuine, I just LOVE love love the story and the relationships in the film. It goes to show that you can have a best friend who is any age.
PLOT: A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside.
STARS: 4 1/2 out of 5
RATING: PG-13?

New pictures

My friends Katie and Rich came over and took some way cute pictures of Roman, here are some of them. Thanks Katie and Richard!

Baby Roman!

Well we have survived the first week! Roman is now 1 week old! He is such a cutie and we are loving him more everyday!

Linus meeting Roman for the first time.
Linus has been so cute with the baby. He keeps saying,"Baby cute!" he seems to be pretty excited about his new baby brother so far. He likes to help change the baby. He has had his nose a bit out of joint on the attention issue but he seems to just get mad at us and not baby. Yesterday Linus was singing his ABC's for Roman and today I got him doing it on video, so check it out below.

Roman Scott Harker!!!

He is finally here! I was scheduled to have a c-section on Feb. 3, but Roman decided to make an earlier apperance while the doc. was out of town.
Roman was born by c-section from the super neat partner of my doc. who was out of town, Dr. Jones. He came on Jan. 30, 2009 at 2:00am weighing in at 7lbs. 8 oz. and was 18 inches long. It is funny how we manage to have short babies when daddy in 6' 7".
I feel like the c-section went much much better this time (minus the spinal block that took 4 pokes and 10 minutes to place). Dr. Jones was great and was much more gentile than the butcher I had last time.
We are currently still in the hospital but hope to be gone either tonight of tomorrow morning. Roman is doing great and mommy is recovering much beter than the last time. We are so excited to finally have our sweet new baby boy with us!

Don't mind me looking a bit nasty.