My guys...

I had a very nice and relaxing date with Shaun last night. We went to a concert and afterwards went out for dinner. Jamie has been awake at 1:30 in the morning, laughing, rolling around, trying to crawl - we'll never get to sleep again. He woke up this morning very early and extremly happy. When that little man puts his mind to something, he won't change it easily. Like when he wanted to play with Shaun's computer this morning - he kept on crawling toward it, reaching, hitting at it, etc. (Shaun sat on the floor)
Shaun said: Jamie is like pushing mud up the hill.
I love this expression because it applies so well to raising kids!

Lilly is running around the first floor, playing with her pretend dog, telling him to play quietly because Jamie is asleep.
We are blessed with two adorable children. I enjoy every minute of it - well, maybe not the ones in the middle of the night when I'm up with my baby boy instead of fast asleep. But soon that will change (I hope so).

NEW HOUSE

Just in case I haven't mentioned it yet: We bought a new house in Cincinnati. We are very excited to move in two weeks, but the preparations come along slowly.
We are trying to get all the stuff for the children's rooms together first since they are the only rooms that need immediate attention, plus Lilly doesn't have any furniture yet since Jamie will inherit hers.
I'll post some updates soon :)

Progress - or not...

There I was, the cabinet with the pots and bowls mostly packed up, when Jamie woke up.
So, good mother that I am, I went upstairs and changed the soaked little critter and his bed sheets.
After a lovely game of “where is mommy’s stinky monkey” we came downstairs to find all the mixing bowls and baking pans lined up all over the family room floor and Lilly was getting ready to play the “drums”.
Now she already lost interest in the pans, but Jamie bangs with his hands and a spoon on my metal mixing bowls while Lilly returned to the kitchen to hopefully not get more packed stuff out!
Whenever I try to get something done with her around, it’s like taking two steps forward and one step back - with a detour.

Almost crawling

Jamie has been making tons of progress with moving around, but he isn't crawling yet. He does the little soldier crawl and he is perfetly capable of getting himself across the room and in all kinds of stuff, but not in the old-fashioned way of crawling. :)
He has the motions and the position down, but can't really figure out to put them together. It's pretty funny to watch. I'm sure he'll figure it out soon.
Wally got a nice haircut today and I am looking forward to not have all his fur everywhere!
Jamie hat jetzt schon fast rausgefunden wie man krabbelt, aber eben nur fast... Er ist in der richtigen Position und macht die Bewegungen, schafft es aber nicht beides zusammen zu machen. Er schaut allerdings ganz witzig aus wenn er so durch den Raum robbt. Lange wird's nicht mehr dauern.
Wally war heute beim Hundefrisoer - es war auch schon hoechste Zeit. Ich freue mich dass er jetzt fuer eine Weile nicht so haaren wird!