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!

Neue Leiberl

Die Godi hat den beiden neue Leiberl gemacht und sie schaun total suess aus. Und Lilly ist total stolz auf ihres. Danke Godi.
My sister made t-shirts for the kids - totally cute! And Lilly is so proud of hers!

Playing at the pool

I'm eating!

Jamie's first meal!


One of my favorite things in the morning - playing in Mama's bed


We are a lot outside - enjoying the weather whenever we can

Precious baby boy

James in his baby legs - I think they are cute, Shaun thinks they are very metro sexual. Whatever! We also love the cloth diapers. I'm so glad Sonja's and Ricki's influence rubbed off on me. Thanks girls!

My babies

At the park in Oakley...

James isn't so sure about the swings


Best friends...

Fun at amusement parks

Riding trains at Carillon Park in Dayton. Lilly couldn't get enough!



Lilly and Jake at Coney Island (it's been a couple of months)
We had a lot of fun


Jake is a great big buddy to Lil, until she decided she didn't want his help anymore and bit him - that was the end of our trip to Coney

Being out all day is exhausting.

At Wegerzyn Gardens

We had tons of fun all summer long.






Playing at the creek

More summer pics...

Celebrating grandpa's birthday with cakeballs

Sleeping - how Mama likes it...

Wide alert - how Papa likes it...

Playing nicely, another one of my favorite things...

Starting early on computers...

Playing at Wegerzyn Gardens with Brooklyn - we spent a lot of time there this summer.


They found a worm between the veggies - after taking turns holding it for a while, that poor thing was curled up and probably had given up all hope for survival. We rescued it in the end by putting it between tomato vines.

Going for one of many walks.


Enjoying the walk.