Sunday, December 26, 2010

November 2010

Really? Halloween was the last time I blogged. Yikes. With our time wrapping up in Houston and getting prepared to "move" back to Germany, I suppose blogging slipped my mind. The first pics are just random glimpses into our November. We enjoyed lots of time at the park in the cooler weather. Yes, it was just BEGINNING to get cooler in November. ;)


Here's Jonas helping to make dressing for the first of our two Thanksgiving dinners. (It IS Jonas, even though his pilgrim hat states otherwise.)The rest of the pics are from our second Thanksgiving at my cousin's house. Laney was a fabulous cook and hostess and a wonderful time was had by all.

Finally after about 8 tries, we got a gret picture of the two of us. (We're 4 1/2 mos apart.)
This is how most of our time together goes...hysterical laughter.

Just the 4 of us this Thanksgiving.


Judith and Nana.

Jonas.

Ezra.



Of course, Judith is a crawling machine now, but in mid-November she was still scooting and low-crawling.


Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Halloween 2010

For Halloween, Ezra was a shark, Jonas was a dragon, and Judith was a flower. Mommy and my favorite flower.

Jonas. The happiest dragon you'll ever meet.


Nana and the boys making Halloween cookies.


A joint effort.

Our Halloween Pumpkin (that we had to throw away 2 days after we set it out because it is so stinkin' hot in Houston).

Maybe my favorite Halloween pic from this year.


An attempt to clean out the "gross" stuff.


At the pumpkin patch. They were about done posing for pictures at this point.

Costumes at the pumpkin patch.


Ice cream cone face.


Spider web face.


Getting their faces painted.

Jonas is so happy to be petting the llama (?).


Feeding the pony some dirt (the pony didn't really eat it).

Love this picture! Everyone has such a silly face.

Jonas doing his "crying face" in jail. Whaaaa!

Ezra on a playground fort.

Mommy and Judith on the hay ride.

Hay ride.

Ezra at the Pumpkin Patch.

Pumpkins!

Sweet Judith.

The Great Pumpkin!

Ezra on a tractor in pumpkin patch.

Pumpkin Patch.


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Judith is 6 months!


Miss Judith Damaris had her 6 month birthday on Friday. She can totally sit by herself and transitions to her tummy pretty well. She can roll circles around the living room, and is starting to low crawl, but isn't up on all fours yet.

Jonas' bubble goatee. Mommy and my big girl.
Bubble angel.
This was Ezra on picture day at school.
More fun with bubbles.
Five days before her 6 month birthday, Judith found her voice and started right in with the "da-da-da-da-da"s. I don't know why it wasn't "ma-ma-ma-ma-ma". She hasn't even see her Daddy in 4 1/2 months. Guess she's already practicing how she's going to wrap herself around his little finger when he gets home. On the video, you can also hear Jonas repeating "Do it myself" because he wanted to take pictures with the camera. I hear that phrase a trillion times a day. Everything is "Do it myself!" And about halfway through the video, Ezra starts turning the light on and off. Always an adventure...




Saturday, October 16, 2010

Sitting pretty!

"Paint your face" night at Awana! The boys were tigers. This is Jonas' roaring face.

Sweet Judith Damaris. 5 1/2 months.


It has been a beautiful couple of weeks in Houston with highs in the low/mid 80s and lots of sunshine. Consequently, we have been making the rounds to all of the great parks in our area.


More Judith.


Tiger faces! Grrr!






At 5 1/2 months, Judith is officially sitting on her own for extended periods of time. The video was taken a week or so ago. At the time, her transitioning tool from sitting to laying was the "fall method". A week later, she's beginning to get the hang of putting her elbow and forearm down first and swinging her legs around to be able to lay on her tummy. She's quite mobile by the "rolling method". When on her tummy, she can pull either her legs up, or push up on her hands, but not at the same time. She's learning fast though. I took the video the wrong way and don't know how to rotate it, so tilt your head to the left for viewing. :)



I took the kids to Pump it Up today. The boys had a blast. Ezra was such a good brother to hold Jonas' hand while going down the slide.







Sunday, October 03, 2010

Notes from Home

Grandma Allison and Judith. Judith and her Astros outfit.
Ezra and Jonas at the park on a beautiful day.


Jonas.



Judith-5 months.


Crazy hair night at Awanas.



Some videos from Soccertots (so Mike can see our aspiring soccer star ;), the boys reading letters from Daddy, and messages to Mike from his family.