This weekend was just like any other weekend… we didn’t know what to do. We kept asking each other over and over again what the other wanted to do and someone (*cough* Ray *cough*) kept looking a laptops online… did I mention that we bought a super cheap laptop last week at Best Buy? I […]
This is a picture of me with my niece E that was taken almost a year ago right before my first baby shower. I was just over 34 weeks pregnant and little E was only 4 1/2 months old. It was hot and humid and I was starting to feel miserable… but it was totally
Happy 4th of July!!! and…. Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Daniela!!! It’s my cousins birthday today… it’s funny, because for the longest time she thought that we Americans (she’s German) were setting off fireworks to celebrate her birthday! How cute is that? I’m pretty sure that she knows better now. =) It’s been a busy past
I’ve never really had a problem remembering dreams. In fact, I have all kinds of dreams while sleeping… vivid ones, boring ones, ones where I speak in English and others in German. I have reoccurring dreams that I can manipulate and change while still dreaming them (I also know if something has changed in it
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I’ve really been enjoying the past few days. The weather has been awesome (well with the exception of a day or two) and I’ve been trying to get Noah outside so that he can enjoy something other than the confines of our 4 walls. I would usually post these pictures on his blog, but I
Someone… and I’m not naming names here, but someone has decided that he does not like to see anything lined up or stacked. If we even so much as start to stack blocks… and I’m talking just putting one on top of the other… this little destruction machine makes his way over to where we
So reading over the post I finished last night, I realized that it may have sounded like the decision we made to let our son “cry it out” was purely for selfish reasons (ie more sleep for us). While that is an added benefit… one which I may add has made me feel even more
Do you remember the letter I wrote to my son? Well he listened and answered in a way that was favorable to me, but not by his choice… you see finally, after months of getting up at least once (most nights twice), he is sleeping through the night. We had his 9 month appointment with
A few weeks ago we decided to take Noah out on his first hike. It was finally dry after a rainy week, so we pulled out our new book “60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago” and looked to see what was fairly close to us. After seeing that Marengo had some trails we packed up the new stroller and Noah and headed out
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