hahaha

So James is a way better laugher than Lena was at his age.  Seriously, she did not think we were funny at all.  James is way easier to amuse.  

Observe:

And here's Lena after a bath in her "coat":

Enjoy your week!

3 months.

Hi.  I'm James and I was3 months old on Easter.  Here are 3 pictures of me.  enjoy!

lots of new things.

I'm such a diligent blog poster lately!  Go, me. 

I have lots of new multimedia to share so without further ado here is Lena riding her "Bikel" :

ok, next up is J. Roth in a bumbo chair

tehehe

And now Lena and her friends make easter eggs!!

Yes, that is Lena and 6 boys.

and now Lena wants to tell you all about the ink she recently had done:

waaaaaay better

ok these are WAY better than the last pics of James I posted.  Lena was sleeping so I could concentrate all my attention on him this time...... enjoy!

and here's a little video too!

some faces

Here are some faces from Mr J. Roth:

and of course Lena needed some camera love too.  So this is her doing her best "cheese!"

They are fun.

interviews with the kiddos

So here's a nice little post to keep all the grandparents and aunts and uncles happy.  A little interview with the kiddos.  Lena, almost 20 months, and James, 2 months.  Enjoy!

We're all doing well, excited about the warmer weather, and Easter break where we plan to be in both NJ and Pittsburgh for some visiting.  Lena's growing like a weed (an extremely chatty weed) and James is working out all his kinks, it's tough to be a little baby I guess.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

winter at last

Hi again.

So here we are.  The end of February, 60 degrees & sunny today.  Is it really still winter?  In Philadelphia, not so much.

This past weekend we got our fill of winter-wonderland-ness up in the Adirondacks (oh man, it just took me forever to spell that correctly).  Lena was super excited to go and all week talked about the "veeeken" (ie: weekend) when we'd go play in the "shnow".  We finally loaded up the car late Friday and began the 6 hour trip.  Lena woke up when we stopped for gas and immediately asked "veeeken???!!" She did this same thing 2 other times during the trek.  When we finally got there at 12:30am, set up the pack&play and woke her up to put her in bed she took one look around and happily sighed "veeken."  Yes, it was a great weekend.  Here are some pics & videos.

We built a snowman who Lena named "ho ho" and in the morning when we looked out the window he was still there.  (see the closeup on the right)

We also took everyone for a walk & some sledding accross the street.  Some of us enjoyed the snowy experience more than others...

Then Lena took her first trip down the hill, with what seemed to be mixed feelings...

It was 3 days of snowy fun... and we needed it for sure.  All of us, especially Mike, have been work work working on the house for months now.  It was nice to get away and relax.  Here are 2 shots of 2 of the rooms in the new house!  Our living room (mostly a shot of the carpet, but oh well) and the kitchen/mudroom.  yay!  we have a functional downstairs!  yay!

And that's all for now!