Marie is 3 months...

Ok, so 3 months and a few days old since she was born on the 15th. Either way I decided to dedicate a whole post to her since it's hard to do that when I always have so many insanely cute pictures of both of them.
I love these little cougar fan pictures because she looks like she's laughing in both! She was full of smiles that day but would not perform for the camera so these are the only two I got where she actually smiled almost.
This next one is just cute because she had been holding up her head for forever and then just laid down and stared. She was laying there so peacefully that I had to get a picture of it. I don't think either of my kids will hold still much but she is a bit more peaceful than Sam and I cherish the few moments when there is quiet and peace here before I have 2 tornadoes running around tearing everything apart with complete joy written across their faces at their new discoveries.
Sleeping babies! Yay! What more can I say...
If this doesn't show a bit of personality then I'm not sure what does. I love the little smiles she makes all the time. They lift my spirit when the day has been way too long.
So I wanted to post some cute videos but those aren't working for some reason so I'll have to do it later...Sorry.

Arnold's official now!

Ok, so I know it's been a while since it actually happened but it's still exciting! Our friends Sam and Erin came up to see us and we got to hang out the night before for a bit. It was so good to see them and chat.
Above is Erin holding Marie and below is Sam.
This is our little family just after the swearing in...YAY for Arnold!!!!
And since our Sam was asleep the night before we got some pictures of the two Sams together. This is just one.

And finally the most important part of the day. This is the actual swearing in if you feel like you want to watch. The rest of the hour was taken up by speeches and the reading off of 700 and something names but I didn't get all of that. It's crazy to think how many attorneys were set loose on the unknowing public that day.

Oh, and Arnold can be seen just above the sign in the middle leftish. Sorry it's so wiggly. I guess that's what happens when you are holding a baby and trying to keep it happy while filming.

Hugs and kisses for Marie

Sam loves and adores his little sister! It's so much fun until he tries to do something with her when I'm across the room. When there is someone there to help it's really cute. :) Here are some pictures of him in action with a little help from Daddy. What else are you suppose to do when you are in a hotel room and it's below freezing outside. Brrrr....
Marie has gotten lots and lots of kisses from the boys in her life. I love her face in these pictures! :) Sam is great too. It's almost as if he's saying, "Are you watching me?"
Just more cuteness. :)

Walking around Albany

Albany was really cool! Well, more like freezing, but we had a lot of fun on our brief walk to see the capitol of NY. As you can see Sam wore his little snow suit to keep him warm and it's probably a good thing he had it on since it was rather cold.
This is the actual state capitol building. Yup...that's about as much of it as we saw but it was fun! :)
Marie is in this picture but a little hard to see ;)
This is kinda funny. Its some kind of administration building for a university. It was HUGE but looks cool. (This is only a picture of part if it. It's atleast 2 if not 3 times as big as what you see here)

Airport

So we spent a bit of time in the airport on our trip to the US so I thought it would be good to share some of the pictures from it.
I know it looks sunny outside so you might be wondering why Sam is in his pajamas but since it was the middle of the night for him and we were hoping he'd go to sleep we decided to put them on him. He also had a lot of fun carrying around his teddy and the monkey leash. He wouldn't put them down for quite a while and it was really cute.

So this is what happened when he did fall asleep finally on the airplane. We got off and put him in the stroller and he actually slept for a bit longer! Yea!

It's a good thing we got our stuff at the gate. It would have been sad to leave this behind...

One more randomeness...

Ok, so I almost forgot this one...He won't eat mushrooms but he loves mustard???

Drool and other randomness

Ok so there is a lot of randomness in this post but there is a lot of it at our house so here we go... hope you enjoy! :)
Starting with drool...WHAT??? The last time I saw a 2 month old drool (Sam) the baby had 2 teeth before 4 months and at 4 months 4 teeth... I'm not sure I'm ready for this. Too bad I didn't get a picture of the initial HUGE drool that came first.
I love this! I have a son who LOVES trains and a husband who is quite the artist. So we get this on a regular basis whether on paper or the front porch.
Happy Valentines Day? Maybe it's too late for that but it's a cute picture anyway! :)

You'd think this kid loved chocolate and nutella...What do you think?

Sam has found a love for hats recently. He found the cut off end of some jeans I had made shorter and this is what he decided it was... and of course Teddy needs one too :)

Ok, so now for a funny story...

The other night I had just put Sam to bed and was trying to get Marie there also. However they had a different plan apparently. Marie screamed, probably due to a burp, and woke up Sam. She then calmed down. After about an hour I finally got Sam back to sleep. Yea! And Marie started screaming again. So Sam woke up again. She calmed down and went to sleep so we put her down in hopes of getting Sam back to sleep again. Sam started making a huge fuss over everything and being quite noisy about it. I was getting really frustrated at this point and was not ready to have this going on all night so I very sharply told him to be quiet. He then looked at me as if to say "huh?" and this conversation followed...(or something very close to it)

To fully appreciate this you have to know that he regularly answers yes, no and silence (when he doesn't know) to things correctly. He really does.

Me: "Sam, Are you doing this to drive me crazy?"
Sam: "Yea"(very innocently)
Me: "So you and Marie are doing this whole tag team screaming on purpose?"
Sam: "Yea"
Me: "Is someone paying you for this?"
Sam: "Yea"
Me: "They must be paying you a lot..."
Sam: "Yea"
Me: "I know, you and Marie are paying each other?"
Sam: "Yea"
Me: "Great, so are you trying to save for retirement or something?"
Sam: "Yea"

So at this point you can guess that the frustration had left and I was pretty much laughing...How do they do it???

And finally, One thing I never thought I'd miss but really do now that I'm here in Germany is Cambell's soup...I don't even remember how to spell it. I especially miss the cream soups, mainly mushroom. Now I don't like mushrooms but this soup is handy in making a lot of things. When you don't have it and want to make something you improvise...I tried replacing it with a german version unsuccessfully. I guess my little boy who eats everything, including blue cheese, doesn't like mushrooms...