Starting to crawl

Yup, She's at a full crawl. It went through a few phases before she got there but she's definitely there now. Here's a video of just before the crawl. Kinda looks like she's doing the butterfly or whatever that swimming thing is. (no I'm not a swimmer and do not like the water much) Anyway, she's pretty fast at it and very mobile at this point.

Absence...

So I just want to do a quick apology for my absence. I have excuses of course like a visiting friend, getting REALLY sick with a stomach bug, no internet for a week. I think that covers atleast 3 weeks or more of my time missing. So here's to trying to catch up for the next little while.

In my absence a lot has changed, mostly with Marie. Here are a few pictures from today one of which might give you some ideas...

Matching babies. So cute but so wiggly. When will they ever hold still for a picture? And why is it that they always play on my lap? It is cute though.
Sam is so flexible. Not too many boys would play in this position for at least 5-10 min.
Any finally...

You can guess how she got there by the grin on her face. She is fast and determined. So now I just have to keep up with both of them. Lucky for me Arnold is going to be home for a while now. :)

Oh and for those who are wondering. I keep forgetting to put this on but the song Sam sings is Twinkle, twinkle little star. Just in case you were wondering.

Interaction

So for the last month or so Sam and Marie are starting to interact more. It's really fun to watch as they start to play together. This first video was almost a month ago. It might sound like she's squealing in pain or crying but she is really laughing. I think Sam says draw in german but I'm not sure...you'd have to ask Arnold. I also like the way he wants her to get up about 5 sec into the video.



This next video was last week. I can never seem to get the moment at it's best but this is pretty close. Sam and Marie were alternating slapping the tray and giggling and it was just too much fun. I almost didn't get a video because we were all having so much fun and laughing that I didn't think about it till it was almost over. Marie isn't giggling but she was just before I got the camera. It's still cute.

[EDIT: we can't seem to get the video to post, we are working on it]

Name that tune...

Ok, so anyone have any guesses at what this tune is. Sam sings it all the time and it's his favorite. I'm not really sure why but he loves it. Every time we take a walk at some point he will sing this. Since that is the guaranteed place he will sing it, that's when I got the video. I highly recommend NOT watching the video if you get motion sickness because we didn't video for quality videoing, but you should definitely listen cause it's so cute.

Food, it is what is for dinner

Sometimes a man has to do, what a man has to do.




P.S. some people wondered why I posted this on the blog. The above image is a cookbook, for men. I don't have it, I have not used it, but I think the concept is hillarious. The book contains simple recipes which all use standard, easy to find products which actually look like things you can find in the grocery store, not nebulous items like "wheat" or "sifted , well, anything sifted...." It is more like: "buy the following can of campell's tomato soup. Here is a picture of a can. etc. "

shared items

on the right hand you now can see items that I have shared via my google reader account.  They are articles of interest, at least to me.  Possibly you will find them interesting also. 

-Arnold. 

A little late but here is Easter

Easter was a little crazy with all the visitors but I have the cutest kids ever and the most wonderful husband in the world so it turned out great! Marie spent almost the whole egg hunt looking at her egg and basket. You can't tell here but she actually seemed to enjoy trying to get the egg quite a bit

Sam had all sorts of fun finding eggs. I'm not sure he really caught on and as you can see he wasn't really sure what to do with them when he got them. This is an attempt to eat the egg. He quickly decided the shell didn't taste too good and put it in his basket.

Over all he was pretty excited to find the eggs. This poor egg got thrown excitedly after it was found.

A car or an egg...which is better? I think he's going to go for the car for the rest of his life. He's always trying to get in the drivers seat when ever we go somewhere. 16 here we come...

Overall the egg hunt was a great success. I think the chocolate guckies (chicks that looked like ducks to him) were the favorite but he did have fun running around the yard as usual and in the end throwing most of the eggs. Lucky for us there were only 6 so we were able to eat them pretty quickly.

We came back in afterwards and Sam had a great time playing with his present and asking for more chocolate. I think he likes chocolate more than I do and that's pretty hard to do.

I just love this picture of Marie. She wasn't quite sure what to do with the egg and she's just so cute in her Easter dress.

This is also just a perfect little picture of Sam. He's almost always smiling and happy and here he is content as can be with chocolate smeared on his face and a train in his hand. What more could you want in life?

Finally, here is a random video from the day. Sam getting to open his present after he found it. If you listen you can here the excited Choo choo toward the end. :)