Because I am thirsty…
Posted by ahechtenns On April 15, 2010
Sorry, bad at taking pics these days. The cabinets are mostly in, now begins the work of cleaning up, and trying to purge before things get put away. And to boot, I have yet another cold. J’s cold seems to be on the end part, he’s coughing and getting lots of goop out his nose. R and daddy are healthy at the moment!! whoohoo!
Anyways. I have to tell you what R just did. She has been getting better about staying in her bed all night, but she still comes to our bed some nights. It’s ususally after 2:30 or 3am. So as daddy and I were here in the basement, we hear patter of feet. On the occasions that this happens, she usually makes her way down to the basement to get us. Today we only heard the patter, so daddy went up to investigae. Apparently she was in our bed, and was trying to put on daddy’s pajammas…Strange no? Daddy asked her why she was putting his pajammas on, and she replied “Becasue I was thirsty”. Daddy just calmly put her back into her own bed! Nice answer eh?
Update:
so both kids have now been up twice since 7pm. This does not bode well. J is suffering with his cold, and coughs himself into unhappiness, and R had a pee emergency. Sheesh. It had better not get worse!
Sunny Day in San Fransisco
Posted by ahechtenns On April 13, 2010
We had one sunny nice day in San Fransisco before we all flew in for the funeral.
We visited Pier 39, saw the sea lions, and just had a nice time together. Here are some pictures.
The famous Sea lions of Pier 39. They just laze about, some fighting, barking, generally being fun to watch.
Rebecca on the Pier, see the Golden Gate in the background?
Daddy and Rebecca on the Pier
Auntie D, Cousins M & D, J, R and Daddy on the pier.
The cousins eating cotton candy
J riding in the stroller
From happy to sad
Posted by ahechtenns On April 4, 2010
We are having a good time with cousins. R is really enjoying her ‘boy cousins’. (She has only boy cousins on one side of the family and only girl cousins on the other side). We had a nice day together with church in the morning, and a lovely supper at a Mexican restaurant in the evening. Then we got word that my Oma had passed away this afternoon. Please think of us.
Disarray
Posted by ahechtenns On March 27, 2010
I don’t like living in disarray. Most of the time my house is what I call “Pleasant disarray” which translates as a lived in house where there is stuff spread out. Displaced furniture however, that makes me un-easy. We’re getting some cabinets built in and therefore our living room and eat in area are all jumbled. It’s driving me crazy, and the cats too. They really don’t like having any furniture moved. Anways. I am trying to be ok with it, so in stead I’ll post some cute pics of my kids!
First my beautiful daughter, she co-ordinated this outfit pretty well wouldn’t you say?
And here’s my handsome little son!
Finally
Posted by ahechtenns On March 25, 2010
Well, I finally did it. A small quilt top that I pieced oh, about a year and a half ago is finally done! I managed to put it together with batting and a backing, then actually machine quilt it on my own machine. What I learned is that I don’t really enjoy machine quilting! I enjoy piecing quilts, and getting someone else to actually do the quilting! Anyways. It is now finally in use as a play quilt for J.
Our good friend E also popped by. Here she is with J on the quilt.
Jolly jumper
Posted by ahechtenns On March 18, 2010
He’s a jolly jumper all right! Today was the first day we put J in the jolly jumper. He quite enjoyed himself. He got the hang of it pretty quickly, and looked like a little marionettes with gentle bouncing, and gently tapping his robeez on the floor! Such a delight.
“And the little one said, roll over, roll over!
Posted by ahechtenns On March 17, 2010
Yup, we finally had a repeat performance of the famous roll over. Daddy put J down in his crib (on his belly) and came back a moment later and found him on his back! We put him in the middle of our bed on his belly, and watched. He complained a bit first, then rolled onto his side where he stayed for a bit, then rolled onto his back!! Wow. Great work! He isn’t really pleased when he’s on his belly, hence the reason we don’t put him down like that often.
My baby is 6
Posted by ahechtenns On March 14, 2010
Wow. I can hardly believe it. She’s 6!! Wow. What a lovely little girl she is. Smart, funny and very good at doing accents! We had a lovely day starting off with reading in bed. For dinner we met al the family at one of R’s favourite buffets and had a good time. And by the way J was only unhappy because he got an unexpected squeeze, he quickly cheered up.
Sigh…
Posted by ahechtenns On March 11, 2010
So ya’ll know my daughter is obsessed with dresses. The longer & twirlier the better. So our dear neighbour J and her kids brought over a gift for R. It was a lovely dress, and R immediately went to put it on, and didn’t take it off until she heard that she could wear it to school tomorrow… here’s how the conversation went down in the car.
“”I love the dress J gave me. It is my favorite dress and so now I don’t like the other dresses in my closet. J is the best and daddy not so much because he gives me grey things to wear, and that is like dirt.” In addition she asked if she could wake up at 5am to wear the dress…
If I’m up at 5am because of the lovely dress dear neighbour J, you can expect a nice little girl on your doorstep at 5am!!!
I’ll get a picture up tomorrow.
Happy Birthdays
Posted by ahechtenns On March 10, 2010
Today we celebrated 2 things. R had her ‘friend’ party. She decided to go swimming, just like last year. We had a good time in the pool, and cake after. Secondly, it was Grandma’s birthday, and we had a lovely dinner together. I’ll try to get a few more pictures up later on.