Two of these running around.

Can you believe it? I'm going to have two of these little munchkins running around come this fall! I wasn't surprised when I found out that it was a boy; I always thought we'd have two boys in a row! I am super excited, especially now that I don't feel like a walking dead person all the time. I wanted to kill myself for the entire month of April, and the month of May was half as bad as April. It was funny but the minute I heard my little baby's heart beat and saw him on the sonogram at the first doctor's visit, I thought "It's totally worth it." Being sick non stop is worth it when you get to see your baby wiggle around :)

And now that it's June I am so happy!! I feel normal again and gasp, I even pulled out my camera and got some shots of Cole today!! I don't think I took a single picture of him during April and May so I guess we'll never know exactly what he looked like during those months ;) The first trimester made me lose all drive to be productive in any way.

We ask him all the time if he wants a baby brother and the answer is always "nooooooo." He definitely knows what we're asking him and at this point we think it's pretty funny! Not sure if baby brother will think it's funny though ;) I love that little boy so much and I think he's going to be a great big brother. I'm so excited for this next little baby to come! Nervous too, but when I'm not feeling exhausted I just feel excited. Family of four, here we come!

S u m m e r

Cole's been spending a lot of time in the kiddie pool lately. And I've been doing a lot of babysitting lately! The kiddie pool is triple as fun when friends are over because I'm pretty sure Cole thinks I'm pretty boring! He just doesn't understand that I'm too big to sit in it with him and splash around. Right?! Or maybe I really am boring ;)

Either way, Cole is going to love having Steve's family over just next week! He's going to love being entertained by them and playing with them. And I'm going to love having babysitters on hand all the time :)

And one more thing: today is my mom's birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We love you so much :)

Waffles and whip cream and staying home.

I haven't posted pictures of waffles in a while so I thought it was about time! Yes! We still eat waffles almost every day and Cole loves them now with whip "keen" on them.

This is every day life for us. Our mornings are always really quiet: because I hate waking up early and I hate having to be somewhere in the mornings. (8:30 am church is really killing me this year!) Cole and I will watch a show together (bad mom! I know!), he currently loves Curious George. Then we go on the porch and play basketball together, or really just shoot hoops. Whenever I make a basket, Cole yells out "NICE SHOT MOMMY!!!" really really loud. I always think, thanks sweetie, for believing in me ;)

He also loves to get Steve's golf clubs out and dump out all of his golf balls and hit them around the house. He always wants me to do it with him and it's probably my least favorite thing that he does because the golf balls get stuck under the couch and the fridge, and really, playing golf is just not my thing! Especially in the house!

After lunch, he goes down for a nap at around 1 pm and always sleeps til about 4 which is wonderful for the both of us :) Because most of the time I sleep with him! And when we wakes up, we leave the house for the park and/or library. The other day we left the house at 4 pm and had Steve pick us up on his way home from  the clinic at 7. He played hard for 3 straight hours!

Then we come home, make dinner, he plays with Steve for a good portion of the evening (this is when the neighborhood boys stop by to see if they can play basketball with them) and then we put him to bed at around 9 pm and we do everything all over again the next day. I love how the simplest, most redundant things make Cole happy. It's nice for me because I love staying home with him :)

Happy Easter!

I think I've mentioned it before, but Steve and I are the worst at holidays. It was 11:50 pm last night when we realized that we had absolutely nothing to put in the plastic eggs (which I'd saved from last year) for Cole's Easter egg hunt which we had given zero thought until just then. And so Steve went on a late night errand for the Easter Bunny to 7 Eleven and brought back some gummi bears, as non traditional as that sounds. (bears? not bunnies?!)

Honestly, I think Cole has zero clue who the Easter Bunny is and he probably doesn't even know the real meaning of Easter either! What!! Although I did try to explain both to him. Either way, I think Easter this year was my favorite Easter yet, probably because I didn't stress about anything until it was almost too late, but also because I taught the lesson to my young women at church today and I felt like it went really well and that everyone, myself included, was uplifted by the beautiful message of Christ's resurrection. There might not have been any special dinner, or coordinating outfits but that's not what it's all about anyway. (although those things are fun too :) There was however a nice long nap for all three of us and an hour long walk in the most perfect kind of weather you can imagine :)

Happy Easter! If the Easter Bunny happened to bring you gummi bears too, I hope you enjoyed them as much as Cole did ;)

You are my wild.

Inspired by this photo blog called You are my wild, I decided to capture some of our own wild moments that take place right here at home, courtesy of Cole. This time it was him playing with his toys on the table with him climbing on and off the table and jumping up and down on the table. If that isn't wild then what is, right?! :)

You might have heard of this "You are my wild" thing already, and quite honestly, I wish I could be part of it ;) But maybe I'll have my own "wild" series on the blog, or maybe we can wait til Lissie gets married and has kids and start one between me and my three sisters?! How much longer is that anyway? You know, til Lissie gets married?!

{just kidding mom} :)

Lazy Sunday

He had just woken up from his three hour nap.
He's wearing nothing but a diaper and he's eating chips in our bed.
Naturally, I made a video of it ;)

ps, it's a long one.

A U S T I N: Texas State Capitol

So we went to Austin. And it was pretty awesome. Everyone seems to rave about Austin and I kind of understand why now. It is soooo different from Dallas.

The first thing that I noticed was that the roads are wayyy nicer than they are in Dallas. Not sure why, but they just are! And also the traffic doesn't get nearly as bad which automatically gives Austin like 10 points. Traffic in Dallas is the worst! The second thing I noticed was that even though this is the capitol of Texas we're talking about, Austin isn't nearly as huge as Dallas either. I never really understood just how big Dallas was until I went to Austin. Austin is a big city, Dallas is wayyy bigger.

The highlights:
+They weren't joking about those food trucks! There are so many of them there; I'm so glad that we had amazing weather so we could actually enjoy eating outside :) "Gourdough's" was recommended to us and so we tracked down that tiny food truck and made sure that we tried it. I don't know what I was expecting; I guess just a regular donut, but these donuts were so amazingly delicious, Yvonne and I couldn't stop saying how amazing they were as we ate them! Yvonne kept saying "It's like sin. It's like eating pure sin!" haha, yeah. They were that amazing. And that's why this post deserves two pictures of them ;) Yvonne got the "Son of a Peach" and I got "Miss Shortcake" and I think I would get that one every time. Wow. A whole paragraph about a donut ;)

+My long time good friend Regina just recently moved to Texas! Of all places! And so we were able to meet up one evening and have dinner. It was so fun seeing her. And it was so crazy to think about how we both live in Texas now! We've known each other since we were 12 years old, she helped me learn German (big time), we had many sleep overs, we were best friends! And growing up in Germany we never thought we'd both end up in Texas one day, at the same time no less. I was so happy to see her and her sweet hubby for the evening, even if we did accidentally end up eating at probably the most expensive Italian restaurant known to man. That's what I get for not looking at the menu before walking in. It was a tiny hole in the wall, well so it seemed from the outside, and our waiter did not seem to like us much. Yvonne was so sweet and paid for it all. We owe her big time.

+The fact that Yvonne was able to be there with us was awesome. She spoiled. us. rotten. And we absolutely loved  it :) It was fun shopping with her (she got me that new leather jacket I'm wearing. thank you! I love it!) and driving around the city while Cole took his naps in the car and while Steve was at his seminars during the day. We spent a good chunk of time at the Wholefoods flagship store. That place attracts exactly two types of people: the ones who have dreds and tatoos and look like they woke up at 3 in the afternoon, and then there's the ones who live in their yoga pants. They look so done up and cute in their yoga pants it's hard to believe that they actually do yoga. Never in my life have I seen so many yoga pants all in one place!

+I wasn't joking when I said Cole is attached to that puppy. It went e v e r y w h e r e with us.

+This isn't really a highlight, but we were grabbing some things at Walmart on one of the days we were there and as we checked out, the cashier didn't put our items into a plastic bag. She explained to us that the city of Austin had passed a law that very day which banned all plastic grocery bags. And sure enough, we looked around and every isle was out of bags and all the customers were carrying piles of their purchased items in their hands. We were like ok, whatever and started walking out when we saw a pile of paper bags so we went to grab one when a worker said, "um sorry you have to purchase those." So all I'm trying to say is that if you ever visit Austin, bring you own bags!!!

I don't know when or if we will ever go back, but I'm just happy to have been able to go. I felt like it was sort of a necessity to at least visit the capitol of Texas once before we move away. How can we live in Texas for nearly 4 years and not see the capitol? Yvonne is already making plans of going back and if she really does, I will totally join her. Mainly because I want to get another one of those donuts......;) yum.