The boy is 2!

I can't believe Judah is two years old already! When he was first born I remember thinking that 2 years seemed like such a long time away. But here we are! I remember wishing for this stage to come. A time when he could feed himself, sleep though the night, walk on his own, etc. I do look back on the newborn stage and miss being able to hold my baby, but I have to admit I really am enjoying each new stage of his life. There are so many new things he is learning and frankly the new things he is saying are hilarious!

We decided on a train theme for Judah's party. He loves trains and airplanes, but we recently discovered the show "Thomas and Friends" and I knew then that the theme had to be trains! Here are a few pictures:

Jan-ma made train and airplane shaped pancakes for Judah's Birthday breakfast

Helping Pop and Granddaddy put up his sign and balloons

Opening his birthday gifts with family

The food table and decorations

His cake

Greeting his guests

Judah and Daniel playing with the train table. He was beyond excited by this point!

I had so much fun throwing this party for Judah. All the preparation was a little exhausting (i think I'll cater next time??) but seeing him enjoy everything made it so worth it!

Thanks for visiting!

Home again

Wow its been a long time since I posted last! And lots has happened! Well we moved back to TN, as most of you know. The move went really smoothly. We had to wait about 4 days longer than we had hoped for our stuff to be moved in, but this provided time for Adam to refinish the floors in our basement! Thanks to our lovely friends the Alexanders for letting us live with them during that time! So the week of Thanksgiving was spent basically throwing things in cabinets and closets just in an effort to get rid of boxes! Then we spent about 5 days in Franklin for Thanksgiving! We had a great time. We got to see lots friends and family but still managed to have a relaxing time. Now we're back in Knoxville and our house feels like one unorganized mess (because of the before mentioned throwing of things in closets and cabinets in an effort to get rid of boxes.... maybe that wasn't such a good idea?). But, alas, Christmas is upon us and that brings lots of shopping and traveling for us in the next few weeks!

All that being said, it's been a crazy time, but we are so glad to be back in TN. Parting with all our sweet friends in TX was hard, but being home is a sweet consolation. I think I've decided to try to keep the blog up though, if anyone is still interested in reading it, haha! But, I guess it needs a new name and design?? :) I'll work on that one. Here's a good pic of Judah playing in the leaves in Franklin. Yes, I am that mom that posts embarrassing pictures of her child. Thanks for continuing to read... actually leave a comment if you're still interested in our life. That will give me some encouragement to continue! Ha!

Not much going on around here

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, there really just hasn't been much going on around here. Most of you are thinking, shouldn't she be packing??? Well, after Adam talked with the moving folks at the base it looked like it wasn't going to be worth our time to move ourselves. So, we're letting the Air Force move us. Yay for me! So they'll be packing us up in about two weeks and heading out the day Adam graduates! We're so excited to be back in Knoxville!

Chocupacka

...is one of my new favorite words. Anyone wanna guess what it means? Here's a hint:



In case you didn't catch on, that means chocolate milk. Which is actually carnation instant breakfast. Dr.'s orders, Judah needs to gain weight. Ha!

Let's play catch-up!

Sorry, I haven't posted in like two weeks. Judah's has been doing some new fun things, and we're in the middle of my grandparents visiting us!

Judah has started "counting". It mainly consists of "Two, five, six, seven". Here's a video of his efforts:


We also took Judah to his first Texas high school football game on Friday night. He wasn't very interested in the game, but when half time came he was mesmerized by the marching band.





Then Saturday we met my grandparents in Austin. We visited the Zilker park botanical gardens.






And the Texas capital building.

Getaway to Fredericksburg

This past weekend Adam and I went on a getaway to Fredericksburg, TX. The town was one of a projected series of German settlements from the Texas coast to the land north of the Llano River, originally the ultimate destination of the German immigrants sent to Texas by the Adelsverein, which is the society for the protection of German Immigrants in Texas (http://www.fbgtx.org/other/history.htm). Therefore, we got to experience some wonderful German food (which I ironically never tried when we were in Germany), experience a little German charm, and hear some German accents! The town is very quaint with loads of shopping. We also traveled to a little place called Luckenbach, TX. There's not much too Luckenbach except a post office, bar, and their specialty: live music. It was an experience, but very fun. We had a great time and owe much thanks to our friends who watched Judah for us. We are so thankful to you all!

Spaghetti Dinner

Well, I've been afraid to start the whole Judah feeding himself thing for a while now. I'm just not looking forward to the mess. However, I know I need to give in. I think it will help his eating habits and not to mention be nice that I don't have to feed him! So the other night we had spaghetti for dinner and we let Judah dig in. It was messy to say the least and I think he managed to get about a teaspoon full in his stomach. Most of his feeding himself consisted of him putting spaghetti on the spoon. He also didn't like the ground beef in the sauce so every time he got a little bit in his mouth that was swiftly spit out (we're working on "no spitting" too, oh geez!) All in all, Judah had lots of fun. But it did take me a LONG time to clean up this mess. At least most dinners he feeds himself in the future won't be as messy as spaghetti!