Love the rain

What a rainy day it was. The kids had so much fun jumping and playing in the puddles. And my flowers are growing so wonderful with all this rain. Love the rain!

Oliver can ride a bike

My baby can ride a bike!!! He is so proud that he can do it.

Chicago Zoo

Andrew had the last week off. The time went by way to fast. But it was so nice to have daddy home. On Tuesday we went to the Chicago Zoo. Had so much fun.

The following posts got a bit mixed up. For some reason I was only able to publish four pictures in one post. So I did a couple posts in order to get all pictures send out. STherefore this blog starts actually at the picture were Lillian is sitting in the kitchen sink. So sorry for the confusion. Have no idea how to fix this.

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I can't believe that he is able to climb this. He is getting so big- SOB!

Wordless

Oliver is building caves for his dinosaurs. My whole living room get turned into some dinosaur haven. Usually Lillian or myself are the dinosaur food.

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MORE Easter eggs!

Lillian's turn to "torture" the baby chicks.

Chocolate pudding is just so delicious. Nice mustache.

Ahoy daddy! The kids loved to take rides in the burley bike trailer. Here they are on their way to the park.

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Can't say much. Is just too cute!

Another Easter egg hunt. These kids (+ mommy and daddy) totally lucked out this year. Three hunts and lots of candy for mommy and daddy.

Oma and Opa got real little baby chicks. The were so cute. I am just glade that all 12 are still alive and have nothing broken. They got squished and dropped many times.

Riding the truck with cousin Caleb.

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The first day in summer clothes!!!!!!!!!! Yeah. Mommy loves when it get warm.

Easter at Oma's and Opa's (grandma and grandpa). Had to have a picture of my adorable daughter in her cute outfit.

Oliver and Lillian are hiding behind Opa's camouflage jacket. I still see you! Doesn't Oliver look so grown up in this picture. Nice smirk.

I can see you!

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I have not been a good blogger lately. Have been doing a lot of work in the yard and a lot of running. So, I decided to post a couple pictures of the last couple weeks.

This is Lillian getting a bath in the kitchen sink. I have to mention that our little girl has been quite a firecracker and keeps us on our toes. Must be early "terrible two's". Anyway, she is taking this bath because when Andrew got her up from her nap she had taken off her clothes, pooped her diaper, taken off her diaper and smired poop everywhere on her crib and her body. She slept in this mess-yum.

This is the same day as the poop incident. We went to a birthday party, where we had a Easter egg hunt. Look at the cute Easter basket. We made those there. Cute idea!

Found another egg!

Another Easter egg hunt. My friend Kris invited us to this one. They even had a real Easter bunny! All the other kids were pretty exited. My kids were terrified. Lillian barely looked for any eggs. She needed to keep a good look at the bunny so that he would not get to close to her.

Lillan's awesome dance moves

Sick, sick, sick

We are sick. Only daddy is still holding up. Oliver is coughing and has a runny nose. Lillian is our problem child. Everytime she get sick her asthma gets really bad. She was up until midnight last night (her breathing treatment makes her hyper). This morning it was so bad that I took her to her doctor. Now she is on oral steroids for 5 days- yeah! That will be interesting. My house will be even more crazy. Poor girl is totally exhausted.
On top of all of this - I lost my voice - totally gone. Never happen to me before. Try to explain in a whispery voice to a almost 2 year old and a 3 1/2 year old that it is not OK to dump water all over the kitchen floor. They are taking me very serious-ha, ha.

One stubborn girl

I got new shoes for Lillian. She is so obsessed with them that she had a major meltdown at nap time because she wanted to wear them in bed.
And.... Mommy caved. She is wearing shoes in bed. Hope she doesn't do this tonight.




























By the way, this is me (at age 2?). Look at the sheets. Yes, my daughter sleeps in the same sheets as I did. I was lucky enough that my mom saved a couple. I am so sentimental about these things. Maybe I can dig out a picture of Oliver sleeping in them .

Spring is here

Yeah, spring is here! We can finally go outside and splash in puddles and play in sandboxes.

 

 

 

Lillian loooooooooooves her bibi (pacifier)

Lillian absolutly loves her bibi. The other day she must had found an extra one. She was so proud and came running in the kitchen with two bibis in her mouth. Silly girl!

 

GOOD NEWS

We found out yesterday that Lillian is NOT allergic to rye, oats, rice, barley, gluten(in general). A new allergy which we have to add to our long list is peas (I guess it falls into the legumes section). She is still allergic to wheat, eggs, soy, dairy, PEANUTS, legumes and preservatives. But our food selection just dramatically expanded. We are so thrilled!!!!!

On another note
I just signed up for the Chicago marathon. My friend Kris "talked me into it"( she really had to twist my arm - ha, ha). I am exited and terrified. It will be my first marathon. It is in October. So we have plenty of time to prepare.
Here is this crazy lady who signed me up for this + her beautiful family (just love this picture).

It's Dress Up Time