Faith is 9 Months Old Today!!

Only 3 more months to go til we are done with formula, WOO HOO!! She has done so much within these last couple of months. Her favorite things to do, besides crawling all over the place and getting into everything, is pulling herself up on anything she can get a-hold of and walking along it. She loves to walk along the couch and the tv stand. She can stand for seconds at a time but then falls. She forgets that she can't quite walk yet. She loves her walker and loves to play with Trey. She calls him TT (I call him Trey Trey so we abbreviated it for Faith) Our proudest moment within this last month was when she picked up a baseball size plastic ball and threw it PERFECTLY to her Daddy. Now you can tell that her parents are athletes for us to be that proud, ha. She's gonna have an arm like her momma, haha :) I think our kids will always master their motor skills first. We are working on broadening her vocabulary, right now she can say bye bye, momma, dada, TT, bottle and of course ball. Oh and she says Uh-Oh when she falls! And she only likes to kiss her Daddy, no love for momma yet. She is definitely a Daddy's girl, she lights up whenever he walks into the room and immediately wants to go to him. Though she loves to follow Trey around and do whatever it is he is into at that moment. And Trey has wonderful patience with her and always tries to involve her in his games. They love to wrestle on the floor but at times Trey gets a little too rough and we have to remind him she is still a baby. I keep telling Trey that one day when she gets older she is really going to pop him one, haha. He loves having her to play with though! He is extremely protective of her, if he doesn't know you he doesn't let you near her. Her favorite object is the basketball (go figure) whenever someone has a picture of a basketball on their shirt she goes straight for it. She loves game days, she gets excited when Trey puts on his jersey, she knows that means she is about to go watch Daddy play. She sits at Jeff's basketball games and claps her hands and yells for "Dada". Her favorite game is Peek-A-Boo, she will do it to anyone and loves when we play with her. She is so ticklish, especially her tummy area and inner thighs. She cracks up and thinks that Daddy and Trey are the funniest people in the world. She ABSOLUTELY LOVES when Daddy sings to her, she has pumped up his self esteem so much that he thinks he should be on the next American Idol!! :) She tries to repeat some things that we say and loves it when we mimic her sounds and words. As of right now she has her third tooth starting to poke through. Her and Trey are truly our most enjoyable entertainment and we love EVERY second of our days with them.

Here is our precious baby girl..

Trey and Faith having fun as usual..

Happy Easter!!

We spent the day coloring Easter eggs and making a mess for Mommy to clean up :) Here is how excited Trey was to color eggs..

I think Faith was just as excited, look how happy she is here..

Then the kids got their Easter baskets (of course Daddy too) and enjoyed the rest of the day off!! And Mommy had to play dress up and get some pictures..

Trip to Berlin..

In the years I have lived in Germany I have never visited Berlin until now. I had plenty of opportunities but at the time I just wasn't up for the drive (5 1/2 hours). But since the team was flying there we thought it would be fun for us to all go. Jeff has been there a few times, but never really got to see the city or any of the sights. So we decided to make it a little weekend vacation. Jane's father was visiting and he wanted to see Berlin as well. So Jane and Benson decided to rent a van, drive there and then we all drive back. As long as I have my co-pilot I'm up for any road trips. :) In case it hasn't been obvious this is my reason for living in Germany in the first place. :) This is my hubby in action, the one higher than everyone else, ha:)A big win in Berlin was the first event of the night. Then afterwards we were all pumped to get to go to Hard Rock Cafe. It's so funny to see how excited we all get to eat some good ole American food :) Here are a few pics of us enjoying Hard Rock..In case you were all wondering, Faith was there with us but decided to sleep during the timeframe of the pictures being taken! :)

And the "Parents of the Year Award" goes to....drum roll please......
Bryan & Jane

Do you notice in this picture, there are 3 glasses of beer and a BABY bottle, HAHA :)

So after that entertainment we drove around a bit before heading to our hotel and saw the city at night. I have been told before that it's been compared to Manhatten and I find that to be true. It reallly does look like downtown Manhatten with of course the European twist to it.

Bright and early the next morning we all headed out to Dunkin Donuts. Once again some very HAPPY Americans were we. :) And our little journey begins!!

Here we are at the Berlin wall

Trey seems to forget who he belongs to..

Here is the Brandenburg Gate

The Victory Column Reichstag Building
Checkpoint Charlie

And this is what Faith and Hudson did as usual

Here is the crew after our drive back home (minus myself and Trey)
Benson-I hope you enjoyed your little road trip with all of us, I know you were just thanking God you made it back to Ulm safe and sound. ha :)

And here was our driver home..

My Little Man is Such A Trooper..

The last couple of weeks I have stressed over the fact that Trey had his 4 year shots coming up. I was so afraid that it was going to be pure agony to have to sit there and watch my "baby" get his shots. I was dreading it!! I was afraid with Trey being 4 years old it was going to be a fight and something that could cause him to NEVER want to go back to the Doctor. :) This was a two day stint, the first day was testing on his hearing, eye sight, knowing his colors, etc. He flew by all that like it was nothing. Everything in those areas are perfect and the Doctor was impressed with Trey knowing the alphabet and counting to 100 and so on. So needless to say Mommy and Daddy were happy to hear that and proud of our little man :) So yesterday he had to get his shots and momma was worried. And by the way our trip to the Doctor is always a family trip, ha. Whenever Faith has an appointment we all go and the same goes for Trey. Jeff and I both got ready thinking we were going to have to hold Trey down to get his shots. We were so wrong, he took it like a champ. Trey sat there, saw the needle coming, got the shot, said "ouch" and that was that. My little man didn't even cry, not even a "whel" up, NOTHING!! Here Trey is after his shots...such a big boy!! Here he is getting his hearing tested..
Trey was such a good sport we took him to get ice cream then he wanted to go show Bryan and Jane his airplane band aid and tell them all about his trip to the Doctor. We also had to pay a visit to Jane because it was her birthday yesterday!! Happy Birthday to a YOUNG beautiful woman :) We Love You..

Before I was a Mom

Before I was a Mom I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.

I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.

I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom - I had never been puked on.

Pooped on.

Chewed on.

Peed on.

I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.

I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.

Or give shots.

I never looked into teary eyes and cried.

I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.

I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put them down.

I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.

I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.

I never knew that I could love someone so much.

I never knew I would love being a Mom.

Before I was a Mom - I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.

I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.

I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.

I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom - I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.

I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.

I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom.

I am having that "I am so beyond happy and blessed to be a mother" feeling right now and wanted to share this poem that was sent to me.

Here are my little blessings.....

Quick Trip to the Bowling Alley

And now a quick jaunt to the bowling alley. Trey absolutely LOVES to go bowling so we thought we would treat him to a quick game because of the traumatic events that happened at the fire station and thinking he was not going to see his daddy again, ha ha. Though we were all excited to go to the bowling alley mainly due to the fact that they have American food. It is the ONLY place in this town I can get battered fish fillets, so I was pumped as we all were. And it was evident by our outrageous obscene bill of 105 USD (and that is no alcohol involved, ha) Here is an overview through the pictures we took..

And by the way we did not leave Baby Hudson at home, he was just no entertainment whatsoever because he felt the need to sleep the whole time we were there. :)

Visit to the Fire Station

There is a fan that comes to all the basketball games and is always asking Jeff's teammate Bryan if he would come up to the fire station to visit and take a tour. So we all thought it would be fun to take the kids, but I think Bryan and Jeff had more fun than anyone :) Trey was scared of the fire truck ladder that took Bryan and Jeff up in the air. Trey thought Daddy wasn't coming back, so he was not liking this trip so far. But, Trey warmed up when he got to see the inside of the fire trucks and take the tour throughout the station.

Does Bryan look a little scared in this picture?! Ha :) Bryan is letting Trey know it's ok. Ignore the red eye that I could not fix on Trey, do you see how scared he was for his Daddy? Poor guy!Here is Jeff being goofy (as usual) on the firemen pole

Then we have stripper Turbo on the firemen pole.. And this is what the babies were doing throughout the evening...Look at Baby Hudson, not sure if he was trying to poop or getting ready to give us a smile, either way isn't he a cutie?! :)

Trey was excited to get his very own firemen's helmet..