Happy Valentine's & Fun Outside

The boys and I spent Valentine's Day on our own since German was in Portland on a business trip for several nights. We celebrated with heart shaped pizzas I made and cupcakes we had made together. We were very lucky to have a break in the rainy/dreary Feb weather over President's Day weekend and spent lots of time out in our backyard (though the dreay weather has now returned :(). The boys had fun helping Dad fix some sprinklers and running up and down the hills that frame our backyard. They aslo once again enjoyed playing with the beans we had set up for their birthday party.


The last piece of big news is that I have decided to leave Intel and be a full time Mom. Even just working 3 days a week was getting too challenging with the 2 little ones so German & I decided this was the best plan for our family for now. My last day is next Tues, 2/26 so I have been very busy training my replacement and looking into new daycare/preschool programs since we are planning on keeping the boys in some sort of program on T/Th so they will still have all the learning and interaction that they are used to mand I'll have time to get stuff done around the house.

Happy 2nd Birthday!!!!!!!!!!

We celebrated the boys 2nd birthday with what was orginally going to be a small gathering but ended up being a lively party of about 20 adults and 20 kids/babies. We lucked out on the wetaher this year and were able to take the masses outside. The boys enjoyed their train cakes which Mom put together with the help of Gramdma & Grandpa and Grandma's cake decorating book from 1973 saved from my childhood.
We filled our outdoor water table with pinto beans which was a huge hit with the kids, maybe too big of a hit as the beans ended up all over the backyard leading to a clean up effort the next day.
The boys definitley understand the concept of opening presents. They also have a new found love of saying and singing happy birthday leading to many sessions where Mom has to sing happy birthday to them, Mama, Dada, blankie, bear, monkey raf, etc, etc, etc :)

All in all it was a great celebration with friends & family that none of us will soon forget :)

Games & Work

One of the boys new favorite games is to play ring around the roses. Of course their favorite part is falling down at the end. The other day after a pre birthday party Costco run, their Dad put them to work unloading the beer into the fridge while we took everything else out of the car. Not one bottle was broken!

Fun With Grandparents

The boys had fun putting together a gingerbread house when Grandma & Grandpa Weiss visited a few weeks ago.
German's parents arrived last weekend for a month long visit following them finally retiring by selling their restaurant in Miami.

Here the boys have fun reading books with "Po-Po"
And Noah eats a snack next to "Yea-Yea"

Brotherly Love

Here are a few pics of the boys interacting. They both love yogurt and apparently Noah decided he wanted more and Lucas offered to help him out by feeding Noah some of his.

Not really sure what is going on here... either Lucas is trying to wrestle or just wants to give his brother a hug.
Not really sure what I would do with just 1 :)

Belated Christmas Update

I know I am a bit behind with updates, so here is the whole Christmas Season in one. We started out the holidays with a visit to Santa at Intel. The boys weren't too thrilled, but we had fun at IHOP after with Jen & Casey.

One of my Mom's group friends hosted a Cookie decorating party for 4 little ones. It was one big mess but a lot of fun. The sugar sprinkles were the big hit with all 4 kids and my boys were running around with a sugar high by the time I got home.

We had our Weiss family Christmas in San Jose on the 22-23. It was fun to watch all the kids opening presents, though the boys had a rough time sleeping away from home leading us to take off later Sun instead of spending a 2nd night.

The boys had fun riding in the car Grandpa refurbished, though it was hard to share and take turns (still working on that).
We spent Christmas Eve with our surrogate Jen and her family at her Mom's house and then had a nice relaxing Christmas Day at home. The boys had fun playing with their sit & spins from Grandma & Grandpa and love the train table that Mom & Dad got them and were able to successfully assemble Christmas Eve.

We hope everyone had very Happy Holidays!!!

Trip To Miami

We have successfully completed our 2nd cross country trip with the boys to Miami to see German's family!! Unfortunately, Noah came down with croup a few days before we left and Lucas started not feeling well while we were there so both of us seemed to be holding one of them most of the trip :)

It was great to see all German's sisters, parents & nephews and niece.

Here is a pic of the boys at dim sum (notice Noah with the chopsticks, he was actually able to pick up a few grains of rice):

This one is Lucas devouring orange slices at dinner (who knew he liked them so much, the were actually quite sour):

This is Noah sitting with cousin Johnny, he actually maneuvered himself in there without any prompting:

Here are the boys eating dinner with cousins Josh & Megan:

And of course, us waiting at the Miami airport for our 6 hour flight home which I must say they did fabulous on, especially considering they were on our laps and it was a completely full flight: