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Just testing out picnik photo editing. So fun!

Jumping beans

Hana tested out the jolly jumper for the first time today. She really got the hang of it quite fast. Eli also wanted to go in it so he improvised a little as you'll see in the video. Check out the bald spot on the back of Hana's head, poor girl's starting to look like George Costanza.

This video was posted for Brent since this is his first week back to work after 4 months of parental leave. I'm sure that he's feeling like he's missing out on the action at home. I myself am missing my afternoon nap.

Christmas clothes

My two dressed up for Christmas. Of course, the only picture I took like this and it's blurry. But, blurry is better than nothing!
We had a wonderful holiday and a low key New Years. We rang in the New Year in our hot tub with pina coladas and watched the neighbour's fire works show. We half enjoyed the fireworks and half worried that it would wake the kids up, but it didn't. Hope you all had a great holiday season. Bring on 2011.

Happy New Year to Jacqueline! She's in sunny Australia for the holidays this year. XOXO

Jumping stringbean

Our nickname for Hana is our little stringbean because she's so tall and lean. I think the legs to our jolly jumper were misplaced in the move, so I put her in the jumperoo the other morning. She really likes all the fun toys on it but doesn't quite have the jumping figured out yet. She's so little in it, but can last 20 or so minutes looking at everything. She does like to be in a standing up position and I'm sure she'll be bouncing in no time.

busy times

What can I say? life with 2 kids and a husband at home is busy. My blogging has suffered because of it but we are having fun and enjoying our time at home all together. What's new with us? Well, Eli is officially potty trained. I'm so proud of him, he's doing amazing. So, you'll notice in lots of our pictures that he's only wearing underwear and no pants. It's just faster for him to get to the potty that way when we are at home but makes for kind of funny pictures. Hana is 3 months old in a couple of days and becoming such a smiley little girl. She is starting to roll to the side and "talk" a lot when you talk to her. Here are a few pictures from the last few weeks.

They are making the same face in this picture. It cracks me up!


Eli was rockin' out one night complete with rock star hair (if Ronald McDonald is considered a rock star)


Some of Hana's first smiles.


Basement hockey is always a good option when it's too cold to play outside. I forsee some holes in the wall in our future.

Back at it

You see that little jogging counter on the right hand side of my blog? It's been inactive for a long long time, with good reason of course (although maybe not the entire time). I never took it down because I wanted the reminder that yes, I used to run and heck, I ran 10 K!

This week I hopped back on the running bandwagon. It felt great. This time instead of distance my focus is on my speed. With 2 little kids, I just don't have the luxury of long slow runs anymore. I'm doing the couch to 5 K program which takes you from lazy bones to 5K in 9 weeks and you can download podcasts from itunes for free. After that, I'll stick with the 5K and just try to increase my speed. Brent has even started the program and we are heading out for our first run together today! Last time he was plagued with shin splints so hopefully he can stick with it this time around. I prefer to run without the kids but when that's not an option, I'll push Hana in the stroller, and Brent will push Eli in the chariot. He's got the much harder job, I think Eli is 33 lbs now. Wish me luck!

Halloween

Just a couple pictures from Halloween. Eli really had fun this year and could not believe that we were going up to peoples houses. When we were finished at a house he would point to the next house and say "And that one?" in disbelief and excitement. He especially liked if people had a dog. He would talk and talk all the way up to the door, and then go mute when people talked to him and asked him questions. The only thing he would say is "thank you". Our neighbour had quite a scary house and Eli was talking about it for days. The downside is that he was waking up at night for a few days afterwards scared of Vampires.

I dressed Hana up for a very unhappy 5 minutes. Her costume was a beach bum. She hated the sunglasses. I even had a novel and martini glass set out for props for her costume but she disliked it so much that I never got to take a picture of the whole thing.

One super happy Astronaut and one very unhappy beach bum.

Still smiling after a long night of trick or treating.