Harbour Island Highlights

Out to lunch with the ladies...our little ladies man!!  Saw some Chicago Bulls player...Noah or Ryan??  

Watching Mama Mia...or not!

Kristen enjoying some sun!

Just starting to keep glasses on for a min or two!

Our new baby, Hailey

Sharing Craisins with MeMaw (he calls her MeMe)

Peeping Wes...He's even taken her swimsuit!

Out to dinner...

This is how Wes rolls..."Go Mommy, Go!"

Searching for Dave Matthews...we went about everywhere looking for him again...

Me and My Shadow

Finger Painting and More!!

We sure had fun last month with our new paints, markers and chalk!  Wes likes to explore with them, even a little taste here and there!  I guess it makes sense, since he was sitting at the kitchen table!  I guess I should also invest in a smock at some point, or at least an old shirt to put over him...even though they are washable!  Wes seems proud to look at his pictures on the fridge!  He even made us take one down so he could carry it around!

18 Month Check-Up

23lbs 12oz-----32 in long----about the 10-15th percentile

Wes truly thinks the stethoscope is torture.  Checking ears is also bad, but the worst is trying to get his pulse-ox.  Nearly impossible.  Takes up to 10 mins.  Luckily we didn't have to do that for the check-up!

Nodding his head yes when asked if he wants to go to the pool with his ball.  This is prior to his shots...but he had a quick recovery and didn't even run a fever or get a sore leg!

Wes Found the Sugar Bowl

As John was doing the dishes the other night, this is what Wes got into while Daddy's back was turned!

Hailey's Photo Shoot

I had my 24th week appt today and Hailey was able to have her first real photo shoot!  You can see her cord on the right side of her face and the placenta on the left.  At about  a pound, she's moving right along.  I had a nice 40 min contraction Wednesday night, so back on the magnesium it is.  But no worries, as I was given permission to not only go to Virginia and Harbour Island in February, but Tunisia as well in April!  We'll see if the latter really happens!  I think she looks a lot like Wes already!!!

A Busy Monday Morning at Home

Wes was so proud to figure out how to put on my shoes this morning!  He walked around cracking up and doing a little dance shuffle!

Playing at his table from the Cormans!

When I got out of the shower, Wes had figured out how to take the baskets out of the stand.  I emptied the lower ones a few months ago in anticipation of this development!  

Sunday Night at the Pool

Wes has always loved the water, he has even been called a water baby!!  For the past few months we've gone to the pool as a family on Sunday nights, then we go to the local Pir Sulton Doner Kebap place for dinner (makes John very happy).  Tonight when we went, the man looked at me and said...pizza, broccoli...!!  We are regulars. John gets a doner...yuck!

Wes was awesome at the pool tonight!  He is comfortable floating with his wings, even in the big pool.  John and I took him down the water slide, and after being splashed in the face, he asked for more.  Below is the little slide in the baby pool.  Wes likes to take his ball up there and push it down before taking the plunge himself!  Tonight was the first time we didn't help him at the bottom of the slide, and he was able to figure it out!!  

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

"Work Makes Freedom"

This is the prisoner entrance into the camp.

John and Wes are walking in the neutral zone.  At the time, if they were 10 feet or less from the fence, they would have been shot.

While all very interesting, visiting a concentration camp is a truly somber experience.  

a few sights from berlin

Brandenburg Gate

Below is a bombed out church that was never rebuilt after the war.  Above displays shrapnel dents from the attacks.

Wes is looking out onto old East Germany from the Dome in Berlin.  John has him sitting on a ledge and I was told not to worry because he was holding onto him with one hand...yikes.  

Checkpoint Charlie