We are now 9 months old!!

The boys turned 9 months old on February 28th which is their daddy’s birthday. Bernd is now officially 39 years old!!! One more year to the big 40. The morning of Bernd’s birthday he left for work after blowing out his candles on his cake and I went downstairs to find his birthday present. My mom and dad bought his present in NC for me and brought it up at Christmas time. Due to the long travel in the back of my dad’s truck they placed it in a garbage bag. I assumed it got put downstairs with all the Christmas items once we un-decorated. Well, the present is NO where to be found. I called my mom and no one can remember where it was placed, so I asked Bernd and he thinks he threw away that garbage bag. What a mess…so Bernd only got a description of his beer machine to brew homemade beer. Maybe the garbage man is enjoying a beer tonight. So, Happy Birthday Bernd, maybe one day you will get another beer machine.

For the boys, they continue to grow of course. They are almost walking. They cruise around everything and are now letting go. They can also go from a sitting position to a standing position without assistance. Bodhi has become our clown this month. He thinks everything is funny. Adler has decided to be more serious and thinks daddy is the only person that can fix anything. He loves to crawl around the house saying “dada, dada”. No mama yet from this little man. Bodhi on the other hand only says “mama, mama”. I am sure next week they will change their minds. The boys have now mastered a few toys such as stacking rings, playing basketball, and now Bodhi has learned to roll a ball to you. It doesn’t always go the right direction but he patiently waits until you go get it from across the room. They are also learning how to build blocks with legos. Adler can almost put them together by himself. They also can crawl up our stairs without assistances. They still only have 2 teeth but they do enough drooling to have a full set.

Both boys love to eat. They eat about anything. They both LOVE bread, I guess that’s the German gene. The boys have now decided its fun NOT to sleep through the night. I think they have ESP with one another. Bodhi is up about every hour on the hour and Adler at least once a night. Needless to say mommy and daddy are TIRED. We hope they out grow this stage quickly, otherwise tough love is around the corner.
Speaking of tough love, we instituted our first discipline on Mr. Adler. He continually tries to pull out our TV plug. After repeated redirection, I softly popped his hand and said NO. He turned around and looked at me and just laughed. This has made it WORSE. He thinks it’s hysterical to go over to the plug now. Now we have resorted to ignoring him which makes him mad so he crawls over to you to get your attention. I think we may be in trouble.

The boys’ new stats:

Adler now weighs 20.5 lbs and Bodhi 20.6 lbs, 9 to 12 month clothing and size 3 diapers.

Snow Sledding with Opa

Snow Day with Grandma and Opa

Valentines Video

Happy Valentines Day

The boys love mail and they received their very first Valentines Card from Great Aunt Karen. They were so excited to open them and then eat them. A few days later more arrived from Grandma and Opa with surprises in them.

Icicles

Buffalo has gotten the most snow and ice this year they have seen in thirty years therefore causing some of the largest icicles in Buffalos history. We currently are over 180 inches of snow and still have 2 more months to go. The large icicles have caused many homes to experience frozen and blocked gutters which in return has caused their roofs to leak. As you can see our home was not spared and our icicles are quite large. Bernd spent the afternoon shoveling snow off our deck and knocking down icicles. The boys enjoyed the day watching him walk back and forth.

Bath Time