Here is a picture of Hans at Kirsten's with Luke and Levi's two closest friends. It is to bad for that there two friends are moving away today. Hans likes them too. Chris, the youngest, just loved Elle. He was always around her.

Melissa came over when we got back from Kirstens. She had a dance to go to and wanted to show me her dress. I looked at it and new she needed some jewelry to make it so she wore one of the pieces I made.
The picture of week of Elle. We are really enjoying our beautiful little girl.

Kirsten and I had a jewelry show at auntie Gracey's house this week. I had a scheduled masters class that got canceled so I decided to take the kids to Kirsten's house for the week. Then on Weds we went to Gracey's to do the show and most of all see Karen and her girls. Hans had a great time there and Elle loved being held by everyone. Hans did have an accident he broke a pot that held a vine that had to do with my cousin Paul who passed away a year ago. He hasn't broken anything so of all things to break. Hans, Luke and Levi had fun playing with all the kids and fell asleep on the way home.

For memorial day we had Mary, Jerry, Milt, Flo, Grandma, Great Grandma and Grandpa over. It was funny cause I was able to get picture of people in their typical spot. Auntie Mary is so helpful so she was in the kitchen cutting apples for Hans. Jerry keeps up with electronics so he was showing Grandpa and mom his newest discovery. Of course Mark was tinkering with his electronics, and Hans was eating. We had such a wonderful time together, and it couldn't have been a more beautiful day.

I can't believe my little bro is graduating from high school. David was taken in by my family as the little brother we always wanted. David is my best childhood friend Kristyn little brother. David would ride his bike over to hang out with us whether it was to watch movies or play ball with Erik. David even filled in for Mark at our family trip to Great America. David had a grad party at Rivals. It was such a nice party.
David and his second fam, Mark and Hans were missing because Hans was doing his own thing. Look at Elle sound asleep.
For David's grad gift we got him and Ipod and alarm clock station. I was told that he said he has wanted one for three years and leave it to my second family to get it for me. It is funny cause I think of his family as my second too.
Hans was thrilled to see his cousins. The men had to sit together because we were separated by families, but Hans was upset he didn't get to sit with the boys so Mark and Hans moved seats.

Erik held Ellie most of the time at David's party. She slept in his arms.

Hans got his first experience with the Ice cream truck. We treated the girls because the are so wonderful and played with him on the trampoline for a few hours the day before, and then came over to entertain him.
I was so tired from the lack of sleep and the kids lack of sleep. So Hans and I went and jumped on the trampoline to tire him out.

Hans got to spend time with Jack because Julie was home sick from work a few day. He is going to miss him not being home.

Hans is starting to look like a little man. This week Hans had his first attitude problem. He fought Derek over the dinosaur he got last week from Adam. He didn't want to share. I had to put him in his room till he cooled down. Oh no!
Hans went on the neighbors trampoline, but he couldn't decide if he liked it. He went of and on it a few times.

Elle and I went to school to visit my afternoon classes. This time Hans went to play with Kyle and Derek. I had to get in paperwork so I though it would take an hour it ended up being 3 hours. All the student wanted to see her.
Hans had to watch American Idol and show daddy how we dance to the entire show. Hans made daddy dance on one side of him and mommy on the other.

Elle has so many cute clothes I love dressing her. I recently found this website cutieclothes.com it has very beautiful dresses. The only thing is Elle doesn't like were anything to close to her mouth because she wants to eat it.


While Elle takes her nap Hans has been spending most of his time on the swing set and in his moon walk. We now have all the kids coming to visit us since we can't go to many places.

Elle is now seven weeks. She is such a good baby. It some adjustment with the stomach flu and the horrible yeast infection. Now she is sleeping well and very happy. She will definitely be our talker. When I brought her to school she was talking to everyone. Elle is a very strong baby she was born like Hans holding her head up. She also rolled over the first week. The day of marks party I had a scare because I found her head under the bumper pad. She rolled over and scooted underneath it. I also have put her on her stomach and watched her roll over and end up under her bumper pad. I think that she is going to love having pillows and blankets all around her.

Mark and Elle fell asleep while Ethelyn was still hanging out.

Karen's son Kevin is such a great boy. He was so good with Hans.

Karen was also able to come. She had some great news for us recently that she is engaged. She will be married in August. I am so excited for her. Her fiancee is moving here from Boston. I will get to meet him at her engagement party in June.
Elle got to meet her best friend today. Elle and Annabeth will definitely have to get along because we are so close with Diane and Andy.
Jen came with her boyfriend Troy. This was the first time Mark got to meet him and he found that they have things in common. Troy is the only other person that Mark knows who reads Star Wars books. It was so good to see Jen we have really missed getting together with her. She works as Abbott so it takes up so much of her time.
We had a birthday party for Mark and our closest friends came, but also to see Elle. Diane and Annabeth went in the moonwalk with Hans. Uncle Adam came and brought Hans his new favorite toy a giant dinosaur, he also got Elle a huge stuffed animal pony and I got a plant from my favorite place Steins. Adam is definitely the best at knowing what to get people. Hans goes everywhere with the dinosaur and he uses the pony as food for the dino.
Dan was in so they came by to see the baby and of course borrow a movie. Hans follows Dan around like he is his little shadow.

I took Hans in to meet my morning classes. It was quite the event. When Hans got there he met some teachers that I work with. Then we went up stairs and Hans was running through the hall and wiped out. I was trying to calm him down while holding the baby. Then we knocked on the door of my first hour and thirty kids came running to the door. As you can imagine he was totally overwhelmed. I handed off the baby and then went to the back room and got him starburst. He sat in a desk and ate them. By the time my second hour came he was a wild man. He broke one of Dan's, a teacher I work with, toys. My second hour has the craziest groups of guys. Hans loved the he had a dance party with them and played toys with them. They got nothing done. Ellie was good the entire time she loved being passed from student to student. Every kid wanted to have their picture taken with her. All of the boys held her which was shocking to me. One of the students Danny fed her and of course she spit up on him, but he didn't seem to care. I gave Hans a bag of starburst and I told him to give it to whomever he wanted. He looked around and gave them all to the nicest student Cody. Then as we were leaving a group of guys I had last year played with him and got him soaked with the drinking fountain.

This week we took out the moonwalk we got Hans. Grandpa gave Hans money towards a boat bed, but he is happy with his toddler bed so we decided that we will ask for the boat bed for next Christmas. So we used the money to get Hans this toy he enjoys it. We think it will be the perfect toy for this summer.

Great Grandma wanted to hold Elle every second she got the chance. She offered all the time!
Elle looks so cut in this picture. My cousins wife Jodi is holding her. Brent and Jodi were there with their kids. There baby is so adorable and hug able.
Auntie Brenda was the one who watched Hans this year. When he saw her he went right to her and laid his head on her shoulder. It was so cute.

We went and spent the weekend with Grandma and Erik. Elle was held by great grandma and grandpa. Erik is living at mom's house, so I slept over and Erik helped with Hans. Erik feed Hans breakfast and got him ready for church. I appreciated it. For Mothers day we all got to together at Grandma's. Elle was having a rough time. She is dealing with a horrible yeast infection. She has thrush and now she is on medication. So she just wanted to be held. By the time we got home she just kept crying I felt so bad for her.

Hans with the toy shot gun. Also it was the last picture before he got his hair chopped.
Elle is one month old and she got her first flower a dandelion. The boys brought her flowers. There were two boys Wayne and Chris who just adored her.

We spent this past week at Kirsten' s house. Hans spent hours in the sand box, and he loved tackling the big guys. He got to sleep one night in Luke's room and the other night with Levi. Hans and Levi are pals. I peeked in one morning and Hans was awake just watching Levi sleep. By the time Levi was awake he was back to sleep. One of the funniest thing happened with Hans and Levi, Hans pinched Levi so Kirsten told him to pinch him back. When he did Hans starred at him and continued eating. Levi was annoyed and Kirsten told him to pinch him as hard as he could so he did and Hans laughed. Then Kirsten said maybe my kids need to toughen up when a toddler can hurt them and it didn't even phase Hans. Another thing was Hans was running to tackle Tyler. Tyler moved quickly and Hans went face first into the fence. He got right up and got back into tackling. Kirsten and I got to go to Morris to my favorite kids clothes store. Once again I got the cutest outfits for Elle and Hans.