4. Advent

Wonderful visit

Our little woodcutter.

Rebecca loves the baby. In the morning when we were still in our bedroom we could hear Rebecca say "baby,baby".

Rebecca loved to "drive" Annalie around. She was fast.

Annalie really enjoyed her Aunt Emily especially being held by her.

Uncle Jörg holding his little niece.

Dreamteam: Michi and Rebecca.

Emily, Jörg and Rebecca came and stayed with us and it was wonderful. These last two weeks were full of a lot of fun, eating candy and having a great time with the two babies. Especially when watching the Grinch - Rebecca would make all of us laugh.We really enjoyed having them with us and already miss them a lot. Annalie keeps looking and looking around for her cousin, her aunt and her uncle from the States.We miss hearing Rebecca say all worried "be-be-bear", "no-no-no" or "hi" "Bye-bye".She is the funniest 18 months old we´ve ever met. We can´t wait to see all of them again and spend more time together.nAnnalie is getting bigger. Today she looks like a little Santa Clause with her big belly.hShe´s 10 weeks old on Saturday and keeps on getting cuter everyday. Her kind of cry sounds very "girly" already. She´s such a good and funny baby.Tomorrow we´ll have her first round of vaccinations and we´re not really looking forward to it.

Cousins

Our little doll!

She loves to lay on the cute little quilt her Omi made for her.

Just like her daddy.

We are sooo in love. We could look at your little sweetheart 24 hours a day :) but because of some lack of sleep we have to go to bed and stop looking at her at least for some hours :).

We´re so excited the Christmas season is about to start. Today we already start to decorate our appartment since Tuesday Rebecca, Emily and Jörg will come - YEAH! We´re so excited since we haven´t seen Rebecca and Emily for a whole year. Way tooo long.

Annalie is still getting bigger. We´re about to put her newborn-onesies away. Unbelievable, isn´t it!? One new thing she loves is laying on her changing table and strechting her legs and arms at once while making loud sounds. Next time she does it we try to record it on camera and put it online.

New pics of little Annalie!

We copied the idea of Emily, Jorg and Rebecca´s Blog to take a picture of Annalie each month to show how fast she´s growing. The black and white picture shows her cute little smile. I can´t believe she doesn´t really look like a newborn anymore. Our baby is growing!!

Our little Speckmäuschen

Our little sweetie is now almost 6 weeks old. We can´t believe how fast that went. She´s so much fun. A couple of days ago she gave us her first real smile. That was soo cute and made us really happy. Now getting up during the night seems much easier whenever she looks at us and smiles.

Last week we had her third examination at the pediatrician. The doctor said she´s a real girl and a very active child. She even smiled at the doctor. She also gained a good amount of weight (4,4kg or almost 10lbs) and we call her our little "Klopsi" or "Specki".

She normally wakes us one or two times during the night and usually sleeps 3-4- hours and loves to look around or just concentrates on Mama´s or Papa´s eyes for minutes. Whenever we change her she´s like a little squirmy wurm and just dances on her changing table.

We´re so happy with our little funny girl. Life is so much better having her around!!

Today is a special day since we have our 9 year since we started dating anniversary! This is so crazy and we feel very old but it´s been the best 9 years for us and we´re so happy that we have so many years still to come :) and now even happier with our little baby.

Having fun and growing and growing!

We couldn´t believe it when Annalie all of a sudden started to lift her head when laying on Papa´s stomach. She is so intelligent and smart and beautiful, adorable, fun, ......

She can do so many things like:

- Playing with her hands

- smiling in her sleep

- Talking and making funny sounds while having her diaper changed

- looking around (Michi thinks she especially likes to look at the Michael Jordan poster in the office)

- she follows with her eyes when being showed something

- loves her binkie

- riding a bike

- counting to 100

- reading books

Well the last three were a little exaggerated.. but it won´t be long and she´ll be able to do all of them. Now watch and enjoy :)

Pictures

Annalies first Halloween Outfit ,

thanks to Tante Emily & Uncle Jörg





Papa holding Annalies head with only one hand




Annalies favorite blanket/sleeping bag

A little "Thank You" to Birgit

Not only did Birgit bake this tasty welcome cake, she also cooked us meals for the time after the hospital and even a week beyond her return home! She really was a great help while she was here. Her stay was more like work than a vacation visit. Thanks again, we really appreciated it!

Annalie in her dreams

This happens when MAMA is dressing Annalie !

Today we went to Church with her, but she couldn´t care less and slept right through the whole service ! We also discoverd her love for piano music today, she calms down and switches to sleeping mode almost in an instand.

This happens when Papa is dressing Annalie !

please pay attention to her socks as well !

her first basketball

taking the ball ...

... and throwing it already ....

... SLAM DUNK !!! ... for the binky anyway

The bestest little baby!

Our little girl is handling her cold sooooo well. The picture above shows her with the vaporizer we have to hold in front of her face twice each day. She loves it. She is more and more awake now looking around and exploring the world. She is soo much fun and we love to just look at her and her cute little faces she makes while she sleeps. We can tell she will have the cutest little smile :)

Tired!

Unfortunately we all got a cold. First Michi, then Kristin and now Annalie seems to get it so our night was really short because Annalie couldn´t breath very well. We went to the Doctor and got some medicine and really hope it won´t get worse. But for now Michi and her rest a little. We are so happy Annalie is there. She is the best and we can´t imagine life without her anymore.

Papa and Annalie talking about serious stuff!

Annalie getting hungry

Mama & Baby chillin

Family picture time

Annalie is enjoying her first bath at home

Thanks to Omi Birgit for recording her first bath

Pictures from the Hospital

Annalie sound asleep in Omi´s arms

Uncle Johannes & Cousin Jamo visting

Tante Berit´s Fingers taste great

Yawning with Uncle Christian

Proud Grandparents with their first Granddaughter

Annalie waking up

Update

Fast 40. Woche/Almost starting on week 40

Vielleicht erkennt man meine schwarzen Augenringe:). Schlafen ist nicht mehr so leicht. Nurnoch 9 Tage bis Termin. Wer weiß, wie lange es noch tatsächlich dauern wird.

Morgen hat Michi seine letzte Prüfung für dieses Semester und dann heißt es warten und warten....

Maybe you can see the dark circles around my eyes (sleeping is not as easy as it used to be). Only 9 days until due date. Who knows how long it´ll take. Tomorrow Michi is having his last test for this semester . And then all we do is waiting, waiting and waiting. We can´t wait!!!

36. Woche

No new ultrasounds of the baby. She is just getting to big to fit on the screen. So only a new picture of my growing belly.33 days until her due date - just so amazing. We´re getting soo excited.

Keine neuen Ultraschallbilder vom Baby - leider. Sie ist jetzt einfach zu groß um noch auf den Bildschirm zu passen. Also nur ein Bild vom wachsenden Bauch. Nurnoch 33 Tage bis zum Stichtag. Das ist aufregend. Wir freuen uns echt sehr.

The little one 30 weeks old!

Newest picture. Unfortunately pretty blurry. She moved too much. She looks like she´s got Daddys lips though:). We´re so excited. The best part: We could see her first two smiles during the ultrasound. No kidding.

Das neueste Bild. Leider ziemlich unscharf. Es sieht aber danach aus als würde sie die Lippen ihres Papas bekommen. Sie hat sich soviel bewegt und wollte sich nicht besser zeigen- daher die schlechte Auflösung. Wir sind trotzdem sehr begeistert. Das schönste war, dass wir sie das erste Mal lächeln sehen konnten.

30 Weeks, 30. Woche

Man merkt die Kleine brauch mehr Platz und wird größer :)

As you can see the little one needs more room :-)

Here SHE is!!!! Hier ist SIE!

Finally after another doctor´s appointment we know for sure: WE´RE HAVING A GIRL.

Isn´t this 3d-ultrasound picture amazing? We´re so happy the baby is doing great. We can´t wait until she´s here and are more than excited. I totally forgot to put in some pictures of our move and our new appartment..

Endlich, nach einem weiteren Arzttermin, wissen wir sicher was es wird: EIN MÄDCHEN.

Ist das 3-d Ultraschallbild nicht unglaublich? Wir freuen uns so , dass es dem Baby gut geht und können es kaum erwarten bis sie endlich hier ist.
Ich habe ganz vergessen Bilder von unserem Umzug und der neuen Wohnung zu posten...

Newest pictures

24 Weeks pregnant, it´ s growing and growing!

24 Wochen schwanger, es wächst und wächst!

80% a girl! Zu 80% ein Mädchen!

We just had a doctor´s appointment. The baby is growing and doing great. We´re so excited and just love to see the 3d-Ultrasound.
The baby was a little shy - but the doctor said he´s a 80% sure it will be a girl. I would have preferred a 100% but maybe next time - at least we have an idea now . We already went to the store to buy pink binkies :) Sorry the ultrasound picture is not the best.

Heute hatten wir wieder einen Arzttermin. Das Baby wächst und gedeiht. Wir freuen uns so und sind begeistert vom 3d-Ultraschall. Das Baby war ein bisschen schüchtern aber der Doktor sagte, dass es zu 80% ein Mädchen wird. 100% Sicherheit hätte ich besser gefunden aber vielleicht nächstes Mal- zumindest haben wir nun eine Idee was es wird. Wir waren heute schon rosa Schnuller kaufen :)