SNOW in Portland!

Wow we had snow before Christmas this year. It snowed and snowed and then snowed some more. Jens really wasn't sure about the snow - he had a very hard time walking and kept falling over. Memphis the dog really enjoyed herself through.

Music Class

It has been a while since my last post, time has just gotten away from me (imagine that). Here are some photos of Jens and his new little friends from music class. I added a baby music class to the Studio this fall and it is a lot of fun. We sing lots of songs and dance around, Jens really likes it. Last month he was going around and around in a circle and he said "I'm Dancing" it was pretty cute. His favorite activity is playing peek-a-boo with the scarves.

Fall is here

It's hard to believe that we are already in November! I am trying to decide where my September and October went. Jens has been very busy. He walks, he talks, he is opinionated and a royal pain in the rear J For anyone who knows our drama, Jens is still not a good sleeper.his average wake time 5 am if we are having a good night, the bad nights are awake for 2 hours or more starting around 2-3 am. I signed up for a baby, but at 2 am when all my friends with babies are sleeping this is what I know I didn't sign up for! But as my newest parenting slogan goes "it is what it is"

Despite that Jens is charming, oh the charm! The cute is the only thing that saves him most days. He say "hi" hi-ya" "hey there" and several other words, his favorite is "kitty cat" Jens has been feeding himself and is very insistent on eating all by himself and let me just tell you it's a mess! I spend more time soaking, bleaching, and praying the stains come out – but he's a happy child.

Grandma Betty came to town and we had a nice visit to the "Pumpkin Patch" really we walked down to the local nursery and took photos. We went to a pumpkin patch the weekend before, but Jens melted down before we could get any photos with pumpkins, but there are nice photos with sunflowers.

Enjoy the fall! The Oregon rains started this weekend at cyclocross, I will post some mud photos!

Visit to Arkansas

Well we had quite the adventure to go visit Robyn's parents in Arkansas in early August. Robyn discovered the joy of 6 hours of flying with an almost 1 year old all by her self - lucky, lucky, mommy! Not really - sweet Jens picked flight day as his day to skip all his naps, we flew stand-by on Northwest airlines and there was only one seat left on the plane out of Portland so Robyn and Jens went and Jason tried 2 more flights and finally got out the second day. We had a great time visiting.

Jens got to see his grandparents, his Uncle CJ, and his great grandmother! Jens had about 3 baths every day, by the time he was done feeding himself in the high chair, crawling in all the dirt outside, and be viciously licked by puppy dogs! He also the cats were great, especially the yellow and white cat Merlin, who is in the photo. Jens was very busy discovering his new territory at the Robyn's parents and even found that he could perfectly fit in the dog's water dish (oh that was real exciting). Also the great joy in Jens' eyes when he found the over sized frying pan and how well he could fit into it, the week was a lot of fun at laughing with Jens as he discovered new things to do with his time

Birthday Party!

Can you believe it - Jens is already one! So we celebrated with a small party in his honor - he was only there an hour before nap time, but none the less we had a great time. Jens got to have some actually birthday cake - yes just a small bite - mom let him smear frosting all over his face that was his favorite part. Jens had a party on Saturday and on his actual birthday - cousin Kaleigh and Aunt Janice came over with another cupcake for him and to sing to him.

Swimming lessons

Jens has been doing daily "swimming lessons" with mommy at the local pool. We are officially an "angelfish" and Jens is doing really well - he is getting used to the water and will kick around a little bit and float on his tummy. Most of the time he just really enjoys watching all the big kids goes down the slide, but he does love floating around and splashing. Daddy even got to take Jens out for some pool time too.

Fourth of July Fun

Oh My Gosh! It is July 18th and I haven’t done a teampfeifer update in forever! I have been updating the photos on Flicker, but not adding them into the main body of the blog. Well the whole family has been busy trying to survive summer. I think it is the usual problem we all face – how to fit everything into a 24 hour day. Well let me just say – Jens manages to fit it all into a 24 hour day, usually by waking at 3:30 am every morning – yes people my child still wakes up way to freaking early! I haven’t even bothered to take a photo of it, because there is no sense in pretending to be happy at 4 am in the morning!

But anyways, onto the Fourth of July – since Jason had the day off of work, we went to the swimming pool with Kaleigh and Janice – as you can see by the picture – Jens loved the pool. We have been taking lessons for the last 3 weeks. Really we just pay some sweet college girl to sit in the pool and look bored while we “work on our skills” - but it is just about having fun and getting Jens used to the water.

Also if you look at the photos –you can see Jason’s farmer’s tan on his arm from his entire bicycle riding J

After going to the pool, we went to a Fourth of July party at some friends house – Jens wanted to play in the pool, so Jason helped him out with some dunking, which Jens thought was hilarious! Also Jens got to try and hit the piñata that they have for the kids every year.