As good as it gets

Our hometown is in the midst of major road constr-uction. If you're grown up and have to battle traffic it is a bit of a headache.













If you're two and can't get enough of all manners of construction equipment it is a Lollapalooza of diggers, bulldozers, cement trucks, and dump trucks!
Here's the enthused spectator checking out a Komatsu PC400LC-6. Now, that's 50 tons of pure fun!

Could have been 2!

M's original due date was today, June 18th! In a different set of events we would have had cake today!

Instead we went to aquatots - summer swim class for two-year-olds. It was the third day of the summer session. M has discovered the joy of jumping into the water from the side of the pool. The other children were patiently practicing floating in the water, blowing bubbles, practicing their swim moves, and so on. Mathias would have nothing of it and kept insisting on being put up on the side of the pool to jump in... over and over and over. Next class is tomorrow. Perhaps we'll practice some actual swim strokes but I wouldn't count on it.

25 Weeks

It seems a lifetime ago that Ericka was hospitalized. She was 25 weeks pregnant and had gone into pre-term labor. As a way to provide updates this blog was created - hence the name "Erickaupdates". After six days of resistance Mathias arrived and nothing has been the same since.

Well... this time around things are much more uneventful! At 25 weeks there are no signs of anything going awry!

We could perhaps paraphrase Jesse Ventura in The Predator when he said 'I ain't got time to bleed'. After all, who has time for pre-term labor with a 2-year old running around the house! Of course, the same could be said about the arrival of a new baby in general. We're not quite sure how we'll manage but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Signs summer has arrived

You get to have lunch outside!