cow love

I love Chinatown. There is so much random stuff there - little bowls, little shoes, little make up cases, hats, teas, pez dispensers, bobble heads, chopsticks, pens that say dirty things, plastic cows, chickens and pigs.
We just returned a few hours ago and had a really nice time. Rocco loved this plastic cow that squeaked when squeezed. Oh you just have to see it...

sweet potatoes

Can you believe it? I made baby food today. A friend gave me the book, "super baby food" and it has all types of information on the most nutritious baby foods. So in following the 6 month dietary information I made Rocco sweet potatoes. He didn't like it so much but then again he didn't like bananas at first either and now he likes them. I made a huge batch so I have several containers in the freezer. I'll try again tomorrow and hope for better luck.

Anne in San Francisco

Picture 1: Rocco almost standing up (almost as in months away..). This was taken at Martina and Alex's apartment in the city. They live 2 blocks from the beach and 2 blocks from Golden Gate park.
Picture 2: close up of Rocco at the beach.
Picture 3: Anne at the beach.
Picture 4: more of beach
Picture 5: Anne and I
Picture 6: Anne taking a photo of Rocco looking at himself in the mirror at Delfino's in the mission in SF.
Pciture 7: Ferry Building - Embarcadero
Picture 8: Walking along the Embarcadero before meeting Martina for lunch.

6 months

He turned 6 months on Saturday.....These are just some random photos taken around the house this weekend. I promised Anne that I wouldn't post any photos of her - so unless I receive the OK, it's all about the bebe (so please bug her so that I can post some photos of her and R).

Happy belated birthday Opa

Herzlichen Glueckwunsch zum Geburtstag Opa.

Anne is here

Anne arrived over 1 week ago and it has been so amazing to have her here. I'm getting out reguarly to the gym, as well as eating lots of sweets. She brought us a box of Scottish butter cookies and I ate those in about 4 days. Later she and I went to the 99 cent store and she bought me a box of chinese almond cookies and i ate the entire box in 24 hours. Can you imagine my surprise when I stepped on the scale and I GAINED weight. i couldn't believe it! Then I read the calorie intake for the butter and almond cookies. The almond cookies alone were 80 calories PER cookie. Mind you, I ate the entire box. Since then we haven't purcahsed or eaten any more cookies. To Anne's credit, she doesn't eat cookies - she only eats butterfingers. She ate about 24 bars in 24 hours.

We received a surprise gift from Andi and Uschi. They sent Rocco a little bear which we have named Bernard the Bear. They also sent us a funny letter, a photo of the family and 2 mugs. THANK YOU! They fit perfectly in Daniel's coffee machine. A perfect gift.

On Sunday we went to open houses in the area and saw a beautiful home that Anne thinks is reasonably priced - it's only 1.8 million dollars. As she says, "It was really good!" After that we saw another home being sold for 1.2 million which wasn't as nice.

Yesterday we went shopping and Anne bought me a new pair of jeans. I think she was tired of seeing me wearing the same clothes over and over again. I love them and am happy to have a new pair of jeans to wear. I'm SOOOOOOOOOO close to my pre pregnancy weight (less than 15 pounds away) and I know soon I'll have a whole new wardrobe of clothes to wear.

Rocco has been getting spoiled by Oma. She holds him and sings to him and kisses him every single day. So now he has 2 female slaves - he is very happy. The latest thing with him is that he now stares at his hands all the time and he also screams all the time. He is constantly testing out his voice - oh, we all love it when he screams. It's the best thing to hear at 6:30 AM.

Pic 1: Rocco sporting his new hat (a hand me down from the neighbor)

Pic 2: Oma making Rocco laugh

Pic 3: Squirrels at the Berkeley Marina

Pic 4: Oma Anne and Rocco. This is the only photo she let me publish.

dance fever

As I was cleaning the kitchen, I had my IPOD on Shuffle and when the Earth Wind and Fire came on...this is what happened: