....love the barden's: hiroshima Japan

Mar 28, 2012

Playing at our "home"

Konnichi-Wa~! (I hope i spelled that right)~ Here are some pictures from yesterday just playing in the apartment! Jagger is growing up so much already! He is saying "da da" pretty much non stop and he is wanting to go, go go!! Too bad his only means of transportation are either on my hip or to roll, so he doesn't get very far most of the time!! lol! Ava has grown a lot too! She has gone from super chunky, fat baby to this long, lean string bean, 5 year old! She has been playing with her "japan bestie' almost every day and has been loving it! She is excited to start school next week too!

Sep 21, 2011

Venturing out!

For the past few days, 6 am seems to be the time to wake up for children ages 4 and under in my household! I am not too happy about it, but once we are up, we are up and we are happy and ready to start the day!! The sun shines very bright into the apt pretty early, so it helps us get bright eyed and bushy tailed pretty fast!! Yesterday morning we walked with Lauren Bullington {her hubby is a pitcher on the team, they live in Chicago} and her kids {isabella-5 & Jack and Mathew-almost 2} to their school so Averie could see it and so Lauren could take us around and show us some things that we need to know! After we dropped her kids off at the YMCA, She took us to a great place called Anderson- its a market that has a little cafe inside and it was GREAT! We all 3 had ham and cheese breakfast sandwiches, salad and yogrurt! Ava also had fresh squeezed grapefruit and orange juice! After we ate, we walked around and I bought a few pastries (they were amazing)! We left there and Lauren took us to a place called Sogo- its a huge dept store/mall-way different than American style, but very cool! She also showed us the A-bomb dome and peace park!! Jagger had a first too- he is now rolling over in his crib and also he wore his 1st pair of shoes~!