Etrade Baby Jack

People tells us all the time that Jack looks like the Etrade baby. Dave took a picture of Jack watching the etrade baby on TV. The picture looks almost like Jack is looking in the mirror. What do you think?

Cherry Blossom Festival

I am a little slow on this post ..... but every year there is a Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. They try to time it with the week that the Cherry Blossoms are in full bloom. Unforunately, this year they bloomed a little bit too early. My brother Chris came out for the weekend and ran the 10 mile race that is part of the festival. Since Chris's company sponsored the race, he was able to get Dave in too. I thought they ran rather well.

Dave and Chris at the finish line

Dave (blue shirt) at 5 miles

We found one tree still in bloom :) .... I love that you can see the reflection the Washington Monument in the water
Dave and Jack headed up to the Jefferson Memorial

There was a nice breeze blowing and you can see how crazy long Jack's hair was getting. We did finally cut it a few days ago :)

And then there were TWO??

We went to our 20-month ultrasound today. As soon as the ultra-sound tech started it looked like a sea of body parts and she said "Did you know you were having twins?". No, we did NOT know that. It was especially surprising considering I've already had two ultrasounds that only showed one baby.

So now, here we are, expecting twin boys. This means that I am going to have three boys under 2. I haven't really wrapped my mind around it yet. I'm pretty sure this is the biggest surprise of my life.

Easter Egg Hunt

I hope that everyone had a lovely Easter. It was an absolutely beautiful day in our area. We went to Church and then spent the day at Dave's brother's house. They have a big beautiful backyard that was perfect for an Easter egg hunt.

Dave helped Jack find an egg
Jack didn't want to look for other eggs. He would just take his egg back to the same spot and then "find" it again

Happy to hold a football and his egg

Jack's cousins are finding all the wonderful eggs while Jack walks around with his green egg

This is Jack with his cousin Peter's football. He was quite taken with it ... we noted that it looks like a giant egg

Feeling Better

I'm feeling rather recovered these days. My mom came out for a month to take care of Jack (and me) while I was sick. Once I started feeling better, I went back to California with her for a visit. I got to take a lot of naps and recover while my parents played with Jack. The weather was amazing. My Dad took Jack on long walks everyday, and Jack can walk about half a mile now. I think that's pretty good for a 17 month old. Last weekend, Dave met us out in San Diego for a wedding. His parents watched Jack during the wedding which was nice. We had a great time and came back to some nice spring weather in DC. Yay!

Going on a walk around Balboa Island with Grandma and Grandpa Foss

Jack walking the dog with Nana and Grandpa Boland

This was the view of San Diego from the wedding we went to. It also shows my baby bump at 17 weeks :)

A Boland Report - Special ReporT (2nd edition)

by Dave :)
(refresher - silent "t" in first "report", accentuated "T" in second)

In this edition, we answer the question "Where has Amy been?" Well, she's been spending the last 15 weeks conducting a lot of mitosis in her efforts to build a sibbling for Jack. In more simple terms, I get to proudly announce that Amy is pregnant and we are expecting to welcome Baby #2 sometime in early Septemeber (Amy is hoping for the 2nd, so that the baby will be born on 9/02/10 - i.e. 90210). We still have a little over a month until we find out if Jack will have a brother or a sister, but needless to say we're very excited.

As with the last pregnancy, Amy has been very sick for the past couple of months (thus the 8-week absence). But Jack has been taking good care of her.

Here he is reading to Mom. Everybody loves a good book.

Keeping Mom company with some good conversation.

Jack has even been helping out in the back scratching department. Amy has become so addicted to back scratching that I worry we might be violating some child labor laws.

Amy has been starting to feel much better over the past few days and should be back to regular blogging soon.

The Little Mystery

Jack has started saying a few words. He says uh oh, ball, apple, doggie, vacuum, daddy, and mama. He looks directly at us and is trying to communicate when he says those words. Then we have a word that is different. The word "little". It took over a month to figure out what he was trying to say. He articulates "little" perfectly, but unlike the other words, he doesn't look at us while he says it. He sits in the back of the car or wakes up from a nap saying "little, little." I couldn't figure it out.

Well the other day, I went to put Jack down for a nap. Our routine is usually that I give him his glowing sea horse that plays music. When Twinkle Twinkle Little Star comes on, I sing with it. Jack pointed to the sea horse after the music went off and said "little, little." It hit me. He's singing!!! Adorable. The other night we were watching American Idol and he was dancing in front of the TV going "little, little." I need to get that on video.