Markus Kari at the Water Park

One thing that has to be said for Hoboken is that it has an abundance of really great playgrounds for the kiddies. One, in particular, that is very popular in the summer months is the Madison water playground. It gets annoyingly crowded during the mornings and earlier afternoons with many of the area summer programs making use of the facilities to occupy their time.

Here is a video of Markus having some good times there the other day:

All Points West

We headed to the All Points West Music and Arts Festival on Friday evening to check out Radiohead. Despite some rain early on, it ended up being a beautiful evening. The Radiohead set design was awesome and they put on a really good show...

B-Day weekend Outings

Pabbi did a great job taking photos during our park outing on Saturday. Despite some serious trips that resulted in some big fat lips and out of character crankiness, we all managed to have a good time...

I Love Pablo!

Aunt Janna sent Markus a Pablo doll for his b-day. Markus looooves Pablo....

He used to say "Paplo" but he's pretty much got it down now :)

Takk, aunt Janna!

xo,

MK

Some Pre-Party Wii Action

The Kempers were the first to arrive to Markus' b-day shindig and the boys decided to get their Wii on before the other's arrived. As it turned out, this was just the thing to capture the attention of Markus and Stella...check it out:

B-Day Party Pics

B-Day Party!

Markus Kari had an awesome birthday weekend, starting with spending the evening on Friday with his favorite person of the moment, his babysitter, Babita. We had our first experience of leaving for the evening and our little boy just gave us a kiss and said "bye!". Not sure how to take the fact that he really didn't care that we were going. I know I should be proud, but I can't help but be a little sad. I'm a 'tard, I know.

Saturday was a little rough, as he had a couple of accidents that resulted in a fat lip and some serious crying. But we all made it to Sunday, which was PAAAARTY DAY! I'm a little worried that little man is going to expect presents every day, but the cruel reality of the real world will set in soon...

All of our buddies came over and had a great time playing, eating and drinking. Here's some documentation of the event!

Happy 2nd Birthday!! Til Hamingju med Afmaelid!

I so cannot believe that our little boy is two years old now. He's not a baby anymore!

He has already gotten his gifts from us (read: purchased by his pabbi) a Diego jungle set, Diego stuffed animals and some serious new Thomas the Train gear (of course!). He's a happy boy right now :)

We are having a BBQ with Markus' BFFs on Sunday to celebrate...we're hoping for great weather and tons of fun!

Something is off with our camera upload, so I will be adding more photos this weekend.