Introducing Taber John Heim !!!

Well, it is official BOYS RULE in the Heim house!

Taber was born at 9:51 am on June 8th. He weighed 6 lbs 10 oz, and was 20 inches long. He is happy, healthy and doing well. It is such a different experience having a second child since we knew what to expect, but it was still an absolute miracle and we love him already!

FUN in the SUN!

Deegan recently decided to teach himself how to hold his breath under water at the pool. Not sure how he decided to or thought to do so, but here is a video of him dunking himself. He had been doing it for about 30 minutes previous to this and was running out of steam, but was still a champ holding his breath for 6 seconds (well, that is how long Daddy would let him do it before he freaked out)!

P.S. - Alise is 38 weeks pregnant filming this... At the end of the video you see a young boys head pop into the picture, he is retrieving a foam football that his friend threw that got stuck between Alise's belly and the wall, they thought it was HILARIOUS!

Nesting

Daycare sent this to us as a picture message from one of the kids B-Day parties and I could not help to laugh and think ... This is definitely my kid. Look how happy he is eating cake and ice cream!!! Love it!

Per the title of this post, I have been a momma bird nesting to the 10th degree. This works out poorly for Eric as I cannot seem to do anything and he has been such a trooper. I had him painting, doing crown molding, resurfacing the fire place, putting Deegan's "big boy" room together and about 10,000 other things. I am very very very lucky to have a handy husband with every tool under the sun.

Playing with the deck pillows. Bug thought it was hilarious to have Eric throw them at his head!

After a pillow knocked him over ... all smiles.

Here come more pillows!

Easter Egg Hung in the backyard

Mother's day photo shoot. We had a scheduled session and of course they were running late. During that waiting time Deegan was a perfect, happy little boy. Once we realized how good he was being Eric and I gave each other the "oh crap" face as we knew what that meant for our photo shoot. Well we were right. We had about 4 minutes of happy Deegan before he shut down and decided the photographer was not that funny. All things considered, we got some decent shots.

They had to find props ... we had to ask for the screwdriver as we knew the car was not enough! I had another picture but I accidentally deleted it and it is too big of a pain to post it at the bottom ... I could be retardo when it comes to blogging but it is not worth trying to move a pic from the top to bottom! That might be my impatient pregnancy hormones talking :)

Growing Up Fast

"TRACTOR" - Possibly one of our favorite most used words. There is no denying this child loves trucks, tractors, trains, motorcycles and above all else BUZZ LIGHTYEAR! Some mornings he will wake up and the first thing he asks is "Buzz?" ... meaning, can we watch more Toy Story. Hard to think my little baby is going to be 2! Time flies and I want to soak it all up. Its also hard to think we are going to have 2 boys in 2 months. My world is about to be consumed with testosterone and honestly I can't wait!

Deegan at the Zoo eating Dip n Dots at 10am thanks to Grandma

This did not give me warm fuzzies. Not a great place for my accident prone husband. He has been such a trooper the last few weeks as I have been nesting which is resulting in a To-Do list that is a mile long. Most items I cannot assist with but with the help of our family we are slowing checking off items.

6am Hot Wheels race track time. Of course we must wear our hat ... another favorite word and item of Deegan's.

BBug and "Dada" having fun in their PJ's

Buzz face ... so serious and oblivious to the world when he is on the TV.

Balance Bike ... no pedals and freaking adorable. Pretty sure Eric was more excited the Bug with this early B-Day gift. I wanted to wrap him in bubble wrap, but NOOOO ... that is not the Heim way.

Cruising with Grandma behind with the video camera.

Finally turned around.

Belly shot at 30 weeks. This child is sitting freaking LOW and I have never been more uncomfortable in my life. I keep complaining to my Dr. hoping he will help but he says its normal for the second. UGH! Funny thing was I feel a lot bigger then this picture. I am pretty sure I look a lot bigger and that this was just a good shot!

Long day after work so ignore the half-attempt smile, flat hair, droopy eyes and poor posture. This kid is sucking the life out of me and oh wait, I am now anemic (explained a lot for my constant sleepy state of mind and pail skin). Gonna get through this!

Large and in Charge

You probably thought I was talking about myself with that title but I was actually referring to Deegan's personality. We are approaching his second birthday and we are very curious to see how the 2's go and if they are going to be "terrible." Of course we are hoping for the best as #2 is right around the corner and I think we are going to have our hands full.

Funny thing with #2 is that we just realized about 2 weeks ago that we were having a baby (mentally). We have both been so busy traveling out of state for work, chasing after Deegan and living our current lives that we forgot to talk about #2 ... like a name maybe, how we are going to afford daycare for 2 and what the sleeping arrangements look like for the boys. Funny how you have all the time in the world to plan for the first baby and the poor second child is forgotten (in a sense). With that said, no we do not have a name yet but hope to when we leave the hospital at this rate ;) Overall this pregnancy is going well besides that first trimester where I thought I might die from being sick. I would define this pregnancy as follows: strawberry milkshakes, grapefruit, cheese, graham crackers, exhausted and on the airplane.

Our camera has been on the fritz so some of these pictures are old as they are from our phone ... sorry!

And the motor sports begin

Yep, he is definitely a Heim. God help me ... how does being a dare devil just come naturally to this family? We sure as heck did not tell him or show him to put his feet up as he drives down the street.

So peaceful when he sleeps ... he is also getting huge. We are going to be making the transition to the big boy bed soon!

He loves snow!

Just flops anywhere he can

Little boys and tractors. I am pretty sure it is built into their brains to be attracted to these huge machines.

We have to now buy shirts that have cool things on them otherwise we have no chance of getting him changed in the morning ... hence, airplane shirt. More importantly to note are his big boy/dada shoes. I am pretty sure he has a shoe fetish. That is all Schillinger.

After bath and "the run of naked Deegan."

Boys and their cars. He is smart enough to always make sure they are facing the correct direction.

Blowing bubbles

Sad day when I ask for a stroller for my birthday present. When did my life turn in such a different direction? With that said, I love it and cannot wait to use it!!! Thank you to my dada and bug.

Now my question is when did things go wrong for Eric. For his birthday he asked for a Roomba Vacuum. I am pretty sure if you asked him 3 years ago if he would ever ask for a vacuum for his birthday he would laugh but look at him now. It was pretty cool considering we would schedule it to run at night and wake up to a clean house. Just funny to see how our priorities have changed and what practical lives we now lead.