Workbench

During Nonny's visit, Tobias got spoiled. I guess that is something grandparents are supposed to do, or genetically inclined to do, or have an uncontrollable urge to do. Anyway, Tobias got spoiled in many ways. He got loads and loads of attention of course, he got to eat candy, chocolate, cookies and stuff, but he also got some toys!

In the previous post I talked about a stuffed animal from the Zoo, but he also got a workbench! He loves that thing. From the first time it came out of the box, until pretty much last weekend (that is when I bought him a drill, which might actually be on my next post :-)) he played with it non-stop! He especially loves hammering the nails, and he is quite good at it too... He holds the nail at first and hits it very gently and then he lets go of it and hits it harder, just like a real carpenter I guess... Is also had a wrench, a screwdriver, and a vise.

Anyway, this was a very good gift and Nonny got to see Tobias enjoy it quite a bit!

Nonny's Visit

Nonny came over for a visit. We all enjoyed that very much! Tobias still talks about her all the time, like "this is Nonny's chair" or "Nonny's on the airplane" and such. Nonny, Opa and Oma took Tobias out to the Zoo one day. This picture is taken there. They all had a great day and Tobias got to pick a stuffed animal... He picked a green snake!

Nonny was here for a little over two weeks and her intention is to be back in August, together with Granddaddy. We are all looking forward to that.

Grass in our Yard

One of the purposes for moving was to have a bigger back yard (so that Tobias has room to play. Well, we do and we recently put some grass in there. Also we had some very nice weeks, weatherwise, so we, and especially Tobias (and the cats for that matter), have put our new grass to some good use!

Tobias played soccer, golf, and as you can see in this picture, the harmonica on the grass. Very nice. It is our intention to put a swingset on there as well, but we haven't gotten that far yet. I hope we will be able to have one this summer though. We are also going to expand our yard this fall and perhaps we will add a sandbox then too. After all, like I said, we bought this house and this yard for Tobias to play in...!

Fortunately, so far he has been loving it!

One in a Million

This is one of those one in a million type pictures. It is so hard to capture just that giggle, laugh, face, cry, shout, step, jump or whatever on CCD, but every once in a while you get lucky. This time Oma got lucky because she took this one.

This one was taken in her back yard where Tobias was playing with this garage. He had just discovered that you can jam the lift up and the car will jump up in the air. He had to laugh so hard every time that happened... as you can see in this picture. The car is still airborne and Tobias just burst out laughing!