Birthday and Christmas with Grandpa

On New Years Eve we traveled up to Grandpa's house to celebrate Christmas. Always fun to spend time with family and Grandpa has yummy snacks/ treats. We celebrated the boys Birthday while there and the boys were excited to open more presents.

After the adults exchanged and opened their gifts the boys got to open their Christmas presents. Then it was time to play with some of their new fun toys. Hooray, more car toys!

Then Grandpa brought out the ice cream cake. Lucius wasn't happy to get his picture taken but he was more than happy to eat up all of daddy's piece of cake. What a fun day!

And that concludes our Christmas adventures for the year.

ps... our merry christmas card

I'm so behind on this, but merry christmas to all! Hope your holidays were full of love and family.

Our first born is FOUR

I can't believe four years ago today we welcomed Oliver into our life. It's been a lovely time and day to day hasn't felt fast but looking back it's flown by like a flash. We fill each day with lots of playtime, and try to enjoy each others differences. Good days, bad days, messy days and plenty of GREAT days that make the rest totally worth it.

{here's Oliver pretending to read "the two towers" book I was reading}

A few fun things you might like to know about our Little Man Oliver:
He can count to 36 without help, can count to twenty in Spanish, knows his alphabet and LOVES doing puzzles.  He's energetic, interactive and all around social kid. Oliver loves his brother and they play really good together for the most part. It's fun to listen to and overhear their conversations, I love that Oliver can get Lucius to say anything even when his parents can't.

He's at a super fun age where we can talk: asking us interesting questions and even more so pulling out some very interesting answers to our questions. On Christmas morning Oliver started asking us questions about Angels. He asked us if there were a lot of angels at our house, we said maybe. Then Oliver "will the Policemen be sad that they're in our house?"- oh kid you're little growing brain is amazing.

For His celebration we took the boys to the Children's Museum. We spent the afternoon playing in the ant hill and the water tables. It was fun, and afterwards we went to Mormor and Morfar's house to spend a little time with them before a fun birthday dinner. 

ALSO- Theological thoughts of a four year old:

"Can we call angels... on the phone?" "are there lots of angels?" "do they come in our house?" "But, will the policemen be sad that they're in our house?"

Simple Pleasures: the spoils of Christmas

Oliver and Lucius's car collection pretty much quadrupled on Christmas. And guess who is absolutely loving all the new four wheeled wonders- two very happy little misters. Here's the cars all assembled/ lined up for some imaginary reason I forget...

And as further documentation on the spoils of Christmas here's all the boys presents after Four Christmas {Eve, morning, Mormor's and Oma's}... we still have Grandpa's Christmas tomorrow.

Thank you all so much for the wonderful gifts. Your generosity is so humbling. Thank you notes have finally been written out and will hopefully make it out with tomorrow's mail.

Chistmas Day: out &about

After Breakfast and a little playtime it was off to Mormor and Morfar's House for Christmas with the cousins. It was a wonderful time to spend with Aunts, Uncles and cousins. We watched the little ones open more gifts. Lucius was not feeling the greatest so he took a nice long nap.

After lunch and a few more presents the boys, Daddy and I headed off to Oma and Opa's house for another Christmas. Auntie Dana played with Oliver for sometime. When the boys' Uncle arrived we opened a few gifts and then had a super yummy dinner. I don't know who had more fun playing with the new cars- the Uncles or the Littler misters.

Chistmas Morning 2011: Santa came!!

Oh what joy and what surprise when you find presents from Santa under a lit up tree early Christmas morning. Oh boy, look what Santa brought ... "can I open them?". I think the boys actually slept in till about 6:30am. Then Marmee and Daddy crawled out of bed to see if indeed Santa had remembered to stop by.

The Presents were opened before too long and the excitement of new toys glimmered in their eyes for most of the morning. I made them a special breakfast of Ebelskivers, a new favorite among the little misters. And then we had a bit of time to play before heading off to Mormor's house for more family and presents.

The Birth Day Celebrating

Friday was Lucius's Birthday.  The Little Misters woke up to find that our "elf on the shelf", whom we call Bumble, had filled up balloons and 'decorated' the play room for Lucius on his special day. They LOVE balloons so it was terribly exciting that Bumble could do that for him. (They really wanted to play with the small pink one that Bumble wasn't able to finish blowing up)

 In honor of Lucius turning Two years old we decided to venture to our favorite little indoor playground. We called around last minute to see if anyone wanted to join us and found a couple of willing cousins to come along to play. The good news is everyone had a blast from what I could tell. The bad news is that Saturday (Christmas Eve) the boys woke up with yucky colds, which in fact turned out to be more ear infections. Bummer.

Yet still we celebrated. After the fun time running around the indoor playground, Mormor took us all out to lunch. The little misters enjoyed the food and a bit of birthday ice cream. Lucius loves hanging out with his Mormor and thanked her very much for the two dollars she gave him in his card.

We hope you had a super fun day and that we find something just as fun to do on Oliver's fast approaching birthday.