I love it when I’m busy doing things and I can walk into the playroom to find the kids playing so nicely together.
Much more pleasant than the screaming, yelling, whining, bossing, etc. that happens when I try to make dinner many nights.
Nels
Abra-Cadabra!
The kids got a “magic set” as a kids meal toy with dinner from Jack-in-the-Box tonight. It has a magic wand, magician style, some fake cards and instructions for a really lame card trick. The cards will shortly “mysteriously disappear” but the wands are fun.
Solvei went around magic-ing everything…
including Daddy…
for probably half an hour before she finally let Nels have a turn.
Gavin asked me if I wanted to try his. So I tried to make the dishes clean themselves and Gavin disappear, neither of which worked. I gave him back his wand and said I think it might be broken. He told me, “It’s not broken, it’s made of plastic. It’s just a toy!”
I LOVE Solvei’s face in this one…
I now see many declarations of “Expelliarmus” in my future.
Spring has sprung
Over the last three days the cherry blossom trees all over town have come into full bloom. This is the one in our front yard.
Because of all this warm weather we spent several hours outside playing today. The neighborhood kids were playing outside as well. Saedi and her friends spent some time picking the blossoms off her friend’s tree and collecting them in a basket.
The rest of the playtime involved more rocks, bike riding, general kid antics and more pictures that are too cute to keep to myself. Everyone had fun.
My baby "dolls"
Saedi got a doll stroller when she was little. She liked to sit in it more than any of her dolls got a chance. I have pictures of her sitting in it, in our apartment when we lived in Washington before. I don’t recall exactly but Gavin may have done the same.
Solvei and Nels have both discovered the joy of the stroller. I was fixing our door today when Nels brought out the stroller and sat in it to watch me.
Solvei came out and discovered him, and then tried to push him out so she could have it.
And this is her getting mad because he wouldn’t budge.
I have neighbors ask if they get along, and most times they do, but when they fight over toys the world comes to an end. It really is funny, and tragic at the same time.
He did eventually get bored with it and she got her turn.
Categories: Nels, playing, Solvei
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Teaching them the ways of the geek
We are a video gaming family. We have a Wii, a PS3, a PSP, and a DS. Nate and I have seen every installment of The Guild.
Nate found some geek shirts and we had to get them – for Solvei and Nels. They are Level 1 Human shirts (fellow geeks will get the reference).
While taking pictures for this, I got one that shows Solvei’s eyes beautifully.
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First tricycle ride
The big kids wanted to play outside today after Saedi got home from school, so we did. After a few minutes Solvei and Nels got bored in the stroller. I got them out of the stroller and decided to get the tricycle for them to play with. It was the first time I’d ever put them on it and Nels knew what to do immediately. He pushed along with his feet and steered very well. Anytime he got near the curb or the grass, I told him to stay on the sidewalk and he would. He even tried to pedal by the end of the evening (still too short to get enough strength).
Solvei, on the other hand, had no idea of what the tricycle was for. She didn’t even stay on long enough to get a picture. She was, however, very entertained by every rock and stick she saw, and very happy when she picked them up.
I couldn’t get any good pictures of Saedi, but I got a good one of Gavin. The neighbor girl across the street brought out her badminton set and the big kids played with that while the twins went up and down the sidewalk.
Here are a few more of Solvei and Nels that are just too cute to keep to myself.
For me?
The kids opened some Valentine’s cards after dinner on the 14th and I so wish I’d had my camera ready! I set Solvei’s opened card on the table in front of her and she had a sudden look of shock and awe on her face, sort of a “This is for me?” look. So cute! But I missed the photo opportunity. So when the kids got more cards to open I had the camera this time. Not quite the same look, but pretty close.
Categories: Gavin, Nels, Saedi, Solvei, Valentines
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Pigtails and Bellybuttons
I did Solvei’s hair in pigtails again today and she is just so cute I had to take another picture. Of course while I was taking the picture she had to show me her belly too.
Because I had taken Solvei’s picture, Nels wanted his taken too. Solvei apparently thought I should keep taking her picture though, because as soon as I pushed the button to take the picture of Nels she stepped in front of the camera.
But she did let him have a turn.
Categories: Belly, Nels, pigtails, Solvei
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All better
Nels has recovered from his “stitches” very well. His bandage started coming off too early so I had to tape it down a few times at night. I was officially allowed to take off the bandage and steri-strips on the fifth day, so I did so Thursday night. The glue started to dry out without a bandage, so all it peeled off on Friday. Only bad things is he had a reaction to either the bandage or the iodine they put on under it so he developed a rash.
He looks just fine now, as Gavin has been sure to point out…MANY times.
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Dangers in the home…. Beware of Walls!
While the kids were playing today I noticed something and had to take a picture for documentation. As I said in an earlier post, when Nels hurt his head I think he was running away from Solvei and/or trying to get behind the chest in the corner. This is the chest in the corner.
As you can see the twins LOVE to play behind and around it.
This is the area where Nels ran into the corner of the wall and when he was playing there today I noticed the corner that he hit has a ding in it – right about forehead level. Looks like Nels put up a good fight but I think the wall still won.
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Wadman Clan 