Nels

Shoe fetish

Posted on December 11, 2009 by wadmanclan

Nels and Solvei love shoes. Before we got the shoe rack put up in the mud room the shoes would be in a pile in the corner, and whenever they got a chance Nels and/or Solvei would spread them all over the floor in the mud room and out into the hall, trying them on as they went. Now that the shoe rack is there they don’t get out all of the shoes every time, but their shoes rarely stay on the rack and sometimes others are not there as well. The other day when we had to go somewhere at a certain time I got everyone ready to go and then could only find one each of their shoes and neither of Gavin’s (I found the pairs to their shoes in the playroom but don’t know where Gavin’s shoes were found). They love to wear Saedi’s old crocs because they fit over footie pajamas and stay on because they’re light. The last few days, the shoes that have been carried around and tried-on most are Gavin’s rain boots.

This evening Solvei and Nels each got one of Gavin’s rain boots and are walking around the living room in them.

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He listens, Just as far as he wants to

Posted on December 8, 2009 by wadmanclan

Nels doesn’t normally take a binkie except when he sleeps. Of course Solvei loves her binkie. Most of the time the binkie ends up on the floor under the bed while they’re sleeping. If you tell them to get their binkie, they will crawl under the crib and get it. One way to get Nels and Solvei to go to their room to get ready for bed at night is to tell them to go find their binkie and their blankie. They usually will get their binkie and then pull their blankie down onto the floor and lay on it.

I guess Nels wasn’t ready to go to sleep yet when it was bedtime tonight. I got him into his pajamas and ready for bed as usual. While I was changing Solvei I told him to go find his binkie. He walked over to his crib and crawled around it. I went back to changing Solvei’s diaper, but when I turned around Nels had a toy and was going to walk out of the room. I told him it was time for bed and to go find his binkie. He walked back towards the crib and I put Solvei’s pajammas on. When I was done getting Solvei ready I put her down on the floor just as Nels was trying to walk out the door again. I told him he was a silly boy and needed to go find his binkie.

I walked with him over to his crib, only to find that he had found his binkie, and he had put it in his crib.

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Coasters

Posted on December 5, 2009 by wadmanclan

You’ll just have to hold your drink, because I can’t find my coasters.

Solvei and Nels are now big enough to reach on top of the tables. If you don’t want them to get it, it has to be at the back or center of the table. They love to get my set of coasters down from the sofa table and carry them around. They are the best toy in the house right now so they are never where they belong. I think one has disappeared under the stove.

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Thanks for Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2009 by wadmanclan

Do a little Dance…

Play a little Wii…

Chow down tonight!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It was really easy for us this year. We didn’t have anywhere to go and just hung out at home all day. Most of the day was pretty much the same as any other day. Got up and ate breakfast, played with the kids till lunch time, after lunch all the kids took a nap, and I did the rest of the cooking while they slept. I made the pies (2 pumpkin and 1 chocolate) and the 12 layer Jell-o yesterday, so they were already done. Since it is only us and we didn’t need a large turkey, I got a turkey breast instead. Put the turkey in to cook around 11 while the kids were playing. All the rest of the food was easy stuff cause I didn’t feel much like doing everything from scratch this year – Costco special heat and serve potatoes (the gravy came with the turkey), Le Roule Cranberry Cheese with crackers, Sister Schubert’s Parker House Rolls, and Stove Top Stuffing. Super easy but still delicious and it was all done just after nap time. I know we’re weird, we actually ate Thanksgiving dinner almost at dinner time. Even better the kids actually ate with minimal arguing. Hope everyone else had as good a day as we did.

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Cheeetooos!

Posted on November 26, 2009 by wadmanclan

We found the best snack food ever….Chester’s Puffcorn – Cheese flavored. I think I could eat a whole bag by myself (I haven’t yet). I found them at a local store then they disappeared. They were so good I looked them up online to see where I can get them. In the search I found this article, which pretty much sums it up. Snackin on Chester’s Puffcorn

The point of sharing this new found devotion, is to explain what the kids are eating for this installment. I got out a bowl of the Puffcorn for me to share with Solvei and Nels. After the food was gone they both tried to lick the empty bowl.=P

I also tried to get pictures of me with the kids (by myself) a few days back and I thought I’d post the best ones.

This one Saedi took.

This one I took at arms length, without being able to see what was in the frame.

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Stinky

Posted on November 15, 2009 by wadmanclan

Smell a baby’s toes and then declare that they are “Peew, stinky toes.” Babies think it’s hilarious. Seadi and Gavin do this with Solvei and Nels sometimes, apparently often enough that they remember.

This morning I was sitting on the floor in the living room, watching cartoons with the kids, when Nels came up to me with an obviously dirty diaper. I told him he was stinky. Nels sat down, lifted his foot up to his nose and smelled his toes.

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Just call him Linus

Posted on November 12, 2009 by wadmanclan

Nels LOVES his blanket. He loves to go to bed because he gets to cuddle his blanket. He loves to get in the car because there is another blanket we keep in there. Everything is right with the world when he has a binkie, a blankie and a Mommy or Daddy.

When we put him to bed we lay him down and then spread the blanket out over him. He has started to grab the corner of the blanket and rub his face with it, then put it up to his nose and sniff it. Such a funny boy!

You know how you can blow raspberries into a baby’s belly and make them laugh? This morning Nels discovered he can do that into the kitchen table and get the same noise. I started laughing at him so Solvei had to try it too.

Speaking of bellies, Solvei new nickname is “Belly.” She finds comfort in some weird places. She gets a lot of comfort from rubbing her ear that sticks out, or when you rub it. Recently she has been comforting herself by rubbing her belly button. So all the time she has her shirt pulled up and her finger in her belly button.

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Gavin’s Birthday and Other Milestones

Posted on November 7, 2009 by wadmanclan

Gavin turned FOUR today!!

Happy Happy Birthday, my Gavin little boy,

you’re not so very little, because today you’re four!

I wanted to do something he would enjoy so we went to story time at the library. Not too exciting but he loves going. When we were leaving he wanted to play in the trees and insisted that I come and see.

Nate came home early from work and that was special for him too. After Saedi got home from school we all piled into the car and went to the store so Gavin could pick out a toy with birthday money from Gpa Gene. It’s fun to watch what he gets excited about because it’s usually really simple things. We had Wendy’s for dinner (which he kept calling Aunt Wendy’s) at his request but he still didn’t want to eat it – there was Spiderman cake and presents to be had!

We made him wait until dinner had settled a bit before we had cake (no fun, I know). So here is where it gets interesting. We had just sat down with our own pieces of cake when Gavin said he was done, could he have his presents now, and then threw-up all over his piece of cake! He’s not sick! I think he was just too anxious. But he got so upset, “I don’t want to throw-up on my BIRTHDAY!” He started crying and wailing, which made the babies cry, I’m trying to clean him up while Nate is trying to console Solvei and Nels, and then Saedi says “that cake is good, can I have some more?”

So Gavin got a bath and Solvei and Nels got put to bed (it was now bedtime) before we even got to the presents.

The festivities ended on a good note. He very much enjoyed what he got, using words like “Awesome,” “Wow!” and “Cool.”

I just have to mention his reaction when opening the book from Gma Lori and Gpa Larry. He loves books so of course he opened it as soon as it was unwrapped. He was looking through it when Saedi told him it was bedtime stories and did he want her to read a little bit of it to him. He said, “Not right now! It will put me to sleep!”

On to the other milestone that I mentioned. So as not to be outdone by her brother on HIS birthday, in the midst of the bathing and the putting babies to bed, Saedi finally pulled out her first loose tooth tonight. The Tooth Fairy is now on it’s way. She even wrote a letter to go with her tooth. She is getting so big.

And just so I don’t leave them out, here are some pictures of Solvei and Nels. Nels actually, cheesily, posed for his picture as soon as I got out the camera, giving me a great big smile.

What a day!

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OOOOoooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooOOOoooooooOOOo BOO!!!

Posted on November 1, 2009 by wadmanclan

Gavin has been telling me for months that he wants to be a ghost. He’s even been practicing the sound they make.

Saedi decided last Halloween, when she got fangs as a prize from her teacher, that she wanted to be a vampire for this Halloween. Since she was going to be something scary Gavin wanted to follow suit, so ghost it is.

We got Saedi’s costume from the Halloween Store at the mall and Gavin’s would be super easy so I put it off to do after we got back from our trip. That didn’t leave me much time but it was only white fabric with eye holes in it. I ended up getting to the fabric store this morning and I spent naptime making his costume so it would be done for tonight.

We didn’t get costumes for Solvei and Nels but the ones from last year still fit (just barely).

So Saedi and Gavin went out trick-or-treating with Nate,

while Solvei and Nels helped me give out candy.

We ran out of candy pretty early, but it worked out okay because it made no pressure to get the kids to bed on time. All in all a pretty good holiday.

BOO!

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