Saedi’s school had a family movie night today and we decided to go. They showed Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Actually Saedi got invited to go with the neighbors, so I brought Gavin, Solvei and Nels and we sat all together. The kids had a lot of fun.
Solvei is starting to be very cranky if she doesn’t get to sleep when she’s tired, and she doesn’t like to sleep in the car. When she gets cranky in her car seat she squirms and whines/wails, like she’s uncomfortable.
We went out to run a few errands this morning and by the time we finished it was just after lunch time and right at nap time. Before we could make it home Solvei started wailing in the back seat. I tell her “it’s okay”, “we’ll be home in a minute”, give her her blanket, give her a toy, whatever I can with what’s in the car to keep her from getting too mad. Nothing really helped and she just sounded grumpy and pathetic. We were nearly home so I quit trying to console her.
After a few minutes, one of the times that Solvei whimpers, we hear Nels shush her! And for the rest of the ride home, every time she whined, he would shush her. I couldn’t help but crack up. With one of the shushes I looked back and he even had his finger up to his mouth!
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.
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.
I loved this dress when Saedi wore it, but when she was in this size it was summer time. I had picked up tights and undershirts to make some of the clothes in this size warmer, and now I think I like this dress even more now. Solvei has the worst habit of not holding still whenever I have the camera, so I almost always miss the right shot with her. I wanted to take a picture of the outfit so I told her to hold still. She didn’t, she went to the stairs and posed instead.
Tongue out means concentration, just ask my family. I’ve seen it in all my kids.
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.
Solvei and Nels got a teddy bear soft book for Christmas. Solvei loves to play with it. She is so proud when she does all the actions.
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.
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.
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