We’ve been hanging out in the playroom today, playing with a few new toys, and of course all the old favorites.
Solvei
Do you want to eat?
Solvei and Nels like to eat. They scream and yell if I don’t feed them fast enough and do the “Happy Dance” when they get fed, especially if it’s something they really like. They know that there is food in the pantry and if someone goes to the pantry they follow trying to get something too.
It was getting to be time to eat, and they were playing on the bottom step, so I went over to them and asked, “Do you want to eat now? Let’s go get some food” and then got stopped by Gavin. When I was done Solvei and Nels had gone into the kitchen. I walked around the corner into the kitchen and Solvei and Nels were both pounding on the pantry door, trying to get inside.
Categories: eating, Nels, Solvei
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Give me Coffee!!!
Solvei got a play kitchen for Christmas and we put it together today. I find it funny that it comes with a pretend coffee maker. Nels carries the coffee pot around and repeatedly “drinks” from it with loud sipping noises.
They both love playing with the kitchen; not so much pretending to cook but opening and shutting the compartments and carrying around the pieces and plastic food. They do know what to do with the plastic cups, forks and spoons though.
Categories: coffee, Nels, Solvei
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Christmas Day
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
I do really like Christmas music (I have almost 3-gigabytes of just holiday music in iTunes), but Christmas is definitely not my favorite holiday. It is a lot of fun with kids though.
We got woken up, as usual, by an early morning phone call and the kids woke up as soon as they heard voices. Saedi and Gavin were so excited. The big kids had to wait until I changed diapers for the little ones, then we went down to the living room all together.
They got exactly what they asked for from Santa, so he must have decided they could be on the nice list again this year (although, for Gavin, I think it may have been a difficult decision).
Saedi got Heelys,
and Gavin got a Lightning McQueen GeoTrax “just like he saw at the store!”
All in all, everyone was happy with what they got. It was all very nice. I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast and we hung out at home all day. We had a delicious but very easy dinner – Honey Baked Ham and au gratin potatoes with Sister Schubert’s Parker House Rolls and steamed corn (everything either precooked or heat and serve).
Daddy’s Girls – Momma’s Boys
Saedi has always been a Daddy’s girl. Solvei has followed suit rather well. She loves him so much. She makes him smile, and he makes her so happy. When Nate goes out of town for a while sometimes Nels takes a little while before he warms back up to Nate, but Solvei is always happy to see him.
Nels (like Gavin) has pretty much been a Momma’s boy. Which is fine by me.
Categories: Nate, Nels, Solvei
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More playing around
Just stayed home most of the day and watched the kids play. I played with my camera some more, too.
Nels was playing with Solvei’s doll, giving kisses and making her dance, then throwing it around.
Solvei has the coasters again, and the funniest faces!
Gavin and Nels goofing around.
And I know that belly button is here somewhere!
Keeping the kids up late tonight because we have to pick up Nate from the airport! (Yea! Daddy’s coming home!)
Goodie Goodie
Early Christmas present for ME (and Nate too). I got this in the mail last night with instructions to open before Christmas so I can play and be familiar with it on Christmas for best results. Yipee!!!
So here are a few of the 300+ shots I’ve taken since last night.=P
They love Daddy
I have a picture of Nate with all the kids at the airport, when he was going back to the war after the twins were born, as the wallpaper on my computer. Every time I turn my computer on Solvei and Nels come over and point at the screen and say “Daddy” and then get mad when I open a program because it covers the picture. There is also another picture at the bottom of our stairs of me, Nate, Saedi and Gavin. The twins like to sit on the bottom step all the time and when they see that picture (which is often) they always point out Daddy.
I have this in our entry hallway.
Today I came into the hall looking for Solvei because she had wandered out of the living room and hadn’t come back for a few minutes. I found her sitting on the floor in the hall squarely in front of these pictures, pointing to them saying “Daddy,” and grinning repeatedly.
Nels has figured out that he can climb onto the chairs all by himself. Now he won’t stay off the furniture. I can not take him into the living room without him climbing on the couch or chair. He is so proud of himself for doing it too. It’s so cute and such a pain all at the same time.
Categories: climbing, Nate, Nels, Solvei
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Leave the Ornaments ALONE
The babies love the Christmas tree. I have to tell them all the time to leave the tree alone. As soon as there were presents under the tree Solvei tried to tear off the paper or walk off with them. When I put the ornaments on I knew they would try to touch them so I hung everything with a wire hanger so that it doesn’t easily come off. Today they discovered that if they pull on the nice shiny glass ball ornaments, the hanger part on the top of it pulls out and they can pull the glass ball part off. After they did this twice and Nels tried to put the top of one of the balls (where the hole is and it could be sharp) into his mouth, I had to take the babies out of the living room.
Incidentally, did you know spit dissolves the metallic paint coating on the inside of glass ball ornaments? Just thought I’d share that one with you.
Categories: Christmas tree, Nels, Solvei
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Shoe fetish
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.
Categories: Nels, shoes, Solvei
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