Booger life: October 2017

Monday, October 23, 2017

Back to some kind of normal again :-)

Life is ones again back to "normal", whatever that is :-) School, field trips, birthday parties, beach, play dates etc. Our great new projects right now are getting our roof fixed as well as redoing our kitchen.Yey!!!! There is just a lot of work to do before that and, of course, while it is happening. However, it is suuuuuuper exciting!

Not sure if I mentioned it but Noah is going to a speech therapist and is already showing improvement, when he remembers to say things correctly :-) I guess it becomes a (bad) habit ones you have started to say something in a specific way.

Taking a nap in the nursery at the Thursday coop

Birthday party at Hangar 15!

And the birthday boy

This guy can really melt your heart!!!

I will never get tired of sleeping pictures of our boys. Look at Marlee's and Noah's legs :-)

These two have so much fun together now!!!

At a friend's house

Watching the yard guys working!! Such great babysitters!

Quack got some nice branches when the yard guys cut our (Hibiscus) bushes

Our nice beach has still not recovered from Irma and is still covered in sea weeds (and trash)

Same side/direction of the beach before Irma... just a slightly different angle..

Rafael has entered a new phase and can now fall asleep by himself in his crib. Most of the time with me or Alex next to the crib but sometimes even alone. It is wonderful since we got in to a bad habit to always rock him to sleep while walking or half dancing. Lol! I hope this will eventually lead to better sleeping since he still wakes up every other other and even every hour some times. My latest theory is that he is simply very hungry and need to eat. During the day he does not really realize when he is tired or hungry with all the distractions around him so I have to make sure to feed him often and not just whenever there is a family meal.

When Noah went fishing with pappa and some friends he caught this little guy!

Gabriel observing one of our friends at the Thursday coop

This kitchen cabinet is way more fun than any other toy

Some older pictures from mormor's and morfar's visit that I thought was worth publishing.

Friday, October 13, 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GABRIEL 3 YEARS OLD!! :-) and Good Bye mormor and morfar :-(

With all the help I get when mormor and morfar are here you would think that I get a lot done... But the reality is that while I do get a lot of things done that would normally take longer, I also want to spend as much time with them as possible.

I have not posted anything in sooo long and farmor and farfar left and mormor and morfar came back from their cruise. Then Gabriel had his birthday and turned 3!!! And then mormor and morfar went back to Sweden the day after. Now we are back to our normal life again.

Learning about the Boston tea party :-)


I have borrowed a wire binder from a friend. It is SO fun to create books with it!!

His favorite cabinet!!


It was the Cinnamon bun Day in Sweden so I had to bake some :-)

Date night for me and Alex while mormor and morfar was here.. Did not really turn out as planned because so many things were closed that night but we finally went bowling and had great fun!

Last weekend we went to Madison for a quick trip. It was surprisingly little damage from Irma! We had a good time with mormor and morfar and made it to the spring, too!

A praying mantis. It looks so weird!!

M and N raked bike tracks in the leaves.

On the way home on Sunday the car broke down! Luckily it happened right by a rest stop so we could "unload" mormor and morfar and all kids but Rafael, while me, Alex and Rafael took the Pickup to the mechanic to where the car was towed. We were so incredibly lucky. We found a near by tow truck, we found an open mechanic and we found the parts needed. 2-3 hours later the car was fixed and we were on our way home again! Mormor and morfar did wonderfully, keeping the boys busy at the rest stop for several hours with only bathrooms, vending machines and a board game!