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Friday, September 24, 2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAFFI!!!

Such a great day, Rafael's birthday. We had told him that we would celebrate him this weekend instead of today, since Alex had to leave early this morning and we had coop all day. However, me and Alex decided yesterday that we would give him breakfast in bed and one little gift today, so we did. I think he got pretty surprised :-)

We then went to coop and had a good time there. Rafael's tutor had made a special game during class for Rafael's birthday :-)

After we got home we had an AC guy here to clean it out so we had to stay home for about three hours. We had dinner and after that we made a quick trip to the beach. Marlee had promised Rafael a surf lessons! The waves did not cooperate...

Noah
Rafael going down...
Marlee
Marlee is laying in the wave?
Marlee and Noah 
I had some really tired boys after their shower.  Tomorrow is another field trip so now if ks time to sleep... 


Thursday, September 16, 2021

First field trip of the year - Sea Life, Orlando

We hardly made it to any field trips last year because of my hard pregnancy and then having David but we have started strong this year and made it to our first field trip of the year. I thought we had one tomorrow, too, and was all ready to go when i realized, in the last second, that that field trip is not until September 24, lol! 

Today we went to Sea Life in Orlando. It was a great aquarium with lots of smart solutions where the kids could go inside the fish tanks in little "bubbles". They also had several tinnels and a "touch" station at the end where they could touch star fish and sea anemones. They such your hand in!! :-)

We had a great day but now I'm ready for bed!!!

Surf, friends and diaper explosion 💥


Some storm created some big waves here and there have been a lot of surfers out to enjoy them. While this was going on we had some friends from Sarasota visiting. We met them at camp constitution last year and they were going to St Augustine for vacation so they came and spent some time with us, too. We spent a lot of time on the beach :-)

Last Sunday there was a Celtic festival here. We went with some friends and it was so much fun. The kids for to test some Celtic sports (some similar to Scandinavian sports, too) and Alex got to try some axe throwing :-)
Alex is going to a few places around the country this week so we are "home alone". David has taken some big steps while he has been gone. He has started crawling properly and maybe that got his stomach started because today he had the biggest blow out any of my kids have ever had!! I was in the kitchen an he was in the playroom, which is pretty much the same room. When i look over it looked like the dog had had an accident on the carpet... But it wasn't the dog... I won't give you more details (the picture says a lot...). Luckily i have some awesome boys who can help when i need them. Marlee took over the cooking while I tried to wipe down David. As soon as he was as clean as possible i out him in his tub to give him a bath. Noah watched him in the bath while i could clean the carpet and the toy box and some affected toys... David must have lost at least a few pounds getting rid of all this...The carper was soon clean and so was David. He happily went down for a nap after his bath and we had a peaceful lunch. 

Around 8pm today there was a rocket launch. We just happened to walk outside when it happened, i didn't know about it, and it was the coolest one i have seen. It looked so big and the weather was clear. 


Friday, September 10, 2021

Woohoo, quick update

It has been so busy here! Mainly because of AC peoblems. It's a longs story but we were without (central) AC from Friday night to Tuesday afternoon. We spent a lot of time finding several portable and window ACs so try to cool down our sauna a least a little. It worked somewhat. We got the master bedroom to a reasonable temperature and the playroom was okay so we had two rooms to sleep in. The AC is running now, but not very affecient so we are still running two extra AC units while waiting for our system to be properly fixed. We are waiting for a few different estimates at the moment...

During this hot time in our lives the weather has been hot, too :-) and the waves have been great so we took a break from school to get some beach time yesterday :-) Marlee and Noah were so excited to surf these waves!!

Something, even more exciting, if you ask me, biut maybe not Marlee, lol, is that we got our shed and well delivered/drilled at our land!!!

Next step: have someone help with the interior...