Baking day

It has been a nice and cloudy day with lots of baking. Marlee has been my little helper while Noah mostly have been parking cars. Well, him and me went to pet smart this morning to look at some of the pets :-) It is next to Publix.

Getting the cardamom kernals out of the seed

Egg on the buns

More cookies, "Havreflarn"

What was the best thing today?

We have had a good creative day. While Marlee was at preschool Noah did some painting and continue his master piece, the bird house :-) I also cleaned out a fridge that we got from the neighbor who is remodeling his whole house after buying it recently. I found a few left things in the fridge. One of them was butter from 2011! It looked surprisingly normal.

After picking up Marlee we had lunch and while Noah took a nap Marlee and I made some cookies (Swedish Dream Cookies). So yummy!! When done with the cookies and when Noah and Gabriel woke up for their nap we all went to the park where we met up with some friends.

Well back at home again I made some quick dinner for the boys before me and Alex went out for dinner (a late birthday dinner for me) and a neighbor kid was babysitting Noah and Marlee.

My handsome dinner dates

When I kissed the boys good night I asked them both what the best thing was today, they both said "the babysitter" :-) And I thought that they had had a good day with ME today! Well, I am very happy with their reply, it means that the babysitter is welcome back and it means that they were both happy about getting time with someone else but me, which must mean that they feel like i spend enough time with them :-D

Why use a calendar?

It has been all about me lately

First Mother's Day and then my birthday. It feels like it has been so much about me lately. I had a good birthday with morning coffee with and friend and then play date at another friend's pool. Alex and I were supposed to go out for dinner but neither of our two baby sitter options were available. 

Well, we have done things since last time I posted something. 

Making strawberry and chocolate ice cream

Swimming in a pool is LOTS of fun!!!

Cleaning out the pool...

...so that we can play!

Fun in the splash park!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

It has been all about me today, because today it is Mother's Day here in the US :-) I've gotten cards, a drawing from Marlee, text messages and flowers and chocolate from Alex. I feel so lucky to get so much encouragement and appreciation!

At church they had a photo both where moms could take have their picture taken with friends and family. I took Marlee and Noah there and they acted just as Marlee and Noah do. Marlee was all in, wearing funny outfits and making funny faces, while Noah did not even want to go in and just made a grumpy face :-) I love how different they are!

Later today me and the boys played around with marengue and they gave me such good ideas what to do with it as they were making their own funny shaped marengue. 

Marlee about me

Mothers' day is coming up this Sunday and Marlee has had some Mother's day work at school. Among other things he answered questions about me and it was so fun to read! It is worth its own post.

Manu, Noma and Gabbe

That is what Noah calls himself and his brothers :-) He is talking a lot but it is hard to understand him sometimes, even for me.

So Gabbe is practicing sitting and eating on everything. He got some sweet potato puree yesterday that he was not very fond of. I guess that was not very surprising since it was the first time.

His sweet potato face :-)

Manu went to his first Baseball with his friend Lexi and her mum. They had a lot of fun in addition to watching the game :-)

Becomming a Ninja Turtle

The weather has not been super sunny lately but nice and warm and we enjoyed some play time on the beach the day before yesterday.

Getting ready to fly kites

Getting clean in the bathtub after the beach

Craziness and fun while Alex had his speech in Port Orange

Let me just show you some picture of the last few days and then I will tell you about today.

Beach day with some friends

Marlee playing with one of his friends from school

Alex had his speech in Port Orange today and I was planning on going to see it. But since we did not find a baby sitter, or maybe, did not put enough effort into getting one, I decided to stay home with the boys and go to a birthday party that Marlee was invited to instead. Probably a good idea looking back since the boys had so much fun at the party and I had a good time too. We just had some craziness in Daytona earlier today.

Well, the day started out nice and calm. Alex left early and me and the boys had a slow morning. Marlee and Noah played surprisingly good :-) Around ten we left to go to Daytona to buy a birthday present and do some errands. Marlee also had a gift card that he wanted to use.

Well, in Daytona I thought it was a good idea to walk between the different stores that we were going to since they were all close to the same intersection and the weather was nice. It did not turn out to be the best idea I have had... The kids were doing wonderfully except for one thing, Noah got terrified by a person dressed as a cow outside Chick fil a. He did not want to move anywhere without me carrying him and he was so scared. Poor thing! That made things a little harder for me but we manage to get all we needed done and were only about 40min late to the party. A party with a lot of fun!

Put the fin on the shark (Marlee put it right on!)

Noah's turn

Funny balloons

Marlee letting a balloon go

They also got to fly kites, nothing they had done before :-)

Alex's speech went good and he had a good day. I still feel sorry that I missed his speech but you can not get everything, right!

It has been a long day for all of us and everyone is sleeping but me now. It is time for me to hit the bed, too!