Time flies when you are having fun and I know we have had a lot of fun lately! One major thing is that mormor and morfar were here for two weeks!! We had lots of fun together!
Having fun with the magnets
Never let go of your guitar when someone is calling you on you CALCULATOR!
At the Thursday coop
My try Superbaby!
Friday coop playground
Art class
Back to the beach... :-)
Pappa joined the soccer game
Chick fil-a at the beach. Perfect combo!!!
Rafael participating at Game night with mormor and morfar
By the Daytona Library after going to the Chocolate factory
Going to Busch Gardens and Tampa
Bedtime story in Tampa
Warm pool at the hotel. First real swim for Rafael!!!
Busch Gardens here we come!!!
It is hard to be at the amusement park!
We did get our fair share of rain...
We got wet.. (Mormor in red, Marlee in blue and Noah in green, I am in black)
We made it to the west coast!! Clearwater beach
Our hotel in the background
Top floor with hot tub :-)
Day 2 at Busch gardens
Back in Ormond and Friday coop
Art class
Dinner party with friends. Look at all the pappas and their babies!
Beach day!
Marlee boogie boarding
This guy is growing so fast!!
Celebrating Marlee's early birthday with mormor and morfar before they leaves...
Future Rock band!
Mormor and morfar left as planned and that is always sad. But we surely made the best out of the time we had with them!
More school, seeing friends and enjoying the weather.
Noah did a great break through when he started to blend letters together!!! He has know the letter sounds for a while but cannot blend them together. But he can now and it is so exciting!! School work in general has been fun and gone well lately and it is fun to be back after the Christmas break.
Rafael is teething and drools a lot!
Marlee's front teeth are finally starting to appear so his smile will change a lot soon!
These two pictures make me laugh. Look at the sticks they are playing with and look how Gabriel is doing his very best on copying Noah :-D
Babysat some of our friends' two kids two weeks ago. Busy but also lots of fun!!
According to Gabriel he loves Violet and she loves him. <3
We have not made it to the beach much lately but I went down quickly a windy day with Rafael and Gabriel
Marlee and Lexi doing schoolwork, the Timeline song
Noah having fun with Jules
Gabriel and Noah (so sweet!!)
Rafael with his friend Israel
Noah's Spanish class on Fridays
January 23 I turned 4 months!!!
When Alex was gone last weekend I did my best to sort through the kids' clothes... I did some progress but it is almost overwhelming!!!
Schoolwork, reading a book the boys got for Christmas about the Oregon trail. I learn just as much as they do!!
Our classroom when the weather is gorgeous!
Gabriel having a concert for his little brother
Posing for the camera?
Noah made a play dough dinosaur at the coop the other day
I love when kids of different ages play together!!
The boys keep building on their "Marble maze"
More Christmas gifts, and fun!! Brings back fun memories for me, too :-)
Now it is only 4 days until mormor and morfar comes. The boys are so excited!!
Kids are in bed, dinner is cleaned up and taken care of, school work for tomorrow is prepared and I found myself having time to update the blog. Wiiihiii!! Now, when I have selected pictured, uploaded a video and added it all to this post it is past midnight.,, It is simply not my thing to go to bed early..
Anyways, the short update is that we have had a great past week with school starting up, dinners with friends and great weather. We had a few cold days where we got the chance to use some of our warmer clothes :-) but it is back to warm weather again now...
Look, how popular I am!
Last weekend we helped some friends out by watching their kids while they were moving, unfortunately leaving our street to a house in Daytona. Anyways, the kids are 6, 3 and 0 and I must admit that I was a little nervous that the day would be a total chaos but I was surprised. Both Alex and all the kids did great and we had a good day.
Five of the seven kids :-)
Morning gymnastics
Great activities outside in great weather!
Started building on a cool thing Marlee got for Christmas two years ago. It is kind of complicated and they have started it a few times before but this time we did it together. We are not done yet but have done good progress and Marlee and Noah are so excited about it :-)
Illness has strike our house the past few days. I cannot help but enjoying some extra cuddling with the boys when they are not feeling perfect... It has mostly been colds hitting us but Marlee has had fever today so we will see if he can go to coop tomorrow..
Gabriel feeling a little icky
This guy has a cold but that not seem to bother him much
Yes, it has been weeks since I last updated this and I wish it wasn't so... I really enjoy writing this but despite a wonderful Christmas, I did not get any extra arms an no extra hours in the day ;-) so I might just have to accept that updating my blog is not something I have time doing as frequent as I wish I could. Well, enough said about that! I am really excited that people actually read this! :-D
This post will mainly be some random pictures from the last weeks. We drove back to Ormond on morfar's birthday, New Years Eve. Well, back in Ormond we had dinner with some friends before going down to the beach for some fireworks. It was a good day and we spent midnight in front of the TV (kids sleeping) just like any other boring parents with small children ;-) It was honestly SO nice! Lol!
Just like Gabriel, Rafael is very ticklish so when taking off or putting on his onesies he just laughs! I am not trying to tickle him at all.
Sweet Noah in Miami
Smiley Rafael with farmor
Gabriel loved this "Snowman ball" that played different songs. However, he only liked Jungle bells and kept turning it on and off until that played!
Ginger bread house #2 from Aunt Peggy. We have not eaten all of it yet but almost...
Farmor took all the older boys to Fairchild garden where there is a butter fly "tent". They really liked it!!
Yes, this is the Newman family :-)
Back in Ormond... We found a visitor in the Christmas tree...
Rafael has really enjoyed his bouncy chair lately!
... and his feet :-)
Turning from belly to back and back to belly now!!
Noah finally got to paint his monster truck that he build a few months ago. I will add a picture later to show the result.
Aunt Jackie, Seth and Silas came to visit last weekend and the boys had a great time!
Seth and Gabriel at Chick Fil a
More Christmas presents!!!
Now Christmas and the holiday fun is over and this week both home school coop:s start. Back to school and hard work again :-) Alex and I are trying do some more exercise and and have played tennis three mornings now. It makes the whole day better!
