before CHRISTMAS during CHRISTMAS after CHRISTMAS

Wow, we have had a couple of busy weeks, yet wonderful weeks!!!! I love Christmas even if I tend to overdo things sometimes and not plan it very well... I still love it. This is what we did since the last post (get ready for a long update!)...
     

Dec 18 Christmas Concert at Marlee's pre-school

I am surprised how good the Children did. They did not have much time to practise and some of them are really young. But they all stayed on stage and did a great job!!!

Ready to get up on stage!!



Christmas Concert at the pre-school!

Marlee "built" a bed on the floor in his room where he passed out after the Concert :-)

Dec 19 Getting Clean for Christmas ;-)

Can you see the goggles??

How about now?

Dec 20 Going to the park with Curren!!

Chasing birds!

     

Dec 21 Going to the beach and Church Christmas Concert

Gorgeous day!!!!!!!

Alex and Marlee

Marlee

Mamma is still going strong when her fans are cheering!!

Marlee the tiger!!

Marlee

Dec 22 Visiting Aunt Jackie and Uncle Doug (Christmas I)

   

It is very exotic for us to find a cricket on the Christmas flower :-)

Aunt Jackie's Beautiful Christmas tree!

Noah with his first Christmas present

Marlee with a Christmas gift, too.

 
A crazy, yet amazing, Christmas "show" in Hilliard, that Aunt Jackie took us to.
  

Dec 23 Decoration the Christmas tre and driving down to Miami

  

Decorating the tree

Voila'!

Dec 24 Walking to the playground with farmor and Uncle Cory and opening the first Miami presents (Christmas II)

   

Miami sled!

Christmas is so much fun!! ;-)

Noah

The most inovative present, helium baloons in a box

Marlee giving a present to Cory

Favorite present of the day, mega blocks from Cory and Felicia

It has been a long day!! Falling asleep with my the new CD player from Gammelfarfar

Dec 25 More presents and a wonderful dinner at the Reitnauers (Christmas III)

    

Trinosaurius from Aunt Peggy!

A Cars cart from Gammelmormor

A HD from Gammelmormor!!

Jigsaw from mormor and morfar

Traintracks from Leon, Doreen and Kristi

Doreen and Marlee

Noah keeping farmor and Kristi busy in the kitchen :-)

As every Christmas, way too many presents but wow, so many great gifts from so many caring people. Lucky boogers, and lucky Alex and I!!!

Today "Pyjama party" and napping!!!!!!

  
Good morning lovely babies in you new pyjamas from Linn, Johan and cousin Ailo!

Marlee took his first nap in a long time today. What a relief for me. Finally a nice break. He kept sleeping eventhough Noah tried really hard to wake him up! :-)

After bribing him with M&M he finally fell asleep and slept for a looooong time!



Noah woke up long Before Marlee and kept bugging his poor brother ;-)

Marlee is preparing Christmas in short hair and "chilli" weather

The last week we have done a lot of Christmas preparations, or rather preparations for a Swedish "Adventsfika" that we had yesterday for some friends. It was a very nice day and it seems like our guests enjoyed it, too!

Lussebullar

Swedish American gingerbread :-)

Fudge

Gingerbread house!

Orange decorations

Voil'a!

Earlier this week I gave Marlee a haircut. Two different people in the grocery store assumed he was a girl without asking and that helped me make up my mind :-) I love his hair being long but I do not feel like a have a choice... Luckily, Marlee do not seem to mind.

- What! No more mac n cheese!!??

Enjoying the park next door

Having fun with Curren!!

A few days ago Marlee woke up in the middle of the night and layed down on the floor to sleep. I lifted him back up on his bed a few times but he just kind of slid back down on the floor halp sleeping. Finally I gave up and put his pillow under his head on the floor. The next day Alex told me that he use to to that, too, when he was a child. Guess it is a Newman-thing, and nothing to worry about! ;-)

Why sleep in a comfy bed when I can sleep on the floor!?

You might think that they share a bed, but they always go to sleep in their own beds and kind of end up in Marlee's bed during the night...