Noah 13 years old!!! And a squirrel story with a happy ending :-)

One more teenager in the house!!! It is hard to believe but Noah turned 13 August 29!! He wanted friends over so thst is what he got. Some slept over ao the party lasted for two days :)

Morning celebrations. He had asked for two donuts for breakfast.

Later the friends came over.

Water balloon fight

Somw did not want to join the water balloon fight so they hang out with Maria. She is so popular, even with the boys!

The next day we went to the beach with the boys who spent the night.

Noah had a great birthday and kept telling me how good it was ❤️

So what about the happy-ending-squirrel-story… well, when it was time to take the boys home we found a baby squirrel by our be the neighbor’s trees. As we were in a rush we put the baby squirrel in a box to protect it and headed out. When we got back we googled what to do with it and looked for local refuges where they would take it. We found nothing but that you should NOT take it but leave it for at least a few hours as the mom is likely going to come back to get it. So we put the baby squirrel back (always using gloves not to touch it). We read that the mom would hear it making noise and come. However the baby stayed quiet, even though we knew it could make noise as it did when we moved it, so no squirrel mom showed up… Ww googled a little more and found out you could find the noise on YouTube so we did. I put my phone next to the baby and turned on the squirrel sound. It took less than five minutes before the mom showed up!!! She was messing with the baby for a few minutes and then grabbed it woth her teeth and carried it up the palm tree. The best ending ever!!! I didn’t have to take care of it and worry about accidentally killing it and the mom got her baby back. The boys would probably have preferred to keep it but this was the best ending ever. 

 

Swedish cinnamon buns!

Noah wanted to make Swedish cinnamon buns his for his birthday so we defrosted some of the frozen fresh yeast and made the dough. Surprisingly all the boys wanted to bake when it was time to make the “bullar”, probably so they could eat a lot of dough :-) They all did a great job. I was especially impressed by David who insisted to do so them by himself and they turned out beautifully! 

Silly boys on the couch! 

House update and beauty at the beach

The stucco is on and the “framing” around the windows. 

The waves stayed good for a while and we had somw good times at the beach at night. Beautiful reflection of the sunset. 

Marlee surfing

Alex and Gabriel 

Rafael

Our friend in Connecticut sent us some more sock monkeys :-)

Hurricane surfing, birthday party and sleeping beauty

Maria in her most Swedish outfit (the hat was Mormor’s when she was a baby).

I got my old doll out for Maria. 

The storm out at sea made good surf waves in our area. Marlee is the surfer further out.

The brothers playing on the beach. 

Second week at cc.

Marlee went to one of his friends birthday party woth go carting, sleep over and swimming in the pool.  

She loves borrowing everyone else’s shoes :-)

A beauty sleeping in her dress. We have a very sweet couple from Jehovas witnesses who has come by our house for years (trying to convert us) and they bought Maria this dress. There is also a little jacket with it. During covid they sent us a letter when they could not come by.