Left Ormond to spend the last week in Miami

We left Ormond Beach late late Tuesday evening to spend the last week in Miami. We have enjoyed the time down here and the children love swimming in the pool. I even took Marlee out on a short kayak tour in the canal, which he really enjoyed :-) Both Marlee and Noah have been a little sick with fever and cold. Marlee has complained about his stomach, too. They seemed better today so I hope that tomorrow will be even better. I am getting really tired of them getting sick so much and I feel so bad for them!! Even the pediatric in Ormond said that this year has been worse then anything he had seem before, people have been sick so much. I wish I knew why that is...

 

Found the skin of a snake that Marlee played with :-)

I hope that they will always be this close <3

Fun in the pool!

Marlee is getting good at his snorkeling!

I do not normally take pictures of the children being sad or upset, it feels like I disrespect their feelings, but Noah is at the age when so many things are a tragedy and this picture really gives a good picture of the phase he is in. He is the kind of kid that will throw himself on the floor, which Marlee has never done, and he can do it for the smallest things - having to wear the "wrong" clothes, got the food cut (or not cut), could not play with the car key etc.

 

 

Great end on a very intense week

The past week we have pretty much spent all our time on moving out of the house. Alex has of course worked, too, but took one day off for packing and moving, in addition to all evenings. Luckily farmor has been helping a loooot with the children so that I could work more efficient at the house. Thursday was our worst day. We worked in the house until 1:30 in the morning, and poor Noah was with us because he refused to sleep. Now we are pretty much done except for the food in the fridge that we have not emptied yet, but the house is cleaned end reset to the original "layout".

Spending 10 minutes on the beach to regain sanity ;-)

Busy

I actually got up early one morning to see the sunrise. I am glad I did, but it is not something I would wake up for every morning :-)

Nice break from the packing - bbq with Deborah, Brad, Curren and Toca. Curren and Marlee played so good, it's like they know that they will not see each other for a while so they better take the chance to have fun together.

So what is so great about the end of this week? Marlee had a birthday party today!!!! We surprised him with renting a bounce house and he loved it!! We also had a Piñata and a Swedish fish pond :-) A great party with great friends! 

Marlee and the Piñata

Noah got to try, too...

It was difficult to get a good picture of them in the bounce house but they both had so much fun!!

Marlee sleeping over at farmor's and farfar's house

Right now it is eleven pm and I am lying in bed. Noah is sleeping and big boy Marlee is sleeping over at farmor's and farfar's house. They arrived to Ormond today and we all went over there earlier today for dinner and Marlee was celebrated with presents and cake :-)

 

I have been sick this week so we have not done much. But I did go with the boys to the park on Friday and yesterday we had some friends over for dinner. A very nice night! Marlee played very good with their younger son who is 6.

 

Now we have to pack our things, clean the house and reset everything before we move out in a few days.

 

 

Starting one of our indoor projects...

Trippel tunnel ready! But, ups, we accidently made two different tracks.

Mistake solved. One track!

Another project

Noah wanted to do the beads, too, for about 2 minutes :-)

 

 

Noah has learned some body parts (arms, hands, legs, feet, belly, head, etc) and I wanted to show it on a video but he refused to cooperate...

 

 

Marlee has turned 4!!!

It feels like we have been sick for weeks and even though Noah still had a fever, a cold and an eye infection, and Marlee still a cough, we decided to go to Madison with Jackie and Doug to celebrate Marlee's birthday and to take a look at the flooded property that we had heard about. We had a very nice weekend and it was quite relaxing to have our own waterfall :-)

A morning a few days ago when I could not sleep I got to see a beautiful sun rise!!!

In Madison:

We all slept in the big bed. Good that the boys stayed close together! ;-)

Doug and Scooter supervising the "diggers" out in the water

Noah enjoying the water!!

... and supervising Jackie while she works

People working hard to make the water pass faster

Boat ride on the lake, that used to be a small pond...

Meeting the neighbor kid Clinton

Dinner at Pizza Hut on Saturday and Marlee got to open one present (early). A Spiderman puzzle from Gammelmorfar

March 23, Marlee's birthday!!!

Found a big moth outside the trailar

Before breakfast Marlee got to open one present from Jackie and Doug. A remote controlled car to driver with outside. So perfect! He has used it every day since his birthday! :-)

We had cake and MnM for breakfast!!!!

Happy Birthday Marlee from mormor and morfar!

And from Linn, Johan and Ailo!

and from farmor and farfar!!

Alex made Marlee a swing!

Marlee had to get "clean" before getting into the car to go home...

Playing a game he got for his birthday, the Bus stop

Nice visit of Uncle Cory and Felicia and Marlee getting sick

Uncle Cory and Felicia have been here for a few days and we have had a good time together with good food, board games and mini golf. I am happy that they managed to make it up here before cousin Eli is born (around mid-end April).

So peaceful!

At a birthday party :-)

Play dough in all colors!

Mr Serious!

Marlee made a race car (front to the right and exhaustion to the left :-)

Playing mini golf with Uncle Cory and Felicia

Reading

While Marlee has not been feeling great he has been napping two days in a row. He has not napped in months so he is surely not himself. Two days with fever around 38,5-39C (101,4-102F). He has been feeling really bad, especially during night.

Giving mamma a break :-)

Marlee and Noah playing. Marlee had his bright moments today, too :-)

Just regular stuff

We have figured out that there is another bike week right now and the motor bikes are everywhere!! Noah and Marlee are very happy! :-)

Marlee and his "friend"

What Noah is doing when noone is watching...

And the bikes...

Patriot?

Should I be scared, or is it only old men with a middle age crisis? ;-)