I want to start this long post with mentioning my mormor, my mom's mum, who passed away right after Thanks giving. She was a wonderful, sweet woman, born in 1916, so she had a long life. She was the kind of grandma who never got upset with you and always did what she could to please you. As a granddaughter I thought she was the best. Rests in peace! See you later, mormor!
Me and my mormor in 2007
Beach walk with farmor
School bingo with kids
Not much school for this little guy :-)
And so December got here. Surprisingly fast!!
Noah playing with Jules...
Sweet Noah and his Trutti
Put a Chalk board on the side of the shelves I am working at.
Lunch outside by our new table (that someone was throwing away :-)
So, we did not have any Christmas lights to put outside but then our Neighbor had some that he did not want I we got it. Wonderful!! I did not have to spend the money and, more important, I did not have to put all the boys in the car and go buy some. Anyways, I used the lights we had as a gift on the advent calendars Marlee and Noah have so it was their gift for December 4.
And this is the result...
Living with boys, you get used to this...
Lol, I found him like this. He had gotten the diaper bag out, opened it, gotten the wipes out and laid down! Totally ready for a new diaper!
Last weekend, me and Alex, and Rafael, drove down to Miami for a wedding on South Beach. It was literally ON the beach and so much fun! The older boys stayed with some friends up in Ormond Beach and did not miss us a bit. So grateful for such wonderful friends who dare and offer to take all three of them!!!
The wedding was at an hotel ON the beach.
Yes, this is what we looked like
And this is handsome Rafael
At the same time in Ormond Beach :-)
Passed out
Uncle Cory and cousin Eli and Andy. So cute!!
I have always wanted a Rudolph outfit for our car, and now I finally got one!
So focused when playing games on the computer! (look at their mouths)
December 13th and Lucia. The first ornament in our Christmas tree
Luciafika with Lussekatt and pepparkaka
Yep, he sleeps a lot.
Doing Christmas ornaments
Simply so sweet...
Good night Mr Cool!
It was Alex's birthday was yesterday!!! Happy Birthday, pappa!!!
Noah is always hungry in the morning, so he ate while celebrating pappa in the morning. Lol!
We took the chance to join a ice skating field trip on Alex's birthday and it was so much fun! I am so glad that he agreed to take a day off from work to do that, and I think he had a great time ice skating with Marlee and Noah :-)
Noah did so good! It was his first time and he was out on the ice the whole time we were there!!!
Marlee did very good, too, and found a friend who he was racing
Today our church had the yearly Christmas concert and it was great! Good music and lots of fun acticitivies for the boys. A lot of our friends were there and the kids could just run around having fun! They had snow and Gabriel had so much fun in the snow. Unfortunately, I do not have any picture of him in the snow but I hope to get some from my friends.
Wow, long time no post... So we are back to our regular life again (feels so good!), which is busy, and suddenly it is soon time for Christmas, just a short break for Thanksgiving first. One of our coops finished last week and the other one has one more week left, next week, before Christmas break.
Noah has made some impressive improvements being more independent. He still wants to be with me while at the coops but I can leave him in the classroom with others for a while without any problems and he is more engaged in the activities without me needing to sit next to him. I am so happy to see this!! On Thursdays he has been over at a friend's house while Marlee has coop and he has done great! She has a daughter his age and they play good together when Marlee is not there. He has a tendency to take over when he is with them. I believe it is good for Noah to have some time without Marlee since they are always together.
Noah at the Friday coop. He is doing so good! Showing such patience when coloring and doing school work.
We have sent four boxes with toys with an organization and they will go to four children somewhere in the world. It will be possible to track the boxes to see where they go and the boys sent a letter in each box writing about themselves. So exciting!!
Writing the letters for the boxes
Packing the bexes
The last day before Christmas with our Friday coop. Pajamas Friday :-) Thanksgiving craft activity.
It is exhausting for little ones to be at coop. Gabriel always nap in the stroller in the afternoon.
And this little guy naps, too. Had to be in the car seat this time :-)
Relaxing with pappa watching TV :-)
Just being sweet
I took the boys to the beach the other day to try to take a Christmas picture. I am not sure we will use any of the pictures, thought. It was impossible to get a picture where they all look at the camera and look normal!
Probably the best picture I got...
Probably not the best picture I got...
I still have the most adorable objects to take pictures of :-)
Chilling at the beach
We have talked about harvesting our sweet potatoes for a while, and now we finally did!! So yummy!!
Simply being a cutie!
November 23 this little booger turned two months!!!
Yesterday was Thanksgiving!! We were lucky to have Aunt Jackie staying here with her grandson Nick and his two sons. The boys had a blast with his third cousins!! We all had a great dinner at farmor's and farfar's house with delicious food and good company! Aunt Peggy build a ginger bread house with the kids, which has become kind of a tradition now. They had so much fun with her!
Concentrated!
Gabriel having so much fun with farfar
Rafael relaxing with farmor
The weather now is absolutely gorgeous and I hope to be outside a little more now.
We have had some trouble with the chickens lately because they escape. However, Jackie helped us to cut their wings so hopefully they will stay in our back yard now!
