Our Past Week

Daddy reading to a very tired little boy! 

 Svea received a paint smock from Grandma and Grandpa D and she immediately wanted to paint...so here she is painting her beautiful picture:)

 A few weeks ago I posted Kieran's 18 month post about what he is learning.  I didn't have a lot of new things to write about, but we do now.  He has now learned how to climb up on our dining room chairs. Yikes....he did this the other day in about 5 seconds and then just sat there like this:)  He also likes to throw things away in the garbage and is really quite good about knowing what goes in there.  When he gets undressed for his bath and we take his diaper off he has to run into his room and throw the diaper away in his diaper pail.  It is really fun to see his understanding exploding.

 Svea picks out her own clothes on the majority of days.  She has been stuck on the fact that girls wear pink and boys wear blue, but we have been working on this and now she is incorporating some other colors into her wardrobe!

The kids helped me wash the floor the other day!  That was great.  It got a little wet and slippery so they both played in Kieran's crib while I finished it up:)

Dan and I went out on Valentine's Day for a couple of hours and had a great time!  We ate at a fun restaurant and then went shopping for a quick hour.  When we got home Kieran was ready for bed. 

 He is so zoning out here!

 Another new thing Kieran is doing is opening doors on his own.  He loves to open the closet and then close himself in for a few seconds before busting out and running at full speed.

 

 Can you see his little fingers?  He doesn't close the door all of the way:)

 

On Sunday Dan and I took Svea down to the cities to see a play called, "The Mitten".  It was her first experience doing something like that and I'm pretty sure Mom and Dad were more excited than she was.  We read the book at home all of the time so she could follow the play quite well. She was really quite, but engaged and was like a zombie afterwards.  We aren't sure if she was overly tired (no nap) or the amount of people and the over stimulation.  It was a ballet style play so we thought she'd like that too.  It was a great experience!