So Behind, But In A Good Way

We've been up to quite a bit lately and it's been fun and has been helping us all get through this mid-winter "stuff"! We've had an Anniversary Night away, Gaga came to visit, Church with just Svea and I, serving at Food For Kids, and lots of fun times at home.  Here are the two monkeys playing on the iPad together.

 Svea asked if she could wear her jeans the other day.  She had them on for 2 seconds and then decided they weren't comfortable, but I requested a picture because I thought she looked so darn cute in them!  Dan and I got to go to the cities for an overnight date a couple weekends ago!  We had a blast and Gaga stayed with the kids.  We shopped, ate, went out for drinks, relaxed, shopped some more, met up with my best friend Pam for lunch, shopped some more, and then came home.  It was a great way to celebrate our 6th anniversary!  Mom had a fun time with the kids too!  Thank you Mom for coming.  It's SOOOO nice to get those moments to sneak away for a bit!

 Kieran loves hats.  You might see him in more hats in the coming months because if he sees one it's his and it's going on his head;) He is REALLY starting to look like a little boy instead of a baby and I know you all have probably thought he's looked like a little boy for sometime, but he just stays my baby in my mind:)

 We watched the Superbowl.....on Dan's phone and then joked how we have a whole movie theater downstairs, but watch the Superbowl on a 4 inch screen. Ha! It's still been SO cold, but I think we are almost out of the woods.  Svea has been singing Edelweiss and when Kieran hears it when we sing to him before bed he immediately lays his head on our shoulder.  Precious moments with him. 

 " I love you".  Kieran repeated me tonight saying this.  We laughed and clapped and he probably did it ten times, but who knows if he'll do it again.  It was great! It sounded more like Aye-Wa-Ewe, but oh so cute!  Svea's new thing is she likes Dad to tell her jokes at bedtime and he makes up all of his "punny" ones for her and she loves it.  It's rubbing off on her because now she tells funny jokes for God.  "God thinks my jokes are funny, Mommy"!

 Hats....they pulled them out today with Dad while I was at work.  We think Kieran looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle.  They are seriously going to read this someday and say, "What the h$^k is a tmninjaturlte...wwwhaaattt!!!  :)

 I don't know if I could be any more proud, but Svea is starting to take after my cousin Josh.  His kids used to name their poop and I swear, without not a single prompting she named her poop for me one day and told me they were girls.  Now after she goes she holds up her fingers and says I went this many poops MOm!  Oh man.....I forget what she named her poop that day, but I laughed until I had tears in my eyes.

There was a community service project this past Saturday that Dan helped organize.  I took the kids and they had a blast.  Kieran was very content hanging out in our arms and Svea got to help her Dad "serve".  They had the job of packaging up rice packets of food and loading them into boxes for kids in need.  On the way home she said, "I like helping get food for kids.  It makes me happy"!  She is also into pointing out nice things that people do.  We were looking for a parking place and they were plowing new spots because the lot was so full.  She said, "Mommy, that was so nice of that man to do that"!  I LOVE this age...I love their little minds.  I love having a place to write it all down so we never forget these precious times!

 

This weekend we are pumped.  Dan and I are taking Svea to a play...her first ballet!  Kieran gets to spend some special time with Jackie too!  Happy Valentines Day week!