Maddy and Sam

Moving

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First step

Sam just took his first step. Tim and I got a little teary eyed. He is our little boy and getting so big. He took about 3 steps and then realized what he was doing and sat down. Good job Sam!

Happy birthday little brother

It's my little brothers birthday today. He's 27! Happy birthday Kalle.

The sun is shining on the snow and it's warm enough to not have a jacket on outside. Feels great! I brought both kids outside for quite a while. I pulled them around in the sled, we went swinging and we climbed in the snow. Maddy loves it, Sam seems ok with it. At least he doesn't complain.  Right now they are supposed to be sleeping although I hear pitter patter from upstairs.

Tim is outside working on stuff (our DVD shelf):

Cold Winter Weekend

It has been so cold outside lately and I'm kind of a baby about cold. It's very hard to say no to Maddy though when she wants to go out and play. Thanks to Tim we don't have to go far! This weekend we've spent quite a lot of time outside sledding and skating (and falling down on the ice) and it's actually a lot of fun. I just put on my snow pants and my big ski gloves. 

Sam is almost 1. I can't really believe it. He's getting so big, but still feels like our little baby. He's so sweet and funny. He stands up for a few seconds by himself and it feels like he's getting ready to walk any minute.

Maddy and I went to a birthday party on Friday night. All the kids made their own pizzas. They were pretty tasty. Yesterday I brought Maddy to a movie (The Princess and a Frog) with my friend Sarah. It was a really cute and fun movie. Maddy really enjoyed herself. 

Today Maddy and I went to swimming class. The first one where parents are not in the pool (yeah). She did really well and listened to the teacher, following along in all the activities. Although it's nice and warm in there, swimming in the winter does bring on some challenges with wet hair and freezing temps.

 

So many projects

 
  
Poor Tim has a long list of projects to work on in the next month. I feel a little bad, but he has agreed to all of them. We'll see what happens though. Right now his main project is getting the ice rink in the back yard ready. We had talked about this last year and there is a kit available to make a hockey rink, but they are expensive so we didn't want to do that this year. Instead he snow blowed a rectangle in the back yard and lined it with a tarp and put water in there to freeze. A little more complicated apparently, but that's the basic idea. Should be lots of fun. Maddy already has a helmet and knee pads, but no skates. We want to find her double blades, but stores are pretty low on inventory for her age and ordering without trying on seems hard. We will find something though.

The other projects are (In my order of preference): finishing our new DVD shelf. It's done, just needs to be painted, finishing Maddy's night stand, painting Maddy's dresser, put up pictures on the wall, and move a book shelf into Sam's room.

I have wanted to make our living room feel more spacious. We can't buy a new couch right now, but getting the leather chair out of there (it's too big) along with the bookshelf will help. It will be nice for Sam to have the bookshelf with toys and books in his room, I just moved the glider chair into the living room and it looks pretty cute.

Enough about our house. Kids are doing fine, Tim and I are doing fine. We're all excited for a great 2010.

Happy New Year!