Nathan & Fiona, Kaisa & Everett - Family Blog

Everett’s First Haircut

Fiona — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:25:29 +0000

The kids and I all got haircuts last week. This was Everett’s first haircut, but I forgot my camera so I took pictures with my phone. Sorry for the poor quality! He actually did really well!

Snowy Day

Fiona — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:22:46 +0000

A few weeks ago, on a Saturday afternoon, we took the kids out to play in the snow. Everett was still getting the hang of walking and didn’t want to walk on the snow at all! Kaisa had a blast throwing and eating snow. Why do little kids like to eat snow? I will never understand. I didn’t have snow growing up, so this is all new to me. :)

Here are some pics!

Kaisa had just eaten a big handful of snow!

What IS this stuff!?

Kaisa and Kora. What a pair!

Loving the swing!

More swing fun!

The snow was PERFECT for making snowballs! Nathan rolled this one in just a few minutes!

Here are a couple of videos to watch too, if you are bored. :)

Snowy Day Videos

For Grandma Wendy

Fiona — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:19:42 +0000

Dear Grandma,

Thank you SO MUCH for the beautiful dress you made me for Christmas! I wore it to church and got LOTS of compliments! I love you, Grandma Wendy, and I miss you!

Love,

Kaisa

Oops

Fiona — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:42:51 +0000

At Everett’s birthday party yesterday, my mother-in-law pointed out a mistake we made a YEAR ago and I’d like to publicly correct it.

Everett’s birth announcements showed his birth date as February 9th, 2008. He was, in fact, born on Feburary 9th, 2009. Hard to believe neither Nathan or I caught that in all our reviews of the card before printing it. Oops.

Sorry, Everett, you can’t be 2 yet.

New Video

Fiona — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:54:55 +0000

Just posted a cute video of the kids. Check it out!

Kaisa is So Funny!

One Year Old!

Fiona — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:31:06 +0000

Happy Birthday to my sweet little boy! Here is a slideshow of his first year for your enjoyment. :)

Mr. Chatterbox

Fiona — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:36:31 +0000

Just in the past week or so, Everett has decided to start talking. Most of the time it’s cute baby gibberish, but he has actually started to use recognizable words as well. Here are the ones I’ve been able to make out so far:

Thank You
More
Cracker
Ball
Uh-oh
Daddy
Momma

He also claps, waves, and blows kisses. He’s walking like a champ now too! My little boy is growing up so fast! I can’t believe he’ll be 1 next week. CRAZY! We love you, Everett!

Dreams

Fiona — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:29:56 +0000

Dreams are so interesting. Most of the time, my dreams are strange and make no sense at all. However, every now-and-then I’ll have one that really shakes me and makes me wonder if it was more than just a dream…a warning or a prompting from the spirit.

Last night I dreamed that I was helping a pregnant woman through her labor (sort of like a doula). As the labor progressed, I became the woman in labor and had the feeling that the child I was about to give birth to was not my own…that I was a surrogate and the mother of the child was in the room with me. I gave birth to the baby, and the dream was so realistic that I could almost feel the physical sensations that I remember feeling when my two children were born. I love that feeling of release when you give the final push and your baby is born. I really felt that during the dream. As soon as the baby was born and handed to me, the feeling of my dream changed and I knew that this was MY baby.

So…wow. What to make of that?? Here I am, living my life, happy as a clam NOT to be pregnant. Several close friends have recently had babies or soon will, and I have not had ONE BIT of baby hunger. I am finally in the physical shape I would like to be in and feel like I’m still getting the hang of having two kids. Why on earth would I have this dream and wake up wondering if it’s time for another?

So what are your opinions of dreams, dear readers? How do you tell if they really mean something or not?

New Video!

Fiona — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:44:10 +0000

Go to our video blog to view this cute clip of Kaisa last summer:

Kaisa Driving

My Little Artist

Fiona — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:17:38 +0000

Kaisa got an art easel from Santa for Christmas. She also got her very own apron from mom & dad. A couple of days after Christmas, we let her have her very first painting session and she had so much fun! Here are a few pictures I took…we are working on trying to get rid of the cheesy grin, but hey, you take what you can get. :)

Ready to paint!

Testing out her skills.

This was the greatest moment. She dipped her brush in red and painted a heart! I don't think she meant to but as soon as she painted it she got really excited and said "look mommy, I paint a heart!" I was SO cute!

Her final product. Isn't it beautiful? What a little artist!