AVA

We just had to share these pictures of Ava, she is so funny! We put her to bed without any of these toys around her except the one at the very far left. (a tinkerbell twirly toy from Disneyland) When we went back in a half an hour or so, she had all of these toys stacked around her. It is kind of hard to see from the picture but there is at least 3 separate Minnie Mouses, Minne Mouse ears, baby Emma doll, tinkerbell twirly and at least one unidentified toy under the large Minnie. Oh yeah and a sippy cup, just in case she gets thirsty. She woke up nearly an hour later, about 11:00 p.m. and had a headache from the Minnie ears.

The other picture is a funny one from when Koben got a tool kit for Christmas and Ava tried on the goggles.

Koben's 2nd Birthday Party

Despite all the complaints we are going to recieve from Koben (in years to come) and all those who are "Lucky" enough to have a birthday around Christmas, we held over some gifts from Christmas and gave them to him on his birthday. We had very good reasons though. The main reason is that he started refusing to open his gifts on Christmas morning. After several gifts, he just wanted to play with the ones he had and be left alone. In our defense we did have at least one gift we had just purchased specifically for his birthday.

The video above shows when he is eating his cake and he realized that Amy is videotaping. He loves to see himself on camera.

We got him a Tonka truck, which he has been using to haul stuff around and occasionaly he hauls his own buns around too!


And the best gift of all is of course Koben. We love you Koben!

Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas this year.

It was so fun to see the kids open their presents. Ava asked Santa for Cinderella Panties, a Cinderella dress and a Cinderella kitchen. (She really likes Cinderella) She has been wearing the Cinderella dress and shoes everyday since then. Koben even liked the cinderella kitchen but he really like the car garage he got.

We had fun opening gifts at home and then we went to Amy's parents house for the traditional Christmas breakfast of Swedish Pancakes. It was so good. We wish we could have seen Frank's parents as well, but Frank was on call Christmas day. Luckily he didn't get any calls.