New Year's Eve

We watched T.V. and played games in our jammies for New Year's Eve this year. What a great night!

Family Photo

Aiden's drawing of our family. If anyone has seen Mom in the last couple of weeks, you'll laugh at the nice RED highlights Aiden drew.

Playing with Papa and GG

Papa played with our play fough with us, but not all 36 colors....

We gave GG many pointers on how to play Angry Birds.

We even went to a resturant that had peanuts that you threw the shells on the floor. It was awesome! We even played a little more Angry Birds. Have we mentioned how much we LOVE Angry Birds?

Brotherly Love

This same 'love' caused our emergency last week, but certainly Aiden is quite smitten with me. He loves to talk to me, tell me stories, read books, and give me toys.

Rathbun Exchange

The Rathbun Exchange was pretty quiet this year. Most of us kids watched T.V. Parker took a nice long nap on Mommy, and when she had to feed Emery he moved on to


Daddy holding him.


He finally woke up enough to take this photo of Daddy!

Christmas Morning at Papa and GG's

The other boys woke up before us, so they watched as we opened our presents from Santa.

Santa must really love us - he brought us a nerf guns and hot wheels!

He also brought us these fun 'poppers'

Admiring the huge stacks of presents that we had.

After we opened presents, we each were able to take Daddy and Uncle Eric's old hot wheel cars off the trees and take them home. How cool is that!

I love attention and talking to people.  I sure have a lot to say!

Just taking a little break with Papa before heading over to the Rathbun Christmas Party!

Christmas Eve with the Leiran's

It's a good thing that we have 3 devices that will play Angry Birds....

It's also a good thing that 1 little boy doesn't have much interest in playing!

I'm not quite sure why they put this hat on me.

It's so hard to wait for the Christmas Eve party when there are all of these cookies sitting out. Finally, GG let us each have 1 cookie to start the night. We won't tell you how many we ate by the end of the night...

Parker gets a little shy when there are people around.

A quick snapshot of a few of us Leiran's exchanging presents.

4 Generation of Norwegian Men

By the end of the night, we lost a few articles of clothing, and got super cuddly with Mommy and Emery.

It was a very crazy day, but we certainly didn't forget to put out our reindeer food for Santa to come in the morning!

Dessert

We made it to Waterville and our cousins were waiting to play with us. After playing hard, we had some super yummy ice cream for dessert!

After dessert, we showed Lowell how to play Angry Birds!

Christmas at our house

Well, Santa came last night because we are leaving for Waterville this morning, but...

we may have forgotten. Until....

Mommy and Daddy escorted us downstairs!

Bandit was a little jealous that the milk was practically gone!

We loved a lot of things, but


the super hero capes were the biggest hit.


We finished off the morning with our new tradition of Lucky Charms before hitting the road for Papa and GG's house!

Rolling

Okay, so I'm not rolling over yet, but I can certainly roll enough if there is something worth looking at....

Cookies for Santa

Allison came over and helped us decorate cookies for Santa.


We are hoping he has a VERY sweet tooth with all the different frostings, sugar, and sprinkles we used!

First ER Visit

Well, we had an unfortunate first in our family. Aiden was trying to read to Emery, who was strapped into his rocker on the dining room table, and somehow managed to knock him off the table and half way out of the rocker. Here's a picture in the ER while waiting to get the CT scans back.

CT Scan results - 2 skull fractures and most likely no bleeding.

Here we are after being admitted to the hospital. Luckily, Emery had a smile on his face nearly the entire time. Mom did not as she was having to deal with several hospital works who thought that she caused this accident. Still waiting on the CPS report, but was sent home after 1 day of observation with the doctors confirming that they believe this was just a REALY bad accident.


At home, and ready to play football, well...perhaps not tackle football. No more CT scans needed, we just need to monitor his head circumference at our normal Well Child Exams. We are VERY lucky, that nothing too bad happened. This was our first trip to the ER, but certainly not the last with 3 little boys. Hopefully, this will be the worst visit we will have to endure!

Vacation - Day 3

Today, we explored the Children's Museum in St. Paul with Big Joe and Kate. There were so many things for us to do and touch! We stayed plenty warm while putting together these snowman!


This machine was awesome. You never knew which path the balls would take to get to the bottom, so it was fun to watch and try to figure out where it was going next!


Look at me, I am going to be a very hard worker someday!


Any water we could play in was fun and messy! It even took some adult thinking to figure out how to get the ping pong balls through these hydraulic mazes.


Of course, we both had to check out the microscope.


They even had a playground area for kids our age. Obviously, I loved the slide and being able to go down head first!


This area talked about where different animals live. Kate was super nice and lifted me up so I could see the turtle. And, once again, Aiden found some water to put his hands in!


Turtle Aiden!


Some might ask, "What about Emery?" Don't worry, he had a great time as well!


Aiden had a great time rolling around and falling out of this air cylinder!

After the lunch, we headed back to Rochester to our hotel for some swim time.


Well, and some jump time!


We were all tuckered out after dinner, so we played with this playdough from the Hersey's What a great trip; we don't want to go home tomorrow!