Einar and Soren's Adventures in Bellingham: February 2011

Making breakfast form Mom.

Einar and Soren have become quite the team lately when they want to make breakfast. If they manage to both get out of bed before me (not an easy thing for a nocturnal boy like Einar) I can hear stools moving and cereal being poured. Perhaps I should be rethinking the gallon containers of milk that I purchase when I see Soren hefting out the milk from the refrigerator. On those mornings I must rush to the table to enjoy my special breakfast and my already milked cereal.

During Christmas break we also got the whole family to Mt. Baker for a day of skiing. It was the first time I'd been skiing since Einar was 2 and we went to Bend to celebrate with the Ogles. Soren and I were ski bunnies on the rope tow hill all day and Einar got a couple of runs with Jared on the big hills too. It was a gorgeous day and I got to enjoy the view even more after Soren finished his last run and said "Go home!" I convinced him that we had to wait for Jared and Einar and I held him outside on the patio. He promptly curled up on my lap and fell asleep! When it was time to go, we took off his rental boots and I carried him over my shoulder to the car. He slept all the way back to Bellingham.

Let's see, it's been awhile since I last posted. We have been keeping busy with school, work and general goofing off. Jared just got accepted into his elementary education program at Western and officially declared his major today as General Science Elementary Education! Einar is still enjoying kindergarten but has realized that it's not all play and recess and has said that it's a bit too much work at times. He just got his first report card and we are very proud of him. I'm back to working evenings again since school began again. At home we've been overrun by Legos and I even found a lego head in the dish drainer this morning. I've been impressed at the way that the boys have integrated all of the Legos with the train tracks and trains. Einar even made a train out of Legos that ran on the wooden tracks. I think if we were to find tons more Lego wheels, he would construct a huge Lego train.

Last Friday Einar turned 6 years old and we celebrated with his friends and four grandparents at our train birthday party here at the house. We ate a Daylight Steam engine cake (special request of the birthday boy) when everyone got here at 4 and then we played a memory game, a track building game, a mail sorting game, and pin the caboose/engineer/passenger on the train. I'm pretty sure that everyone had a good time and Einar came up to me 4x just to give me a hug during the party. He even said the cake was "AWESOME!" Awesome is getting lots of use in our house these days =).