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| Happy 40th Birthday to Jared! |
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| Our "New" Piano |
HappyBirthday to both Soren and Jared! Soren turned 3 on March 30th and Jared celebrated his 40th on April 12th. Lynn and Dennis came up to Bellingham on Jared's birthday for a yummy lamb dinner and then had an overnight so that they could walk Einar to school the next morning and see his kindergarten classroom. The following Saturday we went down to Seattle and celebrated with more of the family by serving 40 of each of the following: Ezell's
fried chicken, Larsen's pastries, baked humbow, steamed asparagus, vegetables on a platter, cups of coffee, and cans of sparkling water. All "Jared Foods."
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| Einar's first lost baby tooth. |
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| Soren's Blue Monorail Cake for his 3rd Birthday Party. |
Tonight, Einar lost his first baby tooth. Last Thursday night was the first time that we noticed that he had some loose teeth and it took just over the weekend for his tongue to push the first of them out. It happened about 9:45pm, just in time to put in place for the Tooth Fairy. Shortly after that he finally fell asleep for the night. He is still very much a nocturnal boy.
They are both very much enjoying their sleep these days in the morning. One Easter morning, one of those days when you'd expect an excited kid to pop out of bed at the crack of dawn, we had to rustle them both out of bed at 8 so that we wouldn't be late for church.
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| Celebrating being 3 with the cousins. |
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| We celebrated GUS' birthday too. GUS stands for Great Uncle Steve. |
For Soren's birthday bash he wanted to have a family party at Grandma and Grandpa's house so we combined one with GUS' since his is only 2 days after Soren's. He also wanted a blue monorail cake. I had been planning on getting away with cupcakes for the celebration, yet he kept saying that he wanted a blue monorail cake. It's hard to pass off cupcakes as a monorail. So I eventually came up with the idea of frosting twinkies and putting them on our existing toy monorail track and I think it
turned out really cool, if not so tasty for the over 6 crowd.
Here is Steve about to blow out the candles on his birthday pies. He always wants pie on his birthdays. Then it was Soren's turn at his three candles.
We also finally got the Bjorklund family piano moved up to Bellingham from Tacoma. This is the piano that my Grandpa Ed bought for his mom with his paper route money. My cousin Diana has given it a home for the past many years, but no longer had the space so had offered it to us. It took a year of pestering a local moving company that had given me a low-ball estimate, but they finally had space on a truck and delivered it on Jared's birthday. We are all pretty excited about giving it a home, just be advised to bring your earplugs with you if you come for a visit!
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| Blowing out Three Candles. |
