Lexi and Lillian's World....

Saturday, January 29, 2011

What a wonderful week....

What a January! We enjoyed an awesome 8 days with Aunt Kristy and Cousin Mark visiting followed by a wonderful 9 days with Grammy and Grandpa. As you probably read from the below blog entry, Lexi also turned 4! Whew! January has flow by in a whirlwind of fun. We are sad to say goodbye to Grammy and Grandpa tomorrow morning, but feel like we have made the most of their time with us. Here are some of the precious moments that we captured with our cameras... (sorry, I just couldn't narrow them down any more...so, there are 20+ pics)

Lexi and Grammy headed out for a walk

Grandpa, Lexi and Tim on the walk around the neighborhood and into the forrest

Grandpa getting some Lillian cuddle time

More quality time with Grandpa

Lexi in one of her many wardrobe changes

Lillian getting a bath by Grammy

Walking around Mossvannet

A pretty day for a walk

A great picture or "Pops"

Lexi and a warm, cozy, barely visable Lillian in the stroller

Fun on the activity mat

Lexi in her dance leotard at dance class Tuesday night

Mom and Lillian at Ikea

Grams and Lillian at Ikea

A very happy Lillian at Ikea

Lillian all bundled up for another walk

Another walk around Mossvannet (we had several days of pretty sunshine)

Posing for a pic while on our walk

Lillian loves to snooze while in her stroller on our walks

Two moms

Mom and Lillian at McDonald's for lunch (healthy lunch after our walk???)

Gramps and Lillian out shopping

That star that blinks and plays music is very popular...

Today, we spent a few hours at Metro Lekeland - a huge playplace for kids - Grammy and Grandpa got into the spirit of things as well...

Sliding was super fun

Grandpa thought so too...

Lexi and Pops

Lexi turns 4!

Lexi Lynn turned 4 on Sunday January 23rd and celebrated it in grand fashion with two parties and two cakes. She even had Grammy and Grandpa visiting Norway to help her celebrate. She had an all-girls Hello Kitty party Sunday afternoon with 7 friends (3 and 4 year olds) and had a family pizza party Sunday night with the whole clan. Here are some pics of the BIG four year old's BIG day.

A Hello Kitty cupcake cake compliments of Grammy the Chef

Opening some "early" presents before the festivities began....

All ready for her party guests...

Grammy and Lexi

Grammy, Grandpa, Lillian and Lexi are ready for the first party....

Lillian was sneezing....

Pretty Lillian

The party guests have arrived and they are enjoying homemade pizza

Playing "Pass the Parcel"

A partial family pic

Lexi got a second birthday cake for the family party...it was chocolate.

Lexi's new dance shoes from "Mormor" (Lajla)

Poor quality pic, but Lexi with her new hat, ear muffs and dance shoes

It was a grand weekend (Lexi went to Grace's 4th birthday Princess party on Saturday) with loads of family and friends. Lexi thanks each of you for all of her lovely presents. What a special day!

Monday, January 17, 2011

Mark Thomas comes to Norway!

OK...despite the fact that Kris and Mark have only been here 3 days, Kris has received some comments that allude to the fact that we are delinquent in the "sharing pictures" department. This is to prove that Kristy and Mark Thomas did indeed arrive safely in Norway last Friday afternoon and are soldering-on despite the time change and jet lag.

Here is a pic of our ice skating trip on Saturday...

They were indeed smiling...

And yes, Lillian often takes second chair to the other noise makers, but she does get her fair shair of attention and cuddles.

Er, um.... Lexi is teaching Mark what he can do to help when Kate comes along???

The guitar is a toy that requires close monitoring so that each get their turn and sharing happens without tears :)

They wanted to take a pic with Lillian this morning

We went to a play place at the mall today - Mark loved the slide... so much so that "daredevil Mark" decided to take the motorcycle up and attempted to ride it down. (See pic below for the motorcycle). I think he got more of an adrenaline kick than he wanted... no injuries, but defo scared :)

Lexi was chasing Mark around on the motorcycle...on flat ground. She has my genes (aka - fear of injury to self) and would never even think of trying to ride the motorcycle down the slide :)

Monday, January 10, 2011

Lillian is 2 months old today!

Happy two month birthday to Lillian! So, I stole an idea that I have seen a few times and made her wear some hats this morning. She was semi-cooperative! :)

P.S. - for those of you that enlarge pics, you will see that Lillian clawed her nose yesterday. Perfect timing for 2mo pics, fingernails now clipped :)

A genuine Scandinavian...

Her beautiul red Christmas dress from Grammy and Grandpa...

This was taken yesterday after church. Big sister was all smiles...

On Saturday, we visited Stavanger's new ice skating arena. It is definitely top-notch and has a little practice area for kiddos. They get to push these penguins around for stability. They don't yet sell (or rent) skates in Lexi's shoe size... so, we rented these double blades that strap onto her ordinary boot. It is almost like the old 4 wheel roller skates...a more stable skate. Great for beginners. We couldn't erase the smile off of Lexi's face. She loved pushing the penguin, but also loved going solo with Tim out on the public skating area. She also loved falling down. (Very, very strange...she didn't get that genetic trait from me!)

Lillian decided to wake up and pose for a picture :)

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

A relaxing start to the new year

We spent the week between Christmas and New Year's relaxing at the boathouse in Feda. It was a nice week, but now we are back in Stavanger and back to the normal routines. Here are some random pics...