Holy Infant So Tender

Sometimes I like to believe that Christmas is about celebrating not only the birth of Baby Jesus, but the birth of all babies, so holy and precious. Christmas is the celebration of life. Merry Christmas to all.

Hello Angel

And your name is? and you came from where? I am not sure I trust you yet

Momma on Holiday Eating

Merry Christmas from Momma the Nutrition Expert at (click the link here LUNA)

The rink

The gang finally made it over to Iceland. It has been at least two years since Momma has been one skates. Yes, those are the last pair of professional skates my mom ever bought me back in the day when her car would drive to the west side of town and go only one direction...the 4 Season Ice Rink.

For those of you how don't recall everything Momma needed to learn about life she learned at the "rink". I am not sure when I realized I wasn't going to make an Olympic figure skater but it must have been soon after this photo was taken: (stay tuned...will insert scary photo here)


Momma started skating at the age of 4 so seems fitting time to start Eric. My career started in basic classes after Grandma & Grandpa Bernell & Eric took  me to see my first ice show. I was hooked the minute I saw the costumes and the spot light on the ice. My (still friends - she as my made of honor) friend Heidi was a snowflake.  My Mom's financial sacrifices and my Grandpa's taxi surface to the rink has always been a gift I have been grateful for. Nothing feels as good as cruising around the rink, forwards, backwards, edge to ice, with wind breezing by you. It is the biggest aaaaah.

Eric did really well for it first time out with Momma and we even practiced falling so he wouldn't be afraid to hit the ground. Lord knows I have bruised my tail bone more than once. Aaron has taken Eric on one other occasion and found Eric was more interested in the video games that time around.

Aaron picked up skating recently too. Hockey that is. I will never understand why they don't want toe picks. He saw a beginners class and showed up as a beginner....hardly even knowing how to skate or owning any gear. He found out that apparently beginning hockey lessons includes mostly individuals who already know how to ice skate. This did not discourage his interest in the least. He picked up the skills fast, borrowed some gear, and now is as anxious I am to get our boys comfortable on the ice.

Noah watched us cruise and banged his hands up on the glass waving at us.

 

He is a natural!Winter sports watch out!

Rain day

Today we made the most of a rain day and duck taped the umbrella to the three -wheeler. It worked great. We road to the park where Eric wanted to see how wet the slide was but we never made it to the slide because We were distracted with pine cone soccer and pine cone basket ball. He said the baseball "court ", his word, was too wet.

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Wee play party

We had the pleasure of celebrating our good friend Roane's first birthday at Wee Play. Here is a quicky blog to share some recent fun.


Here is a pic of the big birthday boy looking completely aware that we are all there in his honor.



DJ Noah owned the learning tables at the party and kicked out some good beat box sounds.

He wore himself out and was ready to snuggle in.

Dadda trying to "heard cats" for a group shot of Noah and the birthday boy. Good luck with that!

Congrats to proud Mama  Jhana ( and Dada Christoper -not pictured here) for making it through the first full year as parents of two boys under the age of 4

Big brother Aemon (Eric's best buddy from Little Lion's) enjoy the homemade cup cakes.

Big brother Eric doing the same

Four years ago today

Our lives have just been getting sweeter and sweeter.......

http://ericthies.blogspot.com/2006/12/homecoming-pics-and-videos.html

Thanksgiving and stuff

Thanksgiving has come and now there is just 2 weekends before Christmas and we will be putting the tree up this week.  I am a bit behind on reporting action from November and now here it is December.

 Here is a run down of November events on Eric and Noah's calendars.
1) Visit from Uncle Sean & Aunt Courtney (actually end of October but who is keeping track?)
2) Visit from Papa Ralph and Nani Jeanne arriving on Mamma's birthday to celebrate

3) Two week trip to Boston. This was Noah's first time on an airplane and Eric's third trip to Boston to see the cousins, Great Auntie J, and Great Nana Mary.

This brings me to Thanksgiving, which is what I intended to write about when a started this.

We had a fantastic Wild Wood Thanksgiving complete with Noah's first visit to see Santa at Empire Mine State Park. Noah was intrigued with Santa's real (really!) beard. (You get a Santa with a real beard when you skip the Santa scene at the mall). Noah just kept diddling Santa's beard while Eric answered Santa's questions with eyes only for the bowl of candy canes in Mrs. Claus's bowl.

 
This is will also be the the first visit to Santa that Eric will likely recall. This is probably a good thing since the first visit to Santa  resulted in a  classic Santa scream which caused us to skip the whole thing last year.