Greetings!
A quick update. Jonas and Elsa love to help around the house! How great is that! Enjoy the video of our nightly ritual of cleaning up after a dinner of Parmesan cheese!
God Bless,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
Monday, October 24, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Big hugs!
Greetings!
Elsa and Jonas had a great week! They created lots of amazing art work at school and have been excited to tell us what happened each day. It is a very exciting time as Jonas and Elsa have become really good reporters about what is happening and are able to use lots of words and sentences to describe things in their lives! They are increasingly becoming independent and both are very often heard saying, "I'll do it myself." It is very cool to see them grow and become independent--this also comes with a twinge of sadness as we realize that they are growing up and are no longer little babies that want to be held all the time.
Elsa and Jonas do love to give big hugs. They will squeeze extra hard and give a little, "Uff" while they hug. These big hugs make any day a little brighter.
Elsa and Jonas helped deliver dinner to the family of our friend, Ed, that passed away two weeks ago. They got home and kept talking about going to Bernie's house (Ed's Dad). It is hard for a two year old to conceptualize deep sadness but we did feel like they understood a little that everyone was really sad.
Mari and Dan attended Ed's funeral and saw so much love at the service for Ed, Laura, Jack, and Reece. We continue to pray for them in the days and months ahead.
God Bless and big hugs,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
Elsa and Jonas had a great week! They created lots of amazing art work at school and have been excited to tell us what happened each day. It is a very exciting time as Jonas and Elsa have become really good reporters about what is happening and are able to use lots of words and sentences to describe things in their lives! They are increasingly becoming independent and both are very often heard saying, "I'll do it myself." It is very cool to see them grow and become independent--this also comes with a twinge of sadness as we realize that they are growing up and are no longer little babies that want to be held all the time.
Elsa and Jonas do love to give big hugs. They will squeeze extra hard and give a little, "Uff" while they hug. These big hugs make any day a little brighter.
Elsa and Jonas helped deliver dinner to the family of our friend, Ed, that passed away two weeks ago. They got home and kept talking about going to Bernie's house (Ed's Dad). It is hard for a two year old to conceptualize deep sadness but we did feel like they understood a little that everyone was really sad.
Mari and Dan attended Ed's funeral and saw so much love at the service for Ed, Laura, Jack, and Reece. We continue to pray for them in the days and months ahead.
God Bless and big hugs,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Homecoming
Elsa and Jonas had a great time this weekend at the PLU Homecoming football game. We are always excited to go to PLU games and Homecoming is the best because so many people come from near and far to a part of the events. Elsa and Jonas were really interested in the humongous shortbread cookies in the shape of footballs, as well as, the actual game. (They ate a little bit of the cookies and then the rest of Team Lysne had to help finish them--tough work:).
Elsa and Jonas continue to amaze us with their language development. This week, we asked Jonas if he wanted to do one of two different activities. He looked at us, crinkled his nose, and said, "I have a different idea." Elsa picks up new songs so quickly! She sang Kumbaya and This little light of mine this week and sounded amazing!
We are still battling colds but otherwise it has been a wonderful week!
God Bless,
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Pumpkin Patch
Yesterday, Jonas and Elsa tried to recreate pumpkin pictures from 2010 at Spooner Farms. We carefully retraced our steps from the previous visit and tried to get the perfect set-up. This is where free will and lots of distractions interfered. Jonas and Elsa had a great time at the farm and loved every minute of sitting in the wheel-barrow, tipping over pumpkins, picking up mud, and the hundreds of other things that one can do, if so inclined, at the pumpkin farm. However, sitting still for a picture was not one of those things! We had a blast and created new pictures that we can try to recreate in 2012! Jonas and Elsa donned their Halloween costumes during the adventure to try them out. Elsa is a bumble bee and Jonas is a firefighter.
Friday was a day off for everyone at Team Lysne so we decided to make it a day on. We took our guitars and headed to the library reading time for kids. Our local children's librarian had invited us to play during her book reading group. We had a great time! Jonas and Elsa love to strum the guitar at home and had a great time during the library gig shaking the egg shakers that were passed out.
Yesterday a friend of our family passed away unexpectedly. Ed has two wonderful young children and wife that mourn his passing. If you could find a spare prayer or twenty, please keep Ed's family in your thoughts during this difficult, difficult time.
God Bless and make every day count,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Are you for flu?
Greetings!
Elsa and Jonas had a great week at school. This is becoming the norm and we are very proud of their hard work and determination. It is fun to see them smiling in the morning when we mention that it is time to go to school.
We have mentioned from time to time that Elsa and Jonas qualified for some extra support with language development. Both kids had yearly goals set for them last December for what they would be doing in a year's time in terms of communication. We are so proud to report that both kids have already exceeded their goals for the year with months to spare. They will be reevaluated in a couple of months but it doesn't seem likely that they will need additional help going forward. Way to go!
This weekend was great! We attended a PLU football game and watched them win in style against UPS. Jonas and Elsa really took in all the action at the game. There was an ambulance next to the field that they both were really interested in checking out. We always tell them that they rode in an ambulance the day they were born and they are just fascinated with all the lights!
Late Saturday, we noticed Elsa was a little congested. Saturday night and sunday morning there was lots of runny noses, coughing, and other cold symptoms. We have a couple of days ahead of us of the flu. It is good that they are so strong and able to fight flu off!
God Bless,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
Elsa and Jonas had a great week at school. This is becoming the norm and we are very proud of their hard work and determination. It is fun to see them smiling in the morning when we mention that it is time to go to school.
This weekend was great! We attended a PLU football game and watched them win in style against UPS. Jonas and Elsa really took in all the action at the game. There was an ambulance next to the field that they both were really interested in checking out. We always tell them that they rode in an ambulance the day they were born and they are just fascinated with all the lights!
Late Saturday, we noticed Elsa was a little congested. Saturday night and sunday morning there was lots of runny noses, coughing, and other cold symptoms. We have a couple of days ahead of us of the flu. It is good that they are so strong and able to fight flu off!
God Bless,
Mari & Dan & Elsa & Jonas
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