Little man

He came early, 16 days to be exact! Benjamin William was born February 24 at 12:59 a.m.


Congratulations Nick and Abby, he is beautiful!

Snow! Shoes!

I sometimes will give Gretta change to put in her bank. Well one day she was playing with my purses (as usual) and lo and behold some change was in one of them, she goes running for her bank and starts filling it! She then started scrounging through the other purses in our closet hoping for more!


We went snowshoeing last weekend out at Baker Park with our friends Dave, Sarah and their dog, Lucy. It was a gorgeous day and Gretta LOVED hanging out in the pack enjoying the outdoors.

What else is new?

My friend Abby is due with her first baby in March, I did some "belly" pics a couple weekends ago and think they turned out pretty cute.


It's a boy!


Also had a baby shower for her at our house this past weekend.




Gretta LOVES her veggies. She also has really taken off in the talking department. Snow and ski (we have been watching some Olympics and also went to the Vasaloppet this past weekend) are some new words, along with many others! It has been fun trying to figure out what she is saying and just hearing her version of some things is quite hilarious!


We watched Joel finish the Mora Classic Series with the Vasaloppet Ski Race, he completed the half marathon, bike race and canoe race over the past year and this was his last race to complete.
Way to go Joel!!

Winter Doldrums

Beth and Laura are my cousins and they are sisters, they had their babies about 2 months apart! Lina and Levi


Sleepy Levi


Sweet little Lina


A couple of weeks ago we had a playdate with some of my cousins kids. Levi is the newest (December 29) and he broke the chain, it has always been that the first-born was a girl on the Paulson side! Left to right Levi, Gretta, Lina and Nora.






Gretta is 22 months old now and loves playing while looking at herself in the mirror.


Her froggy towel!




A little fun with hair binders......hence the title of the post tonight...Winter Doldrums! We're trying to beat them with creativeness.


She kept saying "More!" So, I went with it.




Blast from the past, to compare, here she is at about 1 month.


And now!

On the road again.....

We are pretty sure we will be heading to Australia in the near future, no date set, but we're excited to get another experience abroad, especially somewhere we've always wanted to go! About all we know right now is that it will be for 3 months to start and that we'll be in the city of Perth. So, we were watching a video on Australia the other day and let Gretta watch some of it, there was a man playing the didgeridoo,
which is a musical instrument native to Australia.

Click here to see a sample of someone playing

Well apparently she really absorbed that part of the video because here she is at supper that night. She improvised with her spoon and of course wanted us to join in.