Christmas Fun

Well, we made it through several gift openings, lots of travels in the car, and our house is a bit smaller with the addition of Elsie's HUGE new toys. It seems relatives love to buy toddlers big toys. This year's haul includes oversized stuffed animals, a Dora couch and an indoor/outdoor slide. I'm not complaining about the fact that Elsie is spoiled just making a new a new parent observation and wondering if our cute/cozy (MN nice word for small) house can keep up with Elsie! Of course her favorite thing to play with was dad's Gatorade mix stocking stuffer, see picture below.

In this next picture I like to think Elsie is looking excitedley at all her gifts waiting to be opened. In reality she is looking happliy at the fireplace saying "hot hot!"

We were lucky to get a visit from Santa, a.k.a Uncle Matt. As it turns out, all Santas are kind of scary, even those of the "uncle" variety.

Snow is fun, right?

Well, trying to be good Minnesota parents, we bundled Elsie up and went out to have some fun in the snow! Not sure if we got to the fun part, but we did get outside. We quickly learned that 5 minutes outside takes at least 20 minutes: at least 5 minutes getting all our gear on, 5 minutes picking Elsie up each time she fell down, 3 minutes trying to take a picture, and of course lots of time to bring in a crying baby who lost her gloves but does NOT want to come back inside. Oh, how I envy those moms in warm-weather states right now.

Father Daughter Bonding

Here's how Soren and Elsie spend some quality time on Sunday afternoons. Elsie in a basket and they are both looking very interested in something. I bet they are listening to their wondeful mom/wife...

Nope, it's the game.