Lars and Odin are absolute treasures to be with. Language is exploding and all we seem to hear these days is "wha dat?" from Lars and "ahs tha" from Odin, both of them are trying to soak up vocabulary as quickly as we can give it to them. They then turn around and have long conversations with us with all of those words they've been soaking up...too bad we don't really understand. Yet.
They love running, climbing, digging in the dirt, playing at the playground, trips to the aquarium and zoo and in general being outside and getting out of the house. I've been spending a lot of time and effort reclaiming my vegetable garden and berry patch from 2 years (gee, how come?) of complete neglect and as part of that we made sure to dig a dirt pile for the boys to play in. They LOVE digging in the dirt, filling trucks, buckets, play wheel barrows with dirt and "weeding." The weather has recently been very nice, so we've taken full advantage of it.
A recent outing to the Locks
Running at the Locks!
Looking at the touch tank at the aquarium
More splashing than animal touching happens in the touch tanks!
Lars contemplating the moon jellies
Mama's garden helpers. Getting tomato starts to the car after a local plant sale.
Lars and a baby gorilla (bronze) at the zoo.
Hanging out at the zoo.
Odin insisted on carrying his sweatshirt, even when I offered to carry it for him...do you think this self sufficiency will last?
For their birthday celebrations, they lucked out with 3 different occasions to blow out candles on sweet treats. They had so much fun! On their actual birthday (Friday) we had a small dinner at home with mini ice cream sandwiches and birthday candles for dessert. On Saturday we invited lots of friends over for a birthday party in the dirt pile, what a blast to have 16 little ones, mostly around 2 years old running around digging in the dirt! Sunday we had a Mother's day/ birthday extravaganza brunch with family. It was a full weekend, but we did it right! We celebrated two amazing years with two amazing little boys. We are so lucky.
Lars contemplating his 2 candles
Odin ate 2 ice cream sandwiches, Lars didn't eat any.
Presents!
Bubble solution!
Presents!
Trying out their new birthday easel, cool!
Lars' birthday cake for the dirt pile party!
Odin's birthday cake for the dirt pile party!
Directions to the party
Dirt pile party, SO MUCH FUN!
Dirt Pile Party...we were SO lucky with the weather!
Mother's day/ birthday extravaganza
See a theme in the gifts from cousins Einar and Soren?
Happy Birthday Lars and Odin! The dirt pile looks like tons of fun and the dirt pile cakes look super tasty as well.
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