Wednesday, December 23, 2009

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEE

These 2 years have been so much fun. Lee brings so much laughter and joy into our home. We are so happy that Heavenly Father sent him to our family. He turned 2 years old this past Monday the 21st. Daddy of course made the Olsen family favorite icecream cake. It is always yummy and even better because I never have to make it. It was a fun birthday. I am surprised how much he actually understood being only 2 but he kept saying my birthday, my birthday.

He started out the evening as superman.....
and ended it naked.
What we love about Lee.

*He gives us a little reminder of his Grandpa Lee (Mark's dad) every day. I like to think that there is a little bit of his grandpa in his personality.
*He loves to hug and kiss me all the time.
*He growls at everyone and everything. Sometimes it is embarrassing but most of the time it is just so funny.
*He is always dancing and "shaking his booty".
*He loves to sing. Sometimes he makes up songs (mostly about Daddy) but he also sings songs from movies and commercials. He actually does pretty good and might even be able to carry a tune. Maybe he will inherit both of his Grandpa's love of music and talent for it. Mark says that it is ok if he is a choir boy as long as he wrestles too.
*He loves, loves, loves is big sister and follows her around everywhere.
*To him his Daddy is the most wonderful person in the whole world and I agree with him.
*He loves watching Daddy work with his tools. Anytime he sees a tool anywhere he says "Dadda's tools"
*I love that he is so sweet and loves to sing and dance but he is also definitely all boy. Everything in his hands becomes a sword or a gun and he always just assumes everyone wants to wrestle him.
*Most of all we just love him and his sweet little spirit and BIG personality.

Just a funny little story about lee I want to always remember.

He is always smacking my butt, probably because he watches daddy do it all the time. . A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to the grocery store. He is always such a handful at the store climbing in and out of the cart. On top and below it. It had been a while so my cart was full to the top so Lee had to walk instead of ride in the seat. As we passed one of the cashiers I saw Lee's hand go up but before I could stop him he whacked her right in the but. She jumped and turned around to look at him. I was so embarrassed I wanted to cry. She of course didn't get mad she just looked at him, laughed a little and said "you think that's funny don't you". To that he looked straight at her and said "ha ha". It's funny to me now because it is just so Lee.

Friday, December 4, 2009

I'm Thankful for....


Once again we spent Thanksgiving here in Ohio. We had such a great weekend. Thanks you so much to the Bertasso's for once again having us over and feeding us delicious turkey and all the sides of "cream" as Dave called it. We had so much fun with them and the Smith's. It is so great to have friends to step in and be your family. We debated between doing our own Thanksgiving and just going out to dinner. I've done the whole dinner thing myself before but being pregnant, it didn't sound as fun this time around and going out for Thanksgiving dinner is such a joy killer. Needless to say the Bertasso's invite was really appreciated.
The morning after Thanksgiving we woke to our first snow of the year. Molly was ecstatic. What a great treat for the day after Thanksgiving. I was actually thankful for snow watching the kids all bundled up so happy. Molly said that she had been checking out her window every morning and being so young it was all new to Lee. Molly taught her little brother how to make a snow angel and snow balls to hit Mommy with. I of course stayed warm inside and made breakfast for everyone. What a great beginning to the Christmas season. I am so thankful for my family!



Later that day the Smith's were kind enough to come with us to the Christmas story house. It must have been their busiest day of the year.


We made the kids sit and watch The Christmas Story with us that night before bed. They actually sat and watch the WHOLE movie. Lee downed almost a whole bag of twissler bites and especially liked the part where Ralphie beats up Scott Farcus. After it was over Molly turned to me and said "that was a funny movie". They even watched it again the next day.

7 YEARS

That Sunday was our 7th anniversary. Seven years and 2 and a half kids later all I wanted for our anniversary was to see Wicked. We went to the play on Saturday. That night after we put the kids to bed we ordered takeout at 9 PM. It was a great anniversary. Mark even surprised me with a bottle of Dr. Pepper. My favorite with this pregnancy. For some reason it is so much better in a bottle. I can't beleive it has been 7 years. Thank you Mark for suffering through 3 hours of singing and dancing and ACTUALLY pretending to like it. What a great husband.