A week of Surprises

Lars can crawl!!! Not only that, he can walk, too!

On Friday night, he stood alone for a moment, freaked out and ran towards daddy’s open arms. We all watched in amazement as he took those first steps, as if it was a miracle. In some ways, I guess it’s a miracle how every part of the body works in its own time, but I won’t get all biblical at the moment. It was so fun to see first hand, as I suppose every mother thinks their child is the greatest at that very moment.

I was worried because Lars never crawled. He’s get up on his knees occasionally, but never crawled. He would scoot to get wherever he wanted to go. Well, worry no more. Two minutes after he walked to his daddy, he got up on his knees and crawled all over the living room, chasing Al, who was also crawling all over. Eden joined in shortly thereafter, and everybody was laughing and crawling on the floor in circles. It wore him out and he laid in the crib and went right to sleep an hour later.

Earlier this week, I had a surprise phone call from and old camp buddy of mine who is in the states from England visiting her boyfriend in Colorado. Turns out, we’re only a few hours apart and she is driving up on Sunday afternoon to visit Western Nebraska for a few days. I’m looking forward to digging out some old photos and having a few good laughs during some serious story telling adventures.

Got the tree decorated this week, as well as the rest of the decorations put up around the house. Eden was so fun to watch as she found new things every day. She loves my small nativity, and will sit on the stool next to the table and move them around for hours. She grabbed my cell phone earlier today and told me that Baby Jesus was on the phone and wanted to talk to me.

Lars is enthralled with the lights on the tree. He has reached up and tried to touch them, but changes his mind at the last moment.

I was in a cooking frenzy for two days, making several batches of mom’s peanut brittle. What a sticky mess, but boy does it taste good. Hoping to get grandma great’s star cookies done this week and cut out cookies after that. So much for those 30 pounds I lost this year…

Al spent his morning off recording Christmas themed lessons for the radio station, and his afternoon off cleaning the garage, coming in to warm up part way through the day.

The weather has turned and winter is here to stay. It was 5 degrees last night and then 40 today. Such a vast difference, really.

Sunset this week was 4:25 in the afternoon and that makes for such long evenings with the kids. I miss the Central Time Zone. Going to have to get creative as the winter gets longer… Thank goodness for NHL Center Ice, Go Wings!