Friday, February 24, 2012

Video of Carsten trying to say a rhyme

Here is a video of Carsten trying to say a rhyme that Rylan learned in preschool. Carsten has never been taught the rhyme, he just hears Rylan saying it. The actual rhyme is (according to Rylan):

1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Once I caught a fish alive
6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Then I let him go again
Why did you let him go?
Because he bite my finger so
Which finger did he bite?
This little finger on my right



By the way, links that show up after you view this video are not from us. YouTube automatically puts videos there, but they are not our videos! Just wanted to be clear on that!

Video of boys circling table


The boys love to run around our table. Here you can see that Carsten still has a bit of a limp, but it is getting much better. Sorry for his attire (or lack there of), it was almost bedtime!

Monday, February 20, 2012

Last few weeks

These past few weeks seem to have flown by. We have not really done anything extra, but we seem to have been busy. We have been spending some good time together as a couple, as a family and with many of our Canadian friends. We have gotten together with several different couples for game nights, meals and lots of good conversation. It has been neat for us to see the relationships we have developed in our community finally getting to a deeper level. It just shows us that no matter where we live someday we will have to put in a lot of time and energy to really get to know people. What a fun process to go through, although it does make saying goodbye that much harder!

The kids are all doing well. Carsten is still walking with a slight limp, but is doing much better. We have had an interesting winter this year with not all that much snow. As you will see in the following pictures the first few have little to no snow and the next few have a lot. They were all taken this week!

So happy to be able to ride a bike again!

Always happy to be outside riding his bike!
Racing down the hill
Showing off his jumping skills!
And climbing skills!
First time riding a snowmobile!
Waiting his turn to ride the snowmobile

Monday, February 6, 2012

Happy feet

Thank you for thinking of Carsten! Today his cast was removed. He was so excited to get it off. Jeff is the one who took him and he said Carsten just kept rubbing his leg and looking at it. Now he wants to walk everywhere he can! It is fun to see him up and about again.

Two happy little feet!
The other day Logan was playing with a toy and he got it stuck on his face. Here are a few photos that show what happened. It was pretty funny to see!

Not sure what to do...
Trying hard to get the toy off...
Happy that the toy is gone!

Video of Carsten walking again