Mark and Victoria

14 February 2012

Creativity

We had snow for 24 hours! Anja made her very own snowman. I almost kept Elina and Isak home so they would play in the snow, too. 50 percent had melted when they got home from school. The whole family played with clay that evening, as consolation and everyone was super focused.

Anjas snowman

The girl on the left later flattened the snowman with her feet... sigh.

Harmonious Home.

Elina made a clay donkey.

Isak made a two story building with pre-cut walls and a balcony.

11 February 2012

Daddy Daughter Dance 2012

In honor of Charles Dickens' recent 200th birthday, I shall refer to today as "the best of times" and "the worst of times." For Anja, it was the best of times, because she went to her much-anticipated first ever Daddy Daughter Dance. I ordered these ridiculous dresses online from China for very little money and Anja's ended up being way too big. I had to shorten it 8 inches (20 cm), but it was still too long in the torso and could have been taken in at the waist, but Anja would not even consider wearing a different dress! Elina's dress (same style, but dark red color) needed taking in at the wast, of course, (which we did to her dress) but sadly she never had the chance to wear it. At 5 am she woke up with stomach pains and has been vomiting all day. She has not been home from school a single day this school year and THIS is the day she gets sick. So unfair. She and Mark are planning a dinner-date at a nice restaurant instead, when she gets better.

Here are a few pictures of our healthy princess and her prince:

Daddy and Daughter.

At the dance.

"I throw my hands up in the air sometimes..."

When she came home she declared it the best day of her life.

Vanity

With three girls in the house, there is, at times, some interest in clothes and "smink" (make-up) - 2 year-old Julia included. I cannot count the number of times she has violated my make-up bag. But why limit one-self to actual make-up, when there were so many other ways to get the job done?

Saturday (last week).

Sunday (last week) after considerable scrubbing.

The trio of Fisher girls.

28 January 2012

Musik

Ljuva toner (eller i alla fall skalor) fyller huset. Efter att halvt dussin lektioner (för Isak och Elina) som övats på el-orgel har vi nu införskaffat ett riktigt salongs-instrument. :)

25 January 2012

Fåfänga Flickor

Efter Elina och Anja hade duschat i går gjorde vi tio flätor i deras hår. I morse tog vi ut flätorna med resultat: änglahår.

Före och efter bilder:

Ska snart gå och lägga sig.

Under frukosten.

Första flickan färdig!

Detta kortet togs ögonblicken efter Isak hade sagt att han tyckte Elinas hår var finare. Suck.

Funktionella Familjen.

En minuts föreläsning följde (efter att tjejerna gick och borstade tänderna) om varför sådana "ärliga" kommentarer är oacceptabla.
Efter skolan ska Isak läsa "Bockarna Bruse" för Anja, som plåster på ego-såret.

Redo.

18 January 2012

Elina badar Julia

Elina kommer att bli en fantastisk barnvakt om några år. Efter att haft med sin lilla syster på ett lerigt äventyr i diket/bäcken som skiljer skogen och parken, tvättade hon först sig själv och sedan badade hon Julia i tvättstugan.

De två senaste kvällarna har hon och Anja lekt "Tjorven och Stina" till Julia (som agerar "Skrållan") och bytt blöja, tagit på pyjamas, läst godnattsaga, lagt Julia i sängen och sjungit vaggvisa för henne. Fast Julia skriker inte så som Skrållan. Hon tycker det är jätteroligt att hennes storasystrar tar hand om henne och protesterar inte det allra minsta.

Stark är hon också.

17 January 2012

IKEA project

Isak has begged to put this piece together since we got it in December (with Christmas money from my mom and dad. <3 THANKS!!). He LOVES doing "man projects" with his dad! Mark - though filled with humor - did not wish to smile for the camera. "We would not want to give the impression that it is possible to smile while building something from IKEA," was his comment.

The finished product and the happy builders!

16 January 2012

Sadie turns 12!!

The Birthday girl got 1/4 of the carrot cake we made for her birthday. Did not even try to get her a table-seat since it would have been contrary to her upbringing.

The kids blew out her candles.

And then Elina and Sofia took their dogs (Sadie and Buddy) and walked them for over an hour,

and played with them at the park.

And then Sadie got to break in her birthday present: her new bed.

She LOVES it!

Julia wanted to wear some make-up for the party and applied lots of mascara...

30 December 2011

Jullovsväder

20-22 grader varmt och strålande solsken. Inga myggor, inget svett. Bara t-shirt och shorts väder. Till både Elina och Isaks STORA glädje använde mamma resten av Oldemors julklappspengar till en ny cykel till Isak idag. Detta medförde att Elina fick Isaks gamla. De har cyklat med glädjeyra i grannskapet idag.

Mindre roligt var att grandma Donna fick en stroke den 27 december. Men tack vare att hon ringde ambulans genast har effekterna av allt att döma blivit ganska lindriga. Vi besökte henne i går och barnen lämnade teckningar och pussar och kramar. Hon var vid gott humör, kunde använda båda sina armar och händer och hade varit uppe och gått lite på golvet i sitt rum, bland annat gått på toa. Hon ska bli flyttad till rehab idag eller i morgon. Hon har sannolikt lite effekter av stroken i ena benet som hon måste träna.

Donna på IVA

26 December 2011

Christmas Day

Christmas Day I started feeling sick. I think I started feeling sick late Christmas Eve, but thought it would go away. Well, I pushed through and cooked and set everything up. At 2 p.m. family arrived and we hustled in the kitchen for a while and then we ate. After we ate, we cleaned up a bit and then opened presents. It was like a bomb had gone off at times in the living room. By the time people began to leave I had to go and lie down.