Sweet Bercan....

Bercan is getting so big so quick it's just so sad...a bittersweet I guess. It's so fun to see him grow but sad to think that the newborn phase has just slipped away. He is now sleeping pretty good at night only getting up once. He is talking a ton obviously just cooing but he's so cute when he does it. Bath time is when he gets a little crazy kicking his legs. He can actually splash water out of his baby tub onto the floor. I'll have to get prepared for when this kid is sitting up in a regular tub. Here are a couple of recent pictures of the little bubba!!! He is getting really good at keeping his chubby little face up for tummy time and is attempting to roll but his big belly gets in the way :)

A brother conversation...

Tonight we were coming home from my brother's house when I heard the following conversation:

Torin can you fly?

No Vaughn I cannot fly.

Torin, can God fly?

Yes Vaughn God and angels can fly. God can do anything he wants.

Yep, He can only make miracles. You can't make miracles Torin.

That's right Vaughn.

Thanks Torin!

I mean just so silly...

Helping a friend out...

One of the student's in Torin's classroom house had a fire. Thankfully, the bedroom door was shut so the only thing that burned was his bedroom. He lives in a townhouse so it really could've been ugly. The teacher told the students about this and Torin raised his hand and said "I have a gold coin that the tooth fairy left me. I could give it to Patrick as it is a whole dollar." Bjorn, I mean the tooth fairy, had put a gold dollar coin under the pillow for Torin's lost tooth. His teacher said that she was so taken back by Torin's response that she had to tell me. He's not always the best kid in her class so I was happy that she could see that he does have a big heart. The next morning I went into Torin's room and gave him the 5 minute rule when I saw that he had some clothes and a stuffed animal that he was trying to put into his book bag. I asked him what those were for and he said that he wanted to bring them for Patrick because all of his clothes were burned in the fire. He melted my heart in wanting to share what he has with others that I let him take them. I hope that this part of Torin only continues to grow as he gets older :)

Marrying boys and girls

Vaughn asked Bjorn the other night "Daddy since me boy do me marry boy?" Bjorn explained that since he's a boy he will marry a girl and girl's marry boys. He did not like this response at all in which he replied "Ahh, me not get married then. Me not ike girls, xcept Mama." I told him that he could just marry me :) And his response was "YEAH, den you be my princess." These are conversations that I never want to forget...

Miracles

At our wonderful church in the kid's ministry they have been teaching the kido's about Jesus and the story of Christmas. After church today Vaughn told me, "Mama, ony God can ake mircles. Not people, just God." It was so sweet. So on our way home from shopping tonight he asked me "Mama, is Jesus boy or girl?" He's very much into asking what gender people are. I asked him what he thought and he said boy. I told him that he was right. He then says "Mama, you and Jesus are beautiful." What a way to end the night....

Christmas Tree

The annual trip to the Christmas tree lot. We tried cutting ours one year and lets just say with Bercan being 2 months old we weren't crazy enough to try and attempt it again. So off to the lot we went. It usually takes us, okay me, about 30 or more minutes to find the "perfect" tree and I always say that I don't want to spend a lot on a tree and we typically spend double of what we want to spend. Well I broke all of those traditions this year. I spotted the tree literally in 5 minutes and it was under the amount that we wanted to spend. Good job Mom!!! :) I will say it's much smaller than we typically get but it's a great little tree. We got a few quick pictures but it was way too cold for Bercan to be outside...he toughed it out for a few pics with Dad and the boys. It was when we were leaving the lot that I realized I had not taken one with the boys but I wasn't about to make them all go out in the cold again. Torin helped Dad put the star on top of the tree as the rest of the boys couldn't make it that long at night and were in bed.

My handsome boys

the star

Dad in the festive mood with his hat

our perfect little tree

The first lost tooth

FINALLY....Torin lost his first tooth. He had been waiting and waiting and waiting. Everyone had been loosing their teeth...except Torin. We were at church on Saturday night and he showed us that it was loose with his tongue and he was so excited. It wasn't until we got home that we saw a different side of it. He got really quiet and then said "I've been wanting to loose a tooth for so long and now that it's here I don't know if I want to." I really have never seen him so nervous, afraid and just not sure of himself. He seriously had tears in his eyes. He didn't want to eat pizza for dinner because he thought it would hurt...so Mom made him soup. That night while we were drinking hot chocolate in front of the Christmas tree all of a sudden said "AHHH...it fell out". His excitement returned when he realized that it didn't hurt for it to fall out. He took Bjorn and I put his arms around us and said that he was sorry for not trusting us that it wouldn't hurt. He's really too sweet sometimes :)

Too nervous to eat pizza

You can see how much the tooth is pushing up

RELIEF...it's out and it wasn't painful :)

Hockey 2009 - 2010

Well hockey season has definitely kicked off and I will say that the number of practices that they have for 6 year olds is a little ridiculous in my book. Fortunately, Bjorn agrees with me so we are not making all of the practices but Torin is still doing a great job. He really is skating well this year and it's fun to see him improving. I don't know what a cross over is but Bjorn is happy that he is doing it. I'm trying to be a hockey mom but I still have a lot to learn. Here are the team pictures and few of just Torin. He's having fun on the ice as he has one of his good friends from his class and our small group from church, Jacob H. and our next door neighbor Collin with his dad Matt managing has made it a great experience for Torin thus far....

Torin on the move

The typical hockey pose in front of the net

Waiting in line

Mom having some creative fun...

The team

Take a picture of me and Bercan Mom!!!

Torin couldn't love his little brother any more...he's always holding him, talking to him, wanting to cuddle with him and of course wanting me to take a picture of him and Bercan. Here are a couple that I think are pretty precious..

Dollar Head

Torin got a dollar and decided out of the blue that he should give it to Bercan. He folder it up and put it on Bercan's head. Because the kid has such a big head and is bald it actually stayed up there for awhile. The picture was pretty priceless...then of course Vaughn had to join the picture :)

What the season is really about?

Torin came home with the following school work and it melted my heart. I have been talking to the boys about what the season is really about. That the presents are nice but it is really about the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. When I saw this work that Torin brought home I finally felt that it was sinking in with him.

My favorite season is Winter because it is Gods drthday

Which girl to marry?

Torin came with me to pick Vaughn up from daycare. A little girl there Maddy really likes Torin. When we were leaving I made a comment how much Maddy likes Torin and Vaughn told me that Maddy says that she is going to marry Torin. Torin response was "I'm not letting a crazy lady like that marry me." When I asked him who he was going to marry he told me that he was going to marry Bella. Bella is our babysitter's sister who is quite the pistol. I said that Bella seemed to be a little sassy. Torin informed me that girls are supposed to be sassy when they are little. I asked him if he could handle a sassy girl like that and he told me "I'll marry a lady who yells at me all the time. I could handle it." I then reminded him that he couldn't date until he was 30 he then told me about his favorites. " My two favorites are Victoria and Bella. I'm still with Victoria but when I dump her I'm going to date Bella." I said again no dating until you are 30 he then educated me that it isn't THAT kind of dating MOM!!! I mean for 6 I just can't believe we are having these kind of conversations :)

God mailing children

The other day I was driving Vaughn to daycare and told him how much I love him and how happy I was that God gave him to me. He looked at me and said "Yeah, mommy God make me and mailed me." I didn't know that God had different shipping options :)

Birth Eating

The other morning while we were making breakfast. We were saying how we like hot cereal (oatmeal). I said that I love hot cereal really hot with cold milk over it with brown sugar and raisins. Torin looked at me and said "Mom, are you birth eating again?" Bjorn and I cracked up as when I was pregnant we would make comments that my eating was being affecting by the baby. I guess Torin made up his own way of saying it.