ole schnikees: 2018

Tova: she says momma, dada, and I swear she says trevor now and she'll sometimes do it when I ask her to, she's pulling up to standing on everything now and has mostly figured out how to get back down onto the ground, she'll "walk" now if you hold her hands, she still follows her brother everywhere which he doesn't really care for and is always looking for him, she loves to bite toes,

Trevor had school Monday-Thursday this week and Al worked wed & thurs. Tuesday night we went to Irvine park to walk through the Christmas lights with matt, Jodi, cam, chloe and Carsyn. it was so much fun! we went to dinner first (Mexican) then headed there then drove by one of the set-to-music Christmas light houses. the kids got to bed late but it wasn't too cold and it was a good time!

Wednesday we woke up to some snow so during tova's nap, trevor and I went out and shoveled. once we came in, he had hot chocolate with marshmallows.

Thursday morning my dad came down to play for a bit, I beat him in 2 games of cribbage (that never happens), he watched trevor get on the bus, then headed out.

Friday once Al was awake, we all headed up to the cities. once there and unpacked, mom, tyler, trevor and I ran to ikea to shop for a bit while tova and Al napped. after supper, mom left for cards and us 4 plus tyler went over to visit my papa in his new assisted living place. he was so happy to see us! his eyes have gotten pretty bad but i'm thankful he can hear us with his hearing aids in! then it was back to mom's house and in to bed!

Saturday morning us 4 and mom went to our annual winter wonderland in oakdale with my softball friends: manda, johnny, eva, Elouise, meg, summer, skye, ty, Kunde, matt, gwen and Jordy! it was pretty nice out and a great time as usual! the kids did great sitting on santa's lap again (tova cried after looking at him), we loved the horse drawn hay ride, bonfire, s'mores, candy cane hunt, petting zoo, dogs, and the obstacle course. once back at mom's tova took a nap and we had unc-o's birthday lunch and he opened his presents and we had cake. then about 3 pm the 4 of us went over to matt & Kunde's house for the somewhat annual ugly sweater party this time including kids. it was SO much FUN!! the big kids played downstairs (Trevor did great!) and tova was downstairs with summer some of the time, then she napped, then she ate out in the garage where the adults were playing games, then mom came to get her for bed time. we mostly played catch phrase after dark and laughed tons! we were home to mom's by 945p.

sunday morning we drove home, got a bunch of stuff done, watched some of the football games and then once tova was awake, T, T and I walked down to the park for a bit since it was so nice out! once back home we went in back and played with sleds and Al joined us!

Monday morning we got our stuff done and played, trevor got on the bus, I ran a bunch of errands while tova slept, then as Al got ready for work tova and I went for a walk since it was almost 40 degrees again, before I went to get trevor and then Al went to work. Trevor had a runny/stuffy nose that started sunday morning. Monday night I gave trevor a haircut because the hat hair was just too much :)