So here are a few more pictures to catch everyone up to date on what our family has been doing.
This is Spencer's three floor elevator that he made and wrote the code for. So it doesn't quite look like and elevator but it is the simple model that he made for the students to see if their codes worked or not. Elise loves visiting daddy in the lab so she can make the elevator work. She told Spencer that he needs to build her a big elevator that she can ride in. Now Spencer is concocting ideas of how to build an elevator in a kids playhouse. Not that it will happen anytime soon but I am sure someday when we have our own place it will probably become a reality.
Elise stole the laptop and put it on her lap telling us that she had to do her work. She thinks she is so big!
She was very adamant that we could not have the laptop until she was "done" working.
Spencer was working on a voice recognition program and Elise recorded some things with him and then the next morning apparently her and her dog needed to help record more.
Elise so wants to learn everything about anything and everything. She wants to know and do everything. It is so cute to watch her figure different things out or just play. I got my alphabet rainbow out to see what she would do with it and she loved matching the letters to the letters on the paper.
This was our sorry attempt at a second snowman. We actually got another pretty good snow storm and Elise begged to go make a snowman. Unfortunately the snow was not very good snowman snow. She kept telling us she wanted it big like her other snowman but as you can see it did not work at all.
Although she did love throwing snow at daddy.
Our "snowman" or as good as it was going to get this time.
So Elise needed a new coat and she was so excited about her pink and orange coat that she didn't want to take it off and we barely got it off of her to sleep.
We were tending Aliza's boys and Spencer was playing with them. He started acting like an elephant and all of the kids took advantage of that. I think two 5 year olds and 2 almost 3 year olds is probably quite the load but Spencer humored them for a few minutes before the elephant bucked them off.
Here I thought David had two little boys but this picture says otherwise :). Elise wanted a princess dress while we were watching the boys and Carter wanted to put one on Stetson. Stetson didn't want anything to do with it and I found out that Carter was the one that really wanted to try a dress on. Luckily Elise had one dress that would fit him. After Carter and Elise had a dress on then Stetson wanted to try one too. I think they played in dresses for at least an hour. What can I say, my daughter has to have some girly influence on all her boy cousins.
Our little horse. Elise decided that she was going to be a horse and so she needed shoes on all of her feet. Then she walked around the house making horse noises.
Aliza and her boys decided to have a Fasching Party. This is a German celebration. First the kids made animal masks to wear. Then they made snake pizzas out of roll dough and put cheese, strips of pepperoni and olives on them. Then we played some games that involved winning candy, which they all loved.
Elise the donkey and Troy the butterfly.
Lasse the bird and his friend was a dog.
Grams and Grandpa sent Elise a Valentine's present. Books which she always loves and a big rice crispie heart which she loved just as much.
Aliza and I decided to make Liebeskuchen (love cookies) for Valentines Day for our husbands and then we made some little ones for our kids. It took us some extra time because we had never made Royal Icing before. When we do it again there are a few things we learned and would do different but I think they turned out pretty good.
The kids, extra and trial cookies.
Spencer's Liebekuchen.
Tobi's LiebeKuchen.
We also gave Spencer a book called Kisses for Daddy which Elise loves to read with him. Everything is more fun with Elise. She gets so excited about everything and loves to help you enjoy every little or big thing. She is cute!
Our valentines present from Spencer. He bought Elise and I flowers to share. Elise always wants to put flowers in her room so we divided the flowers into two vases. Elise had to smell them a lot and make sure everyone else had smelled them. She wanted to carry them all over but I didn't really want a flower mess so I told her to find a place to put them. She originally put hem in her bedroom but then decided that she wanted to put them by my flowers in the front room. She is so cute with her flowers.
No comments:
Post a Comment