Friday, December 13, 2013

Dec 13th Santa Lucia Day

Our little Swedish girl served guests homemade cookies and made a perfect Santa Lucia. Our neighbors came over for Swedish Limpa bread; Cardamon coffee cake; Swedish Lentzer cookies with Lingonberry jam; sugar cookies; and fruit plate of kiwi, persimmons, tangerines, & pears.
Video of Josie serving treats


Last weekend we went to a Lucia breakfast with cousin Janet and her mom Virginia.
 We ate some Swedish fruit soup; Potatis Korv; Limpa bread; coffee cake; Swedish cookies. There was a performance by little kids on stage and the procession of Lucia girls through the crowd up to the stage. They sang the Santa Lucia song and then served cookies. We sang a few Christmas carols. It was a fun morning.
 Cousin Kirsten and Aunt Jody were there too. Josie lounging with the Shepard's.

Monday, December 2, 2013

3 yrs 10 months

Highlights from the past month.
Josie was in our bed one morning and she said "Mom, can I read my dream to you? You can tell people your dream or read it. You can even have an orchestra with it." That's cool, like an opera. Her reply, "It would have to be a short opera." Telling the dream: "We were at the table, mom. There were 3 pups in a cage. One pup got out. We took him in some water. So then he wanted to go back to the cage. Mom, you said, 'why don't we take him back?' I said, 'ok'. When we took him back he heard a creek sound. It was really me. No it wasn't. The mat went splat when he went on the mat. Then you hanged on to the mat. Actually my dream had a little mud in it. You took him in the mud. Wasn't that a scary dream?" She has quite the imagination.

Adrianna from across the street came over to play.
 Wearing our Gahuas aprons to cook together.
 Checking out the nativity scene at church.
 Picked out her outfit. She likes to wear a solid color even though the color might clash together.
 At the library.
 Daddy on hair duty.
A night on the town of San Carlos.
 Kaira came home with Josie after choir practice and they got ready for bed together.
 Josie loves persimmons
 We don't need to help with puzzles anymore. She does them all on her own. She likes the 100 piece ones. She doesn't do them by finishing the ends first but instead works in sections.
A gift arrived in the mail and it was for Josie from Uncle Mel. It was for last year's birthday. She immediately loved the sled dog. Josie named her Snowshoe after daddy's old dog.
 Before our Thanksgiving dinner we walked to the Park from Jody's.
 We tried to get a soccer game going 3 on 3 but Josie lost interest after she scored a few goals. Kids vs the adults

Saturday after Thanksgiving Eric and Josie went to visit Papa Andy & Grandma Kay and ride on the tractor. Thanks Aunt Gaylynne for the pretty pink overalls.