Happy Birthday Mummi!

For Mummi's birthday, we met Mummi, Ukki, Libby, Chris and Taylor at the Embassy Suites in Minneapolis and had a great time hanging out, eating, and swimming!  We got to see our niece, Taylor, again who was 3.5 months old.  She is so cute and so happy, which made for lots of great pictures.  Avie, Archie and Taylor had a blast swimming at the pool!

It was Taylor's first time swimming and she was happy to be in the water with her Mom, Libby, and had fun watching the other kids!

Avie had a blast swimming with Mummi and Ukki!  And for the first time, she jumped into the water by herself with no one to catch her.  She went all the way under water before popping back up.  She loved it!  And went back to do it again and again.  Archer also had fun swimming!  He liked to be on the steps of the pool where he could stand all by himself.  And once he found the hot tub, he spent most of his time there with only short ventures back to the big cold pool.

Library songs

Ames has an amazing library especially for kids!  We go there once a week as they have lots of books, puzzles, and toys.  They also have Toddler Time twice a day where they sing songs and read a book.  Archer never makes it through the entire story time, but he loves the opening song that they sing every class.  He sings and does the actions.  It's really cute!  See for yourself.



In case you didn't catch the words:
Tony Chestnut knows I love you  (Toe knee chest nut(head) knows I love you)
Tony knows
Tony knows
Tony Chestnut knows I love you
That's what Tony knows

Avalon also likes story time and would probably stay the whole time if she could, but Archer always wants to leave.  Thanks to some of my good friends, they will watch her if she does want to stay.  Avie also likes the opening song. 

Archie counting

Archie has started counting. He loves counting and pretending to count things, but he didn't quite have all the numbers down right away. It's really cute! And it's no surprise since both his parents like numbers so much! :)

This is the first time I captured his counting on video taken on February 24th, which was probably within a week of when he started counting. At the beginning, he always skipped numbers 5, 7 and 9.


Then, for a while, he only counted to 6, still missing number 5. Taken March 2nd.


But now he can count all the way to ten without missing any numbers as shown here on March 31st.

Instant living room...

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