you know when you are married to a swede when......

you get up way early in the morning to make a pancake cake with fresh cream, strawberries, blueberries and pancakes!!!! next, you take it to them in bed and wake them up singing happy birthday! also when they get this excited about a candybar with biscuits in it!!! jonathan turns 27 today and we are celebrating most of the day without him! he will come home for lunch though!!

Our recent activity.....

Well the last couple of weeks have been filled with a whole lot of standing up and a WHOLE lot of falling down. How many times do we have to fall before we get this walking thing i wonder to myself often. Often times i can even see it coming, she will be standing there and i just think inside of my head "She is going to fall soon"..... but we all have to go through it to learn how to walk. Elly Märta has also gotten two more teeth and you would like to think that the two teeth that she would have now would be the middle two on the top, oh, no no no... She is getting those two pointy ones out to the side, i think that my mom calls them eye teeth. She is missing the 4 front ones on top right now. I am having a hard time getting pictures of those, but i will keep trying, she doesn't like to show them off.

I thought that my sister emily would be happy to see that her little niece doesn't have to wear matching socks just like her. I also think emily should know that jonathan's sister mickie never feels the need to wear a pair of socks either... so emily, you are not alone in the world. Your niece is just like you!!!! But at least they match her outfit.

Oh, so silly... so so silly!!!

Here is jonathan being jonathan again. He is quite the entertainer! so much fun though. Elly M. might have a future here. Doesn't she look good in anything, including her daddy's tie????

We are on our last month here, Jonathan's birthday is coming up in a week, he will be 27 on March 2nd and i get my ultrasound of the new baby on March 5th. We might actually have a kind of exciting week this coming week. We will post pictures of our exciting lives now that the computer works. Yeah!!!!!

Our Computer Works....YEAH!!!

With a lot of help from jonathan and my mom sending a super package full of goodies, including the cd that i left in iowa to reload programs onto the computer, we officially have it working. Here are a few of elly m. in her new hat. I think that every child should have pictures from childhood with many things on their head.

our amish baby

you are probably starting to think that we got our computer fixed, nope, not yet came to rocky's house to do all this. isn't our little amish baby so cute???

our makeshift horse and v-day card from great grandparents in iowa

Well when you don't have a horse, a blue giraffe will do. Giddy-up, ride'em giraffe girl. The other pictures are for great grandma and great grandpa curry with her only valentine's day card this year. what kind of parents are we not giving our kid valentines day presents????

sitting up a little bit

Here she is sitting up all by herself.... i mean most babies i guess sit up before they start crawling, but she does things the way she wants. she doesn't really enjoy sitting up all that much... she often throws up. precious little belly. speaking of bellies, mine is officially getting bigger, meaning my jeans will not fit anymore. this baby isn't craving cheeseburgers, this one wants potatoes... any kind of potatoes, morning, noon, or night. hmmm.. wonder what they are going to be like???

a few cuties!!!

here is little elly m. in a stained with strawberry t-shirt. i couldn't resist giving her strawberries since i was eating the entire carton by myself. She sure is a cutie.

a video of the pull up

i have tried to post this video like 5 times to no avail. but i hope this time it works. i am getting slightly frustrated with it. eek. anyways. i don't think that she is going to walk the day turns 7 months like elijah, i don't think she has the same guts as him. she doesn't like to fall. but she is getting closer and closer..... are lives are a changin'.

taking after cousin elijah!!!!

Well here is the little lady pulling herself up despite our efforts and threats to karate chop her legs... taking after cousin elijah... has to follow in somebody's footsteps!!