Mellow Soren

Soren is such a mellow baby.  He sleeps most nights for at least 6 hours straight, wakes up happy and smiling and generally just goes with the flow.  He does like looking around (maybe to ensure nothing/no one is coming at him??) so he prefers to sit in his swing in the upright position.

 Judy and Steve sent Soren an adorable puzzle step stool.  Can you tell he loves it?

 Emily is breaking it in for him

 and when the puzzle is no longer fun, you can just throw the whole thing over...

 and all the pieces fall out...and the fun starts again

 Asher's eye is getting more colorful.  The pictures on the left are from day 1 and the pictures on the right are last night (day 3).  Luckily, it doesn't seem to hurt him much so he's a good sport about the whole thing.

Videos April 2014

First, Reese and Asher (mostly Reese) singing along to Frozen's Let It Go in the car.  This was before Reese had all the lyrics memorized:

Let It Go Reese and Asher.4.5.14 from CK LaFond on Vimeo.

Then, Reese doing a performance of the same song a capella (complete with costume):

Reese Let it Go.April 2014 from CK LaFond on Vimeo.

Finally, Emily playing the family pet (sorry it's so dark):

Retriever Emily.April.2014 from CK LaFond on Vimeo.

You should see the other guy...

Asher plays hard and goes full force all the time.  This weekend he was running into a fort the kids made by putting blankets over the couches.  Seems like nothing bad could happen with all that cushiony goodness around, right?  Well, our boy managed to run, trip and fly head (cheek) first into the back of one of our recliners.  This was taken the next morning (today) after a lot of ice application yesterday.  Poor kid.

Soren 2-3 months

Emily gets glasses

Emily's patching has gone well (although we may have to do it on and off for awhile) but she still needed glasses for farsightedness.  Once we got a neoprene band to go behind her head and help them stay on a bit better, she's been pretty good at keeping them on.

Welcome Elijah Phineus Lageman!

Jeff, Michelle and Grace welcomed our new nephew on April 2nd- Elijah Phineus Lageman- weighing 10 pounds! 

Congratulations to the whole family and especially Michelle for birthing such a big boy with no pain medicine!