Aschermanns

Monday, December 31, 2018

Really behind on blogging, but life happened

So as you can see I am a bit behind on the blog and the truth is that this won't be a great, well thought out blog. I do have a good excuse…life. Sometimes life gets in the way of us getting things done including documenting the memories. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hockey Games, Dance Practice, being sick, working, playing, sleeping, school performances, and much more have kept me from my upstairs office computer, my blogging place, but I am here know and am going to try and document the last two months. If nothing else there are some great photos. And do know that as good as the photos are, the memories are better!

This was the second year that Scott and I hosted Friendsgiving. Liesel helped me make a Thompson tradition, butter flowers.

My life would be a much sadder place without these girls

Liesel and Winston

Mommy and Maddox at Grammy and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. This kid gives the best hugs. One fun Maddox Tidbit. He has started to say, "I love you to Heaven and back". He has started speech therapy to work on his "t's", "d's", and "l's". I know it is time but I will miss his little Maddox language. He also started to mumble "I love you Santa" under his breath randomly so that Santa would still bring presents.

Milo playing Five Crowns with Grammy

Maddox playing pingpong with Grandpa

Hot tub time!

We had a wonderful visit with Grammy and Grandpa during Thanksgiving.

Going Christmas Tree Hunting.

Winston loves the snow

Family Photo

We got stuck on the passes so we took a detour to our friends' mountain home to play some monopoly, do some puzzles, and eat some spaghetti

Decorating the Tree

In all her glory

Maddox loves playdough

Milo's second grade music performance. He is in the third row on the left in red.

Maddox and Josie cooking with his easy bake oven

Dance class

a new hair do

tired boy

Christmas time and the Smiths

Papa and his girl

Santa brought Maddox a tractor

The Christmas aftermath

Santa brought Liesel animal friends

The boys

The girls

Sisters

Milo got to play at Pepsi Center.

Christmas number 2 at Grammy and Grandpas

That smile

After the first day of ski lessons

Grandpa and Milo. Milo did great his first day of skiing!

Playing cards with Grandpa

Snuggle time while watching a movie

Hitting the slopes

Maddox and Grammy made ginger snaps for everyone.

Liesel lost her second tooth

sledding

keeping up with these big kids is exhausting

Friday, November 16, 2018

Birthday Time

Maddox,You are four years old. You are a great friend to all your little buddies. You are the most empathetic 4-year-old I have ever met. You still have dimples up by your eyes, because ones in your checks wouldn’t be enough. You love tractors, your brother and sister, and legos. You like to play on your ipad, but are also equally content watching Milo or Liesel play a game. You call Liesel, "Siso" because you can't always say your "l"s. We are starting to work on your speech. And though I know it is time for developmental reasons, I have to admit I will be sad when you loose the great lispy nature of the way you talk. You often give random declarations of love; “Mom, I love you”, "Mom, I love you in my heart", "Mom, I love to the moon and back and the sun and back." Almost every day you ask how our days are. You love when we share our favorite parts of the day during dinner. Your answer is always, “seeing my whole family”. You love to help cook. You make weekend breakfasts with Dad and dinners with Mom.

Milo,I cannot believe that you are eight. You still really like school even though this year has been harder for you. You continue to be strong at math. You are working on becoming a better reader, but it isn’t coming as easily as you would like. You sometimes get frustrated, but when you sit down with a good attitude you do a great job. We found out this week that the last time you got new glasses they put the wrong prescription in. This might have something to do with the challenging school year. We will see as the year progresses. You have started to take a pretty serious interest in baseball. This might because one of your best buddies, Jacob, is really into baseball. You are still playing Hockey and you made the Mite Advanced Gold Team this year. You love a good card game. Your favorite game is "Chase the Ace". You always make our house guests play it with you. You are a great big brother. You still fight with Liesel and Maddox frequently, but I have started to see you playing more of a protector role lately, which warms my heart.

Liesel,You are in Kindergarten and are thriving. Last year during preschool you would often through a fit when you had to go. You are always excited to go to kindergarten. You have lots of friends in your class and you come home almost daily with a letter or a drawing from one of your friends. You are picking up sounds and letters so fast. You love to write notes. The hardest thing for you with writing is that you have sooooooo much to say. Instead You still love to pretend you are any kind of animal. As of late, your favorite has been a jaguar. You have lost one tooth and another one is days from coming out. These may have been loosened prematurely when you were playing with Papa. As I understand the story, you were pretending to be a dog and had a rope in your mouth. Papa was playing with you and pretended to pull on the rope which pulled your two front bottom teeth loose. I hope you remember this story so you can continue to give Papa a hard time 😉.

Scott,
I decided to do a letter for you this year. I am not going to describe to you what you are like at this age. You haven't changed that much. You continue to be strong-headed and never wrong. But mor importantly, you are also a great father and a wonderful husband. Thank you for being an unbelievable partner. Thank you for joining me in watching the lives of the three above. They are the wonderful beings that they are because of you. Well, mostly me, but a little bit of you too. Just kidding. I already see the confidence, courage, independence, and deep love of family in all three of our kids. And that is a contribution directly from you. Happy Birthday. We love you!