Happy New year!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 

Wow, time flies and even when you are doing nothing  it seems to take up your whole time... Magnus finished his exams for this year, and wow has it ever been nice to have him around... The simple things like sitting together to watch T.V. in the evenings, or go and do things in the afternoons like a trip to Starbucks is such a treat.   I don't have to hear, "sorry but I should really study" I despise those words, and will not miss them.  The only down side is that his first day off he did everything that he has been meaning to do for the past four months all in one day. I told him to space it out, but he is too eager, so I think he is getting a little bored now. I only had to send him on a "man trip" to the junk yard once to get out of the house. A few of my friends have their husbands home doing "Paternity leave" for a couple months (in canada you get a year of paid maternity leave, so if you want to, you can split it between the mother and the father) I really do not think magnus could ever do that.  Anyways, it has been great! My family was suppose to come up for Christmas, but due to the awful snow storms here and there, they decided that didn't want to risk it and I totally agreed.  So that was a disappointment, but we had a great time with Mika and it was a nice family Christmas. We got Mika a couple cars, which he loved and was drooling over. He also got a big stuffed dog, which he loves! He got that one from the neighbor who had a huge light display and was handing them out to all the kids on Christmas Eve. It was really generous of him, and Mika has just loves that dog, which is twice his size. 

We have been snow shoeing a couple times and Magnus has been able to get out skiing a few times as well, so that has been really nice. Mika is saying more and more words, and is walking everywhere.  Someone told me that a baby's first word says a lot about what they are like personality wise. I am concerned about Mika because his first word was "cookie" and everything now is "cookie". 

Mika's list of words:

Cookie = cookie

Baba = ball

Bapa =  Pappa 

agua = outside

carca = car 

 animal sounds: dog, cow, monkey 

Anyways, there is a lot to talk about but I will not bore you with details, and I should get some breakfast for my boyz going...  by the way, we had a great new years with a little party at our house with some close friends, the only bad thing is that we stayed up to 2am and Mika woke us up at some time after 7am. We are not young with a hot childless marriage anymore.. and I think it is about time we realized that.