Valentine overload

Happy Valentine's Day! I love holidays and we love celebrating. Therefore, a day when we can love all over our kiddos more than normal is right up our alley! We started the day with wheat pancakes with Valentine M&Ms dipped in homemade yogurt. I feel I sort of negated the candy, by making them whole wheat with Mommy made yogurt...possibly? Then the sharing on cards, candies, stickers,bubbles, bikes, etc began. The boys do not know what a present is, just what a "surprise" is. So we opened and shared many surprises today! As you can see friends and family from near and far spoiled the boys plum rotten! At this point they might not understand this was not Christmas all over again, because it started to seem that way. Then, as they typical Johnson gang must....we had speech and OT therapy..not really holiday fun, but necessary. Then off to a little get together with other Christian Mommas to have the kids decorate Valentine bags, exchange Valentine surprises and share lunch. A great day for the kiddos, followed by a fabulous snow storm. The boys and I played in snow and for the first time I heard them shout the word "snow". The day wrapped up with friends, gifts for Mommy, Skyping daddy, a great dinner, a bubble bath dyed pink and snuggling over several books. Now I can sit in peace and sip wine in our new wine glasses with our monogram etched into them, a love gift for Mommy and Daddy!I love my little Valentines! Super hard to spend yet another holiday with out a husband and Dady, but longing for his return more than ever.

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching

A bunch of our fellow church Mamas wanted to get our toddlers together for a Valentine making get together and lunch and I volunteeried to host. We ended up with many families and ht at a dozen toddlers at our home. So yhe craft part kind of becamse pure cahos but the play time and lunch went off with plenty of joy! I couldnt help but share video jumoing with his little Valente Eleanor,a nd of course sharing some Valentine hugs and love! However, since we didn't accomplish any cards of value at the party, we spent time together making some the following day. Of course they didnt want to use the heart style supplies I bought, so I compromised and they are now "trucks" valentines. We are participatig in another Valentine party with a different group of friends and are exchanging cards there. So the boys will have cute ones to trade with pride. Lastly, for now at least, the boys and I made Valentine cookies. Well I made the cookies and the boys were in charge of smearing the icing and putting on sprinkles. I would put a dab of ciicng in the center for them to smear around. Well, to no surprise that meant Taft licking the icing in order to smear it around. Zeke, on the other hand was devouring sprinkles left and right. So the cookies are not excatly hygenic, but they turned out preciuous and we had a blast makign them! I love seasonal fun with 2 adorable toddlers!

Letter recognition

I admit the videography is quite pathetic..I keep bumping the table and I can't the letters out of the box fast enough and then get all mixed up on which ones I have shown him and which ones I have not...BUT with that being said.....I present to you Zeke, master of all letters, both Upper and lowercase!!!!

Birthday Videos

We had so many family and friends who were not able to attend the boys birthday so I had to share a few videos so you can be part of the joy of their special time.

Birthday Party

Our precious little men celebrated 2 with a giant birthday party at the Children's museum. They enjoyed exploring and adventure with what many would consider way too many guests, but hey there is 2 of them, so they need twice the buddies, right? I have attached pictures that Francine/Jessica provided, because go figure..Mommy remembered everything except new batteries for the camera. Great food, great friends, great venue...nothing beats that when you are 2!

Part of their birthday weekend included our first ever slumber party. Our first ever Ethiopian adoptive family friends traveled to our town for the weekend to celebrate with us and stayed at our home for the weekend. The 4 toddlers loved playing together and we had a real blast all together. Between staying up chatting over several bottles of wine, potty training with 4 tots, many meals(oops I forgot Gabe was Gluten-free, so that was a challenge), Ethiopian restaurant and many good laughs, we really had an adventure!