Visit

It was great to see the grandparents again. They stopped by on their way back from Costa Rica and Atlanta. We had a good time with them even if it was just for a week.
Emma is helping me in the kitchen. She is such a girl. She loves to do girlie things like cooking and taking care of babies.
Emma warmed up to grandpa a lot this time. She had him wrapped around her little finger.
The kids love to go wake up grandma and grandpa. (Sometimes way to early.)


Emma inspecting grandpa.

Grandpa and grandma went for a little walk in our neighborhood. They rushed home quickly as a little snow storm went by. They sure looked funny when they got home.
Emma is just the perfect size to squeeze between the legs.

New Life Ministry

Every first Saturday of the months our church does outreach at New Life Ministry(http://www.newlifehome.org/.) a treatment center for women and their children here in Manchester. Miss Allie teaches a Kindermusic class with the little ones and their moms and Lenka teaches a craft class with the older kids. We love doing it every month especially since we can bring our own children and minister to others together. Here are some pictures from the music class. As you can see it is very busy and it can get very loud.
Miss Allie
Emma trying to figure out the drum.

And here is Fil with his girl.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Here is grandpa trying to teach Emma say shh. She got a big kick out of it and she looks so cute doing it.

Happy Birthday Fil

We have a big boy in the family. Fil turned ?? today. The boys were very exited (especially about the cake part). If you wandering about the four candles just multiply it by 10. The Steiger boys. Ready for some cake and ice cream.
Hmmmmmmm, good.
I guess Nate liked the cake.
And here is the big boy himself.

Aquarium II.

Well here we are in March and we already made a second trip to the aquarium in Boston. Fil's parents went on into Boston and since the kids do not care for much walking we headed to see the fish again. Emma on Fil's back. She is such a busy girl.
And did I mention how cute she is?


Sam ready for a ride on a turtle.
Emma ready for a ride.
And Nate ready as well.
Emma playing with a star fish.



The J.F. Kennedy aircraft carrier was in Boston for few day as a last stop before decommissioning. We did not go on since Nate and Emma are too small and the line was too long. We got to see it at least from the distance (It looked huge even from the distance).
It was a beautiful day and we got to walk around only in our sweaters.


Smile

Fun

And here are some pictures just for fun. The kids got this fish from grandma and grandpa. They (the grandparents) stopped on the way from Costa Rica in Atlanta for one day and visited Atlanta Aquarium. Nate is feeding this fish some OJ in the morning. (Maybe it was thirsty.)
Here is Emma in a Disney store. She loves any spinning toys. She got one for Christmas from uncle Vit but it is broken now. (maybe uncle will get another one next time?)
Nate and Sam on a bus ride in the mall. They love just playing around on the little rides. They do not care if I will turn it on (pay for it) for them or not.

And here is Nate on a train ride. The boys have such a great imagination.

Catching up

Well here I am catching up with my blog. There are as many winter picture I can take. And since the kids enjoy playing inside most of the time during winter months there is not much traveling. However they love playing outside as well. Especially when we get some fresh snow and we did not get that much this year. Sam is trying to get down the hill on his sled but standing up. He is doing great and maybe in two years he will take some snowboard lessons from uncle Vit.
Nate on the other hand enjoys playing with summer equipment even during cold weather. He likes to play on the swing set and with beach toys in our driveway as well riding the bike or scooter.
And Emma most of the time plays inside. Not that she would not like to go outside but I have to watch her all the time and there is so much that needs to be done inside that we (the girls) do the work inside the house. I am looking forward to the spring when there will be so much to do outside.