An Update

Hi everyone! Well, today is Oscar's birthday. The Swedish tradition is that you sing Happy Birthday and have the cake in the morning. Needless to say, Oscar was thrilled. Nothing like a sugar high to get the day started. I start every day that way with my coffee. He has not opened his gifts but I did set up his train table last night. It is so cool. He was so excited when he saw it this morning. It just made my day to see the joy on his face. I called from work a couple of hours later to hear that he had systematically destroyed the whole track layout I had done for him. He is not much of a builder. More of a destroyer at this point in time. He has a set of blocks and I will sit him down to build a house or something and no sooner than I have two blocks assembled he is smashing it to pieces. The onset of the terrible twos I guess. Tonight we are going to have Costco lasagna. Oscar's favorite. He can eat half of one of those things. That is if I have eaten more than half myself. If you haven't tried one. Go pick one up. They are awesome. No other plans for his bday. His big day will be the party on Sunday. There are 25 people coming and it should be really fun.

I leave on Friday for the Notre Dame vs Army game with Dad and his crew. It should be fun. Dad is staying til Sunday but I have to come back after the game so as to be home for O's bday party on Sunday.

Next week we leave for Boyne. The weather has been awful which means of course that they should be open for skiing early this year. I guess that is the upside. We really like it there and are looking forward to it. We might try to get O on skis but it is probably still a little early. If he were born in summer, he would be good to go but the extra six months is probably key at this age. Still, I might let him try.

Lucas is doing great and is so adorable. It is strange to say but he has a great sense of humor. Lena and I discussed more kids recently but are going to hold off a bit. Obviously we don't have too much time to spare but Lena just had a check up where the doctor said she should not worry about any difficulties and that she was very healthy.

We have been looking at houses in Wilmette most weekends. Saw another one I liked this weekend but am not prepared to bid on it if our current place is not on the market.

Not much else going on. We have found out that we will be on our own here for XMAS. We might make plans but right now the plan is to have our own XMAS. We'll see. Daddy is not feeling to rich right now knowing what the holidays always cost.

Much love to you all and Happy Holidays a little early.