All About Daudi

The heat is getting very intense here these days. This is 8:30 AM showing a temp. of 39 degrees. My car thermometer has been reading 51 degrees by noon this past week! Needless to say we are wishing for snow and winter as our tongues hang down to our knees and the a/c in the car can barely keep up.

Hence our pretend world of snowmen...in vegetable form,

And birthday cake form :0) Daudi's birthday isn't until next week but we had an early celebration after our mtg. on Friday because Carmen leaves for summer vacation this week.

Our soon-to-be 3 year old, being a very big helper and making salad for supper.

And trying the tomatoes to see if they're any good.

All About Adair

I finally caught an action shot of her walking. I have video but don't have the time to fiddle with it for posting right now. Anyway, she is pretty much fully walking now, she still falls lots but gets right back up and toddles off to wherever she wants to go. The only time she crawls is usually when I first put her down somewhere new. She will crawl a little ways and then stand up and walk, likes to feel how the floor is, I guess.

Oh yes, and she's climbing, the little monkey! Daudi likes to pull all the cushions off the couches so she climbs onto a cushion and then up from there. I have numerous shots of Daudi in this same pose, standing on the back of the loveseat looking out the window. Yes, Daddy is a Safety Manager :0)

And...we've been trying a few new hair-dos this week. My first attempt at braids, not very good, I admit I need much practice. Maybe Grandma Wimmer will give us a few tips since I she spent a good part of my childhood putting braids in my hair!

A pony tail right out the top

And this one, Daddy likes. She is learning all about tools from her big brother and LOVES to be in the garage, actually I think its really her favorite place. If she hears the door being opened its like a homing beacon, she gets there as fast as she can, and should she MISS IT being open will then proceed to try and pull it open from the bottom! If that doesn't work she gets upset and starts banging on it until someone opens it for her.

And now, back to the children...

Thank you all for your comments to the previous entry :0)

Here are a some shots of what the kids have been up to the last few weeks.

In an effort to eat MORE and a greater variety of vegetables we have started getting the Greenbox here in Doha. It is a weekly delivery service to your house, which is really very nice and so far I'm quite happy with it. So are the kids, as you can see. This was the first week...

Just couldn't wait to try some!

Now we are resorting to these kinds of tricks to keep the interest alive.

Kisses for Daddy

A hard day in the garage!

Daudi with his friend, Khalid, he is the neighbor boy. They are the same age and Khalid just got a new bike so they have fun racing each other up and down the compound.

Adair's Oreo face

And here is:

my life

my work

my frustration

my joy

my privelage :0)

Look at us...10 years together :0)

This is a bit late, since we celebrated our anniversary on the 19th, but better late than never. Especially when its our 10th, a whole decade! It doesn't seem so long, but it sounds long... I don't think there were blogs back then, not even sure if we had a digital camera. (Almost the olden days now :0)

May 19, 2000-Mr. & Mrs. Jarvis Olsen

2006

2009

2010 (this month) all together now, everybody say 'awww' :0)

Get Your Own Free Hypster.com Playlist.

Daudi, Daudi, Daudi...

So precious while sleeping....

I realize you may be wondering, 'is her cooking really THAT boring?' or perhaps 'maybe its so good that he wants to sleep there, so as not to miss the next meal?' At times, I'm sure its both :0) We were actually trying the 'sit there until you eat ALL your lunch' tactic and this is how it turned out. Not too successful, but it sure was quiet after he fell asleep :0)

Anyway, I was thinking maybe I should do a little update on Daudi since I mostly seem to post about Adair these days. With good reason of course, she's changing so much and is so sweet.

And Daudi can be VERY exasperating A LOT of the time. However, I see myself and Jarvis come out in him more and more, so maybe we just don't realize how exasperating WE are. But there are many sweet moments like when his little sister wakes up in the morning and the first thing he says to her is 'hi little munchkin', and 'hi, baby sweetheart, how was your sleep?'

Or this morning when he was playing with his toys and holds up a little ball in a bag and says to me 'mom, this is my privilage!' (I'm not sure where he got that word from but I liked it :0) And there are lots of funny times, like when he was giving thanks for supper the other night and asked God to 'help mommy and daddy to be precious'.

Anyway, that's our Daudi, its better in real life :0)

Look who's walking...well, stepping anyway :0)

Adair took her first steps unassisted on Thurs., just 3 but we celebrated anyway. She's been trying to beat that record ever since, so I think there is a very good possibility that she will be walking when we come home for the reunion in a couple months!

She's quite proud of here driving skills too, even if we aren't. At least she doesn't go very fast yet, it saves on the damage of high speed crashes!