Ringing in the New Year

Happy New Year to all with a special "Hi" from Soren.

I Get By With a Little Help From My Friend

Sledding Adventures

Christmas Past and Present

Merry Christmas to YOU

Disco Baby

We danced, we laughed, and we shook our little booties (big and small) this past Saturday at the Minneapolis Baby Loves Disco event. The event itself is a great idea, offering a club like venue to dance and play in. It brought back memories of my former bar-hopping nightlife with the hip-hop music, bubbles and disco lighting. The funny thing is, now that I am older and a parent - once those nightclub lights come up full blast - those bars really are a nasty, dirty place. The dimmed, sexy mood lights mixed up with a couple of drinks makes everything look dreamy. Turn up the lights, add the clean parent syndrome, and those vodka stained love seats and gummed up floors turn rather dismal quickly. The last photo really is the image that speaks the most truth about the exhausted disco loving parent, just switch out the mixed drink for a juice box and you still get a passed out dude in the corner.

Shhhh - Did Someone say Ferber?

Attachment Parenting, Family Bed, The Baby Whisperer, Cry/No-Cry, Ferber - with so many parenting options popular these days, it can be overwhelming. Dr. Sears and the no-cry method seem to be the hot style these days. To say that you practice the Ferber Method makes one feel almost like a cruel, old-fashioned parent. Despite the look of shock on Soren's face when we decided to let him read up on the Ferber method (which is really only about creating positive sleep associations), he has adjusted very well to learning to self-sooth himself - cry or no cry.

Fridge Art

I have to admit that I have a love/hate relationship with our stainless fridge. I hate the fact that the front isn't magnetized - so everything has to be taped to it. It also shows dirty little baby handprints within a second of being touched. Therefore, the best solution to getting over my compulsive need to keep the front shiny clean is to open up the Murrill/Lewandowski Kitchen Gallery. The premiere show opened last week with Soren's first painting - a foot stamp. This started the beginning of the SOREN FRIDGE ART COLLECTION - on display for the next 18 years.

Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a momma's boy: with time to talk.

Red Nosed Reindeer

Soren in the season's first snow, checking out the reindeer (in the gate with it's nordic guard) during the Grand Avenue Meander.

Playing with The Boyz

Randy had his hands full the other night when Kai came over for a playdate with Soren. All 3 boys chased each other around the house and we laughed the entire night. After Kai's departure came a sigh of relief from Randy, counting his blessings that we did not have twins.

Thanksgiving

As grandchild #10 on the Lewandowski side, Soren was still a hit with all his cousins. Perhaps it was because he was the token male and a willing participant when it came to the extreme makeover segment of Thanksgiving dinner.

Visiting Friends

We have hit the road these last few weeks to visit connections from Savannah and Muncie.


Soren with 4 month old Lucienne, the delightful new daughter of grad school friends Danielle and Sebastian, now living in Madison, WI.


Hanging with the Lybeck Ladies, Nora and Klara in Mankato, MN.