Dear Mathisen...

Dear Mathisen,

Today is your first full day of being 2. What a scary and exciting thing for your Mommy! For your birthday, you got to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa Kotschevar all day! You ate at Culvers for lunch, and then IHOP for supper with Auntie Candi and Kristy and your Mommy.  I promised to not get upset with you all day since it was your birthday, you quickly learned how un-exciting things were once your realized I wasnt getting mad... :) Smart boy. You are beautiful. You are the most amazing baby...wait...you are no longer a baby.  You are perfect in every way. I miss those day when we would cuddle on the couch and nap. You depended on me for everything. Not anymore. You are growing up, little by little. I cried a little bit yesterday, just knowing that you are growing up and that I am so lucky to be able to watch. I love you. Everyday of every second of my life. I hope you had a wonderful birthday. You are 2!!!

I love you,
Mommy

Flippity Floppity

It's circus season around these parts. (These parts = Fargo/Moorhead) After a long day of sandbagging on Wednesday, saving the city with my pathetic-once upon a time-muscles, and going to sleep before 9pm each night, it was circus day. $22 dollars later, and 2 tickets were purchased, we were on our way! Unfortunately, only a nap of 45min was taken by Prince Butter. We met our friend Dan and his 5 year old son Dominic at the Fargo Dome (also known as Sandbag Central 2009). We found some seats only 10 rows up from the ring...awesome, because who doesnt want to be THAT close to a smelly elephant and loud noises?! One dollar purchased a program that was really just a coloring book with no "program" parts to tell parents what was next.  2$ cotton candy, 5$ water, and an 8$ toy gun, it's time for the show.

This is Mathisen being completely enthralled

We saw people gliding on a wire, circus acts of playing drums, juggling, elephants, tigers, and no bears...oh my.

Dominic, Dan's son, was pretty happy to be there also. He did not have a nap prior to the circus which means he got very tired, very quick.

Over all, it was pretty fun. Mathisen sat through most of it (3 freakin' hours), with out so much as fidgiting.  He is a big boy now.  I know that because the circus was longer than the movie Titanic. Even I cant sit through that.

Circus!

Ha, was pretty into it :)

This is what he was starring at!

Cotton Candy bigger than his head!

Hard to see, but he has a cotton candy goatee

Please tell me again why I spent 8$ on the most ANNOYING toy...

Did I mention the 9yr old girl that was on the high wire??? Cough child endagerment cough...

And the elephant...on a little ball...that's just unnatural. But now I want an elephant for a pet...

*Yay for a new memory card...more blog posts to come :)

Forgive me.

Forgive me...for it's been almost a month since my last post.

And although this will be short and sweet since I am running low on time, motivation and pictures, I believe an update is necessary.

February flew by! I studied away for school. I have a Buddhist philosophy class that is online, and it is really hard. I also just got done and officially failed my computer programming class. I made myself feel better by buying a new pair of jeans and new shoes. And continually telling myself that those programs will be worked by a person I hire when I'M the boss. :o)  I have 2 new classes started, OSHA and Project Management. Both of which should interest me somewhat...but again, we shall see.

Mathisen and I flew down to AZ on 2/10 to spend time with family and get some warm air in our hearts and heads. Ryan followed on 2/12 for a short weekend trip. What a mistake that trip was. Now we feel as though (even more so than ever...) that Fargo is not the right place. Thanks AZ for really rubbing it in!!! But we had a blast and hope to do it more often than...well...once.

Ryan is doing well. Selling the heck out of cars, swooning potential buyers by his sweet talking, smooth ways. Go him :) He got a new coat. Go me :) Overall, he is doing well. Really enjoying what he is doing for the most part, but still wishing it were in a different town/city/state.

Mathisen... Oh Mathisen....whom I lovingly call Butter. I accidently started calling him this when I tried to say, "Hey Buddy!" but said "Butter" instead...and he quickly smiled and gave me hug, so it stuck.  Well, this little Butter ball will be two soon. March 29...mark the calendar!  We dont plan on doing much for his actual birthday, both his parents are working hard to buy him a new Trike for his birthday! However, Grandma and Grandpa Kotschevar will be coming up to spend they day with him! How exciting!!!  We have planned a birthday party for him down in St. Cloud for the weekend of April 17th at the pool, and there will be an Elmo cake. Yes, Elmo cake. Made of real Elmo's...er...wait...no. Just a crap ton of red frosting. Creepy little puppet.  Butter is growing by leaps and bounds. Not sure how tall he is, but tall enough to grab non-two-year-old-things down from the counter, so I say tall enough. He is trying to speak a little bit more, still on the slower side with that though. He enjoys playing Wii, as does the rest of the family.

And so it goes (love you dad)...

That is the update...tune in sometime soon for updated pictures of Butter, Tito, and the rest of the beautiful family!