Hans scares everyone with his dance moves..

As you know we have dance parties at the Gustaf house.. if you want to see bad dancing watch this video: Hans' scares Nolan with his dancing.

Finger painting!

I made finger paint for Nolan last week (consisting of flour, water, food coloring, and sugar).  In the pictures below it will look like Nolan loved to finger paint.  And I thought about lying for the blog and saying he did.. but the truth was he hated every minute of it..UNTIL he realized he could eat it. 

In the pictures where he is smiling it's because I was tickling him under his highchair.

Doesn't he look like he is having fun?

But he was really saying: "Gross what's this crap on my fingers?!"

"Get this junk away from me mom!"

"If you don't take it I will just throw this crud on the floor " (That was fun to clean up).

"EWWW GET IT OFF MY HANDS NOW!!!"

The picture "he" painted that I'm saving in his scrapbook? Actually painted by Yours Truly.

"At least it tastes good."

"Failure idea mom..have fun cleaning this up."

I'm in a box.

All the things Nolan can get done without leaving his box...

housework..

dishes..

upside down reading...

more dishes..

telling jokes..

laughing at his own jokes..

and some more upside down reading..

More importantly all the things I got done while Nolan was sitting in the box!

Nolan's 1st haircut!

I finally caved and let Nolan get his haircut last week.  He got to pick out a movie (Thomas the Train) to watch during his haircut and he got to pick out a car to sit in.

He would have preferred the car to be a little closer to the ground...

 In the beginning everything was going well.

And then haircut lady got on his nerves big time.  She almost cut me with the scissors as well when I was running around taking pictures.  So for Nolan (and my sake) she put the scissors away and electric razored the rest of his hair.

Thankgoodness for bribery and suckers which made everything better.

Side view

The haircut lady was also nice enough to save us a ziplock of ALL OF THE HAIR she cut off. I gagged as I was only hoping for one little curl.  I was sad to see him look like such a big boy..but then he pooped his pants and I realized he was still my little baby!

Baby Road Rage!

As many of you know Nolan basically lives in his car these days.  And he has turned into quite the sedentary driver!

"GEEEEZ WATCH OUT LADY!!!"

 HONK HONK! "USE YOUR BLINKER OLD MAN!!!"

" DANG..HIT A CURB..Definitely got some whiplash." (Inherited this driving skill from his mother)

"That's it I'm taking things into my own hands..."

"Hey Lady! Learn how to drive or I'll come over there and teach you!"

"Oh no my foot is caught! Well this is embarrassing..."

 "I better get back in the car.. I can't help but to laugh at myself."

"Hey lady I will get you next time!"

" Oh my gosh how fast am I going?!"

"Let's see...what's my speed?" (Yes he just happens to travel with a magnifying glass)

"That CAN'T be right...I wasn't traveling THAT fast!"

"This magnifying glass must be broken!"

"Hey pretty ladies in the car behind me..."

 "I could chat with you invisible girls ALLLL day!"

Aren't you excited for me to turn 16 and get my license???

NYE

We brought in the New Year with some great friends who came all the way from MN to visit us!!  Nolan got some real bonding time with his second cousin!!

"What THE! There's a baby on my roof!"

 "This isn't something I see on the road everyday.."

"Baby feet! Honk honk!"

"Hang on baby!"

"WOW that is one GIANT baby on my roof!"

Sharing nicely!

Sharing a little rougher..but still with good intentions.

We had quite the scare on NYE when Airykah lost her phone in the couch. Our couch  has eaten many things in it's past.  I once lost a camera  in it for 3 months.

She was sure it would never be found but our guys stepped up and found the phone..after 5 terrifying minutes for all of us...

"Terrifying" because we were subjected to sooo much butt-crack while they looked.

Kirsten had never seen plumber's crack before.. Reese was used to it though.

Airykah happy again!

Before they left we went to "Burnt Toast" to eat..Below are Airykah's chocolate chip ghirardelli pancakes. A-mazing.

Nolan stuck with the plain pancakes..

Future besties for sure!!! Love these two!

Happy 2013!