50 cents

Oliver has started to receive "weekly money / viikkoraha". 

Yes, I admit that he might be too young for it, just 3 years of age but on the other hand he was starting to be a bit upset as his bigsister gets "weekly money / viikkoraha" for reward of being helpful and well behaved. So why Oliver is not also being rewarded? After all he is the easiest and has 100 times less temper tantrums as his sister- good point Oliver, therefore this arrangement. 

So now on also Oliver receives a weekend money. The payday will be on Saturdays and it will be given only if he has been a good boy all week and has tidied his room up on Saturday. Then he receives one free choice of lolly (from our little lolly box) AND a 50 cent coin :)

WOW- he was SOOO proud of his very first earned coin. He was walking around the house with his 50 cent piece. He kept looking at the coin and asked "Mom, can I buy anything in the world with this coin?"  ( how cute! Mum's little darling!)

We made a little pouch for his weekend savings, little own wallet. Oliver said, that he maybe will go and buy some chocolates when it is "vaari"- day. That doesn't surprise me at all. Every coin he gets will probably be spend on chocolates :)

But now comes the best part! Oliver found from our hallway chest draw lots of coins and he asked:

"WOW mum, did Dad buy you all these coins?"   :D

Oliver- young photograpfer

Mom was working in the office. Oliver was at home, waiting for vaari to come as it was a "vaari- day"

It is quiet. Too quiet. I wondered what Oliver was doing. Hmmm, it must be something bad as I can't hear anything. 

"Oliver, what are you up to?"  

"Nothing..." 

"yeah right" and went to look what he was up to...

When I got to him he had a BIG smile on his face and our camera on his hand. He had taken over 20 pics of himself :)  Here's few. Our little cheeky monkey!

 :)  :)  :) 

Let's twist

Oliver kömpi taas äidin viereen tänä aamuna. Miten voi olla aina yhtä vaikeaa aamulla sängystä nousu?  Mä vaan inhoon sitä! Onneksi kuitenkin Oliver ilahduttaa äitiä joka aamu kömpimällä äitin kylkeen ja halimalla äitiä <3 

Oliver mietiskeli ja pohdiskeli selvästi jotakin ja sitten sanoi, että  

"Äiti, sun nimi on Sanna"  Niin on kultaseni- totesin.

"Ja isin nimi on Twistan"   :D   :D  :D

Tristan sai uuden lempinimen! Twistan, aivan mieletön. Jes!  

Let's twist again!  :)

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Oliver cuddled up again with me in the morning underneath the warm blankets as it takes faaaar too long time for mum to get up in the mornings. In fact, mom just HATES mornings :/  Well at least someone brightens up mom's morning as Oliver climes up to our bed for a morning cuddle <3  

Oliver was deeply thinking something and then he said: 

"Mom, your name is Sanna"  Yes, it is darling.  

"And Mom, Dad's name is "Twistan"  

Yep....we have a new nickname for Tristan!  Twistan! Love it! 

And hey, let's twist again :D

training our aupair

Here she is, our new family member, Oliver's "new biggest sister", our lovely Aupair Katja <3 

Oliver will now demonstrate how to train an aupair :)

 

So let's get started with the 

"How to get what you want from your aupair"- training school. 

This tip is definitely worth a try, especially if there are some signs of chocolates in the house.

 

The goal: to receive some chocolate from your aupair.

 

This is how it's done, just follow these 5 easy steps:

 

1-2-3-4-5

 

Step 1: Ask nicely first where she hides all of her chocolates and tell her that you like chocolate a lot..

 

Step 2: Look like you are a little bit worried if she wouldn't get the message that you really really would like some.

Step 3: Look at her with your sad puppy dog face and ask  if you could pleeeeeeease get some chocolate?

  Step 4. If she still didn't get your point, just say 

"Look, just give me the chocolate or I will start screaming until I get some justice. Don't believe me? I can show you how!"

Step 5. If you still can't see any chocolate in horizon just show your real colors. You are free to use any language or word you like. Remember, little children have rights too. Yep, we have freedom of speech so go for it!

"I tried to be nice but you just don't get it! Give me the goddamn chocolate here!"

 :)    :)   :)

Keksi-keksintö

Voi elämä taas näitä ihania pienen miehen mietiskelyjä. Tänään pitkän tuumimisen jälkeen Oliver kysäisi auton takapenkiltä, että:

 "Äiti, jos joku niinku keksii jotakin niin saako se syödä lopuksi sen keksin?"

 :D :D :D

*On tuo poikaa vaan semmoinen äitin pikku Cookiemonster ettei toista :) *

 

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 Oliver said today something funny in Finnish but the little man's thought is not funny or makes no sense in English at all, so sorry...

 

 

Vaakkaka

Oliver kömpi äidin viereen tänä aamuna. Siinä lämmittelimme peiton alla kun isi oli avannut ikkunan ja kylmä syksyinen ilma puhalsi sisään. Yhtäkkiä kuului kamala harakan rääkytys pihalta. Oliver siihen totesi, että

"Äiti, kuuntele, ulkona on vaakkaka - vaakkaka"  :)

 Naiset ja herrat, täten ilmoitan, että tässä perheessä käytetään tästä lähtien harakasta virallista nimeä vaakkaka.    :)

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 Oliver said today something very cute in Finnish but the saying makes no sense in English, sorry about that. And sorry that you are not part of that 5 million people who can understand this funny language. It is like secret language which only few can share...

Happy Birthday Katrin- ARTWORK!

Oliver misses Katrin alot. I said to him that Katrin has a Birthday soon. He git SOOO exited, started to jump and said, yes, yes, yes, there will be some cake and chocolate and and... 

Poor little thing really thought that we can celebrate Katrin's birthday together with her.  When I explained that this is not possible, was Oliver a bit sad but finally got smile to his face when I asked if he would like to make a gift for her!  YEAAAH -he yelled with BIG smile on his face. 

So, the kids ended up drawing in to pillow case and here's the final result.  

PIECE OR ART!!

THIS IS MADE IN OCTOBER 2012 WITH 100% LOVE and lots of thought has gone into it <3

Red is Sofia's drawings and blue is Oliver's.

The theme was "OUR FAMILY AND FINLAND"

Oliver:
1 -Our home. The front door and two storey house.
2- Oliver himself. "Mom, look, I'll draw a penis. There.  Well, I will hide it underneath my underwear, so here we go, now the underwear is there too and my penis inside it"
3- Spiderman!
4- Majava (beaver), Oliver's cuddle toy, the most loved one, definitely big part of our family.
5- Lila, our bunny
6- Our gold fish
7- Oliver's hand, October 2012
8- Katrin
9- the last one, but not the least, the Munamies ;)

Sofia:
1- Kangaroo with little joye who keeps poking his tongue to everyone.
2- Lopsy (running away as usual)
3- Lila  (streched on to the floor as usual)
4- Dad sleeping
5- Mom, ready to go to karate
6- Owl, big part of our family
7- Our big gold fish with big bubbles
8- Sofia
9- Oliver, when he is again trying and walking around the house with dad's big shoes on :)
10- Pipa, our hamster
11- Squirrel- as we have lots of them in our garden.
12- Kisu, Sofia's most loved cuddle toy ever, probably  the most loved soft toy in history :)
13- Sofia's hand, October 2012
14- Finland's giant- The Moose
15- Cheek,  part of this household for sure :)
16- Finnish flag

* Happy Birthday Katrin, we miss you *

LOL

"Äiti, mä rakastan sua.......yhtä paljon kuin.......(miettii)....yhtä paljon kun noita kiviä on meidän tiellä." 

Voiko ihanammin vielä sanoa? Äidin kullanmuru <3

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"Mom, I love you.........as much as .....(thinking).....as much as there are stones in our road" 

How cute is that. My little darling <3

Pappa- angel

Oltiin Oliverin kanssa ruokapöydässä, syötiin kahdestaan ja oli hiiren hiljaista.
Sitten Oliver tokaisi:

"Äiti. Pappa on kuollut"

"Niin on kultaseni" -totesin ja ihmettelin, että mistäs se tuon nyt vetäsi.

"Niin, mutta ei se ole niinku oikeesti kuollut. Tuossa se Pappa-enkeli seisoo sun vieressä"  totesi poika ja näytti katseellaan mun viereen ja sitten jatkoi syömistä. 

Minä en saanut sanaa suustani. En pitkään aikaan. Vieläkin ihmetyttää. Oliver ei ikinä kerinnyt tapaamaan Pappaa. Pappa kuoli juuri ennen Oliverin syntymää.

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I was having a dinner together with Oliver. We were enjoying the dinner and it was nice and quiet. Suddenly Oliver broke the silence by saying:

"Mom, Pappa is dead"

"Yes he is, my sweetie" -I answered and wondered a bit why he suddenly started with this topic.

"Yes, but he is not actually dead, there he is, Pappa-angel, standing beside you"  
and then Oliver looked at my left hand side and then he continued his dinner.

I couldn't say a word, for a long time. I just kept wondering his words. Oliver never met Pappa. Pappa died just before Oliver's birth.

Good God.

Ajoimme autolla kun korvaani kantautui takapenkiltä lasten keskustelua.

"Kato Sofia kuinka hienoja taloja Jumala on luonut" -Oliver sanoi.

"Ei-ei-ei se niin mee, annas kun sisko selittää tän sulle. Katsos kun Jumala on luonut ne ii-ii-iihmiset ja niille sen taaa-aa-aaaidon joilla ne osasi rakentaa ne talot." -Sofia oikaisi.

"aijaa" pieni mies ihmetteli.

Eihän siinä voinu muuta kuin hymyillä :) 
 
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We were driving in the car when I heard this conversation from the back seat.

"Look at those great big buildings which God had created" -Oliver said.

"Noo-noo-noo. Let big sister explain this to you. See, God has created humans and the skill to build things so that humans could build the buildings" -Sofia said proudly

"Ahaa."  and the little man kept wondering the big questions in his small head.

I just love to listen their serious conversations :)