Little Builder

I tried to get Tor to stand by his tower but he kept sitting down.  While he was building I sat with him to reinforce something when needed and he kept building until all the blocks were gone.  It kept him busy for quite awhile and then he left it standing to show Daddy when he came.  As soon as Daddy saw it, Tor knocked the whole thing down.  Typical.

Jillian Basketball Game

Jillian had her first basketball game today, in fact they had two games back to back.  Thanks to her lessons from Brock and Ty, she knew what she was doing most of the time and scored several baskets.  She was aggressive on rebounds and free balls.  Knowing offense and defense was confusing as from this picture of the rest of her team playing defense when they were on offense-maybe waiting for a pass?  All in all, it was a great start to her basketball season.

Tor and Legos

 Tor has been having to watch the girls build with their little Lego Friends everyday and he wasn't ready to take that on yet, or even the next size up, until yesterday when he carried this next size Lego into the kitchen to proudly show me what he had done.  He was pretty proud

Bridget builds a house everyday for Dora from these bigger Legos.  She is very creative with her designs.

Little Animal

We had the radio on when we were taking Tor and Bridget home.  The song "Animals" came on where the animals howl in the song.  Tor immediately started howling with the song and then with his musical sense he would howl in the appropriate places in the song.  It cracked us up. I just wish I was fast enough to get a picture of an actual howl.

Daddy's Birthday

 First, I apologize for the pictures as my good camera is broken, and this one does not take good flash pictures.
After dinner the girls organized a parade in honor of Daddy's birthday.  Tor was blowing the harmonica, Bridget had a flashlight (they turned off the lights), and Jillian was the drum major with the drums beating in the background.  The parade didn't last long as Tor went off on his own parade somewhere else.

Here Tor is mesmerized by all the candles.  It was a fun party with all the Johnsons, plus Cale and girl friend Erika, Dan and Robin, Tierney, Lynne and Peter,

Belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Here's our official family holiday photo. We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We certainly did. It was non-stop fun and excitement.

Breakfast and Spaceships

 Tor is eating like crazy lately since he finally has a full mouthful of teeth.  He had just finished a big breakfast of sausage and waffles before Tierney came.  When he saw her eating, he promptly jumped on her lap to eat half of her breakfast too.

Earlier in the day the girls had been playing in the bin of Ty and Brock's old Lego sets.  When Daddy got here he jumped in and they were all making Star War space ships, getting ready for a big battle.  It was quite the wild scene.  Here is a picture of Bridget with her space ship on her head.  I guess she is flying with it.