Vonnahme family blog

Just overheard:

I hope you will marry the Christmas, Hallelujah, Christ is born!

Other recent snatches have included the favorite,

Up from the grave HE’S A ROSE!
With a mighty triumph o’er his FOES,
He arose a victor from the DARK DUMB CAVE,
He a rose! He A ROSE! Hallelujah, Christ the Rose.

and the blasphemous,

Silk* answers prayer,
Silk answers prayer,
Silk answers prayer, he’s so good to me.

* “silk” is more precious than rubies in Lily’s eyes. It’s also a verb, meaning to rub silky fabric between the fingers: “I want to silk this blanket. I want to silk this tag.”

My favorite repeated sibling argument recently*:

Lily, after a Time Out is concluded: “I’m sorry Bewwen… I forgive you.”

Beren: “No, I forgive you.”

Lily: “No, I forgive you!!”
Beren: “No, I forgive you!!!”

(usually ends with a parent forcibly separating them before they’ve hurt each other).

*OK so they’ve already mostly grown out of this one. I’m way behind in the blogging but am going to try to write things more often without trying to get them perfect

I uploaded a big batch of favorite photos from January to now. Enjoy!

Over the weekend Betsy, Cirdan, Heidi, Rick and I skied out to Lee’s cabin in the White Mountains. It was a lot of fun and three month old Cirdan was simply delightful. He didn’t even mind snowflakes falling on his little bottom when Betsy changed his diaper en route!

Here are a few pictures from the trip. We’re looking forward to going again in a couple weeks with a larger group and all three of our kids!