The Boys

I’ve had the blessing of being aunt to boys. Up until yesterday, of 3 boys: Jackson (my sister’s), Kaeden (Knut’s sister’s) and Isaac (also Knut’s sister’s). Yesterday, Knut’s brother his amazingly strong wife had identical twin boys:

Micaiah Jon
and
Gunnar James

They look so sweet on the mobile phone picture that we’ve seen, and our heart aches that it will be some time before we can hold them, as we don’t live very close to them. Fortunately, though, both boys are healthy, and doing awesome. I think about the overwhelming joy and responsibility that one feels when the first child is born. I can’t even imagine that times two.

I wonder if they will play games and jokes on people, and switch places. I wonder if one will be more dominate over the other. I wonder what their personalities will be like. I wonder how much sleep Jon and Kristin will get in the next few months. I can only imagine how competitive brothers that close could be.

Silje was quite excited to see the picture of them this morning. She just stared, and went on and on with how adorable they are. David looked at their picture and said “They’re not big enough to play with yet,” and went on with his morning. Elias has no idea.

To close this post, I’m going to post a few pictures of most of the boys (David, Kaeden, Isaac, and Elias) and of course with Silje too. They’re a bit old, as we don’t have this much snow anymore, but they’re cute nonetheless!

We all went sledding on Grandma and Grandpa’s little hill down to the lake. The snow was melting so fast right below us that it was nearly impossible to get up and down the hill. I think each of us got stuck at some point! Here’s David and Grandpa just before a small snowball fight.

Knut and Elias. Elias is all about the daddy lately.