Chocolate Chips

We made chocolate chip cookies today in our new house! Exciting right? Yes. Yes it was.
Matthew was thrilled to be able to help me - and by help, I mean eat the cookie dough while my back was turned! Silly boy!
All is well with us, but as I haven't posted ANYTHING for a very long time, here is the scoop on the Mickelsen Family!
Brooklyn just turned 1 in November and is growing up so fast! She loves to follow her big brother everywhere he goes - and it drives him crazy! She hasn't started talking yet, but is very good at communicating her needs to us - she has quite the little red-head temper going for her!
Matthew is two and a half and is very much into Thomas the Tank Engine and any other boyish toy you could think of! Anything that has an engine and/or makes lots of noise - he is sure to love it!
He has recently shown an amazing understanding of language! Earlier this month he started telling Brooklyn, "Baby, take nap!" or "Baby, go car!" I am constantly amazed at everything he does - he just keeps surprising us with everything he knows and how much he understands! We have been working on alphabet letters, and as I am typing he is sitting next to me naming letters! Next step, learning that they go in order! Matthew is as curious about the world as any toddler should be and likes to examine EVERYTHING to see what it does or how it works and he loves to help any time a tool is involved!

Both kids love music! Brooklyn will bounce around and Matthew will start jumping any time music starts to play. Just the other day, we went to IKEA and we were walking to the store entrance and Brooklyn started bouncing around in my arms - moving to the music playing over the outside speakers! Silly girl!
Our little kidlins are so great - and we love them so much! They make life very interesting!

Charlie is still working for MBCI (a steel building manufacturing company) as their inventory controller/hr person.
I am working for ARUP, a company that processes blood samples - so when you get your blood drawn, the sample is sent to us (depending on where you live...)

We recently moved into our very own house!!! It needed lots of love to be livable, but Charlie worked very hard to fix it up and make it our own. Brooklyn is a little young to be effected too much by our moves (two within six months, ahhh!) but Matthew is adjusting well and they both love the space to play!
We have a brand new kitchen which I absolutely love! Lots of counter and cupboard space!

Well, as I've been writing, Matthew has been playing quietly in the living room, and his playing has just changed to a lit bit of a destructive behavior.

Hopefully I will write again soon. If not, well. You'll get another lengthy update :O)