Christmas 2008

Here it comes, it is Christmas time again meaning that I haven’t blogged for 3 weeks now. Shame on me! I was planning to blog at least twice a day …. ;-)

Well, Christmas time is usually a very busy time, so I’ll pick this as my excuse this time. Now, the day after the big evening things have calmed down quite a bit and we have a few days to relax and enjoy ourselves. We have moved to Heidi’s parents for the Christmas holidays to spend some time together with them and the rest of Heidi’s family.

Not quite unexpected the first night was a bit rough. Nina didn’t sleep from around 11:30 pm to 04:00 am as she wasn’t used to the new surroundings. Needless to say, all three of us were quite shattered the next day. Luckily, the following night went without problems and we recovered from the first night relatively well.

Well, so far Nina is enjoying Christmas even though she is not getting the concept quite yet. I guess next year she’ll be ready...or maybe the year after. We’ll see... :-)

Nina and Heidi standing in front of the Christmas tree. I'm just about to unpack my first Christmas present. Yippiiiieee!! Look at my new doll!! Hmm...which present should I unpack next? Uh, opening all the presents is really tiring... Ulrik, Nina’s 6 weeks old cousin enjoying his first Christmas. Can someone explain to me how this microwave works? Nina and daddy posing for the camera … Heidi holding nephew UIrik with Nina's Santa hat on (notice the braids he's got, ha, ha).

You might have noticed that Nina eyes are quite red on some of the photos. Last week she caught an eye infection that bothers her sometimes. Hopefully it will be gone by next week as the doctors promised.

Here are a few movies from a few days back:

Thanks a lot to our australian friends for their comments! :-) It is great to see that someone is reading the blog also on the other side of the world. Yes, we can buy sushi in Norway ... we just need to drive to the closest shopping centre. The sushi is good there, but it cannot compete with the delicious sushi from THE SUSHI HEAVEN. That's for sure! Well, it's time to go to bed now! But before that I guess Heidi and I will have another piece of the tons of cake everybody made for Christmas! Merry Christmas to all our friends out there!

Nina, Heidi and OLI

Snow

Looks like the winter has arrived for good now. The last few days we had a bit of snow and contrary to last month, the snow stayed this time around. Nina was quite skeptical to this white strange stuff and started crying every time we would put her on the ground. But now after a few days she slowly got used to it and today she was crawling all over the place outside leaving traces in the snow. Here are some photos from around our house in Ås. Another thing with winter in Norway is that it gets dark quite early during the day. We pick up Nina from child care at around 4 pm and at this time of the day it is already completely dark these days. No surprise then that most of photos of Nina are indoor photos and movies. Here are a few from the last couple of weeks.

Nina giving her daddy a friendly warning not to film any more. And then going back to one of her most favoured activities .... EATING.

Nina explaining how to use the telephone:

Nina looking for her baby doll and enjoying the attention of being filmed:


Okidoki ... that's it for now. Cheers OLI

Oli's first post on blog

It’s about time that blogger nr. 2 (Nina’s daddy), does some blogging, too. Heidi is really becoming increasingly busy with her PhD work, which leaves very little time for her to continue blogging on a regular basis.

It is already one month ago since our last blog entry which makes us realise how quickly time is passing by. Heidi and I talked the other day about that it is unbelievable that 7 months have passed since we came back from Australia. That is almost as long as our total stay in Sydney. Just have a look at a photo from yesterday and the same date one year ago.

Nina one year ago: Nina yesterday:

Last year Nina could turn around from lying on her back to lying on her stomach. She could lift her head and upper body somewhat, but she still could not crawl. That happened a few weeks later on in January. :-)

And now Nina is more like a little girl almost constantly talking in a language neither Heidi nor I understand. But it's great fun to listen to her. ;-)

She can actually say a few words now, some in Norwegian, some in German. This depends mostly on which word is easier to say, the Norwegian or the German. Poor girl, handling two languages all the time is not easy.

Here you can see Nina doing some blogging of her own on daddy’s old handheld PC.

And here Nina blogging like a mad man: OK, I guess this is the end of Oli's first blog post. I promise I'll come back with some more soon. Cheers