desember

December is a big month for us: Lilly will turn half a year on Dec. 15; she'll celebrate her first Christmas; take her first trip to the Canary islands. -- On Monday, we re-introduced her to the BOB stroller; she'd almost outgrown her pram and was eager to get a better view of the world (a side note on strollers: here in Norway, everyone uses a pram for their newborns, babies even lie in them in cars, with a security net sort of attaching the top part of the pram--the basket--to the back car seat. In the US, we didn't even consider a pram but went with the car seat everyone seems to be using for their newborns there, either putting it on wheels to make it into a stroller as such, or using it as an adapter in a jogger for bigger children).

She still loves riding in the BabyBjørn, but that can get a little heavy. Plus it's not practical when it's raining or snowing, - which it started doing again this week. So now we're also getting good use of the BOB weather shield we finally got shipped over here (thanks, Blake and Rick!).

Here's Lilly, first day in her "new" stroller on Monday:


And here again, yesterday in the snow:


This week, we also introduced Lilly to a high chair. She was very happy finally joining us around the table! She'll be even happier when she can get her hands on some of the food we're always eating:


Leighton's finishing his first semester of grad school. On Tuesday we went out to celebrate the top grade he received (an A) on one of the three papers he has due this month.

Here's Leighton with Lilly at Mikrobryggeriet (the only place in town you can get a decent beer) celebrating with a stout.


I've been enjoying connecting more with a few of the women in my "barselgruppe" (mommy group, set up by the local health station). We meet every week now at somebody's house and share our thoughts and experiences while our babies play together/explore each other on the floor.

Lilly will be finishing up her intermediate baby swimming course this month, just in time to show off her moves in Gran Canaria. We'll be staying at a place called Cay Beach in Las Meloneras. We'll return to Oslo for "romjula" and new year's eve celebration here.

p.s. I've also added more pictures to our album Norway II.