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Trying to reach daddys technical equipment....

Daniels blessing

Time passes by. The first Sunday of May, our little boy was blessed in church, and got his name - Daniel Emil Hylander. Actually he had a name before that... Since we were going to a wedding in England in the beginning of May, we had to give him a name and get a passport before that. We talked about the name Daniel before he was born, but we wanted to see him first. After he was born, we were thinking for a long time. We wanted the name Daniel, but we also wanted him to have two names, and it was hard to find a good name that could fit with the name Daniel. So finding him a name wasnt very easy..... But we finally made the decision, so we could order him a passport.

And then the first Sunday in May we had him blessed. My parents and a few of my brothers and sisters from Norway came to visit us that weekend. And my grandmother. It was good to have them here. Steen gave Daniel his blessing. Daniel was crying all the time, so it was hard to hear what was said. But he got his name, and he got his blessing. And we all had a nice day with family and good friends.

My cute sister Ida turned 9 the same day! She got a build a bear the day before.

My little brother Sondre ready for church.

Siri is a very good babysitter. She played a lot with Daniel, and he enjoyed it very much!

Helsesøster på besøk

I dag har helsesøster vært hos oss. Lillegutt er blitt veiet og målt. Han vokser og blir så stor! Han er nå 9 uker, og er 5600g/59cm. I Danmark kommer alltid helsesøster hjem til familiene, det finnes ikke noen helsestasjon. Jeg synes det ser litt gammeldags ut, når de veier barna i en tøybleie, men det fungerer da fint :-)

New Year !

Its already January. Christmas is over. We had a good christmas time. Steen had a week of work. We stayed home in our house, and Steens mum came over for christmas eve. I got a really great gift from my parents. It came by mail, and it was a printed album from 2010. That was a good suprise! I looked through it many times that night.

New Years eve was celebrated with friends. Steen made the best salamond ever!

Monday morning Steen was supposed to go back to work. But it didnt work out that way. Our little baby boy was born that morning, and he got two more weeks off work! Pretty good timing :-)

He is very cute, and he treats his parents very well. Most of the time he is sleeping or eating.

He doesnt have a name yet, but we are working on it. Hopefully we will soon make a decicion.

We have now enjoyed two weeks together at home. Tomorrow Steen will go back to work, and me and little baby boy will have to find out how to use the days home alone!



BABYSHOWER

A couple of weeks ago, I had a very bad day. I didnt sleep well during the night and I was tired, lonely and fed up with almost everything. In the afternoon I decided to take the car and drive to Kolding, to do some shopping to prepare for the baby. I didnt really know what to look for, I was mostly looking around to figure out what I need, and where I can buy it.
Then I went home to find Steen shoveling snow outside the house. I was happy to see him, and a little sad we wouldnt have time to spend time together that evening. Katja, Joanna and Bolette were supposed to come, so we could have our monthly YW precidency meeting.
Steen asked if we should take the curtains down on the window to block out the world a bit, and perhaps make it all a little more romantic as we had our dinner.. Steen and I just finished our dinner, when Joanna and Katja showed up. We were still waiting for Bolette, so we were not in a rush to start.
I was cleaning the table, when someone came in the main door. I saw it was Steens mother, and someone else (probably Bolette). I got a little confused, I didnt know Steens mother was coming. But maybe she was just going to pick up something. I heard people talking, and realized there was more people coming. I got even more confused. Suddenly the entrance was full of people! Alot of people from the church, Steens sister and niece, Annas mother and my good friend Mia. I think I got the point pretty fast - it was going to be a babyshower, but I was still very confused, and for a minute or two I tried to hide behind Steen. It was just too overwhelming. More than 20 persons came in to our little living room, and we didnt even have chairs enough. Steen went around the house to find the extra chairs we have got, and a few pillows. Then he left.... I was commanded to sit down, and I really felt bad to not having enough chairs for all the guests.. And the reason why Steen pulled down the curtains was so that I wouldnt see all the people outside the house when they would approach the house!
I got so many gifts, I think I have never opened that many gifts at the same time. It felt like ten times christmas. And I got so many nice things for our little baby! Games, clothes, blancets, diapers and much more. Each and everyone of the guests made a little wish for our baby - I got them written down on a nice piece of paper. It was really cute. And everyone got to guess wich date he is going to be born, and give a suggestion for a name!
Later in the evening, a few of the guests had brought delicious cakes, and other treats.
Thank you everyone! Thanks for coming and make such a good evening for me! Thanks for all the good gifts for our little boy! And thank you for the delicious cakes you made for the evening :-) You are great!
So after all it turned out to be a really good day anyway!

Steen is sneaking out! He didnt like to be the only rooster in the hen-house :-)

This is handmade!



Steens mum made this woolen blancet.



..And can I just say, - as Unni's husband.. Nothing brings a bigger smile to my face than pulling a prank like this on Unni ! I knew about this babyshower for at least a month, and all this time Unni would say: "Steen, if you hear any kind of rumour about a babyshower, please let me know, I've got some friends that need an invitation" Haha, she didn't have a clue !
I knew that having that many people in the house would overwhelm Unni, but I actually think she handled it very well..
Also many thanks to the people who participated in surprising her, and planning it all..

YW - wednesday activity

Wednesday night we use to have a Young Women activity in church. This Wednesday was no exception, the difference was just that we did the activity home at my place instead. Its easier and better to make christmas cakes and candies in a home, instead of the church building.
We had a good time together making cakes. The girls did an excellent work! We made ginger snap (pepperkaker), finskbrød (danish cake) and marzipan chocolate.

Josefine and Karoline :-)

Helene and Alma :-) Welcome home Helene!


Doesnt it look delicious? I think I could have eaten it all! But I am unfortunately not going to eat it. The cakes are going to be given to the elderly people in church. Next Wednesday we will go christmas caroling and give a little gift of cakes and candies... I think thats a good christmas tradition :-) I look forward to experience that !

Visiting Anna

Last Wednesday Mia and I went to visit Anna. We used to be her helpers last year. She is trained by the family hope methode. (www.familyhopecenter.org)
Since then Mia has started school to take an education as a preschool teacher, and I have been working as a nurse at Kolding sygehus.
We both miss Anna a lot - she is a very intelligent and funny girl, and we appriciate to come and visit her once in a while.
This day she had made a lot of christmas-presents for us.

She had made a colorful braclet for each of us.

She had made them all by her self! And she also had wrapped in some of the gifts by her self! I was so impressed. Even I sometimes have a hard time wrapping in gifts....

We got so many nice things:

Handpainted kettle holders, a painting, homemade christmas jam and preserved beetroots.

We had a really nice time together. Annas mother had made a lot of delicious christmas cakes and candies. It tasted really, really good.

And of course we had some time to play too! Here you can see princess Anna and Mia crawling to find a little kitten called Nussi.