Bah Humbug....... Merry Christmas

I've seen the light, not in any religious sense i might add but here's the thing. Christmas has always been a good holiday but i've never really actually had any great sense of anticipation or expectations in my adult years except for the food, which is always the highlight..... but this year has been different, much different. In fact i would go as far to say that this year has been the most fun since i was about 10, why is probably obvious.
Maud.
Watching somebody who quite clearly had such a great time both giving and receiving presents was just fantastic, so much so that Bah Humbug might be something i say a little less often from now on.
I don't really think we were expecting Maud to be quite so into the whole experience already, afterall she is still a month or so off her second birthday, but she was, and it was great.
here's the quickish story of Christmas so far...

The 6 hour train journey from Oslo turned into a 7 hour plus epic due to several technical gremlins so we didn't arrive in Flekkefjord until 01:30 on friday night / saturday morning. Bah Humbug indeed.
No snow again this year, more fuel for the global warming theory so to speak, but we did arrive to a great frost with what were probably the biggest ice crystals i have ever seen.
The next day was off to Oldemor in Vigeland, or more precicely Tjorteland acres, for the annual cuuting down of the Chritmas trees for all the family.
The evening of 24th is the big day over here so we're all done and dusted before you bods in the UK even begin. As expected Maud got a whole load of stuff, including....

• new shoes (a pre christmas necessity)
• Bunad - a Norwegian national dress (knitted version, tusen takk mormor)
• pyjamas
• a dress
• books
• handbag
• a dressing gown
• a kitchen - the biggest present of the day

She got to eat cake, ice cream and stay up late and i felt enormously proud and had great fun being with her the whole day..OK less typing more pictures.....

stupendously big ice crystals

a must for any sleep ...the little rabbit aka 'teddy' or 'harepus'

getting comfy in the much used chair.

car magazines another christmas must have.

Maud checks the sturdyness of the tree before allowing the decorating to commence

.......

.......

New kitchen

Maud gets the biggest parcel of the day and with a little help from Nora unwraps it to reveal a whole new kitchen.....
hmm maud might have to wait until we move into the new flat until we have room for this.

Maud gets the BIGGEST parcel of the day from matt on Vimeo.

pia pia pia...no

needs some practice but you have to start somewhere


Maud's Christmas sing along from matt on Vimeo.

Shopaholic

A rainy Saturday morning, Silje is at work so i took Maud for her first test drive of a shopping trolley, she was most flummoxed by the fact that she wasn't getting pushed to the shops in her pram as usual but had to walk.
Trolley control was a bit unsteady at first but soon got the hang of it, in fact she got so used to the idea that she wanted to push it home too.




Always time for a 10 minute photo shoot as you know.

Triple header - part III

The final part of the trilogy - a visit from Grandma and Uncle Tim.
More pre-Christmas presents for lucky little Maud, it's all good present opening training i suppose.
Maud was in top form for at least one day of their visit, Sunday she was back on the sick list with yet another cold.