Mummy´s birthday

We got a couple of new books this week which Milly seems to like......

Another eventful week. It was a national holiday in Norway on Monday so we were all at home. The outside of the house has taken a fearful battering this week. It´s been stripped of paint, well some paint.... bad plaster has been hacked off..... so the whole place looks a bit of a mess. Milly and I tried to have a bit more of a stable week..... concentrated on getting enough sleep (obviously that applied to Milly only..... we feel like we haven´t had enough sleep for about a year!!).

On Friday we celebrated Mummy´s birthday. Uncle Kristoffer and Navdeep came for dinner.... Turid, Tias and Lars arrived for a bit of cake. Turid very bravely volenteered to change Milly for bed...... we´re not entirely sure what she did or said but Milly just laid there on the changing mat like a little angel. The strange thing is that she did it tonight too..... so whatever Turid did seems to have a profound effect..... how long will it last I wonder!!

Milly has started to walk with the aid of props. First she pushed around a little chair but now she has a trolley for support. She seems quite well balanced. She´s still struggling to understand the concept of sleeping through the night.... perhaps we need tante Turid to work her magic at bed time!!

Sunny Oslo

After Daddy´s rather testing day on Friday, the weekend has been fairly quiet and calm. Well apart from the fact that Milly was a bit grumpy yesterday afternoon... But she actually slept through the night last night, and seemed to wake up as a new baby. And today we´ve had a really nice day, we went for a stroll downtown in the sun. Milly loves sitting in the buggy looking around, but she´s not very keen on keeping her sunglasses on. So quite a miracle that Daddy managed to take a picture with her wearing them!

What a day!!

Friday.... Milly slept until 7am.... good start. After that it was harsh lesson in what it´s like to be at home with a baby. We had a surprise visit just after 7am.... some guys arrived to start stripping the paint from the outside of our house, we thought they were coming next week. They added to the days excitement by first of all complaining that the water pressure wasn´t good enough. It´s handy that I always have some extra water pressure up my sleeve!! Eventually we `stole´some from the neighbours by connecting up to their outside tap. (Fortunately they were fine about the whole thing). After doing the big shop along with all the old age pensioners in the area I had to rush back to connect up the power supply for the workers. Kristoffer arrived after 1pm and we made our way out to Spydeberg (about 40 minutes away) to pick up a couple of canoes for a stag weekend. Milly slept on the way but howled for about 20 minutes on the way home..... that was a joy. After a couple of nappy changes I noticed that water from the high pressure water sprayer being used to strip the paint outside was leaking into the bathroom..... so I spent some time mopping up whilst changing the nappy. After that there was one more leak into the bedroom and another trip out to drop off the canoe. Kim and Kristin had arrived for dinner at around 6pm.......

Today we´ve had Miss Grumpy to deal with. This afternoon nothing was right. We hope that this is temporary and a good night´s sleep followed by a nice calm day tomorrow will do the trick..... if it´s not Daddy will probably age about 20 years during the next 6 weeks!!

Daddy´s home

As the huge holes in the blog show..... time flies. Mummy went back to work on Wednesday so it´s Daddy´s turn for 6 weeks of the full-on Milly experience.

We started off by getting up at 5.30am, followed by projectile vomiting before Mummy left for work, followed by an overflowing nappy..... so by 10am we were on the 3rd set of clothes for the day. Things did pick up after that however..... and we managed to have dinner prepared by the time mummy came home from work.

Today the weather was a bit overcast, so we spent the day dodging around in the car. More will follow with up to date pictures.... stay tuned blog fans