This is one of those situations when it really pays off to keep up with the house cleaning! lol
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Emma reads a story
Seriously, this is the cutest thing EVER! The video was so long so I cut it down to just the end but you can tell we read this book a lot because she knows the words.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
Hello from Norway!
We are off on our week-long Easter adventure.
Saturday, we were planning on leaving around noon but Mamma Bear was feeling a little under the weather (sore throat, etc.) and we were nowhere near ready as far as packing goes (hard when sicky Mamma Bear is the one who packs for everyone). Plus, the weather in Denmark is SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!! I'm talking, 70 degrees. I was outside in the sun in a tank top for crying out loud!! Hard to want to be in a car for 5 hours when it's that nice out.
Anyway, we ended up leaving around 4 (I think) and drove until we got to Fredrikshavn DK. We stayed at the Scandic hotel which had a FANTASTIC sub-tropical pool area with waterslides, water cannons, everything super duper fun. One problem - Mamma Bear forgot to pack swim diapers. Uh Oh....we have some SERIOUSLY unhappy kids with us. It's pure torture to look out of our hotel room door at this funland and know we can't use it. (cuz it would be totally unfair to let only 2 out of 3 have fun) No problem! Just go to the 24 hour shop downstairs and get a swim diaper! I'm sure they have them! Nope. Nada. Zip. Null. They sell swimming suits for goodness sake but no swimming diapers?!?!?!?!?! There's a giant heated kiddie pool!!!!! Come on!!!! Maybe the next hotel will have one....
So, Sunday morning we take a short trip to Hirtshals to get on the ferry for a 3 1/2 hour ride to Norway. COOL! And it was great.....until we started moving. Mamma Bear has motion sickness issues. After we ate lunch at one of the most fabulous buffets I've ever seen (Caviar, escargot, cheese, crackers, wine from a tap!!!!.....need I say more?), the boat started to pick up speed and the waves got consideraly larger. The swaying and rocking was a little much for this girl's stomach. I didn't lose my lunch but I sure was uncomfortable for a while. The ferry was so neat though. Shops, restaurants, a little kiddie play area....a lot larger than the one close to where we live that we take for the 20 minute trip to cross over to Sweden.
Anyway, we arrived here in Kristiansand, Norway yesterday afternoon. Stayed at the Radisson last night (no pool, btw). Very nice place, the kids have their own little room with 2 bunk beds in it, seperated from the rest of the room by a curtain. Cool idea! We wandered around a little last night, took tons of pictures. Today, we plan on going to the zoo, then over the next two days we'll work our way up to Oslo, stopping to wander around the area where Andreas' father grew up, along the way. We will eventually end up in Sweden to be with the Arff's for Easter and then back to Denmark by Sunday.
So far it's been a good trip! Can't wait to post pictures for you, it's is BEAUTIFUL here!!!!!!!
Saturday, we were planning on leaving around noon but Mamma Bear was feeling a little under the weather (sore throat, etc.) and we were nowhere near ready as far as packing goes (hard when sicky Mamma Bear is the one who packs for everyone). Plus, the weather in Denmark is SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!! I'm talking, 70 degrees. I was outside in the sun in a tank top for crying out loud!! Hard to want to be in a car for 5 hours when it's that nice out.
Anyway, we ended up leaving around 4 (I think) and drove until we got to Fredrikshavn DK. We stayed at the Scandic hotel which had a FANTASTIC sub-tropical pool area with waterslides, water cannons, everything super duper fun. One problem - Mamma Bear forgot to pack swim diapers. Uh Oh....we have some SERIOUSLY unhappy kids with us. It's pure torture to look out of our hotel room door at this funland and know we can't use it. (cuz it would be totally unfair to let only 2 out of 3 have fun) No problem! Just go to the 24 hour shop downstairs and get a swim diaper! I'm sure they have them! Nope. Nada. Zip. Null. They sell swimming suits for goodness sake but no swimming diapers?!?!?!?!?! There's a giant heated kiddie pool!!!!! Come on!!!! Maybe the next hotel will have one....
So, Sunday morning we take a short trip to Hirtshals to get on the ferry for a 3 1/2 hour ride to Norway. COOL! And it was great.....until we started moving. Mamma Bear has motion sickness issues. After we ate lunch at one of the most fabulous buffets I've ever seen (Caviar, escargot, cheese, crackers, wine from a tap!!!!.....need I say more?), the boat started to pick up speed and the waves got consideraly larger. The swaying and rocking was a little much for this girl's stomach. I didn't lose my lunch but I sure was uncomfortable for a while. The ferry was so neat though. Shops, restaurants, a little kiddie play area....a lot larger than the one close to where we live that we take for the 20 minute trip to cross over to Sweden.
Anyway, we arrived here in Kristiansand, Norway yesterday afternoon. Stayed at the Radisson last night (no pool, btw). Very nice place, the kids have their own little room with 2 bunk beds in it, seperated from the rest of the room by a curtain. Cool idea! We wandered around a little last night, took tons of pictures. Today, we plan on going to the zoo, then over the next two days we'll work our way up to Oslo, stopping to wander around the area where Andreas' father grew up, along the way. We will eventually end up in Sweden to be with the Arff's for Easter and then back to Denmark by Sunday.
So far it's been a good trip! Can't wait to post pictures for you, it's is BEAUTIFUL here!!!!!!!
Friday, April 3, 2009
GORGEOUS WEATHER!!!!
Sorry, folks. We are having a fabulous spring!! I have to say, waking up to blue skies, sun and birds chirping is making me annoyingly giddy.
This is the ladybug I rescued from a near death experience.....the EMMA-STOMP-O-RAMA
Chillin' in the nice warm sun with all the essentials.....coffee, dark chocolate and some reading material
Possibly the best chocolate on the planet! And the best part....IT'S GREAT FOR YOUR BODY!!!!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Emma
She gets harder and harder to photograph all the time.
I have to lay on the ground and inch around like a worm.
The girl won't sit still, won't look at me, will hardly even look in my direction...when I have the camera out.
Does all she can to keep her face hidden from my view.
I guess she figures I have reached, maybe even exceeded, my quota for pictures of her.
It's so unfair! She's depriving me of one of my life's passions!
She better get over it, cuz I'm nowhere NEAR done yet!
I have to lay on the ground and inch around like a worm.
The girl won't sit still, won't look at me, will hardly even look in my direction...when I have the camera out.
Does all she can to keep her face hidden from my view.
I guess she figures I have reached, maybe even exceeded, my quota for pictures of her.
It's so unfair! She's depriving me of one of my life's passions!
She better get over it, cuz I'm nowhere NEAR done yet!
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