Saturday, April 30, 2011
Sunny Saturday
Friday, April 29, 2011
I have problems to choose
Thursday, April 28, 2011
I present you...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
80 cm of happiness
Waiting for the new shoes
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
My 2 year old
About her:
She is so tender, she wakes up with a smile on her face, the first thing she does is to kiss the mommy somewhere in the face, preferably in the mouth. Then she does the same to daddy. She is wonderful, she hugs us, kisses, pats, blows when it hurts. It is unbelievable.
She talks a lot on all three languages, but now during the travel, more russian and spanish. Says many phrases, like "we sit and eat", "Greta likes lemon", "mommy sleeps", "let's go eat", "Greta is a fish", "let's go to the pool", and just anything you tell her, she learns so fast and does not forget.
She loves books. Always asks "mommy, read", or just reads herself and says "Greta reads". Takes my books and tries to read them too. Falls asleep with a book in her hands.
She loves to sing. Sings many songs, from russian Antoshka to spanish songs about chocolate and about how the cat fell down from the roof. And the Norwegian ones about fishing. She is so funny when she sings.
She is really a girl now. Always ask me to put on her some dress. Changes her shoes 20 times per day, loves hats, asks to make her ponytails, gives me the tools for that. I even can brush her hair now, so we do it more often than once every 2 weeks now.
She likes pasta, lemonade, water, carrots, chocolate cereal, melon, watermelon, chicken, yoghourt, tomato. But it all depends.
Loves the order. Puts the books back to the shelf. On he beach she needed all the towels to be straight, no sand on it, and it will be very bad if the wind blows part of the towel just a bit. She would scream for all the beach to hear "clooooose".
When she want me to pay her attention while I am doing something, she comes to me, closes the book or the laptop, or something else and says "that´s enough".
Now she likes to swim. She says "Greta is a fish" and swims, I just have to support her a bit with my hand, she tries to escape, but she does not float yet herself. Still does not want the floating ring or the floating shoulders, that is why I just have to follow her and help her. Likes to sit on our backs now while we swim. Really good!
She loves all kind of animals, especially birds, cats and fish. and also dolphins, sharks, moles, giraffes and elephants. and the others, too.
she is still small, still does not reach the pedals of the three-wheel bicycle, gets frustrated. still did not figure out how to use the present from Carlos. even after I show her.
still loves the little mole, but now also likes the cat Findus, and the Gruffalo.
I can talk about her forever! And there will always be more to come
One for each
And I got mine: my Tilda books and the nonviolent communication, the air photography book for a virtual friend I am going to send, and a book with horses' pictures for Greta
Little more from the birthday
While we were away
Monday, April 25, 2011
Home, sweet home!
Early birthday presents
We are home
Now I have some problem with the card reader and can not get the pictures yet, but they will come after a while.
I appreciate so much all your comments and wishes to Greta. She is such a nice grown girl now, that I can not believe it myself sometimes. It took her a while to start enjoying sun, beach, pool and sea. But by the end of our vacation the was swimming in the pool, playing with the sand and rocks, chasing fish in the sea and happy. And she is so nice and tender. She wakes up and the first thing she does is kiss me, she runs around the pool and runs to daddy and gives him a sweet kiss. She still has to learn to use the belt in the plane, since now she has to sit all by herself in her own seat. But to put the belt is a fight, scream and frustration. I hope she will be calmer next time we travel.
We had a problem with the travel agency which put us in a wrong room type, so the next weeks will be interesting as I will try to get some money back and get some king of compensation.
I was running there too, but what a big difference it is, I noticed today when I went running here, to run in a desert or to run in a nice fresh spring-summer Norway when the birds sing and the air smells pine trees. I don't feel ready to run 10 km in 2 weeks in Oslo, especially after the buffet in Eilat with all that nice cakes and sweets :-)
When we came back here, there is no spot of snow left. Everything is green and the sun is shining. It is real summer here, so early. Yesterday we had a gardening day, removed all the old leafs and grass from the garden, cleaned the terrace, washed it and oiled it. Changed tires on the car and on the bikes, too. By the way, we tried our three-wheeled bike for Greta, but she still is too short and cant reach the pedals... I cant believe they make these bikes for such big kids and Greta still cant use it...
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Yet another good day
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
The family of artists
This is the picture and the painting. I just noticed for the first time that the cat on the picture is not ours but the neighbor's.
By the way, Greta speaks more and more. Today, while watching the mole for another time, when she saw the dog crying, she said in perfect Russian "собака плачет". And she uses correctly all different forms of endings that we use in Russian, like she says "мы сидим", "миша сидит", "мама, садись!" еtc.
The luggage is almost made, the skibox is no longer on the car, we are almost ready for our journey.