Firestation and the first bath

Blogging about our last two days. Yesterday it was an open day at the fire station, lots of fun activities for kids. Greta is extinguishing the "fire".




Today we finally bathed Samuel. We could not quite get used to his sleeping schedule these weeks, so he was not really awake in the evenings. Today he finally got his first bath, being 3 weeks old today. He was a bit shocked in the beginning, but then he got used to it and even enjoyed the warm water.


I think I am getting ill, the temperature goes up so fast, we will see how I feel tomorrow. Have a good start of the week.

Berry day

It was hard to beleive we were going to have such a sunny day after yesterdays showers. I was not hoping to pick red- and blackcurrant this year, but the sun were shining today and we did go. We had our friends with us, Greta's friend with her mother, so we had fun picking the berries. I think Greta picked more as a two year old than now, a four years old. Now it was just more fun to run around with her friend and play (and fight) than to help parents. But we got more than enough anyway, spent the whole evening washing and cleaning, so now we have lots for the whole winter.



Hope you had a great weekend.

Jazz

The last day of the jazz festival in Kongsberg. I took Greta for a walk in the town, where she got the balloon, the butterfly painted on her face, cotton candy, made a boat and sent it swimming in the fountain. Got also some new funny books from the library.









Back home there was the garden day. Our cat Sofia was really good at posing for the camera today.


The garden looks fine. Already can see some tomatoes and peppers, the vegetables Greta planted are also in good shape.

The strawberries look good.

The redcurrant

Most of the herbs in the herb garden are pretty ready to be consumed now.


Did you have a sunny day?

The first tent trip

Now I can proudly say that Greta (and the rest of us, too) survived the tent trip in the forest. We were near a lake in the Kongsberg area, the weather yesterday was good, and we enjoyed grilling dinner outside and walking.



Family picture - a rare occasion.

Greta is proud to sleep for the first time in the tent.

But is is still too early, so we paint and draw outside until the evening.

And go for a walk around the lake.


Good night, everybody. Yes, a lot of light, since it is the shortest night of the year.

So when she is finally asleep, there is still pretty much light outside.

It took a while for me to fall asleep, the baby would not stop moving, but when I was tired enough and the rain outside started making the nice forest noise, I finally got to sleep.
This girl woke up around her usual time, and since it was still raining outside, she had a good time writing some Russian letters in her book, while we were trying to get our last minutes of sleep.

We had our breakfast also inside the tent, and after a few minutes outside in the rain, packed and went back to the car and home.

Looks like a happy child to me, after an adventurous night in the forest!

Have a good start of the week!

Skrim

My legs are tired in a good way, my face is brownish, my mind is more relaxed and I feel in good shape. Great day walking in Skrim mountains. So, where are all of you who love Norway so much that want to come see at this beautiful nature?

One of the warmest days!

We are really lucky with the weekends lately, great weather while it rains the rest of the week. It is really nice to spend time outside now, even hard to believe that days ago we were wearing jackets. Maybe we even got sunburnt? We will see tomorrow!!
The day were just screaming: get outside! Nice to have good weather so early in spring/summer. Tomorrow is another week, a short one for Greta and Santiago since they will go to Spain already on Wednesday.
This morning I decided to wash the car, and Greta wanted to help. So this was our morning. I also miss some fysical activity, it is less and less running and tennis every time, so this was the best I came up with today. So after me washing the worst part away on the gas station, we started the handwash. Greta loved it. I understand this, I remember we used to handwash the car when we were kids. She was really a great help. She likes to have the things clean. She never misses the oportunity to help me. :-)

Washing the car

Good Sunday activity.
Later we went to the open day at the water energy/station museum (I don't really know how it is called in English). They had lots of activities for kids, like the rocket making:

And sending it out in the space later:


The watermills and water tunnel:


Increadibly good weather:

The activity most kids enjoyed was playing in the big shallow pond, Greta was no exception.


At the end she told dad how much she loves him:

We also visited our old neighbour friends that moved to a new house, where Greta played with her friend and I got some baby experience again. The dads made dinner on a grill and we had it very nice together.
When we came home and Santiago was taking Greta to bed, I continued making my office room neater and make yet another intent to get organized - labeled the charging cables. We will see if this system works now.

It will not be very sad even if it rains tomorrow, since we had such a great time this weekend. How was your weekend?