Big sister, big help

Sweet potatoes are a hit!

New bed is finished!

The bed came in this very compact box weighing about 50kg (110,23lbs), mattress was simply rolled up, pretty impressive I think. 

First part done!

No whale tail but nearly there!

Because I took all the pictures it looks like Heather did ALL the work, not true!!
It was a 2 hour team effort..

Yay! Bed is completed but the rest of her room obviously need some love soon. Lucia cant stop jumping up and down. Lets hope her first night goes well and not forget she is a bit higher than usual...

Lucia

I asked her what she thought about her old bed and this is he look she gave me.

New bed!

We took a trip to IKEA last night to check out the bed we have been thinking about for Lucia. She has been in her current bed since she was no older than Espen is now and he needs to move in to a bed he can't climb out of..

Enjoying the evening

6 months checkup

It is hard work going to the doctor, but he checked out great. And we got a couple of vaccinations.

The wait can be long but the view from the doctors office is great

First tooth

Not easy to photograph something this small and fussy but you can easily feel it now: a sharp edge of a tooth inside a 3 mm wide dark strip.

6 months pictures

Espen seems to love some foods more than others, bananas are a hit while avocado is not so hot. But hey even beer is an acquired taste for some.

Here is another recent photo in his new Viking outfit. So awesome, we hope it still fits during the cold season, his head is so big... He is already sharing hats with Lucia!

Here he is in Lucias old car seat

This will be embarrassing 15 years from now ;)

Being driven around town is hard work apparently, but also important to note is that he no longer melts down all the time in the car!

Six Months Old!!

Here's where I'd put in pictures of our little man, but I dropped my phone one too many times and there goes the camera. Dangit. Pete is going to fix it for me, but in the meanwhile... here's Espen's six month update (Pete can you fill in the pics?)

This month! We've seen:

• More scooching, especially in the backwards direction. 
• A LOT more talking! 
• Growing out of his teeny straw hat, sadface. We're pretty sure he's still in the basketball-head size range (97th percentile last time we went in).
• In the past few days or maybe week? He's taken to resting his head on my chest after I sit him up and burp him. Which is ridiculously adorable and a change for him; he's normally like OK PUT ME IN BED NOW LADY as soon as he's done nursing, or during the day LET'S GET BACK TO PLAYING, SHALL WE? So the snuggles are really welcome. And super cute. 
• Size 2 diapers. I had a hard time with this milestone, I have no idea why. I denied it for a week or so, then he pooped on Thursday and it squeezed like toothpaste up his back and out his armholes. Uh. Fine. We'll move up to size 2s. 
• Experimenting with a few solid foods: we've had bananas, sweet potato, applesauce, avocado, black bean puree and oatmeal. The winner is banana, of course. Who doesn't love mashed banana? This week and month we'll try more veggies and maybe more oatmeal. I figure if I can mix banana with stuff we'll get further. 
• Waking up only once to eat overnight! Believe it. we now feed him at 10ish, 3ish and 6:30ish. Good stuff. We give him his pacifier or gripe water if he wakes up other than that.
• The promise of a new tooth. It's coming! So soon! We can see the shadow of it -- we hope it'll push through this week. Poor guy has been crankers. 

That's all I can think of... Yay six months!! 

I Ate the Snake!

When I was growing up, my sister and I shared a room for a while, but then when we had our own rooms I'd sneak into her room to whisper at night. One of my favorite games was a play on the word Eight. It goes like this:

Me: I one the snake

Her: I two the snake

Me: I three the snake

And so on and so forth, until you get to eight, which obviously sounds like you ATE the snake. I distinctly remember sitting in our family room in Indiana and realizing that if I let my sister start the game I would always automatically get to say I ATE THE SNAKE (as I was the even numbers). Tonight I remembered it and decided to teach Lucia; her eyes lit up when I said it the first time. She laughed and laughed and wanted to play a few more times, so we did, each of us getting a turn to say I ATE THE SNAKE! 

As I tucked her into bed tonight, I told her that sometimes I want to go back to that time when she was a baby, but nights like tonight are just so fun because we can play games like that. 

:)