Yes waiter

I'll have the steak. 

Thanksgiving 2013

Here is a great selection of pictures from last night, Thanksgiving. It was great to spend time with our norwegian friends having great food. 

 Pre dinner greeting

Espen checking out the wheels on his toy car

The Turkey was incredibly moist!

 Per serving the girls at their own table

Espen eats  

The side dishes 

 Caitlin prepping the food

Notes were taken 

Movie time after dinner. Toy Story in norwegian at 11PM!!!

Another Curly

Loooonng overdue

Lucia's hair was looking super scraggly and well, matted. It was a mess and she freaked anytime we tried to comb through conditioner. So it was time to get a major cut. She said she wanted about six inches off but 1. We didn't want her to cut off that gorgeous hair -at least not *that* much... 2. We were worried she didn't understand the concept of hair being gone when she wanted to cut off 6-8 inches. 

So three inches it was. 2.5 more inches than Pete was comfortable, but thankfully he had other plans so he couldn't white-knuckle in the salon (like last time). Here's the before and after. It looks SO much healthier and springier!

Sickly

The awesomeness about our new daycare situation was ever so slightly tarnished when we remembered why people steer away from daycare: the sickness. Espen started running a fever on Tuesday but it vanished by Thursday morning. Then Lucia came down with a cold which left her hoarse and wheezy. Then Espen came down with it Saturday. He's coughing and so very congested. But he seemed better today, hooray. Here they both are this morning. 

Espen at the new daycare

Flappy

I'm positive there's some developmental reason for the arm flapping, but I don't really care what it is. It is simply adorable. Please never stop flapping, Espen.
 

No school Day - Play Date

Today was no-school day, but Lucia's classmate Veronica invited her for a playdate. Lucia had so much for that when we left she begged me to let her have a sleepover and cried most of the way home ( think mostly because she was exhausted and very hungry) Heres what she looked like after a 10 minute ride home:

Brudder and Sissy

Seven!!

Seven months!! He's a big boy now. He filled out and got suddenly pretty chubby this month, awwwww. Other changes we saw this month:

• Eating more and more solids. This month we tried more oatmeal, peas, blueberries, cooked apples, pumpkin and carrots. He really likes pumpkin and sweet potatoes. 
• Sitting up! He doesn't topple over as often. 
• Grabbing stuff of the highchair. Pete put a bowl of his food with a spoon in it the other day and went to get a bib and Espen grabbed that bowl so fast. He also really likes grabbing the spoon when we're feeding him. Manual dexterity! It's a thing!
• Sleeping in his CRIB! YES. We moved him into the other room and now have both kids in one room. True to Espen's laid back nature, he was like, oh, I see that I am now sleeping here. Fine by me. He is so diametrically opposite of Lucia that way. 
• Rolling and rolling and rolling. And more rolling. 
• I think the chatting has decreased this month, but he's definitely doing more of the arm-flapping. In the next few days I'll post a cute video of him doing that. 

Behold some cutie pie pictures I took yesterday as we hung out and just gazed into each other's eyes (seriously).