Christmas Eve is when it all happens here in Norway. This is the day that everyone opens presents and has family come over for big festive meals. However, since we didn't have any family coming to see us and we were not planning on going anywhere, we simply had a lovely relaxing day. First we delivered homemade cookies and fudge to our neighbors, which was an effort well received! (I guess this is not Norsk tradition). We also opened some presents so that we would not be too overwhelmed the next day (that was our excuse anyway!). Here is the Minx wearing her new purple cozy hat and her favorite sweater.
Here is a funny picture of a typical scene in our house -- nursing, reading, eating tangerines and sandwiches altogether in the "Favorite chair" (formerly known as "Daddy's chair")
Rhodri and I spent Christmas Eve-ning in the kitchen -- each donning aprons, calling our parents on the phone to ask advice on various cooking issues, listening to Christmas music, and enjoying the thoroughly mellow lovely evening. Tryfan was awake for all of this, just sitting in his lounge chair and watching us...BUT THEN all hell broke loose!
Tryfs started crying out of the blue, so I picked him up to discover that he had a huge poo blowout up his backside. We turned off the cooking burners and took him up to the bath. He was most unhappy about the whole ordeal, and his crying woke Rhiannon up. Rhodri went in to deal with her and found her butt naked standing in her crib and saying "pee!!". It turns out that she had taken everything off and peed the bed (and her blanket and her doll and her clothes!). So Rhodri changed the sheets and got Rhiannon dressed again while I finished bathing Tryfan and calming him down with some milk. Then, as quickly as it had started, the episode was over and we were back down in the kitchen cooking again. The whole ordeal lasted 18 minutes but it was quite funny in retrospect.
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Did you meet back in the kitchen for a high 5? :) Great team work!
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