Our trip to the Ski Hut

We all thought that winter was going to loose its icy grasp on Tromsø but there has been a perfect drizzle of snow which has freshened up the ski tracks above our flat. Lucky for us, little Cub loves the outdoors, so we skiied with him in the ski pulk from our flat to the ski hut both yesterday and today. 

Today the café was open so we had coffee and waffles outside. I enjoyed our trip a little bit more than yesterday, this was due Mike's loving gesture of buying me a new set of carbon skies as an early birthday gift :-). I think he thinks that buying me nice light gear will get me outside more.

 As you can see from the pic below our son does not need to be persuaded to go skiing. He is grabbing his woollen  clothes and is super eager to be pulled by his dad and shout at him to go faster whilst he is tucked up in his sheep skin sleeping bag. 

My mum came to meet us at the ski hut to spend some time with her grandson in the snow. 

Little Cub getting his layers ready.

Little Cub's 1st Birthday

One year has passed since you were born and I still remember that day like it was just minutes away. It has been the happiest year of my life and I feel privileged to wake up next to you and follow you day by day.

We celebrated little Cub's birthday at Dad's work last weekend. Baby really enjoyed his party. Thanks everyone for celebrating with us and for making his day so special. I couldn't ask for more having Mike, Mum, my closests girlfriends with their lovely husband, partners and children gathered around my little son. You guys are stars!

`Where did you come from, baby dear? out of the everywhere into here´ (george macdonald 1824 - 1905). 

X-mas.

Along with all the x-mas amusement baby got really ill with fever. It was hard to see him outside his normal energetic self having little appetite and interrupted sleep in the night. We all felt so bad for our little cub. He was really ill the night before Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day but luckily he got better Second Day of Christmas when he started antibiotics. A few days after we went outside to enjoy his new sledge. I am just so relieved baby is back to normal again. 

My mum and nan entertain little cub so that he takes less notice of how ill he feels.

Christmas Eve at my mum's.

Baby got to open the first present which was a huge hit :-)

We opened presents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to keep both the Norwegian -and the British tradition in tact. 

Off to Charlottenlund to try out baby's new sledge.

Marry Christmas!

Thanks to baby I captured my perfect Christmas card photos during one of our strolls in the December day light. Sadly I never organised them into postcards and sent them to our friends and family the way I so perfectly planned.

 In that case I just turn to my blog and post the photos here. My number one plan B as I keep my blog as my personal diary. Hopefully one day baby can go through all the blog posts and see some of the things we did together during his childhood. 

It is not long left to 24th December and I am so excited to celebrate baby's first Christmas with the people I love the most.    

We wish you all a sweet Christmas and a joyful New Year!

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