As December sets in and the snow comes, we are moving quickly to the first Noel for Andrea. We start the month by buying some Christmas effects and checking out the city in Christmas dress. Weekends are mostly spent purchasing Christmas presents of course, and in between pictures must also be taken.
December also marks the last days of baby swim for the season. We are determined to join up for the spring classes too. The under-water Christmas Pictures were taken by Gry, Badeengel.
This is when Andrea gets on her feet and starts walking “for real”. As long as there is a table, a hand or similar near by she will stand up and she’ll move about. Mummy and daddy is absolutely sure she’ll be an early walker. [Edit 2012: She doesn’t really let go until a little over eight months later, in Rome, on a cruise ship, more on that later].
We celebrate Christmas at Gunnar and Nancy’s place, with the Bergesens and Nancy’s brother and mother. It was a relatively standard Christmas with mostly joy for the children. Santa came by too, which was nice.
Surprisingly we did not take a lot of pictures this Christmas. I don’t know why. One of the pictures is special for us though, the one where she is standing by the vacuum cleaner. This is the first time she gets on her feet all on her own, and luckily Daddy had the camera in his hand when she did. [Edit 2012: Amazingly it turns out Daddy has the camera ready also for the next big, related even, the first time she walks properly on her own, about eight months later, two precious moments for us all.
Andrea 