He is here

May we introduce our son Maximilian Erling, born on Friday, the 12th of December, 3365g and 51cm.
We are so thankful for him and for him being a chilled baby and for a quick recovery of Mama.

His big sister is handling the big change quite well, even though she is a bit more exhausting, or maybe we are just more exhausted from not sleeping so much?....

We would appreciate prayer for Max as he is not going up in his weight as he should be. We are hoping that it is just due to his jaundice and that he will soon start to feed better.

pictures

So these are not pictures of our apartment that we get to live in now, as promised in the last post, but nonetheless they are pictures of random things we have been doing the last few weeks.
Considering that I am writing this post on our "lap"top, when I don't really have a "lap" anymore, or better, my lap is occupied 24/7 by a certain little (NOT so little anymore) person inside of me, it feels like a real achievement to blog at all. So be thankful for what you get :-).

Here it goes, just random pictures:

 My awesome sister-in-laws threw a baby shower for me and our other sister (we are both due the same week) and amongst other things we got these awesome diaper cakes. The reason I am not posting a pictures of me during that event is that they totally surprised me with the party, so I did not look very presentable (track pants and all the rest of it :-)).

During our first few weeks here we got to travel to Bergen and visit Erlend's oldest sister's family. Always a pleasure to see them! 

One evening us girls got crafty and made cards - so much fun

 While we were down there we also got to meet up with this lovely couple. I met her almost 10 years ago in England and who would have known that we would be connected one day by being married to Norwegians.

 Erlend got to share in our home church about our last year in Asia. 

We love being back with fellow believers - we're soaking it up!

Also hanging with family has been such a blessing - seeing Alia interact with her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins is so much fun.

 Alia thinks so too :-)

 Alia having a cultural experience - making gingerbread men

This is kind of a picture of our apartment - it is the view from the living rom - not bad, not bad at all!

We are so thankful that we get to be here during these last weeks of pregnancy and for everybody who is willing to be used by God to provide for us, whether that is the apartment, the car we get to borrow, kids clothing, everything we need for the arrival of little man - the list is endless. 

Thank you God and thank you people! (you know who you are!)

This is most likely the last post before little man is born (in 8 days - wahhhhh!!!), 

so stay tuned for baby pictures!