lots of firsts

The last two days we have been out and about a little bit,  so Alia has had lots of firsts.

 first trip to town

first time using the parents parking space (we love it!)

first time taking a bath at home

last few days

We don't want this blog to turn into a baby pictures only blog but of course our daughter is what has occupied us during the last week so that is what we have pictures of.

who says girls can't pull of light blue? :-)

 her going home outfit from the hospital

her favorite place to sleep is pappa's or Mama's chest

We proudly present...

... Alia Dora Røsvik, born on the 21st of January at 11.37am. 2600 g light and 48 cm short.
After fighting her weight back to over 2500 g after losing 300 g we were allowed to go home today.

We are so in love with our little daughter, she is a very content and calm baby.

Thank you, Lord, for choosing us to be Alia's parents!

childhood memories

Today we remembered that we had some leftover sparkling sticks thingies from New Years and so Erlend decided that it was a good idea to blow them up, he says it reminds him of his childhood days ...

 getting the powder of the sticks was the hardest part

 first he tried to light it with a paper "fuse"

when that did not work, he just lid the plastic cup on fire

 it was quite an impressive flame

 all that is left of it now is some melted plastic (hidden under snow) that my mom is gonna find in the spring in her backyard and wonder what it is

Sometimes I do wonder if we are ready to have kids... :-)

billard

Tonight we had the youth group meeting at our place and afterwards we headed out to play some billiard (shoot some pool?). Lots of fun!

About whales and stuff

What to blog about on a day on which it feels that your biggest accomplishment was to turn from your left to your right side???

I have heard pregnant women say that they feel like a beached whale (gestrandeter Wal) and today I totally understand what they mean.

I typed it into google images and found this picture and it is how I feel (just a bit rounder).
(Please don't take this the wrong way, I am neither trying to be politically incorrect and say something against whales, and even less am I trying to say that I am not happy about being pregnant)

What made me laugh is that a few scrolls down the page this picture came up. So there is definitely a connection between whales and pregnancy and that is when people might think you feel like the picture below, you actually feel like the poor creature above...

Well, but enough complaining. We are getting so excited since there are only 11 days left until we hopefully get to hold our little one in our arms. The ultrasound today showed that she is about 2700g and 49cm, so a bit on the tiny side (does not feel that way though :-)). So we hope she is using her last few days "inside" to fatten up :-).

preaching

Today Erlend preached about prayer in our church. He spoke in Norwegian and I translated into German.
No, my Norwegian is not that good that I can just translate a sermon on the spot, so I had it all pre-(google :-))translated and hence a big pile of notes laying in front of me, which I had a hard time glancing down to because there was a big round something "in the way" :-)).