Everything

Solveig had her 2 week check up this morning.  Where has the time gone!?  She’s already up one whole pound from her birth weight.  That’s what she gets for being born during the holiday season!  MMMmmmm…cookies…

My parents are flying in tonight and will be staying with us for a week.  Knut’s grandpa’s funeral is tomorrow.  Knut will be a pall bearer.  Solveig will be baptized on Sunday.

My friend Jillene who dyed the blue and purple yarn for me lost her baby at 33 weeks on Christmas Day due to a freak cord accident.  She’s had so many pregnancy complications and was starting to show signs of pre-eclampsia, but her doctors were watching her closely to let the baby go as long as possible before her kidneys gave out.  To have gone through so much and have lost him over something so little seems so unfair.

Our amaryllis plant bloomed right on Christmas Day. It still has 2 more buds to go.  It got so freakishly tall that I’m not sure where to put it.  It has to be at least 3 feet tall.

It’s amazing to me what extreme reactions I get from people when I tell them Solveig’s name.  Some people go over the moon swooning over it like great-grandparents and some people at church (and us of course).  Then there’s the polite “Oh.  Interesting.”  All the way to the lady at Walmart today who got a sour look on her face and said “Well, whatya do that for?”

My (borrowed) camera is somewhere, but we’ve barely been home.  we’ve been at Knut’s parents a lot over Christmas and have been living out of bags and it’s probably in one of them.  I won an auction for a new camera on ebay, and for the first time, the seller flaked out on me and doesn’t want to send it to me for the price I won the auction at.  He “forgot” to put a reserve on the item and was disappointed at how much I got it for.  Ebay will be refunding me my money in 6 more days if the seller doesn’t, and I’m annoyed I have to wait even longer for my new camera.  There’s another one in the “Buy it Now” section from another seller that I want to pick up, but I need to wait for my refund.  The whole thing was terribly annoying, but at least I don’t have to worry about getting my money back.  I’m thankful for buyer protection, although I’ve never needed it before this.

If I did know where the camera was, I’d take a picture of the boys’ room right now, as Silje is moving in for the week when Grammy and Papa are here.  She moved in “just the essentials” and it looks like a pink monster threw up in there.  

I also took pictures of the finished handmade Christmas presents I did.  I guess that’s destined for a different post.  (Wednesday’s yarn along perhaps?)  Knut’s cousin Liv drew my name for the girl cousin gift exchange and she is currently living in China and flew in just in time for the Christmas Eve gift exchange.  She brought me tea direct from China.  How cool is that!  Not quite as cool as the paper snowflakes Silje made and wrapped for me, but close.

Everyone asks how Solveig sleeps.  Well, she wakes up every hour from midnight until about 3am and screams her head off until I feed her…every hour. Then from 3am she sleeps for 4-5 hours straight.  So not conventional, but I’m not complaining.  I get to sleep in with her as Knut is not back to work yet, but I’m sure eventually he’ll have to go.  Since we’ve brought her home, she has had exactly 2 diapers that were not poopy.  She poops during diaper changes as well more than all of the other kids did combined.  Probably not so ironically, she’s the only kid of mine who has not shown any sign of jaundice. 

Yup, I think there’s not much more to talk about after the “how the baby’s pooping” part.  That about wraps everything up.