Ricky hangs out outside to chill out

He wasn't too impressed with you at first, but after a while he liked to cuddle on the couch near us while you ate and slept. This is his little outdoor house. Of course, he came in whenever he wanted to as well!

There's a little New York attitude in you..

Hey dude, what's da deal man??!!

Antics!!

Here's you with the peppermint tea you managed to open by yourself, much to our amazement! Mom gave you the box to play with, not dreaming that you'd manage to open it! Hehe! Well you got it open, and even got some mint in your mouth (which you made a face at but it didn't seem to bother you too much). Mom had to take some pics before rushing to get it out of your mouth!
And as they say, Norwegians are born wiith skis on their feet. Here you are in your first pair of skis! Mormor made the skis and socks for you, and we had such fun taking pictures of you in them in Flisa!

Here we are your first few months!

You smiled at mom at 20 days, a real smile! And you laughed (dad thought you were crying or choking when I called and left a message on his cell phone with your first attempts at laughing) at about 11 weeks. At about that time or even earlier you were trying to turn over from your stomach to your back, and at 6 months you were crawling. You pulled yourself up at 7 months, at at 8 months you stood without holding on. You were and are great fun and fascinating to be around!

An Austin Powers fan already!!

Here's you doing a Dr. Evil imitation!! Hehe!!

Coming home, and the first months

We brought you home on the Friday after you were born. You were a bit jaundiced, but not too seriously so. We were told to put you in sunlight, a bit hard in Norway in January, and to nurse you frequently. Mom did that, and we put you under the window (we had a skylight window on Stjerneveien) whenever we could find some real sunlight. You got over the jaundice within a few weeks.
You loved to eat and to be awake, and it was amazing how much caught your eye at such a young age. You hated your baby carriage! Being confined with the carriage bonnet constricting your view was not cool! So we carried you everywhere, and you liked that a whole lot!

The first day

Here are pictures of your first days. Your first hug from dad, first face-to-face meeting with your mom, first hello to your Mormor and more!!
We didn't want to know your gender before your birth, and since mom had to be in the recovery room for a while before she could meet you, She didn't know your gender when she first woke up from the anasthesia. She had asked the nurses not to tell her, only to tell her that you were healthy. But several times in those first two hours before she could see you, nurses came in and almost spilled the beans. As dazed and excited as she was, she kept having to say "wait, please don't tell me the gender!" And then dad came in with you, and she was in awe at the tiny, perfect little boy she finally got to meet!!