The Night Owls!

Check out our new bike-lights!

We do night riding every Tuesday going to and from karate. Because it is winter here now it turns dark early at night. At least we'll be visible now!

Missed it!

Today at school, Agnes lost her front tooth! ....so I missed it :( But she came home with the tooth all wrapped up and a special little certificate.

Now, that called for a celebration - they had a friend over so we made cookies after dinner. Mmmmmmmmm. Agnes was the head baker. How cute does she look without her front tooth?!

Three little hearts

...one love heart for my Milla, one love heart for my Agnes and one love heart for my little Elliot. Pretty much perfect!

 

Photo: Camilla Pihl's blogg and necklace can be found at David Andersen in Norway.

...I like to be flexible!

This week Elliot was the Superstar of the week:

...and Agnes presented her artwork describing herself:

'I like to do drama and I like to be flexible'

Soccer Sundays

Sunday mornings are full of cheering! Sundays at our house start with soccer matches at 9 o'clock. At least yesterday it didn't rain!

Dandelion beauty!

I love my little ceramics vase that I bought on our trip to the Lofoten Islands. Today Agnes has filled it with dandelion beauty.

Facto-Milla!

Sometimes when grocery shopping, the girls get to choose a magazine each. Most of the time they go for Pony or Girl magazines, but lately Milla has chosen this one:

It is apparently her most favourite magazine ever! The wall above her bed is covered in posters of planets and birds, her favourite TV show is Factomania, and she goes to science club after school every thursday. I think we have a little scientist in the house!

Here is a Youtube clip she presented at Show&Tell at school this week when she talked about Factomania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJYONN-B1I

Schnappi das kleines krokodille!

The girls performed in German at school today. Milla (left of the two girls in turquoise jumpers) did a song about recycling 

and Agnes and Elliot had made crocodile hand puppets and performed this song:

Here they are with their puppets, which we made out of egg cartons.

Schniiii, schnaaaa, schnappiiiiiii - I've got that song on my brain now.... :D

ACTION!!! CUT!!!

Guess what we did yesterday? We were on a film-set and Milla, Agnes and Elliot filmed a commercial! They are so excited and can't wait until it is showing on TV! 

The little actresses were so good - enduring long hours of taping and even longer hours of waiting in-between takes. Here is another one of the stars in the commercial - her name is Molly, she is a Boston Terrier and she just l-o-v-e-d the fruit we brought to snack on! I have never  seen a dog eat oranges before. The lady in the picture is Milla, Agnes and Elliot's 'pretend' mum in the film. They thought that was heaps funny - 'wow, we have a pretend mum! Does that mean we have a step-mum now?'

Milla and Elliot wrote a journal to their classes about the learning experience of filming for TV that they will present at school tomorrow.

And here is 'the set' - the big studio where the action was caught on tape. Lots of people involved for sound and cameras and still shots and close ups...

The girls had a great day on set, learning about how the ads and commercials we see on TV is being made. And more so, the fact that they got a pay check at the end of the day seemed to impress them even more - I don't know what they plan to spend their money on :D

Winter knitting!

It's wintertime...brrrrr! Time for lighting fireplaces and winter activities such as...

...knitting! Milla is learning how to knit and she is doing pretty well. This is the first time she has tried, and I am probably not the best teacher...I cannot do 'kaste over med haanda, men bare plukke opp traaden med strikkepinnen'. Anyway, she is managing and knitting a scarf for little Ted.

 

Elliot is not cold in the beanie she got from Ben...

Goal keeper!

Now that the World Cup is on and all, there is a lot of soccer on the agenda in our household...(sigh). At the girls soccer match yesterday morning, Agnes got to be the goalie = one very happy Agnes - never mind the pouring rain! She worked hard on stopping the balls, resulting in 3-3.

 

Go Agnes!!!

 

Moonspotting on Friday the 13th

The moon on Friday was gigantic! Driving home from work (dark early now that it's winter here) I just had to pull over and take a photo. Not the greatest picture as I only had my iPhone, but apparently the next time we'll have a full moon on a Friday the 13th will be in 2049. So I'm savoring the moment!

Sanctuary Cove: Last day...

All good things must come to an end...our last minutes in Sanctuary Cove consisted of  tooth-loss, swimming, soaking up some sunshine, and golf-buggy-racing...

Milla managed to lose a tooth as well!

Besten off to pick up sleepy-head-Besta:D

The girls enjoyed their holiday!

Besta was gathering decorating ideas :D

...leaving on a jet plane...

 

...and we're back home!