Det bliver interessant at se hvordan hun bliver på virket af længer tids samvære med andre børn.
Jeg har det lidt mærkeligt for tiden, ud over denne irriterende smert i skridet, er det nu også nyheden fra København.
Camilla (Mette's veninde) har fået en dreng, men han er to måneder for tidligt og vejer ikke mere end 900 gram. Stakkels Camilla har det ikke særlig godt og vi håber hun snart får vished omkring hendes søn. En som er født så tidligt er udsat for alt muligt risiko og det må være forfærdeligt skrammende.
Today was Freja's first day in day care. She only spent 3 hours there, but it was a success. She enjoyed herself and didn't kick up a fuss. Afterwards she spent the rest of the day with me, playing games and pretending to be various animals.
Her development is happening so fast that I can hardly keep up. This afternoon, after she'd been let down fromthe dinner table, I put on some tunes and Snoos started dancing, arms crossed, 'MTV hip hop style', then she noticed a packet of Chocolate biscuits on my desk and pointed at them, shouting "Meh meh!". At first I wasn't sure what she was pointing at, or rather I did, but couldn't believe it. So I handed her the packet whch was unopened and she started fumbling at it. Mette said, she was trying to open it. She understood what the biscuits were and was not happy until she had half a digestive in her hand.
Since Mette doesn't buy chocolate biscuits, and I've never given her one, I am at a loss as to how Freja knew what they were.
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Hello Moif:
I accidently stumbled across your blog a few weeks ago and was immediately struck by the beautiful nautical picture you have in the heading. After browsing the site a bit, I find myself coming back time and again.
I just wanted to say that I like your site. Probably because we have some similar interests. Best of luck and keep writing. I'll keep visiting.
Thank you.
The image of the ship is from a promotional poster for the film 'Master and Commander'. It is meant to be the 28 gun frigate, HMS Surprise.
I wasn't sure if you would ever visit my modest little blog again (it pales in insignificance compared to yours), so I decided to copy my response here where you would see it.
Photo Finish is a horse racing simulation that I participate in. The game does not take place in real time. We are in the 2008 racing season right now. For breeding purposes, War Machine is fully booked with broodmares in 2008, so I am taking reservations for 2009, hence the "2009 book".
Love your daughters name by the way. Named after the Viking Goddess of Love?
Well, technically, Freja was the goddess of fertility, but its close enough.
=)
The problem is, if we have a second daughter, then what to call her. Good old Scandinavian names are rare for girls. Most are now considered too ugly.
I favour Thyra, pronounced Too-ra, (the name of one of Denmarks oldest and most famous Viking queens) but Mette is dead against it, because its too 'old fashioned' and Tyr (the male equivalent) means bull... so okay, I can understand that, its not too cool to have a daughter called Bull.
...and then there is the unusual notion of a female equivelent of a bull, what is that? Its not a cow, since that is a whole other word...
Bullette?
Hee hee hee...
If it ever becomes relevent, we may have to look beyond Scandinavia. Mette likes Molly or Belle, but I love the Icelandic name Gunturun (yes, that actually is a girls name).
...and Mette doesn't like it.
Goddess of Fertility! That's right. I actually read that somewhere once.
You know, I kind of like Thyra. I like the pronounciation Too-ra. It wouldn't be old-fashioned over here. It would be cutting edge. I understand Mette's concern over the Bull aspect though.
Molly is one of the most popular names in the US now. I don't know if that is a good thing or not. :)
You can solve the potential problem by just having a boy. There must be tons of awesome, masculine, male Viking names!
There are some great male names too, but they are mostly considered old fashioned and Mette doesn't seem to like any of them at all.
The thing is, I grew up in the UK so I have a different angle on these names, but Mette grew up here and she has a whole different attitude towards Scandinavian names.
I think that Thyra is a lovely name.
Before the Snoos was born, and we didn't know whether we were about to have a son or a daughter, we played with several names. Both of us liked the name Olivia, and its become Freja's middle name. This seems prudent in the eventuality that she grows up disliking her name, for though Freja was not a common name in our generation, it seems to be so in hers. The other day, coming home from Copenhagen on the ferry, Mette was in the ships play room and no less then six other little girls called Freja were also there!!!
If Freja had been a boy though, she probably would have been called Leander (pronounced Lee-ander), or possibly Lysander (pronounced Lieu-sander)
Mette now says she doesn't like those names any more, though they were her choices. Now she favours the name Maximillian...
Hmmmf
I think Maximillian is a tad too bombastic and way to Teutonic for my liking.
We both like the name Emil though. Pronounced E-meal.
There are so many names, but so few of them seem appropriate. I cannot stand religious names. It puts a chill on my heart to hear them for it seems like the loss of identity to be named after some biblical character. My family name is Christensen and just that annoys me no end. I'm seriously considering changing my name to something more Danish and less Christian.
Names are a tough thing. They have to have some staying power because you'll have to like them for a long time.
I think I agree with you Moif on Maximillian.
I named my first son James after me, but he has a different middle name. Then we wanted to use names that were still mainstream, but just a bit off the top ten list.
Son #2 became Reid. Son #3 became Grant. Our last child and only daughter was named Celeste.
Celeste is a nice name too.
Grant seems very 'American', but thats probably because I'm thinking of General Grant.
Not sure about Reid. Thats not a name I've come into contact with before. How do you pronounce it?
Reid is pronounced REED.
I believe it is of Irish-Gaelic origin.
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