Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Freja: Fastelavn


Yesterday was a kids holiday in Denmark, called Fastelavn. The tradition is for children to dress up in costumes then go about asking for treats, much like the 'trick or treat' tradition in the UK.
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Freja had a bumble bee costume Mette made (after she'd spent a day making costumes for other kids and had little time left), but Freja hated wearing the hat with antenae and the wings never even got made... the results were less than impressive, but we both thought she was as cute as a button. It was difficult to get her to wear the hat at all and even the above, lousy photograph, took all our collected parenting skills to acheive.
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In the mean while, the Snoos has taken to sitting beside me at the keyboard and dictating what we look at. Her favourite game is to browse pictures of us three and name who is in each picture, Dada, Mama and 'Deja'. Every so often we come to a picture of some other person and Freja makes up a noise name for them. The only other person she seems to be able to recognise well enough to name is her maternal grandmother, but this has long been the case.
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Så blev det Snusen's første rigtig fastelavn og i den anledning havde vuggestuen arrangeret et forældre dag hvor man kunne kom og nyde en kop kaffe sammen med sine børn. Så, klokken to dukkede jeg op og opdaget et nærmest tom rum. Seks børn (ingen Freja) sad og spiste sammen med en af medhjælperne og de gloede allesammen på mig med skræk i øjnene. Jeg ved ikke hvorfor så mange børn er bange for mig. Der er ikke dem allesammen så det må være et eller andet ved mit ansigt der skræmmer, eller er det måske fordi jeg er grim...?
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Når, men på et tidspunkt dukkede Mette op og så var vi de eneste to forældre til sted. Freja sov stadig så vi sad og trillede tommelfingene. Mette fortælte at hun havde fået en praktik plads ved Teko centret, og så kom Snusen!

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All børn var iklædt deres sjovt dragter men Freja gad ikke hendes 'bomlebi hue', so hun lignede altsa en ninja eller et eller andet. Personnelet var meget glade for de andre dragter Mette havde lavet og prøvet og få hende interesseret i at lave nogle andre dragter til vuggestuen. Jeg tror ikke Mette gad. Freja sad så og spiste sin forkost og Mette og jeg fik boller og kaffe of en snak med nogle af personnelet. Det var sjøvt at se børnene leje. Der er en pige ved stuen som hedder Malou og some er meget sød. Hun kan altid få mig tid at grin fordi hun ser altid så alvorligt ud, men er parat til at smil hvis jeg siger noget til hende. Nogle af de andre børn er åbenbart så bange for mig at bare jeg kigger på dem begynder deres læber at ryste!
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5 comments:

Cyan said...

Aww...I love the antenae. She's such a cutie with or without wings.

bucket said...

moif is this Fastelavn like a Fastnacht? I so miss Fasnacht it is so much fun :)

bucket said...

ps your babe is a very cute little bumble

marinergrim said...

You could smile once in while Moif. there's your daughter making all of us go "aaaahhhh!" and making us smile even though we don't know her.

she's cute and looks great. Make the most of it because before you know it she'll be a teenager.

Anonymous said...

Freya is such a cutie.

Pretty soon, she'll be using the computer on her own. It didn't take long for David to do that.