Trip North - Minnesota

(it's really hard to get blog posts done when a small child won't ever let you sit at your computer, doesn't nap and doesn't go to bed until really late at night...)

We just spent about a week and a half up north visiting family. We went to Minnesota first.

Here's Silje, hanging out with Auntie Karin.



Perhaps she didn't like something Auntie Karin had to say?



Or perhaps there's a reason I call her my little lizard. (With Karin's friend Holli)



We went to a party with some camp friends and both kids were a hit. Silje for her cuddliness and Stian for being so amusing.





Towards the end of the evening Kris pulled out his guitar to lead people singing camp songs. As he sat on his guitar case playing the guitar and leading the songs, Stian stood along side him up on the guitar case, singing along loudly. Stian doesn't know the words to any of these songs, but that didn't stop him. He sang along, with conviction, and with gestures. It was really quite adorable and made everyone giggle. I couldn't get a picture of this, as it was dark by that time, and I was holding Silje. But Kris's friend Kai took a picture and we have a copy of it. Kris took it to work though, so I will try to get it from him and scan it. Stian sure looked like he was getting ready to be a camp counselor.

We spent time just hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house.





We also went down to St. James and visited with Great Auntie Ikey.















And Stian slept in the car on the ride back to the Cities. Stian sleeping in the car is a pretty rare occurance these days.



Silje hung out with Klebo (they were awfully cute together - Klebo is so good with kids - Stian had a blast playing with Klebo, we just don't seem to have any picture evidence of that):



And she hung out and chatted with Grandpa:





Then Silje and I went to breakfast with Laura one morning:



And Stian loved the Candyland game she gave him, and it was perfect for entertaining an antsy little boy in the hospital family lounge. (I apparently am awful at Candyland. Who knew? I got creamed by Stian, then Grandma and then Kris.)



And Silje hung out with Uncle Brad too.