CONGRATS Farmor Allaug!!

Congratulations ! on the birth of your grandchild
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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats. I’m hoping that some day soon we will get the word that we are becoming grands.

I didn’t see that you had made my grandson a special thread, Cheryl – what a touching surprise!:) 🙂

I’ll have to post his picture one more time, then, won’t I:rolleyes:
– and when I get more pics, I can just keep ’em coming, now that he has an official space on the Forum! And the best: it wasn’t my own idea (he-he!)

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Congratulations!!!
Grandkids are the BEST!!!!

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[SIZE=”5″]Your grandson is very handsome[/SIZE]

Thank you very much, Iowagirl and Jim, on behalf of the parents & grandparents!

What a great event. Congradulations.

[SIZE=”4″]Congratulations! [SIZE=”2″]Babies are such a precious gift from God. Enjoy!![/SIZE][/SIZE]

Yes, he is cute. With all the excitement you forgot to tell us his name 😀

Farmor, is your husband then farfar? If you had a daughter with a baby would you be the mormor? Interesting how the family relationships are used in Norwegian as compared to English and German.

Thanks, everyone – it sooo nice to receive all the congratulations from across the Pond – I hereby pronounce you all honorary aunts and uncles 🙂 🙂 .

Your linguistic deductions are quite right Norb – it goes to show Norwegian (and Danish plus Swedish), English and German belong to the same linguistc family: the Germanic, from the time the Germanic tribes spread north from where Germany is to-day to England and Scandinavia.

I’m such a proud farmor to-day because I made the little guy sleep in his crib twice, using sweet-talk, holding his head in my hand while coaxing him to keep his comforter in his mouth.

The reason I haven’t told you his name, is because it’s not yet completely decided upon, but I’ll tell you as soon as the decision is final. The only thing I can say is that my son wants his son’s initials to be W.W.W., (:D)something that my daughter-in-law is not so sure about – she thinks W.W. will suffice. Between us: I tend to side with her!

It’s too late to post a picture now, but you won’t wait in vain, I can assure you.

Congradulations!He is precious!!!

I hope you’ll appreciate the very first picture of our WILLIAM. It’s a fairly common name in Norway too, but here we’ll never call him Bill or Billy for short. If he’ll have a nickname it will probably be Will or Wille.

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This picture obviously belongs on this thread:

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To-day William is a whole week old. Unfortunately we haven’t had time to visit, but his proud father told us on the phone that everything was fine. Eating and sleeping is still the young’un’s “favourite waste of time”, but I think that’s OK with his parents. He seems not to be one of them “cry-babies”, at least up until now, except when his mother had eaten broccoli!:D

Here they are, father and son:

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Son and his baby ~ what a thrill to any mother’s heart!! Beautiful!

Just thought that all William’s American honorary aunts and uncles would like to see him dressed up on Easter Sunday!

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Wonderful!! What a handsome guy!!

What a little darling! 🙂

Tanks, Aunties – I think he is – objectively speaking;) – so cute myself, and has exceptionally “finished” traits already – at 11 days. (He is 15 to-day – days, not years:D )

Congratulations Allaug and thank you for the beautiful photos. I really like the Easter Sunday photo 😀

Here he is yesterday, with hugs to all, well fed and content, William at 18 days old:

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What a beautiful baby!!

I can see the peaceful thoughts flowing through his tiny mind. I believe you have a future leader there!

To sum up the first four weeks of this special person, here is Wee Sir William in his unique bed, that hangs from a hook in the ceiling::cool:

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What I cute baby. Enjoy him lots because they grow up to soon.

William sends his greetings to all that visit this thread and presents a picture of himself very intrigued by the strange things dangling above him. Here he is 6 1\2 weeks old: Life is fun!

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🙂 🙂 🙂

He is such a beautiful little baby and one day William be break all the girls hearts.

He is so cute!! Enjoy!!

After having known my dad for 9 1\2 weeks, I’ve found that he can be quite hilarious:

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A radiant smile to everyone from
Wee William of Norway!

Lacking 11 days on three months, I just want you to know I’m all right and amazed about all the curious things around me. Besides feeding and sleeping, I just learn, learn, learn!

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Wee William sends his love to all of you through
“farmor Allaug”:) 🙂

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Allaug, I use some software to get ride of the red eye and lighten the background.

Thank you, Jim! So nice of you to “doctor” the picture. I can do that myself on Picasa, but I haven’t figured out how to upload from Picasa to MyFrappr yet. Perhaps it’s very easy, I just haven’t had the time. I know how to export the Picasa versions back to “My pictures”, but that’s a matter of time too, you know!

Thanks again, Jim:) 🙂

On behalf of Wee William, his farmor has the extreme pleasure of presenting his “Official Four Months’ Portrait”:

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with love to everyone, especially Cheryl, Norb, Ken-L and Jim C!

If you really want to see how he grows, aunt Cheryl, I guess I have to post a picture every week;)

Hey Allaug, looks like you have all reason to be a proud farmor.

Here is our latest addition, Kai, now about 1 month old (or close). I just found out this morning that Sydney is going to have a little brother, due December. Our daughter wanted another girl, but so it goes. 😀

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I’m sooo jealous of those beautiful babies! Some day I’ll get to be a grandma. Just trying to figure out how they got that great hair. My son was born with hardly any, just little tufts of red which fell out.

Her is an “old” photo (of not so good quality) but still something worth sharing – Wee William ready for the disco floor at 3 1\2 months:

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farmor

At last I have time to help William send his hellos to everybody again, now at 5 months:

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All the best from farmor

What a cute baby, Allaug 😀

[FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=3]What a cute little fellow !;) [/SIZE][/FONT]

After having given beer but a glance, (see:”….Picture to share”), our little protagonist found it was worth a try to have some semi-solid food put in (on!) his face:

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Rumour will have it that it was a huge success!
I can’t wait to meet him again (October 8th) and let him get a mini-taste of my 100% ecological applesauce!;)

Let me proudly present to you, a little belatedly I’m afraid, (the date itself was September 28th) the Official Half Year Picture of my one and only
[B]grandson WILLIAM[/B]

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who is now crawling along, discovering more and more of his imminent surroundings, and we hope he soon will find out that it hurts if he does not stop when he reaches the wall:D !

I’ll also take the opportunity to congratulate myself on my 800th posting on this wonderful forum!

Your picture just brings a smile to my face. He is adorable! I can just picture him crawling like a madman! Thanks for sharing!

Cute picture, Allaug. It brings back good memories and a preview of what’s ahead of us once again.

Time flies like wind (and fruit flies like pears, but that is another story, entirely!) and our sweet William has been with us for a little more than seven months already. But before passing that landmark, he reached a couple of even more important milestones a couple of days before:

No. 1. He figured out how to turn himself around and sit on his bum – and keep his balance so he could keep sitting. Here’s the proof:

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No 2: see next posting

NO 2 (Contd. from above posting):

William also found out that he could drag himself up along the bars of his crib and stand on his own. To his parents big surprise he woke them up one morning by babbling from another angle than before, and when his mother opened her eyes towards his bed, she saw only legs and feet, and the sound was coming from sort of above. He is proud of himself and we are very proud of him. Here is the proof of this story:

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Hugs to everybody, especially to Aunti C. from
(not so) Wee William

This time there is no photo, but the story of “Sandman vs. Jerry Lee Lewis”:

William was sitting in his chair with a table in front of it, and grandpa (the “other” one) had given him his cell-phone which was playing grampa’s favourite music – mostly rock ‘n roll classics. William enjoyed it immensely and started jumping up and down like he has been doing since he was 3 months, only this time he jumped to the beat of the music, which was something new, and worth boasting of in itself, in my view of course:cool:

The phone was on random play and went on and on, and William kept jumping incessantly, almost in a trance. After quite a while he suddenly started to rub his eyes, jumping and rubbing at the same time. The phone was laying on the table under his arms. I was watching him closely, because I expected what happened just some seconds later – his head fell down on his arms – but the phone went on playing, and William went on jumping with his head down on his arms a few moments, then up again like a jack-in-the-box. Down his head fell once more, but his little nappy-bum kept the beat, going up and down from the seat of his chair. I think his head emerged only once more time while the music was enthralling him, but finally Sandman won the battle and William fell asleep on top of the phone in the middle of “Great Balls of Fire”!

He slept for about half an hour and the phone was playing all the time, because we were afraid that he would wake up if the music stopped. And guess what happened only seconds after he woke up? You were right: he went right on “bum-banging” again as if there had been no break, but at that point his mother found that enough was enough, and switched off the phone. I wouldn’t have been surprised if William had protested, but he found my necklace on the table, and started to examine it and didn’t utter a sound – and we were all enjoying the relative silence even though none of us dislikes good ol’ Rock and Roll!

That was really funny. Thanks for sharing the story.

You really have a point there, Cheryl and btw. AFV is one of my favourite shows!

Well, I think it’s about time I gave you an update on WWW i.e. “Wonderboy William Wisth”, on this pic already 7 1\2 months, taken the day after my birthday, when the family came to celebrate:

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Finally, 4 1\2 months after they bought their house, it was ready to move into last Sunday, so now there will be a rather big change in William’s every-day life. I wonder how he’ll take it, but time will show.

Farmor

Aaaaww! He is beautiful! I cant believe he is so big already, they just grow up so fast.

I got inspired by the sweet picture of Opa Norb and his 5 months old grandson Kai to post this picture of Farfar “Hubby” and grandson William 7 months:

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Happy sighs from Farmor

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Allaug~

I haven’t been on the forums for months, but I was moved to take a look again tonight. I was delighted to see this thread and to catch up on not so wee William. He is such a cute boy!! And your stories are delightful!

Glad to hear you are all doing well!

Farmor Allaug and William, here as Santa’s Little Helper:

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wish all our friends on the Forum

[FONT=”Comic Sans MS”][SIZE=”6″][COLOR=”Red”]MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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William is having “the time of his life” (so far), partying every day with relatives on both sides. The picture was taken 11 days befor X-mas eve, which is the “big Day” here, and the very thought of it makes him smile in anticipation.

Concerning presents, this smile was no too big anyway:D !

You special moments with William are a special treasure. Each, grandchild has something special to offer us and the world. Keep this important moments comming.

William had his best Christmas ever!

On Santa’s knee he got what he wished for immediately: (But unfortunately the red wine wasn’t for him – he was allowed to hold the bottle for a little while, though!)

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Great pictures. At least the Santa outfit fits him. We had problems with Sawyer. At 2 weeks he is still too small to find anything the right size.

😉 [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=4][COLOR=purple] Now that’s a cute little Santa !;) [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

Thanks for the positive feedback, Norb and Terry!

Soon – hopefully – I’ll be able to post pic’s taken by yours truly with my brand new camera! I got myself one for X-mas – “because I deserve it!”;)

William also sends his hugs across the pond to all of you, but he wonders where aunt Cheryl are these days – did the tiger take her:eek: ??

Tuesday we are going to William’s house to demolish their ginger-bread house, and then I’ll try out my photographic skills on our little “hero” and the task in hand.

See you all soon!

The Christmas Ginger-Bread House:

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The Demolition Dude:

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Mission Accomplished:

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Now that is a demolition crew. Great picture.

Hello from Norway!

A week ago our wee William turned 10 months, and here is a picture to show his delight that day:

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He has made tremendous progress the last couple of weeks, and last Friday he figured out how to clap his hands to make a sound. Unfortunately I can’t show you a video showing this extraordinary skill:D , but here is another pick with his favourite father and ditto stuffed rat:

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On behalf of William himself I wish you all the very best!

Great photos, Allaug

We were at my son’s last Saturday, and “Wee” William was as lively as ever. I took a lot of pictures, and I couldn’t resist sharing these two with y’all:

Proud father and happy son on the couch:

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Curious son head first down from the same couch:

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(I look forward to, but also dread the day he learns to walk! 😮 )

What a beautiful child!! No wonder you “burst your buttons” when you have new pictures to share 😀

Hello everybody!

On the day before William was 11 months old, his dad turned 30 years, and we all went to a nice restaurant in Oslo (9 of us in all) to celebrate. We had such a good time, and William had a very nice evening at the table, as you can see from his expression:

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We were at the restaurant for several hours, and both my son and my grandson behaved very well all the time:D !

Thanks for the sharing your joy. We have a neighbor who allways tell us, “If I knew before that being a grandfather was so much fun, I would have skipped father and went straight to grandfather. Maybe something he does not quit understand but I do agree with the sentiment.

Here’s a photo taken yesterday, March 20th, of William having a ball with a ball – on my kitchen floor. He is having his first birthday in a week, and I’ll be back with a pic then, but in the meantime enjoy this:

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It is really great to be a grandparent. Enjoy your new grandson!

Great shot, Allaug. He is so cute

Report from William’s first birthday bash:

First we had cake:

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and then there was dancing::cool:

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William is holding an MP3 player and giving us his best with his bum towards the sofa-back, his knees working perfectly to the beat! (He does not yet walk.)

Happy 1st Birthday William. May the joy of life continue for you and all your family.

Last Friday we celebrated William’s Great Day for the second time, because his maternal grandparents had been away on holiday on March 28th.

Here is a snapshot of our “main charachter” preparing the cake for this second celebration:

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The result was delicious, we call them “Twisted Cinnamon Buns” – everyone’s favourite, they even beat the chocolate cake!

He has the talent to bake. Wow! Enjoy the precious moments.

Thank you, Mauricette – we really do!

In addition to helping his mother bake, William is also essential when it comes to figure out how to assemble IKEA furniture – like me, he loves that kind of challenge:D !

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He also sends a hug to everyone!

Allaug,

He is adorable….I want one! Not as my own though….can’t wait for my baby granddaughter to reach this age. They are so much fun.

Sunday, May 4th was the last day I saw William before going to the island for the summer, and we spent a lot of time outdoors – and here’s the picture to prove it:
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My son has promised me to keep me informed and send me some new photos until we meet again in the middle of July.

Love to all from William through Farmor

May 17th is our National Day (Constitution Day), and I just had to share William all dressed up for the occation:

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Unfortunately the weather was so horrible (almost snowing!), that the celebration mostly took place at home.

Thank you, Cheryl – William is so pleased to hear from you, you make him (and Farmor) so proud!

Farfar and I can’t wait to welcome our little “crown prince” to our “estate” here on the island. William and his parents are comming here for their holiday in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, let me celebrate the 100th posting here by telling you all that now William is walking (running), but unfortunately I haven’t any picture to prove it yet. This photo, however, will corroborate my testimony that he is able to feed himself:

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(He has a very patient mother!;) )

At last William has arrived in the realm where he is the Crown Prince. (I’m now retired to the position of “King Mother”).

We are in the middle of the strawberry season here, and to-day I present to you the moment after H.R.H the Prince has emptied a bowl of strawberries in more ways than one. He seems to enjoy getting the berries both inside and out:

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I’ll just add that he’s already charmed all the neighbours, and the boys a few years older han him compete in lending and\or giving him their old toys.

“King Mother”, what a beautiful “Little Prince”! Aren’t grandchildren just the most amazing gift 😀

Last Sunday I met William and the rest of the family for the first time since the middle of July, and new pictures were of course taken. He grows up so fast, and he’s now a real toddler and not a baby any more. Next month he will already be a year and a half, but at that time I’ll be at the island. He doesn’t say any words yet, but makes a lot of special sounds, and it’s never hard to know what he wants (or doesn’t want, for that matter:D ).

Here is his portrait from Sunday:

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He sends his love to everybody on the Forum!

Allaug-William is going to be a heart breaker. What a handsome lad he is becoming…..Emma

Ohh they are so cute! Makes you want to eat them up with kissies! Congrats on the new baby! Thank-you for sharing these. Babies are a special treat for us grand-parents. We get to love them and hold them and then when they start crying we can hand them back over to their mommy! LOL! Hugs:D

What a joy to have grand children. But they sure do grow up so!! fast.

Thank you all for your nice comments – my heart jumps with pride and joy every time I read one of them. I hope you don’t feel I’m overdoing it by still posting pictures of my little prince. I love hims so much I feel I have to share my joy with as many others as possible!

He is so adorable. He looks just like my son did at that age. Believe me they grow up way to fast..my son is now 18 in college and talking about joining the navy. WOW

What a handsome little prince! And those beautiful eyes, lady killers for sure, he’ll have to beat them off with a stick 😀 Please keep the pix and posts coming. We all [B]need [/B]good news. I know it lightens my heart when I finally read some good news of the day!

It’s so nice to be able to share in here and show our pride and joys! You grandbaby is going to be a handsome one in later year. He’s already adorable!

I’m overjoyed with your answers and comments, and so are William and his parents – they take a peek in here every now and then too.

My, oh my how time flies – my one and only grandson turned 18 months yesterday, so I thought a couple of follow-up pics would be of interest (at least I’m very interested in showing them:D)

Here is his portrait:

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and here is all of him:

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(Hee looks a little dirty, but most of it is eczema.)

Here is William at the Family reunion dinner. He sit for hours and behaves when we go to restaurants, as long as he has something to study and\or play with on the table when there is no food in front of him:

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Wow, he is a cutie. And drinking from a regular glass! They don’t stay little long… It’s great that he is so good when he is out, makes it so much easier to go places. Invariably you see a little one behaving and as soon as the food is brought out for the parents, etc., the cuties start acting up. We (my hub and I) see this quite often. It makes us want to go over there and keep the child occupied while the others eat, haha!

[FONT=Palatino Linotype]Great photos Allaug, just enjoy every minute of it you can before long he’ll be grown. These yrs just seem to go by too quick ![/FONT]

What a handsome little guy. It’s great you have shared him with us from the time he was born. I wasn’t here then but have gone back and looked at all the photos.
Shirley

Thank you all for your nice comments!

I really feel great to be able to “show off” my one and only! I’m dying to go visiting William, but his dad is so busy at work in November that I have to make do with the photos I have. Here is one taken about an hour later than the last one I posted, when he had had his hot-dog with fries and CRANBERRY-SAUCE (the red around hs mouth is not ketchup-red as you can see):

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Oh Allaug, he is so cute! Brings back memories of my baby boy (who is now 22 😮 ). He loved cranberry sause, would eat it plain like you would jello or a dessert. He still loves it.

We were celebrating my birthday last Sunday, and to help keep William busy, I had bought him a “Dumpster”. Here he is, studying it for the first time. He is now 20 months:

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He sends his love to all his aunts and uncles at the Forum!

Oh, yes, I just want to tell you that my friend Ellen knitted William the nice sweater!

Gosh Allaug! He sure is doing some growing. They just don’t stay babies long enough do they? They grow to fast. He is a very cute little boy! I bet you give him lots of kissies and hugs! Happy Thanksgiving!
Linda H

Allaug,
He is even cuter looking without the cranberry sauce.
Beautiful sweater your friend made.

William and I are proudly informing the world (i.e. everybody on the Forum) that he is going to be a big brother in the early fall:D !

Imagine having still another one as cute as this:

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And to-morrow and Sunday we, the four grandparents, are going to have him all to our selves without any interferece from nervous parents – they are in Copenhagen;)

We are going to spoil him rotten and let him play in the snow as much as he likes even though he has a slight cold.

Hey Allaug! What a beautiful boy! I know you have much fun having him around. Something us grandparents have to enjoy in life! I think they are so sweet at that age. I have been watching the Casey Anthony Case where her two year old daughter at that time vanished. She has done nothing but lie even to her parents. Then they found her babies remains in a garbage bag! That really upsets me for her baby was so beautiful.
I don’t know why a mother would even do such a thing! I love my grandchildren! They are really fun having around and so loving and we get the fun of spoiling them! Thanks for sharing! He is adorable!
Linda H

Congratulations. He needs a sister now to keep him balanced as he gets older. Whenever I see a photo of William I think he looks so Scandinavian/European. Cute kid.

Here is a little update on William. Hubby and I went to Germany last weekend and as a home-coming gift we bought W. a train. He loved it so much, he had to give it a hug:

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He is such a little sweetie…I’m sure he loves his grandma and grandpa. Thanks for sharing with the rest of us

Allaug, It’s is sure great to be a grandparent. What a joy and wonderful memories too.

Believe it or not, but our dear little grandson is already less than a month away from his 2nd anniversary, and I just wanted to share two more pictures before he turns two. Here he is on his rocking horse. He got the horse as a gift on his first christmas, but it has been left in a corner up until recently when he finally was able to mount it himself, cuddle it and drag it along by it’s ear:

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What a little darling! Keep hugging him lots 😀

To-day is the big day:
[B]HRH William the Cute[/B] has reached his second birthday, and Farmor has selected her recent favourite picture to celebrate the occasion:

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We are going to have a big party at the other grandparents’ house in the afternoon with hot dogs and a huge layer-cake. There will be about 20 guests aging from 2 to 92 years.

What a great pic. Happy 2nd Birthday William. Isn’t it great to be a grandparent?
Hope your birthday party was a great success.

Because of trouble with the picture programming on my ‘puter, this picture of H.R.H William crowned at his 2nd birthday, has been unavailable until now:

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He was very pleased with the party, the cakes and all the guests, but he didn’t really get the point of unwrapping all the presents. The older children did most of that:D

Thank you Cheryl!
At two years and two months our William manages to ascend the slide in the garden and go down – which is sooo much fun:D – all by himself! And he is very proud of himself, and he has the right to be, it’s an achievement:

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Boy has he grown Allaug. But such a handsome little fellow he is. Allaug.. he is going to have the girls chasing him when he gets older! LOL! So warn his parents ahead of time! That way they can be prepared when the girls start knocking on the door to see their son! Hugs
Linda H

William is so adorable. He is sure growing up. It makes all of us forum aunties feel old. Thanks for always sharing pictures, it makes us feel like family.

Hugs and kisses to the grandbabies

I haven’t been on the forum for quite a while, so my thanks to Stormy and Linda comes a little late!

Here I am on the island again, and I haven’t seen William for several weeks. Yesterday, however, “the other grandparents” phoned me and said they would come to visit Hubby and me the second week of July, taking William along:) 🙂 I can’t wait!

In the meantime, here is a picture of our Hero, with a cool touch frolicing in possibilities of play the winter offers:

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How darling !!!! That looks so refreshing ! It’s in the 90’s here today in the middle of the US…with high humidity. We go outside and gasp for breath and immediately sweat ! The only place to be is the pool !

William came, saw and – collapsed:

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He went home again last Friday, and now we won’t see him again until he has had the honour of becoming a BIG BROTHER!

Great pictures, Allaug. I think Norway is the place to be. We are in Oklahoma now for the next 4 weeks. The heat at 41 C and high humidity is so bad, it hits you like a wall going outdoors. 😮

Thank you, Cheryl and Norb – and of course Norway is always the place to be – to-day with a little above 20 C in the shade and in the sea 😀

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I called my daughter-in-law up to-day to congratulate her on her birthday, and William tried to give me his toy boat through the phone. It turned out that it was far more easy to give it to “the other” grandpa, who was sitting next to the play pool.

My daughter-in-law said that she was so heavy with child now, that she could hardly stand on her feet, and she felt that “Girlie” was eager and ready to pop her head out to take a look at the world (the rest of her would certainly follow easily:p )

I’ll keep you posted!:D

Yes, yesterday it happened!!

“Girlie” came at 7.32 a.m., just two hours after her parents left home, heading for the hospital. It was such a stroke of luck that she decided to arrive so early in the morning, because if they had left home at 7.32 they would have been caught in the morning rush-hour, and even though they probably would have made it to the hospital in two hours anyway, they would certainly have been completely stressed out:eek:

“Girlie” has no “official” name as yet, but like her brother William, she was 48 cm long and weighed 3200 grammes, almost 500 more than her brother!

Since we are 250 kilomeres away from our new granddaughter, it is physically impossible for us to take her photograph, and both her father and grandfather in Oslo are obviously too busy to have time to e-mail us any of the ones they – hopefully – have taken yesterday. But I promise to share the best with you all as soon as I have “seen” her myself.

Hubby and I are going to Oslo to meet her and the rest of the family in about 10 days. I’m certainly looking forward to it!

Farmor Allaug proudly presents “Girlie’s” first portrait:

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[FONT=”Comic Sans MS”][SIZE=”7″][COLOR=”Blue”]Congradulations Farmor Allaug!!![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

Thanks Cheryl and Jim!
I spoke with William and his parents on the phone to-day (William still only makes sounds, but very cute ones, mind you!) and I can hardly wait one more week before I see them and “Girlie” (still no name decided) – but of course, my island is a wonderful place…..:(

Here are the most recent pictures of my two darlings.

First “Big Brother” William on his new tractor:

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and, at three weeks, “Little Sister” blissfully smiling in her pink blanket:

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I’m here on the island until October 15th, so there will be ample time for you all to appreciate these captions before I’m in a position to post new photographic information

[FONT=”Century Gothic”][SIZE=”5″][COLOR=”Pink”]VICTORIA[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

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– and I’ve hugged them both from you, Cheryl 😀

Allaug,
Victoria looks very precious and content.
Big brother William is a handsome little guy.
We have watched him grow.
Keep posting pictures so we can watch both of them grow.
Thanks for the updates.
Shirley

Dear Shirley!

Thanks for you comment and request 😀

You don’t have to ask me twice to give updates – but I might not have new pictures until the end of October, because for the next weeks we will be 250 kilometres away from our “grand” children 🙁 .

Congratulations Allaug,

The new baby girl is beautiful and I love the name Victoria..William has definitely grown up on here and now we get to enjoy victoria along with him. Give them lots and lots of hugs.

Take care and enjoy your island and your grand babies.

Thank you all for the nice comments, and thanks also to all the viewers I know are out there! William and Victoria’s parents are so proud when I tell the how many hits this thread has!

On Monday, Victoria was two months old (already!) and the family with grandparents – all four – gathered to celebrate. Here is a picture of the Leading Lady:

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and one of sibling love:

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Allaug,
Victoria is a beautiful baby.
I can really see the difference in William as he has grown from a baby to a toddler.
I like the way his har is cut and the color of it.
He’s a handsome big brother.
Thanks for the updated pictures.
Shirley

Here is Victoria highly amused by one of her grandfathers while the other is stand-by on his camera:

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Helo everybody!

It’s been quite a while, and I hope you all have had a wonderful Christmas, and i guess it’s still not too late to wish a happy new year.

The kids are growing, and with one week short of 5 months, Victoria has started working on her push-ups:

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and William, who will be three in two months is looking his best here

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Allaug,

Beautiful grand children.

Thanks for the updated photos.

Shirley

Nice photos. As you probably know we now live with our daughter and family here in the Seattle area. Sawyer is now 2 and Sydney almost 5, both full of energy.

NORB – It is good to see your friendly face! Come back and visit us soon!

I just want to wish everybody who remembers me a happy 2011 by sharing some Christmas memories with you all:

William is now 3 1/2 years old and Victoria is 16 months:

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