15 facts

When you don't blog for a while there is a lot to tell, so I've decided to copy Stina's idea and write 15 recent facts from the life of family Polselli-Valgardsdottir!

1. Irene is growing a lot. She is >60cm and almost 6kg. And she is a real bundle of joy. If my mum wasn't suspersitious she would tell you all about how great Irene is, how well she sleeps and how happy she is during her waking hours. But since my mum thinks that telling you about it might put an end to this happy era...she won't..!
2. Irene has become a smiling champion. She smiles when she sees mum, when she sees dad, when she sees Oscar, when she hears some music, when someone whistles, when we "shake her legs"...when...we'll if that isn't being a ray of sunshine...
3. Oscar speaks more and more every day. Little by little the pronounciation is also becoming clearar. Brrr-na-na has for example been substituted with moto-jol. But Yogurt continues to be Jussjuss, a spider is angalanga and there is a range of things that falls under the category santi/santa!
   
4. And more about talking. Oscar is good at keeping the two languages separate. There are certain words that he won't say in icelandic (such as thanks, come, water, go away) and certain words he wont say in italian. But in general he speaks italian with dad and icelandic with mum and does not mix the two languages.
5. The winter is definately arriving to Ponte San Pietro. It is getting colder every day, and mum hopes every morning to be able to announce the arrival of the first snow. She is curious to see Oscar's reactions, for he doesn't remember the snow from last year!
6. Christmas is also coming closer. As we live in the centre of our town, we can see how the shops are being decorated, lights have been set up above the main street (we pass there every day on the way to kindergarten) and they've started to make the presepe by the river, we'll show you a picture of it when it's ready. Mum has bought a poinsettia for our living room, and she thinks she might have to start buying christmas gifts soon if she doesn't want to challange too much the italian postal service by sending her parcels late around the world!!
   
7. Despite the fact that we live by the main road that crosses our town, there are not nearly enough Babu-babu passing our house with blinking lights and the sirens sounding. That's a real disappointment! Maybe we need more criminals in town?
8. When the first low pressure area of this autumn arrived, with loads and loads of rain (just as good that they hadn't started preparing the presepe, for it would have been swept away with the river that was at least double in size), Oscar mastered the pool-jumping technique. We sincererly think that he was the only one in town that greeted the 10th rainy day in a row with a big smile -and there wasn't a pool between our house and kindergarten that he didn't jump in.
9. Oscar's stomach has been nominated the 8th wonder of the world. For science can not explain how all that food that he eats can fit into the stomach of such a little boy. He often eats as much as mum and dad, even if he is not yet 2 years old. We wonder how much he will eat when is 4, or 8 or 12 years old. Maybe my parents need food-aid from the government to be able to satisfy his hunger!
10. It is always crowded at our dinner table. Even if physically there are only Oscar, mum and dad (if he's not away for work) present, plus Irene that watches from her cosy-chair, then it doesn't stop grandma, grandad, Kidda, Maria, Erla, Sara, Steina, Gudjon and...well literally everyone that has ever come to visit us, to join us at dinner every night. Oscar offers them very generously to eat from his plate...but in the end all the food finishes in his stomach. Which comes far to explain why he eats so much!
    
11. Breakfast is the meal with most fantasy in our household -maybe because we are so fresh after a good night sleep, or maybe because we eat so slowly and enjoy to chat during the meal. During one such meal a slice of bread can change from being just that, to be a train then a bus, then a car, then a motorbike, then a horse, then a dog, then a hen, then a ball, then the moon, then a star and then finito. Every bite changes the sculpture, and every new form is accompanied with the right sound. Never a dull moment!
    
12. Mum sometimes calls Irene "miss adaptable", for she has to adapt to the house's routine all the time. Maybe she is comfotably lying in her bed, dreaming about a wonderland where every hill and tree and house and street is a milk tank, when she is pulled out of it, dressed hurriedly and squeezed into the kangaroo-bag, for mum has to go to pick up Oscar, or go to the shop, or pick up the laundry or whatever!
13. Mum has not got a very good eye for shoe-size. When the cold weather arrived she went to the garage to get Oscar's old boots -from last winter- that are becoming far too small. But as Oscar didn't complain (even if an X-ray of his feet might have revealed that his toes were bent in the boots) and as mum was very busy translating and didn't have time to go and buy new ones, he used them for a few weeks. The day mum finished her project she went to buy a new pair, but either she miscalculated how fast Oscar's feet are growing, or she is aiming at a national prize in parsimony (buying things that will fit Oscar in a near future), for she bought boots that are so big that they could serve as a winter-home for a whole family of mice. A real pair of 7 miles boots. But they sure do effect when Oscar does his pool-jumping!
14. Oscar is always inventing new games. One of his latest inventions is the go to bed game. Where he lies down on the floor with a blanket, and pretends to go to sleep. Recently he added a new effect to this game. The object in the mouth. Never having used one himself, the pacifier was a real mistery to him when he saw his friends stuffing them into their mouth before going to nanna at the kindergarten. But the kids sure looked content with it, so Oscar decided that he should give it a go himself. Here you can see Oscar fitting a piece from his construction kit in his mouth while playing the go to bed game. Well, actually hefound it slightly strange, and soon gave up on it and declared that he couldn't understand what all the fuzz was about!
15. Every town in italy that wants to be noticed by the outside world has got a tower...or two. In Ponte San Pietro there was none, except for the church-tower, until the family Poselli-Valgardsdottir came to town.Then people started noticing a human tower moving around town, that consisted of mum or dad with Irene in front and Oscar on the shoulders. When it's raining, and mum brings Oscar to kindergarten, she doesn't want him to become all wet from pool-jumping (leaving such wonderful activity for the way home in the afternoon), so she has to rescue him from the street, and put him on his shoulder, and then the tower becomes complete with a lovely umbrella on top!
    

And that was 15! Hope you have a great weekend :)