Sunday, 22 June 2008
Vores to frække aber...
Joshua snakker endelig rigtig meget. Men der er stadig nogle ord han har galt fat i. For eksempel tror han "igår" betyder i morgen og at "forgårs" betyder "overmorgen". Så idag da jeg spurgte om han ville have en sodavandsis fra fryseren, sagde han "hm, nej, jeg tror jeg gemmer den til igår." Og en gang i sidste uge, da han fik lakridser (nu lyder det som om vi hele tiden spiser søde sager...), spiste han en og spurgte om jeg ikke kunne gemme en han kunne få igår, en tili forgårs, en til mere igår og en til når han blev otte år. (Som Nadja sagde: "Har han en tidsmaskine på sit nye værelse!")
Erin elsker at have veninder på vejen. Og den anden dag kom hun hjem med slik. Da jeg spurgte hvor hun havde fået det fra, sagde hun "Fra dem vi sang for" Det viste sig at hun og to veninder havde gået rundet og ringet på døre (heldigvis til folk de to andre kender, men alligevel!) og sunget "mariehønen evigglad" når folk åbnede. Hun påstod det ikke var fordi de håbede på slik, men jeg synes de er ret udspekulerede, når det kommer til at gå ned til den rigtige veninde og få is eller spise hos den der skal have det bedste aftensmad... Vi har selvfølgelig siden da haft samtalen om at man ikke tager imod ting fra fremmede, eller ringer på hos folk man ikke kender...
Erin elsker at have veninder på vejen. Og den anden dag kom hun hjem med slik. Da jeg spurgte hvor hun havde fået det fra, sagde hun "Fra dem vi sang for" Det viste sig at hun og to veninder havde gået rundet og ringet på døre (heldigvis til folk de to andre kender, men alligevel!) og sunget "mariehønen evigglad" når folk åbnede. Hun påstod det ikke var fordi de håbede på slik, men jeg synes de er ret udspekulerede, når det kommer til at gå ned til den rigtige veninde og få is eller spise hos den der skal have det bedste aftensmad... Vi har selvfølgelig siden da haft samtalen om at man ikke tager imod ting fra fremmede, eller ringer på hos folk man ikke kender...
We didn't quite get the weekend we'd planned. Quentin gave us quite a scare, when he decided to find out what he could get in return for all those taxes he has to pay here...
We all went to Aabenraa where he and two colleagues were to take part in a 10km run. He hadn't really trained for it, but had run 10 km some weeks before and had done it in 45 mins, so when he'd been gone for an hour and people with pushchairs started coming in, I started to worry. I told myself he might just have twisted his ankle and to stop fussing, but when they announced over the loudspeakers that I should come to the organisers' podium asap, I started to panic. I was told (by a person who maybe should not have to job of giving people news like this...) that Quentin was just around the corner and in a really bad way. The ambulance was there for him and I should probably go be with him, but it might not be a good idea to bring the children while he had not come round yet! Luckily another guy, who was a bit more clever with his choice of words for a worried wife came over and said that Quentin was just severely dehydrated and would be fine. He was incredibly kind and took us to the hospital following the ambulance and made sure I had his number so he could pick us all up and take us to our car in Aabenraa afterwards.
In the car he joked around with the children and told me what had happened. It turned out Quentin was 200 metres from the finishing line when he'd collapsed. Within minutes the first aiders were with him and within five minutes the ambulance had got there. Quentin being competitive as he is (and there's no way he can deny that anymore!!) had argued with them to let him finish the race as soon as he'd come round again, but when he tried to stand up he just wobbled and fell back down. He kept saying, "Just give me one minute and then I have to get up and finish" In the end the guy who was the one who took us to the hospital, had taken his tag in, so that he still got his finishing time and Quentin then agreed to let them take him to hospital -stubborn old thing lol!
So we ended up spending the afternoon in A&E where he was rehydrated via a drip and got some oxygen and waited to get his blood pressure back to normal. Then we went home. He's not looking forward to going to work tomorrow, where he probably won't live the episode down, especially as the whole reason for pushing himself too hard was to beat one of his colleagues...
One of the hills they had to run up:
The corner where he collapsed (you can see the finishing line behind the no entry sign...)
(By the way, his registered time was 53 minutes something...)
You can see morepictures from the run, the resutls etc on http://www.dourun.dk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28299 I don't think there are any pictures of Quentin, but the siren in the videoclip, might well be Quentin's ambulance haha)
We all went to Aabenraa where he and two colleagues were to take part in a 10km run. He hadn't really trained for it, but had run 10 km some weeks before and had done it in 45 mins, so when he'd been gone for an hour and people with pushchairs started coming in, I started to worry. I told myself he might just have twisted his ankle and to stop fussing, but when they announced over the loudspeakers that I should come to the organisers' podium asap, I started to panic. I was told (by a person who maybe should not have to job of giving people news like this...) that Quentin was just around the corner and in a really bad way. The ambulance was there for him and I should probably go be with him, but it might not be a good idea to bring the children while he had not come round yet! Luckily another guy, who was a bit more clever with his choice of words for a worried wife came over and said that Quentin was just severely dehydrated and would be fine. He was incredibly kind and took us to the hospital following the ambulance and made sure I had his number so he could pick us all up and take us to our car in Aabenraa afterwards.
In the car he joked around with the children and told me what had happened. It turned out Quentin was 200 metres from the finishing line when he'd collapsed. Within minutes the first aiders were with him and within five minutes the ambulance had got there. Quentin being competitive as he is (and there's no way he can deny that anymore!!) had argued with them to let him finish the race as soon as he'd come round again, but when he tried to stand up he just wobbled and fell back down. He kept saying, "Just give me one minute and then I have to get up and finish" In the end the guy who was the one who took us to the hospital, had taken his tag in, so that he still got his finishing time and Quentin then agreed to let them take him to hospital -stubborn old thing lol!
So we ended up spending the afternoon in A&E where he was rehydrated via a drip and got some oxygen and waited to get his blood pressure back to normal. Then we went home. He's not looking forward to going to work tomorrow, where he probably won't live the episode down, especially as the whole reason for pushing himself too hard was to beat one of his colleagues...
One of the hills they had to run up:
The corner where he collapsed (you can see the finishing line behind the no entry sign...)
(By the way, his registered time was 53 minutes something...)
You can see morepictures from the run, the resutls etc on http://www.dourun.dk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28299 I don't think there are any pictures of Quentin, but the siren in the videoclip, might well be Quentin's ambulance haha)
A knight's tale
Last week we went to the summer party at Joshua's new preschool here in Augustenborg. It had a "princess and knights" theme and the girls had to come dressed in a princess dress. Right as we were leaving Joshua decided he too wanted to dress up. Luckily we still have all the empty moving boxes and some silver spray paint, so with that, his bicycle helmet and some silver foil, we thought we made him into a very handsome knight in shining armour. Turned out when we got there, that he and the other boys had already made swords, shields and pins, so he was well kitted out in the end...
Erin and Joshua's holiday with mormor and morfar
The children went to spend some days at my mum and dad's, they had great fun picking strawberries, went to a fun fair, fed fishes in a pond,read stories and lots of other fun things. Meanwhile we got lots done at home, Quentin worked hard to rebuild the garden wall and filled it with a bit of help from a guy with a digger... We just need to tidy up the edges now and it's all done. I've promised never to tease him and say that he's not handy. I was well impressed!
I decorated Joshua's room and painted the walls in the kitchen.
On the Friday we went to pick up the kids and stayed til Sunday evening after a lovely weekend with my parents.
I decorated Joshua's room and painted the walls in the kitchen.
On the Friday we went to pick up the kids and stayed til Sunday evening after a lovely weekend with my parents.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Enjoying (and dismantling) our garden
The clinic got Quentin one of those garden trampolines that everyone's got at the moment. It sure looks ugly and takes up a lot of space, but we, and especially the kids love it. It's especially great for checking out neighboring gardens...)
We haven't actually gotten around to doing a lot inside the house (in fact I think we still have an embarrasingly large amount of unpacked boxes around...), because the weather has been so nice we've been working in the garden (cutting hedges, mowing, trimming edges, starting a vegetable garden, planting trees etc), while the children have been on the trampoline and in the paddling pool. Also more and more children come over to play, so it's never just Erin and Joshua and we're really enjoying that they have so many friends to play with around here. My favourite thing was when the kids next door (whom we hadn't yet met at the time) called over the hedge to Erin, Joshua and Erin's friend: "Do you want to have a water fight with us?" "Nooo" our children called back, to which the answer came: "Well you're having one, because our bombs are coming!" (Luckily we had a bag of water balloons lying around waiting for an opportunity such as this...)
Building the trampoline
We haven't actually gotten around to doing a lot inside the house (in fact I think we still have an embarrasingly large amount of unpacked boxes around...), because the weather has been so nice we've been working in the garden (cutting hedges, mowing, trimming edges, starting a vegetable garden, planting trees etc), while the children have been on the trampoline and in the paddling pool. Also more and more children come over to play, so it's never just Erin and Joshua and we're really enjoying that they have so many friends to play with around here. My favourite thing was when the kids next door (whom we hadn't yet met at the time) called over the hedge to Erin, Joshua and Erin's friend: "Do you want to have a water fight with us?" "Nooo" our children called back, to which the answer came: "Well you're having one, because our bombs are coming!" (Luckily we had a bag of water balloons lying around waiting for an opportunity such as this...)
Building the trampoline
We decided we'd rather have a bitmore garden than the ugly parking space at the bottom of the drive. Especially as 1)the drive is long enough for several cars, 2)we only have one car and 3)there's a garage as well. So Saturday night I started dismantling the wall, Quentin joined me after a bit and this is what it looked like Sunday morning... Not a pretty sight, so now here's hoping we don't run out of steam until it's filled and rebuilt!! Also it turned out to be serving as a great big block of flats for huge spiders and their nests, so now that we've made them homeless, I'm only hoping they don't move into our house!!
our house
This is Joshua showing you around our new house on the day we got the keys (Erin was at a birthday party). Sorry it's all in Danish, but then I guess he kept speaking Danish to everyone in England when we were over in any case... Anyway, it should be quite self-explanatory, first you see the master bedroom after we come in through the utility room, then Joshua's room, then the bathroom followed by the living room,Erin's bedroom and the kitchen with the beautiful(!) green counter, which was obviously what sold the house to us...
The house was obviously built in the 1960'ies but although we're getting used to living with leaf motifs on the bathroom tiles,the green counter, the very original garage door and the 60's style built-in wardrobes, living in a house from this period has not in any way altered our taste...
Quentin's birthday
For Quentin's birthday I had arranged with the secretary at the clinic that she put an extra, fictional patient on his list at the end of the day, then instead of this patient, the children and I were there, ready to take him out. He thought he'd get home on the bus by 19:00 and have to do a bbq, but instead we went out to a restaurant at 17:30. The children had flags and sang a birthday song as loudly as they could at the clinic hee hee.
We went to a Mongolian Barbeque in Sønderborg, which was really nice, especially as some members of the family could be as fussy as they liked and have nothing but plain rice and vegetables as it's a buffet style restaurent...
We went to a Mongolian Barbeque in Sønderborg, which was really nice, especially as some members of the family could be as fussy as they liked and have nothing but plain rice and vegetables as it's a buffet style restaurent...
Break time!
Most unusually organisedfor me, I had every day for the last couple of weeks up to our move planned out, so that we could make it the least stressful for the children as possible and would have time to also take some days off and go on days out like the viking market reinactment day in Ribe and just going to the beach etc. Even more amazingly, we actually stuck to the plan!!!
Some vikings getting ready for a battle.
Joshua's viking play sword, which he still loves.
Some vikings getting ready for a battle.
Joshua's viking play sword, which he still loves.
Quentin might be English, but we've clearly established that Robin Hood is not one of his ancestors... (sorry Quentin!)
getting ready to move
Getting our pots and plants ready ...I can't believe it was only that short time ago that we needed jackets!!! Church today was like a sauna!
The children loved decorating the boxes that were going in their rooms, Joshua really got into it as you can tell...
It was so sweet, one day Joshua packed all his own toys into three or four boxes and taped them up.
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Crabs and Star fish
One of our most favourite things to do is to go to the beach at the end of our road and catch crabs and star fish. Erin and Joshua are little pros at it now. They both crack open their own mussels, attach them to the line and drop the crabs in the bucket. The girl in the blue dress is Erin's friend from church. They love playing together and are so similar, both in looks and temperaments.
Views from around our house
We love the area we live in and Quentin can't stop taking pictures of the harbour whenever he walks across the bridge, we must have a million and in fifty years time, Sønderborg city council will propably contact us about copies for their records of the city... This was taken with our mobile.
The beach at the end of our road -we feel very lucky!
The historic hills behind our road by Dybbøl mølle (mill) are the perfect place to fly kites before bedtime... Afterwards we like to roll down the hills -All except Quentin who usually ends up feeling queezy.