Monday 4 July 2011

They’re back!


When one set of grandparents go on holiday another pair comes along to claim their percentage of Little H’s unconditional love, wet diapers, dripping chin, tantrums (as when the strawberries are all gone) and all the singing and dancing (squealing and wobbling from side to side) . Granny B and Granddad G left to go on two weeks holiday the day after Aitxitxe Sebas and Amama Socco arrived. I do not think Little H can stomach the whole family's love in one go, so it is good to have one set of grandparents over at the time.

I believe Gran and Granddad have experienced some of the pain it gives to have their first grandchild far away (even though it is maximum a two hours drive to their cabin). We have kept them updated by teary (Gran) telephone conversations, a large number of picture messages and text reports.

Little H is fascinated by the Iphone, and amazed by the features, such as that you can hear grandparents voices, look at pictures of yourself, play music, take photos, use it as a keyboard (some kind of app. For kids) and hang up whenever you are tired of the voice in the other end.
We know people who gave their 1-year olds an IPad for their birthdays, but poor H, she has to settle for grabbing her parents IPhones whenever they are within reach.


Aitxitxe and Little H

Amama and Aitxitxe arrived with a broken red wine bottle staining all the clothes in one of the suitcases, luckily there were plenty of other bottles wrapped in bubble wrap which survived without any damage. My summer was saved.

 When Little H and Pappa Kas went to the airport to pick them up, little H was amazed to experience her grandparents in 4D after many months of only seeing them and talking with them via Skype. However, it did not take long before ice was broken and Little H and Amama glued together, touching, talking and gesticulating (two weeks into the visit, it is still the same).
Little H and Amama

And what do us parents do? Escape as soon as H is in bed, going to the cinema, visiting friends together, hand over little H to Amama if there is a whiff of something from her diaper. Who said that having parents in law visiting was tiring?


3 comments:

  1. Høres ut som det er kos med besøk :) Og lille H er som alltid like sjarmerende :)

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  2. Koselig med igjenforening. Vet alt om det med halve familien i England. Blir ganske spesielt da :) Hørtes ut som dere koste dere alle sammen!

    Matboksen til lillemor var kjøpt på søstrene grene, de har den ikke der lenger. Men du finner mange supre matbokser og masse utstyr på casabento.com . Du finner garantert noe du liker der :)

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  3. ja, da er vi litt i samme situasjon. Takk for tipset om matboksene på casabento. Matboks er noe av det siste på listen over ting som trengs til barnehagestart!
    Takk for besøket på bloggen også! :-)

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