As usual, December has been an eventful month. Lots of celebration, joy and happiness, but also room for thought with a death in near family. Very sad, although not unexpected.
Frida has really enjoyed December. It only took her a couple of days of advent calendar to learn how to open presents (almost) on her own!
The first party of the month was at our place, a late 1 year birthday celebration for the 5 other November babies we’ve spent so much time with in 2009. In true Christmas spirit, Frida shared her bread with one of her little friends. (Isn’t that what it looks like on the picture? What actually happened was that she stole the bread that he was eating…)
Daddy’s birthday was celebrated with much enthusiasm – maybe not so much by thebirthday boy, but Frida didn’t even have to be asked to help opening the presents! I suspect she thought it was part of her advent calendar 
All the attention from four grandparents was just a bonus.
The 13th day of the month is in the name of Saint Lucia, and Frida’s kindergarden did the mandatory celebration. She was of course the most adorable in the crowd, and we all brought our cameras to take her picture.
The kindergarden also hosted a Santa party one of the last days before Christmas. Dress code: red! On the menu: Christmas rice porridge!
Aunt M and uncle Ø weren’t able to be here for Christmas, so they came for a visit the week before. Frida was very happy to see them, but missed her cousin Nanok, the giant dog. Well, to be honest I don’t think she missed him at all, the last time she saw him she started crying whenever he barked…
Aunt S and cousin Stellatronic were here all Christmas, and we got to spend a lot of time with them.
My sister and I had a challenging afternoon trying to take a picture of the two cousins… together…both facing the camera… not crying… You get the picture This is what we ended up using for the month of December in the 2010 calendar we made for our parents:
I hope you all had a great Christmas, and that the new year will bring lots of joy!
