At Home

I had to post my favorite new picture of Daniel below. He loves to lie under his play gym and look at his toys. Yesterday he had an online video conversation with his Grandma and he seemed to think that was pretty cool too. I should perhaps mention that the sleeping through the night mentioned in the last post was a one-time thing. We seem to be rather going downhill as far as that is concerned. He's still the perfect baby though.

We are happy to be in Norway for now, but are very much looking forward to going to Tanzania! When Viggo and I were getting married, I had a period of feeling very overwhelmed by the idea of truly leaving home, first for Norway, then for Africa. God gave me a verse from Psalm 23 that was a huge reassurance: "Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever". Viggo and I will probably live quite a few different places over the years, but wherever we go we will always be at home in the Lord.

Seven Hours

That's how many hours Daniel slept last night without waking up to nurse - from 10:00PM to 5:00 AM. We were very pleasantly suprised. We're back home in Norway and doing wonderfully. Daniel went to his first Norwegian church service on Easter and was much admired. It also snowed two inches that day. Now, though, it is sunny and beautiful and about 60 degrees. I think I will take Daniel out for a walk in his baby carriage soon. It is very nice to be in our own little home again.

Here is Daniel doing his "superbaby" pose, wearing an outfit knitted by his great-great grandmother, which once belonged to Viggo. Daniel weighs a whole 11 pounds (5 kilos) as of today. More pictures will be coming soon, Mom and Dad, but Viggo is busy translating today.

Going home

We finally received Daniel's passport yesterday, and we should be leaving for Norway tomorrow. It will be good to go home, although it has been good to be "home" with my family here in Oregon as well. Daniel's American grandparents are definitely going to miss him.

Daniel had a bit of a fever much of last week, which it turned out was caused by a urinary tract infection. It took three trips to the doctor to figure that out, but ultimately he got the antibiotics he needed and he's much better now. He wasn't eating very well while he was sick, but he's making up for lost time now, eating voraciously every 1-2 hours and getting chubbier every day.

Viggo was invited to speak in church last Sunday and shared about our experience of God's faithfulness over the past year and since we'ver been married. It is awesome to see how he has provided for us and taken care of us and enabled us to trust him even in some difficult situations. We were also glad to see our church here getting excited about being involved in our future work.

I haven't quite figured out how to post pictures yet, or I'd put up one of Daniel. However, there's a new video (narrated in Norwegian..) and possibly some new pictures in our photo album under "Daniel's first month". He's pretty cute!