Christmas Family Picture

Family
Originally uploaded by MattiasC

Thanks to our dear friend Swati we finally got a semi focused picture where all three of us have our eyes open.

We had a great Christmas eve with our friends Swati, Bernice and Yu-Ling. We had a decent Swedish Christmas dinner with Janssons frestelse, three types of herring, gravad lax, meatballs, snaps and julmust. This year I was the only Swede so I didn't manage to do the full Christmas table with all the dishes.

My wonderful wife bought me a new camera for Christmas...a Nikon D90. I'm still debating if we should keep it or get a much cheaper D80 instead. I'm not that good of a photographer that the equipment is any type of limitation to my photos.

Cindy got shoes, two shirts, some face creams from a company I can't spell the name of and beautiful saphire ear rings.

Maya got a new play mat, tons of clothes, really cute shoes from Swati and a really cool Mozart music cube from Yu-Ling and Bernice.

I was completely outnumbered, all girls, even our cat is female. To be honest that's not a bad way to spend Christmas eve :)

Talkative

I had a long talk with Maya on the bed today. She is getting very interactive and loves to talk to us. She is especially talkative while on the changing table (just like Heather and Peter's Lucia!). Anyway, I called Cindy over to record this wonderful moment on our video camera which was purchased for just this type of occasion. Maya and I talked back and forth, discussed the weather, diapers, the benefit of milk vs formula etc for probably a good 20 min while mommy "recorded" us. After about 20 min the camera beeps. Cindy says "Why does it say auto powersaving mode?". Turns out, Cindy wasn't actually recording us at all, she had just turned on the camera and then thought it was recording. To but it mildly...I'm having a very thorough video camera class tonight with my dear wife......and it will be punishable by death to miss another camera moment like this in the future!! Sorry, no video post today.

I did manage to buy a Christmas tree all by myself. It only took three calls to Cindy before I managed to decide on the tree. Daddy wanted to buy the nice Christmas trees but mommy thought it was madness to spend more than $35 for a tree....guess what tree I ended up with?