June 18, 2009 - A Week in Review

This past week has been really great and busy for us. First we had Kirsten's 60th birthday weekend, complete with a full family reunion at her birthday party which was a lot of fun. It was a great way for so many people to meet Grace and we really enjoyed seeing people we hadn't seen in a really long time. We also found out that Kirsten and Hans are expecting another grandchild which makes 3 in one year for them - Hans' son Tommy's wife is due in August and his daughter Tina is due in January. More cousins for Grace! We really enjoyed celebrating Kirsten's birthday with her and I think she was happy to show Grace off!

On Monday, after all the festivities, we sadly said goodbye to Kirsten and Hans and came to Copenhagen. We have been staying with Kristoffer's cousin Klaus, his girlfriend Mette, and their baby Claudia who is 4 months older than Grace. They live in a great and convenient part of Copenhagen so we have easily been able to take the bus and the train around the city to visit a lot of friends. We were able to see all of the "Als crew", Kristoffer's best friends from childhood (all of whom came to the US for our wedding) and all of Kristoffer's good friends from university as well. It has been a busy few days for sure. Yesterday the weather was so nice here - finally! (it has been cold and windy and gray since the first weekend we were here) - so we were able to spend the whole day walking around the city and took a great nap in one of Copenhagen's beautiful gardens.

Now we are packing up and heading to the airport in a little bit for our departure to Boston. We look forward to our two weeks there and to Grace's Baptism next weekend.

Right now, you may be thinking: sounds like a lot of great stuff happened, where all of the pictures to prove it?! Well, the only bad part of our trip happened on Tuesday when our camera bag containing our video camera and our really good digitial camera went missing. Either it fell out of the stroller or someone stole it because one minute we had it, and then an hour later we realized we didn't have it. We have reported it missing to the transportation police and are praying that it turns up, but that is not very likely. If you found two really good cameras, would you turn them in? Jackpot! So of course, we are bummed about the cameras (one was a wedding gift and the other was last year's Christmas gift to ourselves) but I am even more bummed because there were about 200 pictures on the camera that I had yet to transfer to the computer - all of them from Kirsten's birthday weekend and our first evening in Copenhagen. Also, there was some great video footage of Grace on the camera. So frustrating that all of that is gone now! I guess we'll be shopping for new cameras in the US next week :(

Grace was 16 weeks old yesterday and approaches the 4-month marker next week. She has been sleeping well and is cuter than ever - trying harder and harder to sit up on her own, making TONS of noise, and being SO flexible with our crazy travel schedule. We are so lucky to have this baby! Let's hope our next two flights go well...

Farvel Danmark...mange tak for besøget!
LMW