Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas 2008!

We had such a great Christmas! Jen, Brett, and Austin came to town to celebrate with us, which was so much fun, AND we definitely had a white Christmas! It snowed and snowed then snowed some more. Jakob has been having a ton of fun with his new toys. We didn't think that we bought him too many until we found that it took us 3 days to open them. He'd open one then want to play with it for the rest of the day...not knowing that there was still some awesome stuff under that tree! Here are a few pictures and a video highlighting Christmas 2008! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday!

Here is Jakob with his first car. :) It runs on sheer foot power. He's yet to figure it out and it already ran over him once. But we're hopeful that it isn't an indicator of his future driving skills.



This is the first of the presents Jakob opened. Didn't take him long to figure out that all he has to do is rip that paper off to find something fabulous to play with!


Like any true Norwegian Jakob LOVES Gjetost (it's a goat cheese from Norway. The best way I can explain how to pronounce it is "yay-toast"!). During the holidays we eat this cheese...something we look forward to. Who doesn't love cheese?!


This was the year of the Blue Patagonia Down Sweater. Daddy and Jakob were very excited to have matching down jackets! Special thanks to Grandma Knudsen for Jakob's new coat!


video

Since Jakob has only been alive for mere 17 months this is only his second winter. As far as winters go, this is a doozy! Here he is figuring out how to walk around in the "white stuff".

3 comments:

Sarah Young said...

Jakob walks better than I do in snow! I about biffed it stepping off our snowy porch at the house we stayed at in Portland! I loved all the pictures of your little man!

Jen Nagel said...

Glad to see you got a picture of your kid opening presents. I don't think I even got one. I was probably distracted by all the pop-pop-poping and the sirens!

Barb McLean said...

Jakob is a true Norweigan. He loves the snow! Man, you guys really got alot of the white stuff...that was a huge mound of snow that had been shoveled off to the side.