Mother-in-law arrived!

[jone]

Hey, great pics Roy.

My only thought is that you should change your profile status on here.  It says 'committed'.  You should change your status to 'ring through my nose'.  Great job Daddy.

Take lots of pictures.  From experience, you blink and you miss them.  My daughter tells me if she hears me say one more time,  'I wish I could see you little again' that she will withhold speaking to me for a month.

Jon

[The Natural]

Hey, great pics Roy.

My only thought is that you should change your profile status on here.  It says 'committed'.  You should change your status to 'ring through my nose'.  Great job Daddy.

Take lots of pictures.  From experience, you blink and you miss them.  My daughter tells me if she hears me say one more time,  'I wish I could see you little again' that she will withhold speaking to me for a month.

Jon

Thanks Jon, Yeah, we do take lots of photos and video too. The first months of his life, I have most of the photos on paper too, so we have some work waiting for us, putting hundreds of photos in albums, hehe.
 
Technology can be a fine thing. It's so nice and affordable to choose photos and make personal albums and calendars online and have it sent. Made one for us , my mother and MIL and also a calendar for 2014 with photos of Erik and MIL that she took with her when she went back home to Ukraine.

[ML]

Hi ML,
  Give him cod liver oil and have started to introduce solid foods. I really want him to get egg yolk, liver and other meats now. He's vaccine free and will remain so.
 
Thanks for asking about us ML and I wish you a great Sunday.

Thanks for update.  Cod liver oil; wow I remember that from my childhood.  I think it went out of style here.

Many (most) school would not enroll your child without vaccinations.
Also, parents could be subject to arrest in some places in USA; and sent to prison if child dies from one of the diseases that can be prevented via vaccination. 

Some claims always I read about that vaccinations can cause some medical problems unrelated to the diseases . . . but latest I read that much research has failed to find any connection.

Anyway, I digress, when I just want to say continued best to you, mother and child.   

[The Natural]

Thanks for update.  Cod liver oil; wow I remember that from my childhood.  I think it went out of style here.

It is recommended in Norway for children from 4 weeks of age. Myself I take it daily along with breakfast of 4 raw eggs and a little coconut fat. 8 years ago I cured a depression that persisted for years on and off with a few weeks of massive doses of cod liver oil and maintenance of a little sip daily since then. Thanks to Anthony Colpo of Australia that suggested it 

Many (most) school would not enroll your child without vaccinations.
Also, parents could be subject to arrest in some places in USA; and sent to prison if child dies from one of the diseases that can be prevented via vaccination. 

Some claims always I read about that vaccinations can cause some medical problems unrelated to the diseases . . . but latest I read that much research has failed to find any connection.

It is harder to reserve ones children from vaccinations in the US than here, but there are different ways, depending on the state. There's such things as parents writing down their reservations on the grounds of medical, philosopical, religious reasons.
 
Why would schools deny entry of unvaccinated children one might ask? Aren't the vaccinated supposed to be immune?
 
Vaccine injury is practitally impossible to get the Pharma industry or government to admit, but there are numerous stories from parents with vaccine injured children online, of which quite a few deaths. Regarding the swine flu vaccine which I refused to take, they have been forced to admit many people suffered serious side effects. We are not willing to let the pharmaceutical industry inject substances of bacteria, virus, animal DNA and DNA from aborted fetuses, aluminium, Polysorbat 80, squalene and who knows what more, into the blood stream of our little boy. Anyone who demand vaccinations be mandated are in fact calling for medical tyranny.
 
By the way; our midwife and later on the nurse who inspect Erik every month just noted our wish not to vaccinate. No questions asked! That's the way it should be for all.

Anyway, I digress, when I just want to say continued best to you, mother and child.   

Thanks alot ML, I appreciate it. You're in my good book 
 
PS. This was moved and made into a whole new topic thanks to Ade, so I pasted it back to where it belongs. Duplicate, I guess.

[The Natural]

MIL arrived on September 1st. and my wife now take the bus daily to language class. It's really great having Erik's grandmother here and she is amazingly patient and take great care of him when we're away. She and mother speak to him in Russian and I speak to him in Norwegian, so it will be really interesting to know what his first words will be.
 
My wife is enjoying her language class and although many of the around 50 participants are negros and/or muslims, she is now on good terms with a woman from Lithuania and another from Moscow. It's of course also good for her to get out of the house and get new impulses.
 
MIL has until October 6 when the rest of the 90 days of her visa period expires. We have applied online for an extension, or rather, a change into a 9 month family reunion visa. For that pleasure we had to pay over 600 dollars. On Thursday we have an appointment with the police where we will submit all the supporting documents and then we will see what happens. In our case it's an interesting situation. On one hand, language classes for permanent residents are both a right and a duty. On the other hand, I did not qualify for leave from work to take care of the little one, so we really need MIL.
 
Tonight we had a good Aurora Borealis and that was real cool for MIL to see for the first time. Usually it shows up in cold, clear winter days, but it did appear for a few minutes today when it was 10 degrees C.

[Faux Pas]

That's great news Roy! I gotta tell you, I also enjoy the MIL. Of course she's elderly and will likely never travel to the US but I just genuinely enjoy being around her. It's good that you enjoy yours as well. It makes for an easy tranquility in the family. 

[The Natural]

Just a small update concerning my dear MIL.

She stayed With us for over 9 months but had to go back on June 5. She was quite emotional about it in the airport as she's so Connected to Our Erik and was in tears as she bid us farewell for now. She took a plane from Our local airport Direct to Gardermoen, the first for the season as they only fly in the summer. She had several hours to wait there before catching the late evening flight to Moscow. She said there were only 15 People on that flight!

She spent some 10 days in Moscow With her second daughter and they spoke daily With my wife on Skype. Then she took the Train and arrived home in Kerch a couple of days ago. She's fine and I'm happy the travelling went well. She just had a little hard time understanding what they wanted at the Oslo airport when she presented her residence card that expired two days later. First the person checking her in to the Moscow flight, called in one person, then another. They asked her something but she couldn't understand. So they just sent her on her way and kept the card. I suppose that's standard procedure.

My wife say the weather is wonderful and warm in Kerch, which it is NOT here now. But MIL already made a complaint about the situation With garbage there. She got used to it being clean and nice here.

Contrary to a rumour here on RWD there is no Food shortage situation in Crimea. But the banking sector appartently doesn't work yet, so it's mostly cash based. MIL went to the post Office and got 4 months of pension paid out, so she hasn't still tapped into the Euro stash we send her off With. She's real frugal, so I know she won't until it's absolutely necessary, hehe.
Anyway, it's good to know she's safe and sound back home. We will see later when we will meet again.