My child is not a downs-child!

I don't know what it is, but I cant stand when people talk about kids with special needs or with a disability like the ADHD kid or the downs kid.....Kristofer is not a downs kid! He is just a normal kid with down syndrome. And here in Iceland people call them downsara, I mean what is that?? I don't know why this get´s so on my nerves but it gets under my skin and makes me want to scream!

I was at a meeting about Kristofer today and I was told that Kristofer has down syndrome like 10 times in these 45 minutes and in every other sentence....I know he has down syndrome and I have known since the day he was born and there is no need to tell me that like I don't know. I don't understand why they cant just talk about Kristofer as a persona and not having the need to say it out loud every 5 minutes that he has downs. But the good thing is that most people that work with Kristofer just talk about him...Kristofer, but I just had to get this out!

My prince charming!

My private island Hjörsey

The weather this winter and the dark days made me think of my family private island Hjörsey. There are no words that can describe this beauty of nature! We have no electricity, no tv, no bathtub or shower….just like the old days and I love it. This island is the third bigges island out side of Iceland, so its pretty big! A lot of people use to live there back in the days, but my grade grandfather bought the island later on. When I was little I use to stay there the hole summer, we would be up to at last 10 kids at the time just playing and running around the island, chasing horses and horseback ride. These past days I have been daydreaming about my island and I’m so excited to go back there this summer, so I had to share some pictures with you so you get the idea what I’m talking aboutJ Im so lucky to have this island in my family and there are not that many places left like this one, were you go back few decades and live with the nature and what was back then….

These picturse just warm me up from the cold over here!

That´s how we do it over there!

The beach, yellow sand, sun and the ice cold sea

Hildur on the beach

Kristofer was not afraid at all of the sea and would just run into the water, even though it is freezing cold!

our horses

The sunset, the most beautiful!

Iceland the snowland!

It has been snowing a lot in Iceland this winter, the snow has not gone since November!!

We went to feed the birds and they were so aggressive!!

I guess this car is not going anywhere!

Down syndrome model!

This guy is really something! so cute modeling for Target and Nordstrom



Here is a video on the news :)

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46017442#46017442

A few pictures from a family photoshoot in march this year :)

Some of my favorites

Kristofer TV star :)

Well I know it has been a while since I blogged. I have been
busy writing my Master thesis in Social work and I’m almost done with that….so
I will get my life back! A lot has happened since last time, I won few backing
competitions, one for chocolate cookie and one for the best cupcake of the year
2011, maybe I will post the recipe on here soon.

The reason I’m
blogging today though is that I wanted to share with you an interview of us
that was on the news last night, it was about Kristofer and our story. I know
you don’t understand a word but at last you can see Kristofer and his sister
playing and having fun. I have gotten a few emails from people that have had
children with special needs and others telling me that I touched there hart…but
that was the whole reason why we decided to on this show.

I’ll promises
to blog more often after Monday….then I will turn in my masterpiece!

Have a good
weekend

Here is the
video
http://visir.is/section/MEDIA99&fileid=SRCD9D79ECC-D85E-43AF-8CCB-454E4073065B

2nd Birthday!

On february 27th Kristofer turned 2 years old!!! and one week before his birthday he started walking :) that was a good birthday present to himself I would say.

The house was full of guests and Kristofer had so much fun....he is not that interested in open his present’s jet so he got is big cousin taking good care of that….and he didn’t hate that I tell you.

Well here are some pictures from his birthday….but something went wrong with my camera so the pictures are not that clear.

And Kristofer got this doll from is grandma, he loved it but his dad not so much hahaha

daddy helping out with the cake!