First food

Today Elias tried real food for the first time! At lunchtime we made him some potato puree and fed him a few tiny spoons. He seemed a bit surprised but we think most of what we fed him actually went down. Tomorrow I will feed him a bit more. The recommendation is to start with tasters around the time when they are 4 months so we are a few days early, but I think he is ready. We will take it slow and see how he reacts.. Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures of this big moment, we were to busy focusing on the actual feeding. We will make sure to take pictures in the future!

Tomorrow we are going to the clinic to have Elias measured and weighed again. It will be interesting to see how much he weighs now. I just checked in my old records and what he weighed at 3 months I weighed at 5 months.. A big guy, definitely! Tomorrow I will make sure to ask how we can prevent him from scratching his head to shreds. I don't know if it is the cradle cap (skorv) that itches and makes him scratch the head or what, but it looks as though he has been in a fight with a cat. We try to cut his nails, but still there is a new cut every morning it feels like.
It aint pretty!

Daddy is back!

On Sunday David came back from Boston.Yippie! David brought some nice gifts back for us. Here is a supercute pair of shoes and a pyjamas for Elias. Hopefully the shoes will fit when it is time for him to start using them.


On Sunday we also had our 1-year anniversary but since Dave was a bit jet-lagged we decided to not do much and save the celebration for next weekend. Looking forward to testing some of the wine we got on our wedding!

Yesterday I went to a step-up class for parents and babies. It was fun but very hard. I am so out of shape! Elias slept through most of the class and then woke up and looked at all the sweaty mums.

Today we have had a great day! Elias woke up a bit early and I was really tired, but while he had his morning nap I managed to get a bit of sleep too and after that and some coffee I was back to normal. After lunch we went to öppna förskolan (open nursery?) for babies 0-6 months. Öppna förskolan is like a nursery but the parents go there with the children. We were there for about two hours and spoke/played with other mothers and babies. It was great. After all new impressions Elias was quite tired and as soon as we left he fell asleep in the pram and slept for about 1 hr. Since coming back home he has been in an excellent and sunny mood.

Elias is starting to be very strong now I think. Just look at how high he can lift himself up when on his belly...

To Stockholm and back

Today we went to Stockholm to see Jenny and Maya. Normally Jenny would be at work and Maya at nursery but someone burnt down the nursery on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday so until they have managed to come up with a temporary solution all children at the nursery has to stay at home. It is really terrible that someone would burn down a nursery, but on the upside is that we got to spend a really nice day with them...

First we had lunch together and then we went for a walk past the nursery. The ruins were still smoking..
Maya was really interested in Elias and I am sure she wish he was a bit older so they could play more.

On Sunday we bought Elias a highchair by the way.. He doesn't love sitting in it yet, but he doesn't hate it anyway.. I'm sure he will soon prefer sitting in the highchair so he can participate more when me and Dave are eating.


Tonight I have finally joined facebook and I am a bit worried I must say. It is very addicting!

All by ourselves

Yesterday Dave left for Boston so now it is just me and the little guy for a few days. It feels a bit scary to be on my own for so long, but I am sure we will be fine. My arms will probably be quite tired by the end of the week but apart from that I think we will be ok.

Yesterday some of the girls from the parent group came around which was really nice. Elias is usually better behaved on days when we meet other people or have something planned. I guess he gets a bit bored when he has to play with me all day long.. It is so much fun to see the others and their babies, they are all so cute. It is fun because the babies are almost exactly the same age so we all go through the same things at roughly the same time. According to the others Elias is very easy to get to smile and they think he 'talks' a lot too. He is so clever! ;-)

Elias and his proud/crazy mum

After our guests had left we played and I put him on his stomach which he normally hates, but this time he was quite content. He was pushing himself up on his arms and looked around and all of a sudden he rolled over again. It seemed really easy for him this time. It will be interesting to see if he manages it again today..

Today we have a beatiful autumn day. It is probably a bit cold, but the sky is blue and the sun is shining so I hope Elias will be up for a walk later. We are having two friends over for dinner so I need to shop some food..

Christened

The christening on Sunday went very well. We were a bit worried that he would scream throughout the whole ceremony because he didn't want to sleep during the day. Finally he slept 45 mins just before it was time to go to church which made us feel a whole lot better. We got him into the dress without too much trouble, the belt was almost too short but luckily we managed to tie it around his big belly. We had tried the dress before but not the belt ;-)


We didn't take any pictures of the actual christening with our own camera, so you will have to wait for those until we get some from my dad or P-A.

After the christening we all went back to the flat for a bit of lunch and fika. Elias got loads of really nice pressies as well. Thank you all for that!

The whole weekend was very nice with Joyce and my parents visiting. It makes quite a difference to have many willing arms to carry Elias, my arms felt very relaxed!

On Tuesday me, Elias and three of the girls from the parent group went to "pram-cinema". The film was "No reservations" and quite a perfect film to watch while also looking after a baby. It was quite a funny sight to see all prams parked at the front, I wish I had had my camera with me!

Tomoeeow the building we live in celebrate it's 70th birthday with a party. I have been involved in planning and organising it and I am quite happy that it is finally happening so I won't have to do any more work for it.

Hip hip hooray

Today Elias is 3 months old today! He is getting stronger and stronger every day it seems. Both stronger body but also stronger minded. It seems like his neck has gotten a lot stronger recently and he can now hold his head very well. We might buy a high chair soon so he can sit with us at the table. He will probably need to be prodded up a bit but I think he will like to participate more.

This morning he managed to roll over from stomach to back again, this time with no help from me.. When he is on his back he quite often rolls over to his side, but he can't roll from back to stomach yet.

Yesterday we tried on the christening dress. I have been a bit worried that he might be to big for it but it fit quite well. Getting it on and off was quite tricky though so by the time we finally got it off he was quite upset. Hope it goes better on Sunday..

On Thursday it was my birthday and some friends of ours were very kind and offered to babysit so we could go out for a meal. It was a bit nervous but it worked out very well in the end. We had a lovely time and managed to relax. Elias behaved well and only got grumpy just in time for our return. It would be a bit easier if he took the bottle, I guess we need to practise more..

For my birthday I had told Dave not to buy anything expensive because I wanted us to get a new camera. I bought it on Friday and here it is:


Quite nice huh!? We have taken quite a few pictures with it, but I haven't had time yet to learn how to get the pictures from the camera to the computer so it might be a little while before we post new pictures..