A few pics

Elias with his beloved spade and new gloves.

Elias and Grandma Joyce

Elias and Max

Looking at fish (camera lens a bit steamed up)

Out for a walk in Hagaparken

More pictures can be found in the March&April album

Ready for spring

I thought if I give the blog a spring-inspired look, maybe spring will finally come...

What do you think? Better, worse?

Bye bye grandma

Today Grandma Joyce and Max go back to England again. It has been great to see them. Unfortunately Elias got ill on Thursday afternoon and he was pretty miserable on Friday. Luckily he got a lot better on Saturday and had loads of energy to play.

On Friday Joyce and Max went in to central Stockholm while we stayed at home with Elias. On Saturday we went to Hagaparken and the Butterfly house. It was really nice, but very hot and humid. Elias mainly liked a big tank of huge fish (carps) and he found it a bit too hot in the actual butterfly house. He did point to a few and shouted "fäjil" (butterfly in Swedish, sort of). We had lunch and then went for a walk while Elias slept. I thought the park was pretty nice although it looked a bit dreary at the moment. I'm sure it is lovely in the summer though. The café had great looking cakes so I definitely want to go back for one of them (we only had lunch there, no fika).

As soon as I have emptied the camera I will upload some pictures!

Amazing!

In 2006 my parents came to England to meet David's family. While we were there we also made a trip to Portsmouth to see the HMS Victory. Dad wanted to go there because he had started to build a model of the ship. While there he found some blueprints for the ship that were much more accurate than the ones he had at home. When he got home he decided to start over with the correct blueprint (he had worked about 1½ years by then I think).

Now, almost 3 years after he got hold of the correct blueprints the ship is finally finished! Amazing, don't you think!?





I should be clear about the fact that pretty much everything is hand made by dad . Maybe I should also point out that dad is retired ;-)

Real parent?

Tonight I am going to a parent meeting at the nursery. My first parent meeting ever! When I was little and my parents went to the parent meetings at school I was always so curious as to what they were talking about. Now I will finally find out. Does this mean I am a real parent now?

Mine!

Kisses

Another thing Elias really likes to do at the moment is to give out kisses. He kisses us, he kisses his bunny. He makes bunny kiss other stuffed toys and us. We have tried to teach him how to blow kisses as well and he relly tries hard even though he struggels a bit with the order in which to do things. It is so cute!

Favourite games

It feels like Elias has changed lately, but it is hard to explain how. He seems a lot older and playes differently it seems. It is loads of fun! At the moment he is really into drawing. The other day I could hardly get him to come home with me from nursery because he was having so much fun drawing!

Pictures of some of the favourite games at the moment:
Crawling under the coffee table
Playing with water at the sink
Drawing

On Sunday we had some lovely "spring-winter" weather. It was pretty cold and crisp but the sun was shining and giving off some heat. Lovely! Hopefully we will get loads more of that when we go up to Luleå at Easter...



We went tobogganing on a small slope near the house and Elias seemed to quite like it. When we do stuff we think he 'should' enjoy we quite often make a weeee noice, and he did say that quite a lot. Not always enthusiastically, but still....