Fancy dressing

Today Elias went to the birthday party for a girl in his group at nursery. It said on the invitation that the children could wear fancy dress if they wanted to. Elias immediately said he wanted to be Mr Benn. So this week me and Dave had to try to find stuff for him to wear and here is the result:


Elias was very pleased with his outfit. The fact that no-one here knows who Mr Benn is doesn't really matter...

Yesterday we went round my cousin's since she has had her birthday too recently. There Alice tried on Leonard's tiger costume.

Roar

Leonard is very fond of Alice and likes to hug her as often as he can. It is really sweet!

(It seems like Alice is quite a lot tougher/braver than Elias was at the same age. He would never have gone on this slide on his own without us holding his hand whereas she just shuffles along with no worries. )

Weekend video 2

Weekend video 1

Table manners

Alice has always had quite a good apetite but lately she has become increasingly fussy and difficult to feed. When we were up north she refused loads of food but then I realised that she tends to eat a bit better if she can feed herself. It's just a shame she hasn't quite mastered the spoon-technique yet...

Almost there

Alice is getting pretty close to walking now. I keep meaning to film it but as soon as I get a camera out she stops walking and wants to play with the camera instead. The only clip I have is one week old and of course she crashes this time. It's a small miracle that children survive learning to walk I think.



Anyway, since this was filmed she has progressed a lot. On Friday when I was at work she made a "jump" and could all of a sudden walk much further and with more balance. She still shuffles along as her main form of transport but we think it won't be much longer until she has mastered the art of walking.

Seeing family

Since the last entry (it's been a while I know) the kids and I have been up to Luleå one weekend. We managed to go the weekend it was -25 degrees so we spent pretty much all of the time indoors. Correction, on Sunday it was only -15 and then one could see people being out for walks enjoying the warmer weather!

Angelika and Felicia was up there too, but David stayed at home. All in all we had a really nice, relaxing weekend.

One week after we went up north, mum and dad came here. They left this morning to go to Angelika's. We've had a really nice time and the kids loved having them here.