Baking

Today we had some friends over for some "pepparkaks-"baking. We made both cookies and a house each (although, the house was pre-made and only needed assembling and decorating)

Let the baking begin!

Fredrik decorating their house

Our house. Did I mention that our friends are professional designers? Both of them!

Elias loved decorating the cookies. (He didn't mind tasting them either)

Family day out

The nursery was shut today and both David and I took the day off work and we had a family outing. We started by going to look at the Christmas window display at NK - a very posh department store in Stockholm. Their Christmas display is always really hyped and many people has made it a tradition to go and look at it. This was our first time and Elias especially seemed to really like it.

All the letters sent to Father Christmas is "uploaded" to his memory

Father Christmas as an octopus making all the toys.
To see the whole display, click this link

After looking at the window display we went to Rum för barn at Kulturhuset. This time it was open! I think all of us really liked it. I wish I had been able to film Alice's reaction when we got in, she was so excited and happy.

They had a live advent calendar and door no 9 was opened today. It was done really well, I think. The woman in the box was painting to music and the other one got the children watching involved. Elias was mesmerized but Alice got bored after a little while. Her attention span is not quite as good as his yet..

After the advent calendar and some play and reading we went in to the art studio where both kids did some paining.

Obstacle course

When Joyce visited us we wanted to go to a place in Stockholm called "Rum för barn", but it was unexpectadly closed. Outside of it there was an obstacle course though that Alice loved and we ended up spending quite a long time there after all.

Alice and Sonja

Alice is really into her (2) dolls at the moment. She loves dressing and undressing them, putting them to bed, changing nappies and so forth. The other day she was taking Sonja for a walk and it was nice to see that she made sure Sonja was wrapped up properly!

Forest group final

Two weekends ago it was the last gathering of the semester for the two forest groups. The weather wasn't great but it was still a really nice day (yet again at Lida).

Letter to Father Christmas

A while back we got a bunch of junk mail in our letterbox even though we have a sign saying we don't want it. In this lot was a catalogue from Toys'R'Us which Elias quite enjoys to flick through (for some reason). After reading it carefully he wanted to write a letter to Father Christmas and here is the result.

"Hello Father Christmas. I want a Ligtning (McQueen) computer /from Elias"

Family visit III

After my sister's family was here we had the honor to be hosts to both my dad and Joyce. Dad had returned from his visit to China and stopped by for a few days. While he was here we celebrated father's day (different day than in England) and me and Elias baked cup cakes to celebrate. Don't they look yummy. We also made a trip to Lida which has become a bit of a favourite place for us...