Roll over!

Breaking news! Elias just rolled over from his stomach to his back for the first time. Mummy is so proud! Maybe I did help a tiny tiny bit, but it wasn't much, I promise. When I put him back on his stomach again he started to try to roll over again, but got tired and angry.. Maybe tomorrow...

Trying, trying....

Hmm, how did I get here??

New skills

Because I/we spend so much time together with Elias it is sometimes hard to realise when he has learnt something new. It all comes gradually and seems so natural. At the moment we are reading a book about then 7 phases (or Big Changes) a baby goes through in its first year and reading that makes me realise that a lot of the things he does are part of his development and not just something a bit funny.

What he does now is for instance:

• Blows bubbles with his mouth
  
• Tests his voice by sometimes shrieking
• Lies with his legs straight up in the air (will try to get a picture of it)
  

Lately we have had lovely weather but now they are saying that tomorrow will be the last day of summer.. Better make the most of it then..

We have quite a lot of plans actually. On Saturday we are going to a 30th birthday party and on Sunday some of my relatives are coming for some Surströmming . Hopefully the weather will be good enough so we can sit outside ;-)

Weekend report

I was planning to write this two days ago but somehow time just seem to disappear and all of a sudden it is Wednesday..

Anyway, we had a nice and quiet weekend. On Saturday we went to the flee market on Vaksala torg. There is a flee market there every Saturday in the summer, but we hardly ever go. This time our friend Helena had a table and sold some stuff so we thought we should go there and say hello. David found a globe from 1978 that he bought and it looks very nice we think!



Later on Saturday Jenny, Tommi and Maya came to visit. Last time we saw them was in April on Maya's birthday party. I couldn't believe it when I saw how much she has grown since then. Or maybe she hasn't grown so much, but the fact that she is now walking, the face is less chubby and the hair longer just made her look so much older. Still super-cute though!


This week we have tried the bottle again, this time with milk we had saved up. Unfortunatelly he really hated the bottle this time. We're not giving up yet though!

First week

The first week on our own is almost coming to an end now and it has gone very well. On Monday the weather was pretty bad and it was a bit hard for me to 'get going' so we ended up not doing much. On Tuesday the weather was better and we took a walk to a shopping centre on the outskirt of Uppsala and did some shopping. Mainly I bought clothes for Elias. He has grown out of quite a lot of his clothes and often we need to change him at least once a day because he has gotten puke (or something else) on his clothes so we need quite a few outfits for him. Luckily H&M is quite inexpensive when it comes to baby clothes!

On Wednesday we went to the clinic for a routine checkup. First he was weighed and measured and then it was time to see the doctor. By now he had gone from very happy to very grumpy and he screamed his lungs out the whole time we saw the doctor. I felt a bit stressed because he was so unhappy so I didn't ask any questions on what she was looking for really, but I will ask next time. She listened to his heart and lungs (between the screams) and checked his testicles ( I think) and moved his legs around. Afterwards I sat in the waiting room feeding him and she came out to ask a few questions about his development, if he smiles and communicates and so on. I guess even she got a bit stressed by his wailing ;-)

After the doctor's appointment we met up with two of the mothers from our parent group; Kristina with Hugo and Camilla with William. It was great to see them and especially Camilla and William since we hadn't seen them before. We had a lovely day together with them and didn't get back home until 4.30.

Today we are seeing the bank just to find out what kind of budget we are looking at in case we find a house we really want. We have been going to a few showings lately but not found anything great. For me it will be more interesting to look at houses when I know what we can actually afford as well. We might go and look at a few on Sunday..

More pictures added..

Just added a few pictures to the Month 2 album. Thought I should tell you so you don't miss them, coz as always they are great! ;-)

One that I especially like is this one from the drive up north:

A parent has got to do what a parent has got to do when the nappy needs changing.

Today is David's last day of holiday so on Monday Elias and I will be on our own. Will be strange not having Dave around but hopefully we'll cope. Anyway, with a boy this cute, what can possibly go wrong??

First bottlefeed

Managed to bottlefeed Elias for the first time a few hours ago! We tried before but then he hated it. Now we bought a new bottle with a different teat and it seems like he preferred this one. Hopefully it will work the next time we try as well..

Up north and back again

So, what has happened since our last update?

Well, on the 26th we started the drive up to Antnäs, Luleå. It took almost exactly 12 hrs. We felt quite sorry for poor Elias having to sit for so long in the car, but on the whole he handled it well.

There wasn't much opportunity for Grandma Inger and Granddad Stig to cuddle Elias when we finally got there since he, quite understandably, was a bit grumpy. But since we were staying a few days hopefully they got to cuddle him enough to last until they see him early September. It seems I didn't take many pictures of Elias with his grandparents but here is one with his granddad anyway, and as you can see Stig is very well equipped for the climate up north!
On Friday my cousin Erika came around and spent almost the whole day in Antnäs. The weather was surprisingly nice and we had a lovely day, playing crouqet and getting a bit of sunburn. For the first 4 hours of Erikas visit Elias slept, but he did finally wake up so she could cuddle him a bit too. I guess he was a bit worn out from the long drive the day before.


On Saturday the parts of the family that lives in Skellefteå came so Elias got to meet two of his great uncles and his great grandma. Of course we took the opportunity to take the classic 4-generations photo.
On Saturday the weather turned for the worse and the rest of the time up north we didn't really do much apart from going for a few walks, played with Elias, played cards (without Elias) and went in to town once. Oh, and I almost forgot, we went to CARBINGO as well. Elias was a big hit amongs all the old biddies!

On Wednesday my aunt, Bert-Ola, and Erika came for a visit. Auntie Anna-Lisa and Bert-Ola had been on holiday in Stockholm the entire time we were in Luleå, but luckily we managed to meet up a few hours after they landed. Dad went to pick them up from the airport and then they came around to mum and dad's. It was so nice to get to see them, being up north a whole week without seeing auntie just wouldn't have felt right. And of course we wanted to show off Elias as well!
The drive back was pretty much like the drive there. Ok for most of the time, but quite hard at the end when Elias was getting real fed up.

After spending the week at mum and dad's we got quite keen on getting a house (again) so on the Sunday after we got back we went to a few house showings but didn't find anything perfect.
We weren't really expecting to though, it was more of a research trip. We have booked an appointment at the bank though to see how much we can afford. It is quite scary to think about getting a house since it is so expensive and we don't really know anything about houses so there is always the risk of getting stung bad by buying a crappy one. Hopefully we will find something nice in the end though.

Monday and Tuesday we went to visit Anna and Patrik on "the Island". Patrik's mum has a summer house on a tiny island about an hour north of Uppsala and we have been talking about going there for years and we finally managed to find a time that suited us all. The weather was amazing when we were there, almost too nice considering the little boys. Unfortunatelly we didn't take many pictures of the lovely place, maybe it was too hot, but here is one at least..
(There are more pictures from Antnäs in the Month 2 album and we have now started the Month 3 album)