Zoo

Today we went to the zoo and apart from the weather it was great. I have added pictures in the May and June album

Yesterday we went to a birthday party and tomorrow we go to Leonard's christening so it is a pretty busy weekend. Lucky it's a long weekend!

Ikea

Went to Ikea yesterday afternoon. I thought it wouldn't be very busy at all on a weekday before "everyone" has quit their jobs for the day. It wasn't heaving with people but still quite a lot of people.

We had made a very detailed list of what to get and managed to stick to it even if we almost got sidetracked a few times. The main thing we bought was a new chest of drawers for Elias' bedroom. We started to build it last night. We are quite a team when it comes to building IKEA furniture, I guess we have had a lot of practise. I'm really pleased with the stuff we got but reading about my good friend Pernilla's project makes me feel not just a little bit bad...

New data

David took Elias to the clinic yesterday. To the right you can see the new height and weight data.

In the afternoon we went to the new dagis. I think it will be good there! Elias seemed to like the playground, we could even leave him there for a little while when we were looking around indoors.

Birthday wishes

Book: Nöff nöff, Benny
Book: Den silvriga barnkammarboken
Puzzles
Trains
Bath toys
Tools
Clothes (size 92)

good and bad

Sunday evening and we look back on a really nice weekend. Yesterday Elias and I went to the forest group (normally on Sundays, but on Saturday this week). I was debating whether we should go or not since it had been raining all night and we forgot his waterproofs at dagis, and we had quite a list of things we wanted to get done. Anyway, I decided to go and it was as nice as ever. Elias is such a little star in the forest! Makes his mummy very proud. Also, I realised that one of the girls in the group is the daughter of one of Dave's colleagues. Nice!

After his midday nap we went to see Anna, Patrik, Jacob and their little baby girl. She was so cute and tiny (3 weeks old). Elias thought it was very strange I think with such a small baby. After a lot of fika and chatting we went to a play park near by. It was great and we had loads of fun until Elias did a dump and we had to go home.

Today we met up with some other friends and had a bbq. It was great fun! The family we went to had LOADS of toys and Elias loved it. It was great to see all of my friends again but unfortunatelly I got some really bad news. One of the girls in the group (she wasn't there today) just had surgery because they found out she had breast cancer. It is so awful! Especially since her fiance had lukemia a few years ago. So unfair that this horrible disease hits the same family twice!!!

First harvest

Yesterday we had the first harvest of the season - rhubarb. Elias thought it was very interesting but didn't quite like the taste of raw rhubarb.

Later at night we made a scrummy rhubarb crumble.

Sweet weekend

On Friday we had a bank holiday in Sweden so we have had a long and nice weekend. Luckily the weather has been great as well! (It is raining today)

On Friday we were mainly pottering about in the garden and went to the park with Elias. We thought we should all have an ice cream to celebrate the spring. Elias seemed to really enjoy it and he did not make a fuss when it was finished. Not like a year ago. Mind you, it was a pretty big ice cream so he was probably stuffed when it was finished...



On Saturday we went to Maya's birthday party. Elias was quite shy at first but soon warmed up. He was very interested in all the people using sign language and soon started to try to sign himself. At the end there was a little treasure hunt and the treasure was a small bag of sweets. Elias got his bag, looked in it and said "Blä!" (yuck). He really didn't want to try any sweets. In the end he had one but didn't seem to be very impressed. Good!

Yesterday we went to Uppsala and saw the parents in our parent group. It was so much fun! Elias had a blast