Lucia

Manboy

The song Manboy (don't ask!) almost became the Swedish Eurovision entry last year. It is now a huge hit amongst kids in nurseries all over the country..


The best bit comes after about 40 sec so don't give up too soon...

Poorly boys

My boys have been a bit poorly.

First Elias got conjunctivitis poor lamb. He's a lot better now though and can go to nursery tomorrow.

Then David did his back in while pulling Elias on the snow racer. For a few hours he was in loads of pain and couldn't stand up.

He was pretty comfortable lying on the pouffe and could even eat his porridge.

And at least he had some company...

Dave's back is better now and he will be able to take care of Alice tomorrow on his own while I'm at work.

Winter wonderland

Wehee II

Advent 1st weekend

First we decorated the "tree"

Then we went tobogganing

Then Anna and the kids came for the traditional Chrtistmas baking

Result!

Wehee

Sorry about the poor blogging at the moment. Just can't seem to find the time or inspiration. So here is something to keep you going...

Skills II

Big brother has also learnt some new tricks...

Skills

Alice still can do all the stuff she could do before the Fall. Phew! Here she demonstrates her wave. She can also clap her hands but she didn't want to show that this time...

The Klingon baby

On Saturday mum and I went out for a meal with "the girls". We went to gamla stan and sat in the basement of a really nice restaurant. At about 9 pm my mum's cousin Maria got a phone call and told me to call my dad. It turned out I had no signal down there and they had tried to get hold of me for ages.

I went up wondering what could have happened. Elias had complained about a tummy ache at dinner so I thought that he had started to be sick or something. Dad said "don't worry but... " (yeah right), "david is in the E.R..." (hmm, strange I thought) "..with Alice..." (what???) "... she fell down the stairs..." (nooooo!). Crying my eyes out I hopped in a taxi and went to the hospital. She was in quite a state when I got there, a huge bruised bump and really upset (she had just been woken up and was hungry as well), but it was of course a great relief to be there with her. The doctor was really positive and said she didn't think she had any injuries from the fall but they wanted to x-ray the head just to be sure there was no fractures and we had to stay until midnight for observation.

So it seems she/we have been extremely lucky and she got away from the horrible fall with (just) a nasty bruise.

Last night in the hospital

Today at dinner

Not quite the profile we're used to...

On the move

I was going to film Alice waving, but she just went for the camera so instead you get to see how Alice moves about. Traditional hands and knees crawling just isn't her thing...

New hobby

This is Elias new hobby: beads. At nursery he mainly makes necklaces but we don't have the string at home so here we just do flat things. This is today's production (I made a few...). It's fascinating to watch the concentration when he's working on this stuff. Earlier today Dave said he has the "attention span of a mosquito", usually correct but not in this case...

Tooth

Forgot to say that Alice now has one tooth! Before I went to Luleå we could see that something was trying to break through and on the weekend we felt one sharp little corner of a tooth. In the beginning she kept investigating it with her tongue, very cute!

No picture of it yet though I'm afraid...

Luleå

On Thursday I went to Luleå with the kids for a few days. It was a late spur-of-the-moment decision and we had a really nice time (even though I came down with a temperature). David also came up for a bit more than 24 hrs. He took the over-night train on Friday and went back Sunday evening.

On Friday we went up to Långberget and grilled sausages and stickbread.






On Saturday mum and dad cooked us a 3-course dinner


We played some kubb and croquet in the garden


Autumn has definitely arrived to Luleå! It's beautiful!


More pictures and some video in the September&October album

Bounce!

We've taken the trampoline down this weekend and Elias had a final bounce

In training

Bye bye nappy!

Last night Elias went to sleep without his nappy for the first time. He has been asking for it for a bit more than a week so we've felt a bit bad for not letting him do it sooner but we had to stock up on sheets and pyjamas first. ;-)


A very excited BIG boy!

(He did pretty well by the way. In the night he alerted us and David took him to the potty but in the morning we had an accident...)

BFF

travel

alice on the train to auntie anki and cousin felicia!

On the move

Alice doesn't crawl yet but she can definitely go places when she wants to.

Happy girl!

Elias is proud of his digger / crane...

Go Sweden!

Hm

Not quite where she wanted to go..

Birthday dinner

Yum!