Short update!

Sorry for being so slack with the blog. I have nobody or nothing to blame, just myself.

The stay in Sweden was short and intense. Before I left we had a surprise birthday dinner for my brother who turned 40 the day before Christmas and we also celebrated mum who turned 65 on 21 Dec, the day before Isak and I left.

The fligt to Adelaide was long but went really well without any delays. The flight path was Lulea-Stockholm-Copenhagen-Bangkok-Melbourne-Adelaide and took about 46 hours including all the stops. Isak was amazing and I don't think he cried once in those hours but hey, it's tough travelling that far with a baby even if the baby is an angel like Isak. Don't think I would have coped if he had been sad or upset.

Seeing Jakob and Adam again was wonderful, especially Jakob who doesn't really understand what's going on and why I was away for nearly 3 weeks. After being in Adelaide just over a week he spoke nearly fluent English and it's getting even better every day. I can't get enough of listening to him, it sounds so clever and cute at the same time. He speaks very proper English and says things like: I will not have another drink etc.

Isak slept really badly at night for the first two weeks here in Australia. I even took him to the doctor because he has always been such a good sleeper and I was worried that he was in pain. The doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him so my conclusion to his sleeping problems are that he struggled with all the changes like: travelling between Thailand-Sweden-Australia within a few weeks, staying in different places with new people, me giving up breast feeding, new food and water etc etc. He also had a quite bad cold for a few days. Anyway, it is all good now and he is back sleeping from 7pm to 6-7am.
Isak is a very fast crawler now and he looooves climbing up on things. He can stand up if he holds on to something but he doesn't do it very often. He wants to feed himself now and it is impossible to put a spoon in his mouth. Or that's not quite true, it works find with porridge and fruit pure but nothing else.

So, what have we been up to since we got here? first of all we had to get through Christmas and the 3 days after were booked up with different friends which was great. New Years Eve Adam and I had dinner just the two of us at a Chinese restaurant in Gawler. It was really nice and exactly what I felt like, I wasn't up for a big party at all.

Yesterday we said good bye to Adam's brother Jason, his wife Karen and their son Hugo who moved to New Zeeland for a couple of years. It really brought back memories from when we left 2 years ago. After saying good bye at the airport we went for a drive past our old house. We asked Jakob to see if he could remember which house we lived in (he was about 21 months when we left) and we went past about 4 houses and asked is it this one... When we got to the right one he said yes straight away. Pretty amazing even though I know chidren remember more than I think.

In the next few weeks we will be quite busy which suits me well. I like having lots of activities planned in :-) Adam and I will also try to have a couple of nights away just us without children for a couple of nights. Lots of fun and lots to look forward to.

Hopefully I can download some photos in the next few days but if not I will do it when I get back to Sweden.

I will be back soon!