Mothers Day

Mother's Day started with nice flowers from Jakob and a present from Isak who got really upset when he handed over the present to me and at the same time realised it wasn't for him. Poor little Isak.

Later in the afternoon mum, Anneli and Anders and the family came over for dinner.

Moa

Lucas

Kids playing outside...

Until it got too cold and we all moved inside. Summer is not quite here yet.

After dinner the 4 children went outside riding bikes and tractors etc and after a while Moa came running telling us that Jakob had fallen of his bike and hurt his knee. Adam went to pick him up and in came a crying boy with blood on his leg saying that will never ride a 2 wheel bike again.

Lucky mormor is a nurse and can handle things like this...

For a long time Jakob was just sitting on the sofa relaxin and hugging his teddy.

Anders and Helena brought dessert and in the middle of the crying Jakob said: Do I get to take dessert before everyone else now?

A nice hug from my wonderful Jakob after a great Mother's Day!

Learning...

Jakob is really interested in numbers and asks me questions about numbers all the time. Yesterday he was making sand cakes in the sand pit and was trying to sell some to me. I asked how much his blueberry cake was and got the answer 80kr. That is too expensive I said, I can give you 20. Jakob thought for a while and said, no mummy I can't sell it for 20, but you can have it for 18!

He is getting more and more interested in learning letters and words. He wants to know the firs and last letter of words and try to spell them out loud. Sometimes he gets his toy computer out and sits by himself practicing. It is nice to see him so focus on something that is not related to sport because his sport obsession grows every day.

Eurovision song contest

Adam had a party last Saturday with his floor ball team so the kids and I had the afternoon and evening to ourselves. We played outside, went for a drive looking at boats, went grocery shopping and when Isak went to bed Jakob and I watched the Eurovision Song Contest. He fell asleep after song 7 but I made it to the end and watched Sweden win for the first time in 12 years!

Last weekend

Last weekend it felt like summer with 20 degrees during the days. Today it is 8 degrees and raining. We spent a big part of last weekend outside and Jakob and Isak loved playing with all their summer toys again.

The sandpit is still a big hit!

Tindra, who lives a few houses away, and Jakob play really well together but they also have their arguments. Jakob sometimes says: I am never ever going to play with Tindra again! 10 minutes later she knocks on the door and off he goes playing.

Our neighbours from across the road have 3 boys all older than our children. On Saturday morning they were out working in the garden when they saw Jakob and Isak fighting over a tractor (Adam and I tried to ignore them and let them sort it out themselves). After a while they came over and asked if it was ok if they gave our kids a race car that their boys have grown out of. They also thought that would solve the problem, if they had one veichle each. I thought Isak would be too big for it but somehow he managed to sit at the front of the seat and put his toes on the pedals and start cycling. So what happened was that Jakob and Isak started fighing over the race car. Nice thought though :-)

After a while Isak was back on the tractor again and he is just adorable when he goes around the block looking to proud!

Summer party at day care!

The other week we had the yearly bbq summer party at Jakob's and Isak's day care centre, "dagis". Jakob and Isak go to a mixed dagis with children between 1-6 years old. I think it is great, the small ones learn from the big children and the big ones learn to take care of and help the small children.

The yearly summer party is always very well organised and this year again we were lucky to get a warm and sunny night.

Getting the kids to sit down to eat is not easy when they are full of excitement!

Mormor and Adam having hamburgers and Isak trying to escape from the table.

One of the activites for the evening was a car wash. I got to be the car wash and Jakob was the car. Adam who doesn't like taking photos was quite happy to hold the camera.

Another activity was answering 1 X 2 questions parents with their children. At each station there was one question for the child and one for the parents. The kids questions were pictures of different things and the kids had to guess what they were. Jakob did really well with the tools lik screw driver and hammer but he had no idea what it was when he saw a pic of an iron and a hair dryer. I guess that says a lot about me...

Once a week all the kids sing together and during the evening they showed the parents all the songs they learnt. Jakob loved it but it was hard to get Isak to come and join the others.

But when we finally got him to come he didn't want to leave...

The highlight for the kids was when the old ladies came with bags with goodies (baloons, bubbles and fruit).

Nearly finished!!

The walls in the sauna room are now finished!

Rainy day

Today it has been raining most of the day so the kids have had a pretty quiet day. After lunch I went in to the city to swap a pair of gum boots (Jakobs), buy new gloves for Isak (see the red ones in the pic below) and to have a fika with Carina.

Isak was being out of control before and during dinner (didn't eat anything at all) so I took both him and Jakob outisde after for a bike ride around the block, soccer in the back yard, playing in the sand pit etc etc. It had stopped raining and was really nice.

Ice hockey

Finally the ice hockey world championships are over for this time and life can go back to normal. Quite a few evenings both Adam and Jakob have gone to sleep watching a match but tonight they both stayed awake throug the final. Very impressive by Jakob who woke up early this morning and was pretty tired tonight. They have both been watching Australian footy on tv and the computer as well latley and I look forward to when Jakob can start participating in sport instead of just watching it.

Dinner with friends...

Yesterday the weather was really nice so after a nice sleep in and an hour walk I did some raking and cleaning outisde and also got the outdoor furniture for the front of the house out. Isak and Jakob were "helping" with the raking and did a pretty good job. In the afternoon we went to Zara and Micke for a really nice dinner and one of the best desserts I have ever had!

Jakob and Finn had a good time but I am not sure how much they actually played with each other. Jakob has an obsessive side to him and I worry about the day when we can't keep him away from computer games at home... as soon as he gets hold of a game he disappears in to a different world.

Isak who is starting to become a very determined little boy decided that it was Zara, and nobody else, who was going to change his poo nappy. Fine with us!

Isak and Lykke ruling in the kitchen.

It looks like Lykke has more experience of kissing than Isak.

Better start practicing...

Ugg boots

Yesterday Isak found a pair of kids size ugg boots that I had forgotten that we had. Now he can be just like daddy!

Talking about wanting to look like daddy, Isak is actually a bit in to me at the moment. He still hasn't learnt to say mummy, he calls me nannie, or nanno or something like that, but I think it is me he is talking about/to. He looks at Adam and says No daddy, and comes to me with a big smile saying Nanno!

Dinner at mum's

We all felt quite tired today so it was nice to not have to cook dinner.

Mum cooked a very nice meal with strawberries and ice cream as dessert. My first fresh strawberries this year! yummy!

Cakes...

This is what you will get if you come here for a "fika" in the next few weeks!

Rainy day!

Today is a public holiday so we were all home together and Jakob had his friend Linus over for a few hours. Adam worked on the sauna room and I baked while the big boys played and the little one played for a while and had a long day sleep.