Birthday boys

Jakob and Isaks's birthdays are only 5 days apart so we have birthday parties for them togehter.

 

Waiting for everyone to come...

 

 

First visitors and first present have arrived...

More ice hockey stuff...

The family!

Jakob blowing out 6 Candles...

 

And Isak blowing out 3 (with some help from mummy)

 

 

The cousins also stayed for dinner...

The baby is growing and som am I! here about 28 weeks pregnant.

Mummy and Isak weekend

About a  month ago Adam and Jakob joined Anders and the kids for a sking weekend in Storklinten staying in their caravan. They had a great weekend and at the same time Isak and I had a great time at home. Not often I get the chance to spend so much time with just one child so it felt pretty special. 

 

Isak just looooves getting his hair cut so that was one thing we did on the weekend. He doesn't get enough and just wants me to keep going. Not like his big brother who doesn't really want to sit still and asks every two seconds when it is finished.

 

 

Isak is the only one in the family who loves cleaning!

 

Isak riding

Isak is always happy to come with me to the riding club. With Jakob it is getting harder and harder to get hime to come. The other week Isak had a ride on Moa but Jakob didn't want to...

 

Luleå Hockey

Jakob loves ice hockey and because Isak wants to be like his big brother, he loves ice hockey too. Here dressed up to go with daddy to one of Luleås home games.

 

2013

 

First day of the new year was a very quite day for all of us. Jakob stayed in his pyjama all day long and we didn't leave the house. I played a bit with my new laptop, Adam cooked a very nice lunch, I made a cake and Jens came over for a "fika" in the afternoon. I don't Think I have relaxed as much as I have done the last couple of weeks ever in my life!

 

Oh well, feels like this year will be a busy year so a few quiet weeks probably won't hurt. Tomorrow I am back at work again but Adam will be home with the kids until they start dagis again next Monday!

Different New Years Eve

Last year Adam was sick on New Years Eve and I ended up having dinner with the kids with mum. It was a really nice evening even though I was a bit disappointed to miss a big party. This year both of us felt like having a quite New Years Eve all by ourselves. In the morning we decided to go to Storklinten for the seasons first day of skiing! I expected the weather to be quite bad but even though it might not look so good it was great. -1 and no wind or snow (started snowing a Little at the end of the day).

 

 

 

Getting all the gear ready!

 

 

 

Isak and I spent most of the day going up with the band, and down on the bob. Most of the times him by himself on the bob and me walking down but sometimes both of us on the bob.

 

Isak loved it and apart from a one hour lunch break he kept on doing the same thing for 5 hours with a big smile on his face. I was very impressed!

 

Anders, Helena with kids and Helena's parents and sister with family were also there. Lucas did very well skiing and I have to say Isak and Lucas look quite similar in these photos.

 

Lunchbreak in the restaurant... nice with a break in the middle of the day and the kids must have been hungry because they ate everything on their plates and some of my food as well.

 

 

It took Jakob some time to get back in to skiing. He was lacking a bit of confidence and a few falls don't help. The good thing is that he kept trying and didn't give up and I think he enjoyed it.

 

At the end of the day I also got to ski a bit. First with Jakob but also a couple of runs by myself. It was Amazing and I will really miss not being able to ski so much this season! hopefully I can do it a few more times before I get to big...

 

 

When we got home we were all very tired and our plans to go out for dinner, got changed to getting take away, which we changed to rice porridge for the kids and lollies for us adults. A very different but in the end a very nice New Years Eve. And no, I didn't make it until midnight :-)

 

A tractor!

 

Isak looooves tractors! here he is watching one clearing the snow from the neighbours driveway.

 

 

Potty training

 

A few days ago we decided to start Isak on potty training. With Jakob it went very easily. We started quite late (he was nearly 3) and just told him one day that we were going to stop with nappies. Within a few days he was completley out of nappies even at night time, with very few accidents.

 

I have Always had a feeling it would be harder with Isak, he has been later than Jakob with pretty much everything. Christmas time is a good time to start though when they are off dagis for a few weeks, so we did it the same way as Jakob, just told Isak from one day to another that he should start using the potty. As soon as we took the nappy of the first time he went over to the potty, sat down and did a wee and a poo and was extremly happy and proud with himself. So were we... After that we have had a few accidents but every day is getting better and better. Last night he even had a dry nappy in the morning so tonight we put him to bed without a nappy. I doubt he will stay dry all night but we thought it was worth trying. If it doesn't work we just put the nappy back on him at night until he seems ready.

Surprise!

 

The day before New Years Eve we all went skating. It Went really well, even for me and I didn't feel very pregnant when chasing Jakob around in the ice arena, even though my legs were a bit tired at the end of it. Isak was a bit hesitant in the beginning and wanted to sit on the bench and Watch, but after a while he started trying and did really well! he managed to move forward all by himself, wouldn't quite call it skating but if he keeps trying like that I am sure it won't take very long before he can do it.

After a long lunch at Mc Donalds we picked up a parcel from Coop and went home. Jakob and Isak got Christmas presents all the way from France and was very happy about such a surprise a few days after Christmas.  

 

 

Dinner with friends

Christmas holiday for kids and adults means lots of family time and also time with friends. Zara, Micke and the kids came over for dinner a few Days ago...

 

 

 

 

It is working

quite well with a separate kids and parents table...

 

During dinner and at the end of the night are normally the only time to catch all of the Children on one photo at the same time.

Christmas Day!

This morning Adam woke me up at 9.30. I have been sleeping badly because of coughing for hours at night so it was nice to sleep in. Isak woke up at 9 and Jakob a bit before that so Adam, who woke up at 5 had a very quiet morning all by himself. Anyway, kids awake means them wanting to open presents, becuase today was Australian Christmas. I was still sleepy when they were opening presents so I forgot the camera but at least grandma, poppa, Jason, Karen and the kids got to watch it all on Skype. Both Jakob and Isak were very happy with all their presents from yesterday and today so another very successful Christmas is coming to an end.

The hits of Christmas was Isak's car, he has played with it all day, and Jakob's (and Isak's) games that he wants to play as often as possible. Even Isak is starting to get the hang of it and today Jakob and Isak managed to play from start until end without us getting too much involved.

Thank you everyone for all the great Christmas presents! both children and adults are very happy and satisfied with another nice Christmas!

Christmas

Finally the day Jakob and Isak have been talking about for a long time, Christmas Eve! We started the day with a nice breakfast at home with hot chocolate and candles. -21 degrees outside and lots of snow made it all very beautiful, but not the best weather for playing outside.

Before lunch we headed to Ale and started with a walk down to the sheep shed while the grandmothers were getting lunch ready inside. The kids where very happy to pose for the camera. Especially Jakob who put his hands down again as soon as I had taken the pic.

Isak struggled a bit poor thing, I don't think we had dressed him enough because he kept complaining that he was cold.

Åsa showing us the sheep.

All the kids (and Maggi) at the kids table.

Helena and Lucas (Lucas it not asleep and he is not breast feeding).

Moa

Isak and mormor looking for Santa!

Jakob looking for Santa!

Someone is knocking on the door!!!

Santa came with presents for everyone and Isak wasn't at all scared, he even gave Santa a hug.

Jakob excited over a Luleå Hockey towel. Yes he loves hockey.

Bye bye for now Santa!

Isak got a doll for Christmas and even though Jakob didn't want to admit he quite enjoyed playing with it too.

After lunch and Santa's visit we headed home again and had a very nice and quiet evening just relaxing watching tv and then later in the evening playing games.

Baking

I am not much for baking but making ginger thins with Jakob is something I don't want to miss. We did it one night after Isak had gone to bed and Jakob loved it!

Finally home!

Adam, Jakob and Isak have now been home for nearly 2 weeks and we have spent a lot of time together. It took Jakob and Isak almost a week to start sleeping through the night and not waking up around 2am wanting breakfast. They must have picked up something on the plane over because it started with Isak getting sick and then the rest of us, one by one, and me last. I thoguht I would be ok but no, Monday last week I could feel it coming, went to work but left early and had to stay home for another 3 days. That has never happened before. I have never been sick and home from work for that long. I pretty much spent those 3 days in bed apart from helping with the kids in between. It was kind of a strange feeling that all 4 of us were together and didn 't leave the house for that many days. The kids were amazing though and seemed to enjoy the quiet lifestyle.

When we started feeling a bit better it was time to put up the Christmas tree! the kids were of course extremly excited!

Life back to normal, healthy kids at home chilling on the couch.

All alone...

Nearly 5 weeks all by myself in the big house... so how did it go? I survived and kept myself veeery busy, but missed the family a lot! the good thing is that the kids didn't seem to miss me at all, they just enjoyed the holiday and didn't quite understand why I wanted to talk to them or see them on skype. They all had a great time over there and I filled my time with work and a couple of work trips, lots of girls dinners and "fikas", the movies, riding club meetings, cleaning, putting up all the Christmas decorations etc etc.

First and also second of advent I celebrated by myself with some julmust and lussekatter.

Here we go again...

A year ago Adam and the kids went to Australia without me and today I once again dropped them off at the airport and went home to an empty house. Or I went to work first but got home to an empty, very empty house in the evening.

Happy children excited about going to grandma and poppa in Australia!

Sad mummy and children that don't quite understand what the problem is.

Time to say good bye... Have a wonderful time in Australia and see you in 5 weeks!

Mum helping out

Last week I was away for work 3 days and mum helped out a lot with the children so that Adam could work and play floor ball. She also had the kids Saturday night when Adam and I celebrated his birthday by playin ten pin bowling, having dinner and going to the movies. All in one night! we don't go out by ourselves often but when we do it we do it.