Another birthday party...

Jakob's birthday celebrations seem to have no end! Since it is Isak's birthday tomorrow we decided to take the opportunity to have a big day for both children. My morning was all about preparing the food and the cakes and Adam took Jakob skating and to Mc Donalds so I could get it all done when Isak was asleep. It worked out really well and as always Jakob was extremly excited. 

Getting a photo of me and my beautiful 5 year old boy was not easy, I had to beg him to be in the photo with me. 

Liam is also very interested in hockey so the 2 hockey freaks were discussing names and numbers on Jakob's bed for a while. 

After opening a large amount of really nice presents (it took Isak forever to open them but god he was in heaven!) the kids had some fika and birthday cake.

One cake with 5 candles and one with 2!

Isak trying to blow out the candles. 

At the start of the treasure hunt I managed to get them all to sit still on the couch for a couple of seconds. 

Isak and Jakob cuter than ever!





Winter!

 These sort of pictures have been going around on facebook for us northern Swedish people over the last few days. We have had a very cold week with temperatures around -25 to -30 degrees outside every day. So what do I think about it? I actually quite like it. There is something special about putting on layers and layers of clothing and to sit inside with a cup of tea and watch the beautiful sun outside. When it is cold like this it is almost always sunny! Saying that I don't want it to be like that for much longer. A few days or even a week is ok but now it is time for a change and a week with around -5 would be nice.



Jakob turning 5!

 

Wednesday earlier this week was finally Jakob's birthday. I was home sick and Adam had the boys home from dagis and took them to Leos. It was nice to spend some time with them in the morning and Jakob was so happy to now be a big boy! and he loved the hockey stuff that he got!

Mormor came over for dinner and to play in the evening. 

 Jakob's choice of birthday cake, ice cream!!

Birthday part with dagis friends!

 This  year we decided to have a birthday party for Jakob and his dagis friends. Jakob was so excited to have them all coming to his house!

One of the highlights of the day was the treasure hunt and Jakob was the lucky one finding the treasure. 

The party went and it was fun to see them playing together even though I really admire the staff at dagis who work with this every day. The way they play is very loud and crazy at times.

Some quiet time in the evenign after the party...

Bedtime

We have a pretty strange bedtime routine with the kids. Not sure how it all started but Jakob loves competing and running and never gets enough of it. The routine is that we race everywhere. First from the tv room to the bathroom, then in to Isak's room to put him to bed, and last of all in to Jakob's room. Sometimes it is a crawling race and sometimes it a running race.

Isak happy to be in bed after a fun day playing!

Now both kids are asleep and Adam is in the city. I have just done the preparations for tomorrows treasure hunt and now I am nearly ready for bed! 

The day before the day...

Tomorrow Jakob is having his birthday party and for the first time he has invited his friends from dagis. He is very excited about it all and has been counting down the days for a couple of weeks now. Adam and Jakob went skating this afternoon and I stayed home and baked for the party when Isak had his afternoon sleep. I am crap at baking so luckily mum has helped to fill up the freezer with some goodies.

For Christmas I gave Adam an evening cooking class and Zara gave Micke the same so today was the day to learn Italian cooking! Zara came over with the kids and had dinner with us when the big boys went to their class. We look forward to some delicious dinners in the near future...



Jakob is obsessed with his hockey gear and would wear his helmet in bed if he was allowed.

Lykke and Isak

Saturday morning

This morning Carina and Nelly came over for a play and a sauna. Jakob went with Adam to a innebandy match so Isak and I had a sauna with the girls. It was Isaks second try and this time it went better than last time and he stayed in there for about 10 minutes. After the sauna he was very tired and managed to lay on the floor playing and relaxing at the same time. 

Skates for Isak

This morning we bought some second hand skates for Isak. Finally he gets to try it too!!

Winter

My office at work is in the middle of the factory with no windows so when I am there, I have no idea of what the weather is outside. At this time of the year it is dark when I go in there in the morning (starts at 7am) and dark when I leave in the afternoon. The only time I see day light is during my lunch break and I have to say that we are coming in to a beautiful time of the year up here in the north. The other day when I left the bunker to go for lunch I just had to take a photo with my phone. I love it!

Tough day...

 Monday morning Jakob had another appointment with the dentist. He said to me in the car on the way there that he didn't want to because he didn't want to pull another tooth out. That is the first time he says he doesn't want to go. He got over it quickly though and seemed happy to see Torbjörn the dentist. Since Jakob has had pain in one tooth the dentist decided to pull it out (or wiggle it out... that's what he says to Jakob). It went really well again and it is much quicker pulling the teeth out than trying to fix it so Jakob doesn't seem to mind at all. When we where leaving Jakob was very quiet and looked a bit sad so I stayed with him at dagis for a while and he was happy to just sit with me and relax for quite some time. When I left him he was ok but seemed very low and didn't seem up for playing. Later on when I called dagis they told me that he was fine and playing like normal and ate without problem. His next appointment was Friday this week but we had to reschedule it to next Friday. Probably not a bad thing...

At work they had some tickets available to the corporate box at the ice hockey so I decided to take Jakob. I knew he would be tired after his big morning but he coped well and watched the whole match. Even in the break he just stood there watching the ice asking millions of questions to one of my work mates who gave much better answers than me. Jakob is really in to hockey at the moment. 

Riding club...

 Adam and Jakob went to the hockey today and Isak and I spent some time at the riding club together with Stina and Lova. Isak likes it there, he has always been very interested in animals.

 

Stina and I spent some time in the office and the kids had some fika on the floor

They also ran up and down the corridor about 200 times and only had a short rest to have some grapes before going again.

Sleepy

I can't quite get used to Isak's ability to sleep and relax! don't get me wrong, he can be extremly active as well, but he just loves sleeping. Last night I put him down at 7pm and this morning Adam woke him up at 8.30. I wonder what he does in there. Maybe he is awake for a couple of hours in the middle of the night? Putting him down in the middle of the day is never a problem either and most days we have to wake him up after about 2 hours. Very strange child but it is a nice change after being used to Jakob waking up around 5 until he was about 2. 

One tooth less...

On Friday Jakob went back to the dentist again for the first of hopefully only 3 visits for a long time. He is getting used to it now, he jumps up in the chair, talks to the dentist, opens his mouth and does evertying he is told to do even though the dentist sometimes have to tap on his shoulder to get his attention when he all of a sudden starts focusing on something else i the room.

It started off very well, he got the injection and the dentist told me that he put more anastethic than last time just in case he would have to pull the tooth off. He started the grinding and stopped after a while. He tapped Jakob's shoulder to make him listen and told him that the tooth had a very high fever and wasn't feeling very good. The best would be to "wiggle" it out because otherwiser it might start hurting very soon. I am not sure if Jakob really understood what was about to happen but before we knew it the tooth was out! Jakob was amazing, he handled it great and was only a bit worried about all the blood. When I took him to dagis I stayed there for a bit sitting next to him on a couch checking that the bleeding had stopped. After a while he said: Mummy what are you doing here, why dont' you go to work? I said I just wanted to stay with him for a bit to make sure he was ok. Just go mummy he said then and looked a bit embarrassed about the fact that I was sitting there in the middle of all his friends.

Anyway, it has now been 2 days and he hasn't complained once so so far so good. I am just a bit worried about the next visit on Monday morning. Jakob has told me the last couple of days that one of the other teeth is hurting a bit. That might mean that there is another one that needs to be pulled out agian very soon....

Skating!!

Adam takes Jakob skating most Sundays but I haven't had any skates so I have normally been staying home with Isak. Now I have finally bougth some so last Sunday I had a go for the first time in a couple of year. It was great fun!! Jakob has improved a lot and is so cute on his skates.

 

Isak was dying to try too and did all the right moves! the only thing missing was the skates. 

After daddy had taken him around a bit that was all he wanted to do. We have get him some skates so he can be a part of it!

Memories

I was going through some old photos on a memory stick and thought I'd post some here...

 Jakob and Moa not long after we moved to Sweden.

Jakob and I in Gawler just before moving to Sweden.

Cuddle a koala is what you do at Cuddle Creek wildlife park!

My very temporary office space when spending two weeks working in the US! I loved every second of it.

                                                        Jakob's first ever lunch in Barossa Valley!

Jakob's best friend in Australia - Oscar!

I am the one in the middle cheering for Pim Pim when he played in Adelaide many years ago!