Football

Alicia has started soccer and is loving it. Unfortunately the matches on Sundays tend to be rather early and the weather rather chilly. However, nothing that a little coffee and smiles cannot fix. Alicia's team is called Mornington and is the orange groovy looking team. Alicia herself is somewhere in the midst of the lot, I can see her, can u? (ok then, fine, it's the stunning girl on the right of the three orange ones in the front)

Easter

Its so nice having the children back again! It's school holidays and they've all been visiting their grandpa for a week... but now they are back!

Easter as usual of course with witches and Swedish Easter eggs with lollies inside.... yummo!

sad day

I cannot believe a whole month has passed since my brother arrived... we've done heaps of traveling around and today's drive to the airport will be quite sad indeed. WE WILL MISS YOU ANDREAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wine tasting...

Andreas is finally here and we spent today touring the wine district on the Mornington Peninsula. With kids. Haha. Had a great time, although I'd love to have been tasting some myself...

He seemed to enjoy the free wine and the kids enjoyed their time when it was finally time to leave the vineyards for the playground!

Alicia 10 years

OMG Alicia has turned 10 and that fact is about to provide me with a loevly little midlife crisis!!

As usual we celebrated in the morning with pressies on the birthday mat followed by cake for brekky. The girl in question had ordered princess cake from Ikea so that's what provided us all with the required nutrients for the morning. That and coffee of course.

We had a treasure hunt at night and her friends are coming over tomorrow night for a sleep-over party. Why oh why did I agree on such a girl-giggle-all-night event when I cannot even calm my nerves with wine!!!!??

Creatures

The common disgusting looking Huntsman spider is a common visitor in our house.

"I like spiders because they look scary and other people get scared and I like that!" JAMES

"I do not like spiders because they look ugly and have too many eyes and aren't good friends." ALICIA

"I don't like spiders, but green snakes." ALEX

We will stay indoors for most of the day I think, as it will hit 41 degrees... sometimes I actually miss Good Old Swedish SLASK!!!!!!

Bike ride

It's good to have the kids back again!!!

We took the bikes to the village today. Usually it's only Alicia and James who take their bikes and Alex has the pram or walks. This time though he was persistent that he would bring his little bike too. Of course I knew what was coming.... so I brought the pram with me... and not long after we'd left he was tired and did'nt want to be on it anymore. He pushed it along for a little while, then I had to load it up in the stroller...

Home safe after an hour and a half (!) the sockerkaka is in the oven and I can smell coffee!!! Remind me again why I have so many children.... hahahaha