James' 7th

James really wanted a sleep-over party for about 20 little wild 7-year olds, but his mum wasn't too keen on that idea. Especially with a little newborn in the house!

So he had to choose a party venue somewhere and reduce the number of children to 12. It was a tough job and took him nearly 2 weeks, but he finally decided on a bowling party. And he came up with a golden rule: Alicia and Alex where not allowed to come! Well I don't blame him really lol... but Daniel was allowed to come which was good considering his food stays with his mum (bloody dairy cow I feel like). Anyway, he had a ball and Alex chucked a wobbly when his brother came home a few hours later with a sack of pressies and started open them on the kitchen floor. All in front of him! Ah it's hard being 3 sometimes...

26/07/2009

So finally he's here our new perfect little family member...

A big chunk of 3900g and 54 cms it's freaking hard to believe he could fit in my seemingly small pregnacy bumb. But he did! And even better, he came out too! Born at 3.45pm on 26/7 after... ONE push (oh jesus have i been stretched to the max before by any chance?) .

Older siblings are very proud and it feels strange but wonderful to have another baby in the house!

Mormor

Mormor has finally arrived and its bliss for the very pregnant mother...

Here she is reading the bedtime story after feeding me smorgastarta - perfect!

First Tooth Lost

James finally lost his first tooth! He's been very upset that he's the last one in his class, but now feels very happy indeed.

And... just a four days later he lost another three teeth so now he has trouble talking properly... hahahaha

We celebrated midsummer with the other Swedes as usual at the Swedish Church here in Melbourne. It was a pretty ordinary day, most likely not too far from the weather in Sweden... there is something about this particular day and crappy weather... oh well, we had fun, made flower wreaths, sang and danced around the pole and ate svensk jordgubbstarta. YUM.

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!