Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Eagle eyes

"I found the sunglasses in the drawer mummy!"
"Maybe play trains after dinner pappa?"
"I put the paper in the toilet."
"Yes, I did it. Noah fixed the dator!" [Managed to start up and play a DVD file with Mickey Mouse on the laptop...?!?!]
"Mamma, Noah ocksÄ kela baby?" (=Mummy, Noah also cuddle the baby?)

The last two weeks Noah's sentences
has become much longer and more complex. 5-7 words are now the usual length which makes the conversations with him so much more fun and interesting.

We have also noticed that he knows all the tram stops on our line and what to expect at each
single one; bridges, tunnels, soccer fields, schools, shops, baby swim, train station and so on. He also knows which tram line to get on, either number 5, 6 or 10. The little chap has much better eye sight than us so when a tram is arriving further up the track and it can hardly be seen on the hills, Noah shouts "It's tram number 5 mummy! Look daddy, it's number 5. Look! Look! Noah goes on the tram now."
It seems to never bore him to go on the tram. During the winter when it was all wet and humid inside the carriage, he was happy as Larry. Now during the summer, it's boiling hot on board (no AC here in Europe), he doesn't even notice the heat. He sits still and in (almost) silence and looks out through the windows, dreaming away about...yeah who knows? One thing is for sure though; he is such a boy!

Friday, August 6, 2010

Strawberry Jam, mmm, mmm!

We spent three days with Mormor and Morfar in Lundsbrunn. We had so much fun!
First we went strawberry picking. What a joy to pick your own strawberry and be able to eat as many as you want at the same time. Of course, Noah ate the most!
From the strawberry's we picked, we able to make strawberry cordial, strawberry jam and and strawberry cake. It was incredibly cheaper to make it yourself and taste so natural.


This strawberry didn't make it into the bucket.
               



4 Kilos in 15 minutes!


Sun, Sand and Surf!




Well its been quite a while since we've been able to update the blog, but now we've gone back on the old computer and we can post some photo's of our summer vacation.
Our first summer vacation in Sweden, why go anywhere? So, we stayed in the city for two weeks, hired a car for a week - traveled around the south of Sweden - and then came back to the city for our last few days of what has been a great Swedish summer. The pictures below are from our time in the south of Sweden.
During the first two weeks, we had visitors from Australia and from Stockholm. When we collate those photos we will post them immediately.

Sun and Sand......in Sweden!!!
mmmmmmmmm.........ICE CREAM