The love saga continues

There is nothing like first love.. We been so fortunate to have Frida and Fred's daughters coming to visit Sweden this year and Noah is over the moon that he has been able to spend some quality time with his dear Heidi. We've managed to spend a long weekend together on the country side as well as a city weekend in Gothenburg. The kids have had so much fun but this Saturday will be the final good bye before the Drouin family returns to Australia. Tears and more tears - we will miss you guys!

Question: Which country's flag is this?

Answer: Buzz Lightyear (of course!)

"We don't do like that"

There are things that we don't do eg. pull the tounge out or say bad words. This rule is well known in our family. Of course Noah now has figured out away to "almost" gets around this rule by saying: "bajskorv (poop)" quickly followed by "we don't say like that". Or pulling the tounge out when angry and then quicky saying "we don't do like that". Very cheeky.

On the topic of poop, which by the way is currently a very frequent discussed matter, tonight when going to bed we talked about just..stools. So I asked Noah if he knows where there poop comes from: "Daddy". Well, it seems that daddy spends enough time on the toilet for all three of us!! :-)

Development Talk

Twice a year we have a development talk at dagis about how kids are doing at school. This week Shawn and I met up with the teachers and had a chat. There were no big news and thankfully no naughty stories to tell. We already knew he loves the "letterland", knows his plusses and the clock etc. etc. However, there was one surprise and that is that Noah doesn't use nappies at school - not at all in fact. At home, the weaning of nappies has been a rollercoaster with a nappy free boy all last summer to an "on and off" period over winter. The teachers had asked Noah the other day if he wore nappies at home and he answer was just hilarious: "once in a while".

In the cabinet, there is lots to be found

Now and then Noah ends up on the naughty chair for a few minutes if he's been acting up. The other day, after the time out, I came back to chair to talk about why he ended up on the chair and why we don't do bad things in our family. We always ask if he fully understands the message in the end. This time I got a totally different answer to the usual "yes". Noah looked at me and said "Yes I do mamma, but I have chicken pox..!".
Surprised by his answer, especially since he doesn't have the chicken pox (and never had) and that he figured that good excuses can probably let someone of the hook, I replied: "Ok, Noah I didn't know. Can you show me where you have it?"

"Yes, it is in the cabinet."

Easter on the Country Side

Easter was spent in Lundsbrunn with mormor and morfar. I think most of Sweden had fantastic weather for the long weekend which is quite unusal for both Easter and April over here. Gee, we've longed for shorts and T-shirt!

Swoosh in Slottskogen