First bath with big brother

I love baking, and I love baking bread. Especially if it turns out as good looking as this one:

First day of 2011

There was a lot of new snow coming down on New Year's Eve. So the perfect pastime for the first day of 2011 seemed to be making a big snowman in the garden.

Happy New Year to all of you!

Neela & Liam with their friends on New Years Eve

Visit Junibacken

Liam and I went to Junibacken, the indoor theme park based on Astrid Lindgrens books on Pippi Longstocking. We went together with Aaron and his two children.

Pippi in the show

Liam goes Christmas shopping

Now its Christmas Eve and all is well, well almost. Neela still has her cold, but is now asleep in her pram. Liam is also sleeping and the flat is quiet, except for the Christmas songs on the radio. Our Christmas tree looks great with all the presents around it and the cold snow outside makes it all feel very seasional. Soon we will open some presents :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS
GOD JUL
FROHE WEIHNACHTEN

We wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas break and all the best for 2011!

Preparations for Christmas

Christmas tree admirer

Out in the garden

Today we were out in the garden and despite of -12°C, Liam had an"icecream".
He might turn into a proper Swede after all!

Neela - two months old!

Can you spot me?

Nikolaus!

Nikolaus came to our house last night!

We all put a shoe out at the front door, so that Nikolaus and his helpers could put something inside it in the night. He usually comes to the children, but luckily he came to Richard and me too.
Liam was happy to find a little Santa, some nuts, tangerines and a Lego ambulance in his shoe, or rather next to it :)

New Sledge

Yes its cold and we have snow. After a week or two of cold (currently -6C) weather the snow is still falling softly outside. I went out with Liam to test his new sledge, which is a Christmas present from Mum & Ross. I don't think we will be wrapping this one up! We have now also put up our Christmas lights on the balcony.

In the garden outside our flat

Neela is 6 weeks old and winter is here

How time flies. Its now 6 weeks since little Neela was born and time seems to have gone so fast. She is such a sweet little girl and growing fast. She has put on weight at the prescribed rate and is looking very round in her face now. She has also settled into a sort of routine now and is sleeping through most of the night, with one feed sometime in the early morning. It’s now possible to see a sort of smile when she sees your face and makes an attempt to say something too. She’s watching us moving around and follows you with her eyes and a little with her head already. Liam is generally uninterested in her these days, other than watching her getting a nappy change and when she has a bath. Caroline’s mum has been staying with us for 3 weeks and went home last Friday. She was a great help to Caroline and looked after Liam while she recovered. That also gave me the chance to plan in a business trip to China. I was there for a week and had the chance to visit Nanjing and WuHaun and travel by the new High-speed trains in China. This week winter has arrived with a bang, with minus temperatures and drifting snow, much to Liam’s delight. Here are some new pictures of us from the past few weeks.