Jungle City

Last Saturday Liam, I, Andrew and Mulle went to the softplay area Jungle City in Gävle. This, as always, meant that Liam and Mulle were running around and climbing like mad ones. One minute they were at the slides, the next in the ball room, then the trampolines... Pretty much everyw here. I'm not quite sure who had the better time, the big boy the little boy.

What I do know is that the smallest boy and his mother went to the little playarea designated for children under 4 years, and had a great time there. Andrew was decidedly the youngest one there, and very much all the other children's favourite. He had at least one child near him all the time, much to Andrew's delight. With big eyes he watched the other kids jumping, rolling, sliding and running. I could nearly hear him think "You just wait, soon enough I'll be running faster than you!".

Meanwhile we are enjoying fantastic weather, and I am trying to pretend we don't have to start packing very soon.

With Mormor and Mulle

Christening

Now our baby boy is properly christened, by the most fantastic priest. Sadly, I don't have any photos from day, so please send them to me those of you who happen to have some!

The day was fabulous, even though it started off foggy and grey. They fog soon disappeared, and instead we had glorious sunshine all day long. The priest gave a really good service both in Swedish and English, and Andrew was in good form all through the service. He had a firm grip on his yellow/pink toothbrush, and sometimes my brother's paper with his reading on. Only when we sang the last hymn did Andrew think enough was enough, so the priest cut it short and let us step out into the sunshine.

After coffee and cake in the parish hall, we all headed back to my parent's house for BBQ and a game of kubb. Of course the guys had to cheat to win, but we were gracious enough to pretend we didn't mind. Well, not Wilma, cause she threw one of the sticks quite close to someone's head... :D

The Swedish branch of the Higgins' family has bought a house! Well, half a house, I suppose. It's a semidetached house with 3 bedrooms and a good sized garden. We'll move in on the 1st of July, and neither one of us can wait to have more space and foremost a garden! And two terraces. Happy days!!

Laid back Sunday

Bestest friends

Sunday morning, but we still wake up at 7am. And this time it was I who woke first, followed by Andrew. Together we decided to give Liam a lie in, as he treated me to the same yesterday, and then a fab breakfast.

A bit later the whole family took a long walk in the sunshine, did our weekly shopping and then just relaxed.

Liam is away in Uppsala having a pint or two with Michael and Shaun, while I'm enjoying a quiet evening with Andrew sleeping in his bed.

Tomorrow the bidding on the house starts off again, and I hope that it will be over and done with, in our favour, by the evening.

Father & son

Peas please!

Zassi's new favourite spot in the window

Stuck in a snowy Sweden...

...is poor Grandad. Not that he appears to mind to much, getting even more time to spoil Andrew.

With the volcano having a whale of a time in Iceland, and on top of that a very unexpected heavy snowfall today Bill will be here until Tuesday next week.

So far we've eaten loads of really nice food, apart from Andrew who had his first taste of parsnip at the Baby café on Tuesday. Lets just say he was not impressed. At all. But still ate a bit of it. To give him credit it did have a fairly bitter after taste, either from the rapeseed oil or the milk-au-mummy that didn't like being frozen.

We did a new batch the following day, free from additives and that went down a lot better. But not quite as well as the orange he tried today! He sucked and sucked and sucked, not getting enough at all. He went through the better part of a whole orange, and left for me to eat the remains of the orange once he sucked all the juice out.

Went in to Uppsala on day to meet up with the boys, and at the café we went to Andrew made a new friend in a little boy sitting next to us. They had a great chat, about what only they will know, and finished off nearly snogging each other. Very cute.

Rollin',rollin', rollin'

That's what our baby has done today!

We went with Helena and Mira to visit Sara and Isak today, and there he rolled over from back to tummy for the very first time! Once he got the hand of it it, he rolled back and forth, back and forth, back and forth - having a great time!

He really is getting so big, our little quite pie!

Tomorrow Grandad Bill arrives, so we will spend tomorrow doing a bit of tidying up and not, not to forget - baking a big chocolate cake with icing on it. The daugher in law is ever so slightly in the bad books, so I'd better make one heck of a chocolate cake! But I'm hoping on baby Andrew to charm him so much that he forgets about the hotel reservation...

Today in pictures

Napping in the pram on the balcony

Getting a doggie mouth wash...

...and foot wash

Working hard on the crawling

On the play mat I got from mormor and morfar today. It's great!!

Not too impressed with mum's attempt to capture mother & son

Doggies enjoying the glorious sunshine

Just a quick...

... post to let you know Andrew is now trying to pull his small legs up under himself to push himself forwards! He's moved forwards since he was 2 months if we held our hands to his feet, but now he does it all by himself! In the process he gets really annoyed and pissed off, especially when we put his favourite toy just out of reach in front of him so that he has to push himself forward to get it. But he does it!

And he fell asleep in his very own bed for the first time tonight! Without me singing him to sleep like I usually do. Hmm...maybe we shoud check his hearing, cause by right no living sould should ever be able to fall asleep to the sound of my singing!! Oh god, I may have damaged him for life now! He will never be able to appreciate good music, will grow up to be a mad person living in an old bus in the forest listening to nails scratching against a black board!!

Or could the lack of my singing be the reason behind him falling asleep so well? So many questions, so few answers.

And such a tired mother's brain spinning wild. Time for bed methinks.