Summer holidays on Öland

The last week of July we spent on Öland (an island off of Sweden’s East coast) together with our friends Sofia and Mattias and their little daughter Isabella. Circumstances last Summer didn’t allow for us all to go on holiday with Sofia and Mattias, so it was great to be able to return to our yearly traditions of having a Summer holiday together. We all stayed in a house we rented together and made sure to make the most of our time discovering as much as possible of the island. We were lucky to do this in brilliant sunshine, as this week must likely offered the best weather so far this Summer. As usual I took ridiculously many pictures… especially of the children during this week (I just can’t help myself!!) and the beautiful scenery, here a selection of some of my favorites 🙂

Happy Christmas & exciting times…

Happy Christmas to all! We’ve had a lovely Christmas so far. Best part watching Noemi enjoy herself. When Father Christmas came, she did exclaim “Dad why are you dressed up as Santa?”… We tried to convience her dad was out throwing the trash… not sure she believed us… Otherwise we’ve been a little nervous for the baby to arrive today, as it was really due yesterday. Luckily nothing happened today and the baby will have it’s own day, not having to share it with the celebrations of Christmas Eve…

New York, New York

New York is a hustling and bustling city! There’s obviously lots to do and see. And to think you can even cover a fraction of all you should when visiting it for such a short time as I do would be ridiculous. So, instead of running around like a pack of wild dogs we’ve been taking it rather easy and simply walked around and done things as they came along.

I’ve had a wonderful time and the conference was also really good.

I wonder what our nights gonna be like now

We have removed one side of Noemi’s bed today. She started to climb out of bed this week so instead of risking her hurting herself while climbing over the side we decided to remove the side entirely.

I wonder what effect this will have on our nights? This will surely affect our bedtime procedure as well as what happens if she wakes up at night.

This morning she climbed over the side and played in her room by herself for quite some time before coming in to our room.