Visiting the playground

Marlee and I have run some errands today and we also went to a very fancy playground with Sofia and Mobi (who gave Marlee his Indian outfit). Marlee had a great time. His favorite was the slide :-)

Going down the slide

Walking...

Indian Booger pooting

We have had a good Easter with one exception... Alex is getting too good at Croquet... No, but Marlee has been pretty whiny and we do not know why. There might be new teeth coming or it is just a phase... Hope it will pass by quickly! The thing about Alex was, unfortunately, true though...

We all went to visit my farfar today and Marlee wore his "Indian outfit", clothes that he got from my friend who spend a lot of time in India. Super cute!

Daddy with son in Kungsträdgården, Stockholm

Pushing the shopping cart

The little pooter!! (make sure to play it LOUD!!)

(they sound like quite fire works but I promise you that they are poots, I witnessed it :-)

Happy Easter

The sun has been shining for at least a week now and we enjoy it every day in the garden. Marlee is happy to help out with a lot of different things. He is also enjoying his sandbox and walking. He walks more and more every day but he is doing it slowly. Crawling is still a lot faster than walking. Today we had some friends over to BBQ and we have had a great time. Marlee did not want to sleep though. Being so tired, maybe he was a little more unstable than normal and at one point he fell in one of the stairs (while holding my hand) and hurt his lip. It was bleeding a lot and he got a fat lip, but recovered quickly.

Helping out with the asperagus garden

Relaxing after a hard day work

Playing with the water in the lake

A big toad that we found while raking leaves.
We put some leaves back on top of him
and hope he can go back to sleep :-)

Helping mamma to put the new grill together

Some Outdoor Walking

Barfing Booger

Marlee has been sick for a few days and barfed. He seems fine between the "barfing" but cannot eat much. Poor little thing. We were planning on going to the zoo tomorrow but we will see how he is. I am so happy to have a proper working washing machine days like this!!

The other day we bought a croquet game and Alex and I have been playing it. Though, I kick his butt :-) He is probably the worst looser (best winner (Alex's comment)) I know (this old) ;-)

Maybe a little crazy!?

But the thermometer said 25C (77F) and it felt so nice outside, so I decided to give Marlee a bath outside. With nice warm water from inside of course :-) We have to remember that he is only 50% viking! ;-) He surely enjoyed playing in the water and did not show any signs of being cold.

He also spent part of the day practising his floorball skills!!

It is April 12 2011, Marlee is 1 year and three weeks old and...

... he walked properly today for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Everyday life of a Booger

Some of the things that I do everyday...

Breakfast

After breakfast I look like this

Dance a little

Snack time

Helping Mamma

Helping out with the laundy in my Indian pants
(thanks Mobi for bringing them all the way from Goa!)

Dinner time

I always eat my veggies. Today it was cucumber.

Garden work

We have spent a lot of time in the garden lately and Marlee is surely doing his best to help out. Today he helped me to scatter out the leaves that I had just raked together.

Helping out in the garden

After a few hours of hard work!
(he totally past out in his stroller,
I did not even have to rock him!)

Ready to do some work again! (in the sandbox)

Spring is here and Marlee is learing to walk, at least working on it

Two days ago he took three steps so now we are anxiously waiting for his next "step" ;-)

Since we got back from our ski vacation we have been playing on the swings in the backyard and been to the open pre-school with one of my oldest friends who has three children. She has lived in England for many years but is now moving to Abu Dhabi (UAE) so I was happy to see her while she was in Sweden. Her two girls and little boy are such lovely children. The boy is only one day older than Marlee.

Marlee loves to play outside and can sometimes cry and point at the door so after I am finished with the blog today we going outside to play a little.

Playing on the swing!




Going down the slide at the open pre-school!

I just got some pictures from my friend Johanna of Marlee and I had to add some of them since he is such a cutie!! It is from our visit to IKEA as well as while taking a walk. Taken in February.

Back at home - pictures and other news

Marlee and I are back home with daddy again. We had a great time up north but it is always nice to be back home. I think I am a real homebody :-)

I forgot to tell you that Marlee has learned to "give" you things. What I mean is, that he can drop something in your hand when he wants to give you something. Most of the time he takes it back pretty quickly though :-) He has been able to drop things more or less on purpose for a long time but now he can decide when to drop them and is more in control of the "dropping". The first time he decided to show us this new skill was on his birthday. He also likes to move things from one place to another, and then back again, and then back again, and then back again...

Well, as I said, we are back home again and now I can finally add some pics again, so here they come!

Marlee 1 year!!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARLEE!!!




Marlee, all dressed up, with his friend
Mobi in the "babysitter"

 Up north



Almost all tucked in




Ready for the ski tracks



Marlee and Bosse, my sister's New Foundland dog

Marlee is chilling outside the skistore