Mormor and morfar are here!!

And that means beach time! :-)

Notice brave Noah in the background

Night story time!

It almost feels unreal!

It started out as a normal day on the beach...

Toka playing with a fish his dad had caught

Curren and Noah playing in the water

Noah has become really brave in the water

An there he goes under!

Alex practicing surfing with the kids

... until we saw a group of people watching something in the water, moving along the shore...

We joined the group of people and realized that it was a shark that they were watching, and it was pretty big! And very close to the shore, about 10-15feet.

You can see the fin sticking out of the water

Suddenly our friend Brad decided that he was going to catch the swimming shark so that the kids could see it close up. Crazy!!??

Brad's great accomplishment!!!

 When getting a closer to the shark we saw that it had a hook stuck in its mouth. Brad managed to get it out while we were all watching bewilderedly.

Getting the hook out

 BRAD AND THE SHARK

And when all the excitement was over, we all went back to swimming and playing as if nothing had happened... It almost felt as it had never happened... Not sure if that makes us crazy but the shark did not have a very scary or aggressive appearance, even though, I still don't want to meet one while swimming!!!

Gabriel refused to wear a sun hat so a beanie will do

Marlee's graduation from Kindergarten

Last Friday was Marlee's graduation from Kindergarten. It was a big ceremony for all the graduation students from the coop and it was a lot of fun! It started at 6.30pm and lasted for several hours. Gabriel got bored rather quickly but had fun with his friend Elliana :-)

Each class at the coop includes students from different levels but during graduation each grade would come up on stage separately. That meant that they would not necessarily go up there at the same time as their friends.

Gabriel and Elliana

Marlee receiving his diploma by one of the senior students

Graduates in Marlee's grade

All the students on stage! Can you find Marlee?

And now a recap of other things we have done...

Trying out helmets

Visiting the beach at sunset with a friend, leaving the kids at home

Noah teaching Gabriel how to play with cars

Eating the batter after baking

And the result of the baking

Marlee picked some flowers in our "garden"

Visiting great grandma

A puzzle the boys got from great grandma

Makes me feel like home :-)

Noah is happy to have Jules over and play with cars

All the kids watching the crazy weather outside

And the pictures I promised you from Marlee's gymnastic show

It's a boy!!!

So I will continue to be the only female in the family... For those of you who did not know that we were expecting another baby, don't worry, I have not mentioned it before. I just don't know a good way to say it. "By the way, I am pregnant"... Well, people who see me will know (I am BIG) but apart from that we have been very quiet about it. I am sorry if anyone feel left out, but you are probably not alone! Well, we got it confirmed today that it is another boy and the "new" due date is September 9 but they said that it will not change the due date the midwife has given, which is around September 27, so I guess we will see... 

So what else can we tell you about our past week... We have had several hours on the beach :-) which is more than normal, Marlee has had his final gymnastic show and last weekend we went to a birthday pool party for one of Marlee's and Noah's friend. It was great!!

He is the only naked baby on the beach... but we are Swedish ;-)

Marlee found a dead lizzard in the sand!

I am not letting this guy eat oatmeal by himself again, or for a while...

Getting ready to watch Marlee's gymnastic show

There will be more pictures from the show soon, just have to get them off the camera :-/

Noah taking selfies :-)

Marlee being silly with his gymnastic trophy (which was actually just one of many old trophies that the club wanted to get rid of, but he does not know)

Pool part fun!

These two play very good together sometimes!

Being silly while doing math!

Bike ride around the block

Time for me to brag a little. I finally fixed the light on our bedroom fan which required some simple wiring! :-)

Noah is still doing pretty good without his binkey but he has surely been more whiny since he sent it and he keeps putting things in his mouth, which he never used to to, like toys, clothes and hair. Just like Marlee... Those things are more difficult to stop...?

Time to enjoy some TV time with Alex now!