Eating better and no teeth yet...



Teething cookie. No teeth yet but they
keep him busy (and messy)





Marlee is sleeping and Alex is at a meeting with some students down town Denver. I am taking the chance to update the blog without being interrupted :-) Marlee is still not sleeping good at night, he wakes up a lot, but the good news is that he is eating a lot better now. Makes me sooo happy!!! Realised yesterday that he really likes my homemade mashed potatoes so that is great, I love it, too!

Alex went back to the dentist today for a check up and me and Marlee came along. Had some fun in the waiting room :-)

Jenny's dad Göran sent me some pictures from out get-together the other night. So glad, that they took some pictures, since I forgot to bring my camera... Next time I go there (hope it won't be take 15 years...) I will take nice pictures of the house and the view. They have a lake next to their house and they have made some really nice renovations in their house.

Chad        Jenny        Inger             Michele             Göran
Tessla                         Tina               
       Marlee
Foto: Göran (using the timer)

I am worth a treat after this night, Alex, too, if he could eat it!



One of few moments when he was
totally satisfied today



Marlee woke up 10-15 times last night, crying loudly, and Alex is high on his painkillers, pour boys! When I finally woke up, to GET up, I decided that I was worth a little treat after the tuff night. Marlee was still very tired (and so was I) but he did not want to go back to sleep. A trip in the stroller would solve that and as soon as he was sleeping I went by the bagel place 5 min walk from our house and had a nice breakfast!! Felt a lot better after that and went home and cleaned the kitchen :-D Well as much as you can clean without real cleaning "tools".



Marlee has been crying a lot today and maybe those little teeth are finally on their way? He is also not eating very good but I hope that will soon change.

This morning was really nice but now it has been hailing for a while and the temperature has dropped a lot.

Hail on the ground (our car to the right)

PICTURES FOR YESTERDAY'S BLOG ENTRY

Lunch place

Skiers, I want, too!!!



Dillon

Dillon Reservoir

Up by the shrine

View over Denver (from the shrine)



 

Good we did not have to use this! ;-)



Our little monkey back home again!





Catch up

Sometimes nothing happens and then there are days when things happen all the time, so you have not time to "blog" :-) A few of those days just passed.

Saturday I spent partly looking for a missing piece of the diaper bag I am working on. I had put at least a few hours on that part and I had not seen it since I last worked on it in the park, a week ago... Finally, I went back to the park to make sure it was not there. I did not think it was very likely after a week but... IT WAS THERE!! Could happy continue my work again. The evening we spend at a friend's house, barbequing. Sooo yummy! Marlee has started to be a little shy and cries easily when there are a lot of people around. I cannot just "give him to anyone" as I could before.

Sunday was mass day and after that we headed for the mountains. The goal was Dillon, a small town up there. It was beautiful and the views make me so happy. We saw skiers, too!! Wanted to be one of them so badly!! Can't wait until Marlee can go skiing with us!! On the way home we passed a Shrine. It was more than 300 steps up to it and it was a beautiful view of Denver from up there. We spend the evening watching Jericho, which is a very good TV series, though scary!

Today I drove Alex to the dentist. It was supposed to take 30 minutes but ended up being 1,5 h. The wisdom tooth that he was taking out did not have two roots that most wisdom teeth have (they sometimes have 3), it had 4!! Was a little complicated to get out and Alex is high on pain killers now. Right now he is sleeping next to me, holding some "dentist ice" against his swollen cheek.

While Alex was home watching Jericho and having pain, I went to visit Jenny and her family. She is a Swedish girl who lives here in Denver with her husband and daughter, and it was 15 years since I last saw her!!! She was the one who flu with me on my first trip to the US, which was to Denver. It was so good to see her again, and Michele who was also there, and Jenny's parents, visiting from Sweden.

It is too late to upload pictures now but I will be sure to do it tomorrow!

Not much going on

So why am I writing...? Well, to make sure that you know that our life can be pretty normal, too, somtimes ;-) 

Added this old picture to make this entry
a little more colourful. It is taken
about a month ago in our house.

We got home from Wisconsin ok. Marlee's stomach seems to be doing better. If I put it like this, it is more like peanut butter now, than like chunks of clay.. ;-)  (I apologize to everyone who is not a mum and might have gotten a little grossed out)

The weather here in Denver is beautiful. Today: 23C / 73F and sunny!! Close to Miami temperatures according to the news. Marlee and I did the grocery store, some washing and cleaning. Marlee does not sleep very well during the nights now, he wakes up and cries a lot, sometimes every half an hour. He is still kind of sleeping when he cries. About an hour ago he woke up and I decided to change his diaper. He went back to sleep in the middle of the diapy change so I left him sleeping on our bed :-D Guess I have to move him soon, so that we can go to sleep.. it is almost midnight...

Hope you all are having a good sleep!

Mirror communication

Is that a booger?

Alex did his speech today and it went good! Marlee and I can be proud, though Marlee slept through most of it... I got to meet a lot of the JBS (John Birch Society) and TNA (The new American) people. All very nice and friendly. Two of the "other wifes" took me and Marlee out for coffee, after Marlee had been crying (or more correct, screaming) for half an hour in the office break room. Think he might have some stomach aches from the baby food. Alex did some reseach on the Internet so that we could go and buy some appropriate "stomach food".

Back home again Marlee discovered the mirror in the hall, which was very cute. Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures of him trying to kiss himself but a lot of other ones :-D

At the moment we are watching the election updates and the big news is that Rand Paul got elected. Alex is happy! :-D

Good nite, folks!

Wisconsin trip

Are on a three days trip to Wisconsin to visit the office of the Magazine for which Alex writes. We got up at 4 this morning. Marlee actually woke up at 2 and kept me awake for a while and after that I could not go back to sleep. He could probably sense that something (the trip) was going on and had a hard time to sleep.

Well we made it upp here fine and we have spent time with some of Alex's "colleagues" of which some are catholics. We came with them to church to honer the saints since today is "All saints' day". It was a "very catholic" church and more strict than I have ever seen before. I got to borrow a catholic veil, which is like a thin scarves, to wear on my head and the mass was in latin. Marlee was a little noicy though so we spent most of the time in the "baby room" reading about Joseph :-)

Had a very yummy dinner at Applebees and now we are back in our fancy suite at the hotel :-D Time to sleep!! Hotel breakfast tomorrow before I am going to visit the office of the magazine and watch Alex having a speech about the FED (federal reserve / am. central bank)

God natt!

Halloween

Hammering away in the kitchen

So Halloween is here and it is surely a big thing here! Most houses have decorations out front, some more than others, and a lot of kids came by during the evening for Trick or Treat. A lot of very good outfits! Marlee got the chance to use his new outfit from grandpa / farfar, which fit him perfectly, and the bib (haklapp) from his great grandma (Alexs mormor) :-D

He is rather steady sitting now so I dare to put him on the wooden floor. I falls every once in a while but seems to handle that ok.



Tomorrow we are going to Appleton, Wisconsin to meet some people at the New American. We have to be at the airport 4.45!!! Good night! 





Foto: Alex



One of our neighbours