One step forward

Marlee has tried to take his first step!!! Maybe he will walk for the first time on his first birthday, which is coming up next week???

Tomorrow we are all going to Riga in Latvia. We have not been there before so it will be exiting. It is a 40h cruise and we will have 6 hours in Riga. Spring is coming here and, as far as I know, Riga is a little a head of us so maybe it will be "snowless" :-)

We have had a few very nice days here and Marlee and I have spent a lot of time outside. Now, when the snow is melting, it is getting very muddy and Marlee gets very dirty, but is having fun!

Proof! :-D

Marlee and I went to the open preschool today (it is like a pre-school where you can go with your kids during the day but you cannot leave them there, you stay there with them and play, talk with other parents, have lunch or coffee etc) and I finally got some proof of him standing on his own. He was standing for a while and I took a few pictures.

Making selections

A busy weekend for  me and Marlee. Yesterday we visited Ted and his parents Sophie and Jakob. They served a very yummy soup with pancakes after. Wow, that was long ago! We definitely need to make pancakes more often. I used to have them every Thursday when I was a kid. Ted had a play stove / oven, which Marlee really liked. His friend Jonathan has the same one and when we visited him about a week ago Marlee played with his, too. Seems to be a favorite. They also had kitchen utensils from IKEA, another favorite!

Yesterday I noticed that Marlee has started to select certain snacks before others. At the moment he has three different snacks - beige hearts, beige stars and pink "drops". The drops are the favorite and he always eats those first.

Choosing pink :-)

(The pink drop is in the middle)

Fun times

Marlee is so much fun now. He is exploring EVERY THING ALL THE TIME (that is not always fun!!) and he makes the funniest faces (that is always fun!!). Watch the rock star video below and make sure to be extra observant of the first half. He is a true rock star, my idol!!

Rock star!

One day at the train...

Yesterday Marlee was standing on his own for the first time

Yesterday Marlee was standing on his own for the first time for about 10s!!! He did it a few times but unfortunately both the camera and videocamera was out of battery (they are both being charged now). Today he has not been very interested in doing it again so still no evidence... Today we spent the day baking and playing in the snow. There is so much snow!!! Marlee seems to enjoy it :-)

"Lussekatter", supposed to be for Christmas
but since I was not in Sweden then I just
thought I could make some now :-)

Snow, Snow and snow

It was getting warmer for a while and the snow was melting. Maybe some people thought that spring was coming. But they could not have been more wrong. A few nights ago we got 30cm (about a foot) of snow and everything was covered in white fluffy snow. Me like! We have been outside a lot playing in all kinds of ways in the snow. Below are some pictures of what we have been up to. Today it was -23C (-9,5F) when we woke up but the sun warmed it up pretty quickly. I was sitting in the sun reading a book while Marlee was sleeping in the stroller.



Trying out the "pulka"



Ice skating on the lake

Trying to get to the stairs

Snow...



Taking a nap in the stroller



Starting to get back to normal

We have been home a little more than 2 weeks now and things are slowly getting back to normal here. Marlee's sleeping has gotten a lot better. He goes to sleep around nine every day now after going through the daily routine including pyjamas, porrige, brushing teeth and good night story. He is doing very good. He normally takes two naps during the day but we still have some work to do there. He also wakes up during the night but I hope that that, too, will change soon.



Marlee found the perfect toy when visiting his
Gammel mormor last week.



Yesterday we went snow racing with  mormor and morfar and tomorrow we are going to the open preschool to play with some other children. There is still a lot of snow here  but not so cold at the moment. Marlee seems to like the snow and it does not bother him that it is freezing cold.