Catching up during busy times

It has been a long time since I updated the blog and I blame it on the move. Alex and I are completely busy with packing, planning and Alex is also trying to do some work. Marlee went to Fårö with mormor and morfar for a week in order to spend time with them and to give me and Alex more time to focus on the packing. He has never been away from me that long before and I reeealy miss him, but he is very happy with them and I know that he is a having a great time! They are all on Fårö and he has several friends that he plays with there, too. 

Noah is home with us. He has realized that mamma can disappear and will not let me out of his sight. No one can hold him but me, and men over 50, which is quite funny. He loves morfar and when we were at a birthday party a few days ago, no one could hold him except the birthday boy's morfar who is over 70 :-)

Passed out babies

Marlee passed out again :-) Nice to nap outside!

Noah and a friends is exploring a bike

Matching bib and bowl :-)

We have had a great summer this year and we go swimming almost every day!

My friends Johanna is visiting and trying to hide from the sun

Noah has had a cold for a long time now but he is mostly happy anyways. Here playing with Alex's old toy

The sky had a very strange light the other night. It is about 10pm here.

Alex under the house to change a filer on a machine.

Nice to have a little break in the car and get some crackers!!!

Noah finally ate some bought pre-made baby food yesterday!!

Noah in our garden today

My parents have sent several pictures of Marlee on Fårö so here comes an update with him, too!

Eating ice cream in the wind!

Being on the beach and playing with a friend

More fun on Fårö!!!

Noah is standing on his own

Noah has been standing on his own several times but today he did it many times and for longer times than before. He even got up from sitting to standing without anything to hold on to!! I took a good video but he was only wearing a hat so I just took some snapshots from the video to show you :-)

Home again

We got home four days ago and we have been completely busy! We have mostly visited with a lot of friends and had great times, but also started to plan for leaving our house to "our renters". Noah has also gotten his American passport, in the last second. We are still waiting for it to arrive bur all the papers got approved and there should not be any problems.

As most of you probably know "Fourth of July" just passed and even if we are not in the states we had our own celebration with a good dinner over at a friend's house. We were responsible for the dessert, or rather, Alex had said that we could make dessert and then he asked me to do it ;-)

I forgot to turn the picture but I hope you can recognize the flag anyways :-)

A lot of birthdays are coming up so we went to the toy store. Morfar helped me with the children while shopping!

Noah is not a big fan of fruits but he loves berries!

Today we all went to a birthday party, Marlee's friend Vinzent turned four. All the children from Marlee's daymum were there and so was she, Annelie. It was great to see them all again and Marlee, and the rest of us, had a good time. It felt like we were eating constantly from when we arrived by 1pm to when we left at 9pm. A big thank you to the birthday boy and his parents!!!

Great pictures from Vinzent's birthday party

Moster Linn and Ailo arrived last night...

...and I have borrowed a camera so that I can add some pictures of our day. :-)

Noah has not been himself the last few days. He has had some fever, does not eat very good and whines more than normal. He hardly whines at all normally... I hope that he will soon feel better but if not, we are going home in two days and I can take him to the doctor.

Went to the playground

A fun tree at the playground to climb and hide in

Noah could enjoy the playground even if he is not feeling perfect

Ailo and moster Linn on the beach in Sudersand

Marlee running in the waves in Sudersand

I love you, mamma!

My phone is dead = no pictures :-(

Yesterday my phone got a hang-up, the flash never turned off. Not surprising since Apple products never seem to impress me much and this is an I-phone but you should never loose hope... Anyways, after googleing the problem some and after some fixing and trixing my only option now seems to let the battery run dead and hope that the flash will stay off after charging it again. Sounded pretty easy, I thought... Last night, at about 8pm the phone died, but, the flash is still on, more than 24 hours later!!! However it is not as bright or intense now so I have not lost hope yet...

Last night my dad and I went on a Bergman safari (remember that man I mentions a few days ago). My mum took both Noah and Marlee and put them both to bed. Either they were behaving very good or she was doing very good because it worked great! We enjoyed the Safari and I manged to take some pictures (some are on Instagram) but during the event, the phone died and I cannot access any pictures or take any new ones. Very sad, but as I said, there is still hope! 

Today we spent the day on the beach. My cousin and the children's second cousins are here now so Marlee has a play mate again. Tonight Linn is coming with Ailo and then we will have two days together before I go home on Tuesday.

Now I am going to check my phone again and hope to be able to share some pictures soon!

Ingmar Bergman and beach, and some trains and beach again...

There used to be a Swedish director named Ingmar Bergman who is known all over the world. He died a few years ago and spent his last 40 years on Fårö. Since his death For the last few years it has been a yearly activity in his memory and this year they have also built up a kind of museum here on Fårö (http://bergmancenter.se/). Mormor, Noah and I went to the inauguration of the Bergman center.

At the Bergman center

The children at the daycare here on Fårö sang a few songs

The weather got warmer than we expected and Noah used his pants to cover his head from the sun :-)

One of Ingmar Bergman's 10 grandchildren talked about his morfar

Back to the beach again!

Noah made his first real entry into the water the other day and really enjoyed it!

We built Marlee a pickup truck in the sand

Morfar is showing Marlee how to make a drop tower

Marlee learned quickly!

The day after it was built Marlee decorated it with all the beach toys :-)

Marlee fell out of bed the other night and he did not even notice it!

 

Being cold and tired on the beach (fog is coming in the back)

Cold and happy on the beach!

We are trying to take a picture for Noah's US passport..

The weather was not so great this morning so Marlee and mormor played with the train tracks (from when I was a child)

Took a short trip to the beach during late afternoon when the sun returned

Midsummer and more

This morning it was time for our last guests, including Alex, to leave. We have had a good time and below is a good summary.

Visiting Kneippbyn again, including the water park. I was very impressed by Alex who joined me and Marlee in the water slides even though the water was not heated, and therefore freezing, even for Marlee and I.

Sofia, Mobi, me and Marlee

Alex and Marlee in the water park. Can you tell that the water is cold??!! ;-)

Marlee and I in Shark river

Marlee and Mobi waiting for the grown ups enjoying the go carts :-)

Last Friday was midsummer and we celebrated as normal. We ate the traditional food and made our own little Midsummer pole.

Flowers for the pole

Marlee trying out the flower ring for the pole

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A little visitor

Dancing around a big pole with mormor and lots of other children

Noah participated with morfar on the side

Yummy dessert at 10pm. Sunset is about 11 where we are :-)

Chilling on the beach

Pappa playing with Marlee and Mobi on the beach

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Sand castle!

Our family footsteps (Alex, Tina, Marlee, Noah)

 

 

Noah sleeping in the stroller in his new bathrobe

 

Mushrooms (chantarelles) has come in the forest!!!