A light in the tunnel

Today Julie and I strolled by Kungsträdgården in Stockholm and saw that the beautiful Japanese cherry trees were in full bloom! We got inspired and had sushi for lunch. Mmm, me like!

Today the sunrise was at 04:49 and the sunset'll be at 20:42 so the days are becoming longer now. I'm like a battery charger when the sun comes and it almost bubbles inside my body of happiness!

Welcome spring, sun and looong summer nights!

If you have one foot in the past

and the other in the future

you pee on today!

Our Easter was more than eggs

My sister Susanna came home from Kenya this Easter and we've done so many fun things together! I look forward to the summer already when she and her boyfriend come home to Sweden again!

Love you, sis!

I had promised myself neveeer to do...

There are things in life that you are convinced that you'll never do like your parents once did. Today I did something that I had promised myself neveeer to do...which was to use my own saliva to take away a dirty spot in Julie's face. It sounds more disgusting than it actually is (I'm saying to my defence now after the incidence)!

The hilarious thing is that I had my mom over for lunch today and had made a chevre chaud salad with blueberries. On our way out to go shopping I saw that she has a bluberry smudge on her cheek...

...and without a blink I stop her, lick my finger and rub it away!

I don't even think twice of what I've done...but it's my mother who starts laughing out loud at my little blunder! So now I'll never say never...

A unique exhibition for children

The cultural house in the center of Stockholm arranged an exhibition for young children aged 0 to 1 year and their parents earlier this year (the 20th of December 2008 to the 1st of March 2009 ). It's a unique exibition because it's the first time (ever in Sweden at least) the targeted group is only small children!

Today there are so many activities that stimulates the child. There are baby swimming, baby rhythmic, baby dance... and this exhibition is quite the opposite. It's a calm place painted all in white with many soft pillows (round, small, big, baggy and umbellical cord-looking ones) and there are round mirrors on the floor like lakes and soft music in the background. This exhibition is a celebration for the lifelong bonding between the child and the parent/adult and is a place where they have quality time together without other stressing imputs.

Julie and I were very curious to visit this exhibition and we were invited to go with my friend and collegue T and her son. My friend Å and her son were in the town too so we all went together. One had to purchase tickets before so that there wouldn't be too many children and parents there at the same time. Although we went together to this exhibition we decided to focus on our babies and meet eachother by the exit an hour later.

Aaaahh, it was so peaceful to enter this room! It really felt like the pulse from the city just outside the window was far far away and Julie and I was on an exploration trip in a neutral soft and "non-forcing" atmosphere with many visual and tactile imputs.

Julie tasted the mirrors with her mouth, played with a soft woollen rug and rolled around on the big pillows. It felt as if it was only us two in the room!

To sum up our day it was a truely great experience and we hope that there'll be more cultural experimental experiences like this for young children in near future in Stockholm!

Last chance to try the baby rhythmic at the Dance museum in Stockholm

BABYRYTMIK FÖR BARN 0 – 18 mån
Sjung, dansa och ha kul tillsammans med din baby. Med sång, dans och rytm skapar vi en härlig upplevelse. Bland Dansmuseets färgglada och inspirerande dräkter blir det nog en mazurka med Herr Gurka, en vals med armen om din hals och kanske en tango...

Den 7 maj är det sista tillfället! Jag och Julie ska gå kl. 10:30 (0-8 mån) och det skulle vara kul om du vill hänga på med din lilla/e palt! Jag vet ännu inte om man kan förbeställa biljetter. Det skulle vara snopet om det var fullt!

Kl. 9.15 ca 8 - 18 mån (för dig som kan krypa och kanske till och med gå)
Kl. 10.30 ca 0 - 8 mån (för dig som trivs bäst i famnen än så länge)
Biljetter: 70 kr/barn (30 kr/syskon), vuxna gratis.

Besöksadress: Gustav Adolfs torg 22–24, Stockholm
Tunnelbana: T-Centralen (alla linjer), Kungsträdgården (blå linje)

Picture: Julie in a Cha-cha-cha-pose in January 2009.

Help, my hair is falling off!

Unfortunately it's not Julie's favorite animal toy Chien blanc that's losing it's fur EVERWHERE but I. I find strands of my hair in the entiiire apartment. Well, I've never had a great hair quantity or quality but another month or two with this hair loss I'll need a wig by Midsummer ;-).

When I was pregnant with Julie both my hair and nails grew excellently. I felt like a princess and I loved to paint my nails and to curl my hair...

...do I need to mention the condition of my nails now? I've heard that during the pregnancy one doesn't lose any hair at all and after giving birth one loses all the hair that should have lost previously. Ok, fair enough as long as it'll stop falling off my head soon!

It's definitely worth going through this hair loss if I look at the wonderful result we've created: Julie. For now I'll look at the many pictures of me while I was pregnant and dream of the time I had a lot of nice hair to "play with"!

I hope Julie'll get Mamie Martine's hair!

Picture: My hair a month ago...!