Father's Day weekend

Last weekend was a very special weekend for me, I took Friday off as did Laura, so the three of us went down to Portland to the beach, Crescent Beach in Cape Elizabeth. We had the most amazing day and Bjorn loved playing on the beach in the little streams of water, and of course playing in the sand. After the beach we went for lunch and then home for a little rest. On Saturday, Laura had planned a surprise for me, she had reserved time at Picture People, for me and Bjorn to get a picture together. We got a really nice picture of us together, which is now hanging in our living room. Sunday morning, Father's day, Laura made us all a very special breakfast, walnut-maple pancake bake, which was delicious!! After breakfast Bjorn and Laura gave me their gifts, Bjorn had made this very special shirt with his foot and hand prints, the shirt is blue with the prints in yellow, very creative! Laura gave me the Indiana Jones DVD set, something I had wanted for very long time, now we just need to find the time to watch the trilogy and see the 4th one in the movies.

It was the best Father's day weekend anyone could ever have asked for, it just reminds me of how lucky I am to be a Pappa to Bjorn and how lucky I am to have Laura as my wife and Bjorn's Mamma.

Min favorit bild

Min favorit bild av Björn, togs av Laura under våren när dom var hemma och lekte.

Björn med en del av sin lekmatta (Alfabetet)

Trucks, and more trucks

Bjorn in his Cool Dude Glasses

Bjorn's favorite toy(s) are all of his trucks, and especially his truck books, where he opens the pages and cites each type of truck very quickly, loaders, diggers, bulldozers, dumpers, buses, etc. Anytime we are out walking, or a big truck drives by, Bjorn yells out "Truck!" and points at it. He also loves airplanes and helicopters, as we live near an airfield, we see a lot of airplanes when we are outside playing.

He has definitely expanded his vocabulary the last couple of months, several new words, and several new Swedish words, like "Middag", "Gunga", "Aka", "Tack", "Mjolk" mm. He loves to kiss Laura's stomach and says "baby", I wonder what he will think of his little sister, who is about to arrive in 6 weeks. Right now we are preparing our guest room to become Bjorn's room, I need to touch up on the paint job in there, move the bed downstairs as well as the dresser. We are finishing an old dresser that used to be Laura's Mormor's dresser, I stripped it last weekend, and started painting it blue, then Laura is painting the drawers different fun colors, like red, yellow, green and orange. Once it is finished I will post some pictures : - ) .

Bollibompa och Postis Per

En sak som jag saknar, och jag tror även Björn saknar, från Sverige, är dom fina barnprogrammen på TV på morgonen, som Postis Per, vi satt och kollade på bla Postis, och en del andra fina program varje morgon. Mycket av barn programmen i USA, förrutom Sesame Street, är Dora the Explorer och liknande "tecknade" program, men dom vi såg i Sverige var mer om riktiga barn som gjorde saker, och Postis Per (claymation?), program som kanske är lite mer normala i tempo och inte bara action hela tiden.

Jag undrar om man kan ladda hem lite av dom och bränna på DVD?

Ohh Du

We are back from our trip to Sweden, we had a lot of fun and did a lot of fun things. We went swimming, visited with family and friends and even made a trip to Paradis badet :- ) . It was fun to watch Bjorn interact with his Farmor and Farfar Ricky and his Farfar and Farmor Moniqa. We also had a nice dinner with Nina and Niclas / Per and Paula and their children. Bjorn also got to meet many of Pappa's other friends at his christening, Jens & Sara, Robert & Isabel, and all of Pappa's other family (uncles, aunts, cousins and tremanningar).








Bjorn picked up so many new words in Swedish during the time we were there, one of which was "Oh du", which basically means, Hey You, he also said "Tack", "Hej" and a few other words. Being his father's son, he loved the Swedish sweets as much as his Pappa does, as well as Messmor, Pastej and Swedish pizza, hehehehe.