Christmas Day!

Presents two days in a row! George was in heaven! Matt & Co cooked most of the day, we went for a short walk, trying to push Georges pushchair (vagn) in the snow... Very hard work.. Yummy leftovers for lunch and some nice chillout time in the lounge.

Turkey and christmas food galore was served at four. Well done Mr Matto, your first turkey! Moist and deliscious! A nice and calm christmas dinner for a change ha ha! So calm that Matt and Chris had a snooze after dinner and Mum and Arnfinn was wondering what was going on ha ha!

A manic Skype Christmas quiz, with uncle John in the lead, not waiting for us Swedes when their skype crashed... Ah well, not to worry. Watched Dr Who through the computer (still no tv, thank you Mr Electrician... Not!) and went to bed, happy and full up...

Christmas eve Dinner!

Mormor Eva had been busy at home preparing, and myself quite busy around ours (well, extremely busy really, but not with cooking, only with trying to get the house into a decent state and not panicking due to us not having any hot water half of the Monday, no electricity in places we were promised to have it... etc. etc... the list is loooooong). Anyway, enough self pity, christmas eve dinner was very tasty! And afterwards, we all enjoyed the mezzanine entertainment by Matt & George! Hilarious!

Christmas Eve!

Christmas eve morning was started with a yummy breakfast, followed by the making of the sausage rolls by Chris and George.

After some more preparations, Chris and Farmor Christine took G'man out for a sledge ride (pulka), and after laughing down the hill he fell asleep... Looking like Moses in his basket haha! Chris and Christine built a very bottom heavy but proud snowman and Matt came out and offered us all hot chocolate and mince pies (English Xmas pastry). Bliss!

Doodle in the potty part II

Can't remember when I last boosted about the fact that George had doodled on the potty, but it was ages ago. Tonight he asked me if he could go upstairs and wee on the potty. 'Djode gå upp kissa pottan'. Up we went, down he sat, and then he started farting , laughing like mad inbetween haha. And there was a result in the potty! A fairly big result. What a good boy! Wondering if this will be repeated shortly or if we have to wait until the summer for the next delivery...

"George älskar mamma"

"Djoode äkar mamma" is more what it sounded like actually. It means George loves mummy. And he told me today.

White Christmas?

This is what my way to the bus this morning, looked like... Lovely isn't it.

Luncheon

We've got auntie Laura and uncle Tim visiting at the moment, much to George's joy! Fun and games all the time! Pasta wheels and falukorv is nice too!

Today we went to Skansen to watch the Lucia celebrations, but George got a little stressed by the big crowds and wasn't quite himself until we found a little hideaway in the shape of a round, lit up greenhouse. Very pretty. Uncle Tim took lots of nice pictures which will come shortly (our battery charger is still missing..)

Jättecool bil!

This morning George blew me away again with his talking. He showed me one of his little cars and said: Titta mamma, jättecool bil (look mummy, really cool car!). Don't know who's taught him to say cool but it just sounded so funny!

We've had farfar Andie visiting for almost a week and George has been switching from Swedish to English without blinking! Such a good little boy!

Our favourite is still: Vad gör du mamma/daddy? (What u doin mummy/daddy?), he says it all the time and with the funniest tone of voice.

Oh, and the other day he sung the Pippi Långstrump (Longstocking) song!!! Well, more or less haha, but even the words 'varenda kotte som jag känner...' hahaha!


I will try to record his speaking (or singing)soon, whenever I can find the charger for the camera...

Hello everybody!

My name is George, I've just turned two. My mummy and daddy are building a house so they never have time to update my blog, but I will push them to do it more often soon, promise!

Anyway, this is my new T-shirt that I begged mum (snäälla mamma / pleease mummy) to buy for me and then ran into dagis and showed it off to everyone! In the afternoon, the big boys from the other group were also very impressed with it!

Pretty mummy

George decided to come into the bathroom with me this morning, he wanted to have a bath whilst I had a shower. After I was done, I did my hair, my make-up and went to put clothes on. When I returned, George looked up and said 'Fin mamma' (Pretty mummy). Aaah, what a nice start to the day!

We have a 2 year old!

Little George Melton is already 2 years old! Where did time go? Have been so busy lately with the house and work, can't wait for Christmas when we'll be able to wind down a little and spend lots of time together!

Anyways, think G-man had a great birthday! A muffin for breakfast, a drill, some play-dough, a little Roary car, new shoes, new top, new T-shirt... And after the midday nap, it started allover again! Monster truck and trailer from mormor and Bestefar, Brio train track from Petra and a pedal tractor from morfar and Eva. Little mr G was in heaven! And if that wasn't all, he had auntie Jo and Laura and farmor Christine and great grandma Doris on skype video! And dad had made the coolest Roary the racing car cake ever (George gave a helping hand as you can see)!

G was very tired in the evening haha...

Oh, and as a little weekly update I can let you all know that he's mimicking absolutely everything we say! Hilarous to some extent, frustrating in others... This morning he said 'Sluta mamma' (Stop mummy), after I had told him to stop making noises in the back of the car haha! He's actually surprising us everyday now with new words! Sentences are mostly 3-4 words long and he knows to speak to me in Swedish and Matt in English, even though his English vocabulary isn't as big yet.

Findings!

Went through my phone, which has been playing up lately, and found all of these lovely pics!

> In the back yard at Nan's house, with a racer toy car
> With mummy
> In the park, wearing cool leather jacket

new dagis!

Georgie boy started a new dagis last Thursday. It went so well! He loved it! He was a little shy and kept a little in the background when all the kids where gathered, but took up plenty of space playing with the trucks, tractors and cars...

Refused to sleep the first day, was too busy playing, but on Friday, I left him when they had lunch and went to sit in the staff room whilst they ate and then slept. He went to sleep in an instant! Great! And I also had a great time, stuffing my face with cakes that the parents had baked for the previous day's communal cleaning afternoon...

Matt took care of the Monday, which also went brilliantly, and today, Tuesday, was his first day there on his own. He cried a little when Matt left him, but when he picked him up this morning, the staff told Matt he'd been good all day, so he seems to like it there!

Pics show when they queue up for lunch, so sweet! And G's dip into the car box!

UnderBARA BARN Fair 2009

Proudly presenting the For George space at the UnderBARA BARN (wonderful children) fair last weekend! Mum was a star and helped me get ready, calmed my stressed out nerves, and came with some brilliant suggestions, such as the carpet dressed table... very nice touch!

The space looked sooo much better than most others. I'm biased but also very self critical, and some stands looked really crap!

I got so much praise for my designs and will get some good coverage in some really good magazines, very excited about that! Networked with other trades people, which will hopefully lead to me selling my stuff in their stores, and one girl is looking into introducing a new high chair for children and possibly want me to design the pattern for the fabric for it! And lots more...

Laura's lovely quilts also got lots of praise and she got her first Swedish order, by a very nice girl who I'm sure will love her special quilt.

Big up also to bestest Petra and Thessan for helping me on Saturday and Sunday. Thank you so much for all your hard work!

Looking back at it now, I'm really really pleased with the outcome of it all. I feel very proud, almost made the money back (80% of it, good for being a first show), and have even had half a dozen new orders since Sunday! Hurraaaa For George!