Sick wee bugger

Wee one had fever last might so Dean has been home with her. She has not been a ray of sunshine, so he was fairly exhausted when I came back from work. They went swimming though in the afternoon (no fever then). Katie was happy, apart from when there was a queue to the hot pool. Fair enough!

Mum & Dads little helper

You know when you are in a rush and you are sure that the keys where on the table just a minute ago... With a Katie in the house you are screwed!!!!

After searching for about 1/2 an hour we finally found them safely tucked away in the garage...

Helping Mum & Dad cook tea used to be a favourite passtime but breaking spaghetti into small pieces and throwing them into (or in the general direction of) the sink is much more fun these days...

Thank you!! :)

Not really Katie-news, but I would like to thank you guys for my wonderful presents and happy birthday wishes!! (Sorry about the delay too! )

I love the bag, very summery too (I can't wait for more sun...)!! Katie loves the book about the other ark, and we have to read about polkadot piffles (in quarrelsome pairs), marmalade mammoths and sabre-toothed mice, and dirty old dinosaurs (not very nice), all day long... :)

And the CD is great (especially song 11 ;) ). Our CD collection needed something new, we are very tired of listening to the same CDs in the car going to and from work everyday, so it was great!!

Dean got me a cool green pulswatch and a training T-shirt. To go with the Pilates ball I got for christmas. Now I just have to start training too...
No, I actually got started a week ago, but then the whole family got a cold, and now Dean is busy doing last minute training for his race. But from next week on, I will get training prority. Or maybe we can go out together, and run around with Katie in the pram.

Dean went to the AC/DC concert last night. I thought that I would have a nice night too myself once Katie had gone to sleep. Except that she had no intention whatsoever of going to sleep. We ended up going to bed both of us at eleven...

Good night for now!

Breakfast

D: "Do you want porridge with a little bit of jam or a sandwich with a little bit of jam?"

K: "Jam"

Clever clogs

I forgot to mention last night that Katie counted to 10 for the first time. We had finished reading Hairy Macleary and I was going to turn the light off so she could go to sleep. I was trying to put the book away but Katie kept grabbing my hand and getting mad when I took it away. In the end she got hold of my finger and started counting the pictures of other hairy macleary books on the back cover. There were only 6 pictures so a few got counted twice! She got the numbers in the right order but it was a bit of a mixture of English and Swedish.

Blog termination effective immediately

If we don't start seeing some comments...

After about a month of blogging and nearly 100 views there hasn't been a single comment on anything that we have written. Interaction is the name of the game here. It ain't hard - just click comment at the bottom of the post and up pops a text box where you can write something witty or half witted. No user IDs or registration are required - you can either choose Name/URL (and just not worry about the URL bit) or if you really want to KISS then choose anonymous from the drop down box...

The student becomes the teacher...

Katie's speech has been coming on in leaps and bounds over the last few months but she hasn't fully understood that she is speaking two different languages yet. She was standing on a chair helping me make tea tonight when I asked her if she liked rice. She replied "No Dadda, not rice. Called ris (swedish for rice)!" clear as a bell. It's a bit hard to explain to her that she is both right and wrong at the same time!

Wake up and smell the roses

Here is that vallentines day photo of the flowers that Sara was talking about. When your nose is full of snot you have to get really close to smell them!

I was out skiing today doing the 52km Bessemerloppet ski race. I had to leave fairly early in the morning to get there and managed to wake Katie with all my rustling around right before I left. Not popular with Sara! Especially since she turned out to be a bit hard to handle today.

Valentine's day

It took two hours to put Katie to bed tonight.
We are both exhausted.
Therefore, posting a photo of the very nice flowers that Dean bought for Valentine's day will have to wait until tomorrow. He even ordered them on Thursday. How incredibly organised of him! (However, would have given an even more organised impression if they had not been handed over with the sentence: "Sorry, the card is blank, I have not had time to write it.")
But the flowers are lovely!!

Slightly repetitive...

"Katie, shall we put on this T-shirt?"
"No."
"But Katie, you need to wear a T-shirt, you'll get cold otherwise."
"No."
"OK, but what about this one, with a cat on? Can Mum put it on?"
"No."
"Katie, do you want to wear this one or this one?
"No."
"Are you not going to wear anything?"
"No."
"Can you only say no?"
"No."