We love apes

I love the Great Apes

and last Saturday I rescued yet another little ape

from the secondhand store across the street.

 

Today Eyja visited

and I think she shares my feelings.

 

 

It really makes your day

when you get
a welcome like this

 

 

Wood anemones

Every spring

my Mom wants to visit the place where she used to play as a child

and see the forest filled with wood anemones.

 

Thursday was a holiday

so we drove to Hörby to have picnic in the forest

and to visit the grave.

 

 

Memory from 22 years ago

Over 7000 girls

ran or walked Vårruset (the Sping race) today.

I ran with Charlene and Eyja.

Last time I ran this race was 22 years ago.

That time I had Charlene in the baby carriage and at the end I carried her on my arm while I ran. 

In the picture above you can see me holding

the picture from 22 years ago.

 

 

 

The local TV station filmed us,

but they had just finished the Live transmission from the race..

 

 

 

Spring celebrations

April 30th is called Valborgsmässoafton

 

 

 

and you gather around big fires and sing songs to welcome spring.

May 1st

is another day of spring celebrations

especially in the University cities.

 

 

We went to the nearby city of Lund

which has a big university and listened to

 Bleckhornen's spring concert.

Bleckhornen is the band that William has joined.

My smart granddaughter

I have to share this video

For those of you who don't understand the language,

I am telling her to "wipe grandmom's mouth"

and later to wipe her own mouth (she doesn't like to have her mouth wiped).

Spring day with Baby swim

Saturday was a georgeous spring day.

 

 

I watched Eyja at the baby swim

 

 

 You can watch the video,

but I have to figure out how to make it into a good format for the web.

 

 

 

 

and afterwards we walked in the park

(of course Eyja was exhausted and fell right asleep).

 

 

My Mom met us in the park

and we enjoyed coffee and cinnamon rolls at the café.

 

 

We looked at the flowers they had just planted

 

 

When Eyja woke up we went to our favorite statue The Chestnut,

so that she could feel the soft smooth part of the stone

 

and the rough part of the stone.

Eyja's baptism

4/1 2013

we celebrated the baptism of Eyja

in St Pauli church

 

 

 

The ceremony has begun.

 

 

Sven gives Eyja the blessing.

 

 

 Eyja noticed her Grandmom with the camera.

 

 

Atli pours the water.

 

Eyja wants to read too.

 

 

The baptism.

 

 

Posing after the ceremony.

 

 

After the ceremony, when the rest of us enjoyed some good food,

Eyja preferred to chew on this toy alligator.

 

 

Isn't she sweet?

Eyja 4 months

Eyja's four month picture a bit delayed.

Happy as usual.

But this month she has been the happiest

when she gets help to stand up.

It is not easy ...

... to eat by yourself

when you are just turning four months.

But practice makes perfect.

Sleepover

Last night Eyja spent the night with me,

for the first time.

Well, not alone,

her Mom was also there.

Photo: William Shelton

This is how happy she was the evening before.

 

In the morning she was also very content and happy.

 

Eyja 2 months

Eyja turned 2 months

while I had problems with my blog.
 

 

 

She looks a lot more alert than she did

on her pictures when she turned 1 month
and has begun to smile to us.

Eyja 1 month

I used to take pictures

of my kids in one of our chairs

to see how they changed.

The first year I took a picture once a month,

and after that every six months and later once a year.

 

Now Charlene and I

want to do the same with Eyja.

 

 

Eyja had some problems sitting up

and she kept falling asleep during the photo session.

 

Daily picture of Eyja

Birthday for a 7 year old friend

Eyja slept almost the whole time

but here she is smiling.

All of Elias' presents were Star Wars stuff.

The perfect Fall day

Today it was here,

the perfect fall day that we loook for every year.

This year, just like a similar day 22 years ago,

I brought a baby to the beautiful Bokskogen

just outside of Malmö. 

Eyja's first day in the forest.

Beautiful, beutiful forest,

Photo: Charlene Shelton

with tall beech trees.

surrounded by open fields

and ponds.

Atli is carrying the baby in a baby wrap

and looks like he is pregnant.

Picnic time

 Thanks for lunch Mom!

I'm sorry for repeating myself

but I just have to show you this picture

that I didn't take myself,

but isn't it just wonderfully funny.

Family photos

During the baby girls first visit

at her Greatgrandparents apartment

we took a lot of family photos.