Monthly Archives: May 2010

Walking through the old farm buildings.       Some adorable 2 day old moose.         Overlooking Gärdet and the Lynch’s hotel. The bears!

Jenny and Jax weren’t sure what all the Pippi fuss was about so we took them to Junibacken (one of Mattias’ favorite places in the world). Here they are outside Pettson and Findus’ house.

Fredrik and Mattias in front of the cherry blossoms. And then a walk along Strandvägen….     … and a great view of Oscar’s church on the way to our apartment.

6 weeks of standing in the window paid off! Jenny and Jax finally made it to Sweden on May 10th.       And we couldn’t help but open all of the luggage in the entryway / kitchen.  So many fun things … Continue reading →

      How pathetic is this? Home sick again with a tummy bug. Hope it goes away by Monday (when aunt Jenny and Jax come to visit).

Mulle Meck is a character from a series of books that have recently (thanks to many trips to the library) become favorites at our house.  Today we visited Mulle Meck’s park.  As you can imagine, Mattias was in heaven, running … Continue reading →

Last Friday (April 23rd) Mattias had a fever   We stayed home from school and watched videos from our new sofa bed. Mattias has happily recovered and is back to his energetic, cheeky self.

The snow has finally melted and the grass is turning green.  We packed a pancake lunch and had a picnic at Skansen.       After lunch we went and watched the bears who are finally awake after the long winter.  We … Continue reading →

        Easter weekend Mattias got his first real bike.  You can see he’s already hooking up with the pros (Hasse on the right – who just spent a week cycling in Spain).  Thanks Farmor and Hans for the bike xoxo