Tuesday fun!

Just got back after an eventful day, met my friend George at the college (where I used to work) for lunch and a good chat, Axel was really liking it, sitting in my lap looking out over the canteen. The just sitting looking calm is new for him, he is really growing now as a little person, he smiles at you and even smiles at him self in the mirror bless him, so cute! After lunch I went to cafe Moksha where I met the girls quickly and then Ruth came and we had tea and muffins, so nice meeting up with her and hear all about her labour and admire her baby Oliver who had the most adorable knitted hat on, maybe I should try and knit one to Axmax, I do have some knitting sticks (not sure what they are called) so just have to buy some wool and off we go : ) Although I'm not sure as I'm busy watching telly in the evenings the new way without any props.. ha ha ha

We are off to Katie's tomorrow I think and then I'll go to the Swedish shop and buy Gingerbread biscuits as I'm planning on making a Gingerbread cheesecake for Sunday celebrating J's birthday. Found the recipe in a magazine and it looks so nice on the picture! I will take a picture and show you guys if I succeed with the task of baking, sounds a bit hard to do but it should be ok :)

Obsessed with my TV, me.. NEVER!

I always used to write emails, browse the internet, read blogs etc while I watched TV in the evenings.. My life has changed and I'm not sure I like it, ha ha. Our lovely new TV is sucking me in, watched Sex and the City the movie tonight on it, oh boy it was nice! Even J liked it and I think it was more the TV than the movie : ) I must keep that TV off daytime as I noticed today that Axel seems to have taken a liking to it as well, not good, babies with square eyes... child abuse lol. To my defence, it was raining today and quite cold for UK and it was Sunday and J was working bless him. So weird that I had such a Sunday feeling today as I'm off all week all the time and J was at work which he normally never is on a Sunday. The weather got a bit better in the afternoon so we decided to go and meet J outside his work and walk home, being a chicken mum as I am, I decided that Ax needed to have both his snowsuit (overall) AND his foot muff. Nice nice... Here are some photos from Friday showing his new foot muff.

Had a great day yesterday with J's mum and her partner, went shopping and had lunch, J stayed at home and rested as he still feels a bit poorly. Then Birte, Tom and Bo came in the evening for some X-factor.. Amazing on the new TV : ) and good that Rachel left!

Anyone else got that Friday feeling even tho it's only Thursday?

Just got back from a lovely walk in the sun and then cheesecake and tea at on of our favourite places. Life could not be better! Axel is playing in his gym and I'm about to do some kitchen work and then get ready for my full body massage tonight, can't wait! I realised when looking through the November pics that most of the pictures are of Axel (naturally) but only of Axel, gonna try and take some more of Axel and mamma and Axel and daddy etc. That way I will make an effort to get dressed and put some makeup on, today I'm wearing my black tracksuit trousers that I seem to live in these days! Before Axel I only used to wear them inside the house, but nowadays I'm seen wearing them out and about...this must stop : )


Here's a photo (the only one in November...) of all 3 of us taken last Saturday at Woodies Hamburger Diner with Birte, Thomas and Bo.

Our own little sunshine!

It's fantastic to wake up and see such a happy boy, even more happy when I turned his mobile on above his cot, he got it from his grandma and absolutely adores it, tack Mamma! Some evenings I even have to take it away so he can chill out and fall asleep "laban (the Swedish childens book figure that's on the mobile) and his friends are going to bed over here my lovely outside your eyesight" ha ha.. It helps by saying that, then I don't feel so evil taking away his fun : )

The sun is shining today as well so we are heading out for a walk in a while with Amelia and Syd, very nice. I have put his foot muff inside the cocoon in his pram so now it looks super cosy and nice and warm.

Tomorrow we are guarding that door as we are hoping that the Telly will arrive just in time for the weekend... wooohooo

My neighbourhood

Just got back after a lovely walk with Birte and Bo in the autumn sunshine, it's days like these when I get reminded why I have chosen to live in Britain, truly wonderful, must be at least 17 degrees in the sun with fresh sea air and very little wind!

Wednesday

Good morning, after a night battling with Axel about not lying awake sucking his hand and managing to feed him twice!! we manage to sleep to 8.30 which was lovely. We have gone back to swaddling as he wakes himself up with his hands and then he cannot stop sucking them which of course keeps him awake and us for that matter as he's accompanying the sucking with a grumbling sound, is it bad to still wrap (swaddle) him up? When we swaddle him he goes back to sleep straight away, but on the other hand he has to learn to sleep without us constraining him : ) Any ideas?? Also, he manage to poke himself in the eye so now he's eye is a bit irritated and sleep keep coming do I washed it with lukewarm boiled water. This happens quite often but it's usually his left eye but today it's his right poor thing, although I don't think he even notice it.

The sun is shining today so we will go out walking a bit with Birte who lives just around the corner. It's brilliant to have friends that lives close by, when I lived in London I always missed the ability to just "pop over" for a cuppa, so much more relaxed and it's hard to plan with this little one so much more handy, anyway, Axel is asleep now so must jump in the shower and get ready : )

Thank you Birte..

..for being the first one to "comment" on my blog, so exciting, see ya tomorrow : )

Lovely day out and about..

The sun started shining after I blogged about greyness and rain. I decided to head out and see what the day had to offer. I started by calling my very overdue friend Jo, we really want her baby girl to come now!!! She was suppose to "arrive" last Wednesday and I think Jo is beginning to believe that there isn't a baby at all inside her, but she will be here soon, super exciting : ) Even tho I had not planned to do anything on my "to do" list I manage to complete quite a few bits and pieces. I bought some breastfeeding bags (so I can freeze the milk for my massage evenings) and a dish brush for the bottles and teats at Boots, I love that shop.. for you Swedes - it's like Apoteket and H&M cosmetic and Maxi in one shop, huge and cheap with a lot of offers, a must when visiting UK. Then I bought a rain jacket on sale, one of them small ones that is like a little pouch bag and then you can fold it all open and the pouch becomes a pocket, very clever and useful when I walk with the buggy in windy Brighton, so no excuse now not to walk when it's raining! I really would like to buy a elf costume for Axel to wear on Christmas eve (Sweden's big day) but it was of course sold out and it was even sold out online which of course makes me want if even more!!! Oh well, saw a reindeer outfit on ebay that I might bid on (oh no... I must stop this ebay addiction!!!) but I do think the elf costume is the coolest one.


After shopping and lunch with Jo I went to see Rachael, was lovely to see both her and Jenny over a cuppa and to catch up. Axel was a bit tired by then so he slept nicely on our walk back. He really loves his pram which is nice, he sleeps most of the time when we are out or looks up in the sky with something dreamy in his eyes. I wonder when I should change to the sitting-up-part of the pram? I would like to do it before X-mas as I have a foot muff which would be lovely and cosy in Sweden, but maybe he is too small (3 months) even tho he weights 6.2kg already : )

J is on his way home, pasta carbonara is on the menu tonight so I should start cooking, bless him have to work when I do so much fun stuff every day, not fair!!