The reindeer booties arrived

Axel is 11 weeks and 2 days, that is not even 3 months. The booties are size 0-6months.They are too small...

Anyone would like a pair of dwarf booties for Christmas, anyone?? Otherwise he will have to wear them as mittens (vantar) ha ha ho ho ho

Oh and my back really flipping hurts today, carrying around an almost 7kg (by now) baby is not good for anyone's back and we were so tight (snåla) when we had him so we didn't invest in a proper changing table so now I have to break my back a little bit more every time I change his nappy (on the floor), I asked him firmly not to wee too much today..

Think I better go back searching for an elf costume instead, I was so much happier then...

elf costume compensation...

Just bought these ones on (I know I must stay away from that vicious site) ebay to compensate for the elf costume fiasco, now at least he won't have to lie around with cold feet come Christmas, all in all £1.75 in total...

The hunt of the perfect elf costume!

Gosh the weeks are going so quickly at the moment, Axel is 11 weeks and 1 day today, surreal.

We met up with Val yesterday and went to a massive Tesco in search of an elf outfit.. unfortunately (of course!!!) they were sold out, there was only 2 left in size "newborn"! I was really close buying it and do a squeeze, what does a couple of centimeters do (that is my own motto when I try on jeans) ha ha? No, I think that could be classified as child abuse as it said up to 56cm and Axel is more 62-63cm I think and slightly bigger than a "newborn" with his 6kg... so the hunt continues : )

Nisse = Santa’s little all year helper

J came in to the bedroom this morning and announced that not only did our amazing new TV give us hours of enjoyment in the evenings, it also turned itself off from the Standby mode to the Power saving mode! That sounded too good to be true, even more so when the electricity prices has gone up with 40% or something stupid like that. Unfortunately I had to demolish his illusion, there is no hokus pokus fanciness, even tho our TV can do no wrong.. It’s me, I’m like a little Nisse making sure that all electrical equipment are turned off for the night as I have seen all those “big brother” ads from the government about electricity savings, and being from a country where we do as we are told!! I take this very serious. Sometimes I even go up and double check – although that is probably more OCD! Did you know that the Swedes recycle everything possible and have THREE small bins instead of this black binbag malaki, there, you learn something new every day!

A slightly bored Axel beside me in the sofa

J told me yesterday that he had read some of the posts that I have written and asked me if I had lost my writing brain somewhere on the way? (well maybe not exactly like that, but that was what he wanted to ask!) I had to go in (of course) and re-read some of my posts.. and yes he is right, some of the posts are quite messy, but to my defence – I write this blog while I entertain Axel, while I watch TV, while I’m on the phone, while I’m hanging the washing and while on the loo.. no actually, that’s not true, our laptop do not have the moving around function that is pretty much key for a laptop – the whole none stationary option. The battery is dead so must always sit close to a power socket, so no bathroom blogging for me, so now you know and we can put the laptop bitterness behind us : )

Yesterday when I was putting Axel to sleep I noticed that J had wrapped up Axmax’s bed clothes and pillow around a hot water bottle to make it warm and nice for the little one, I almost started crying of happiness, I feel so lucky that I met J and that he is the father of my child, that’s love…

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!

No Friday feeling today..

The sun seems to have disappeared and we are just gonna be at home today waiting for the telly to arrive. Axel did not sleep so well last night, his hands are waking him, but I'm not sure if we should stop swaddle him and be up all night putting his dummy back that he manage to pull out with his crazy arms even tho he seems to change his mind the minute it happens ha ha (got a feeling he don't do this on purpose as he don't seem to have any control of his arms yet) Can small babies learn to sleep more peacefully with their arms if they can practice arm control in the night as well???

Update: Just got our telly and stand and the sun is starting to shine a little bit as well so gonna have a shower now and see if we can go out today!!