K is walking

The feeling when you see your child take his first steps... Incredible. You feel happy, proud...amazed. He's now walking everywhere exploring, poking, examining all kinds of things. The ground, holes in the wall, dog hairs, flowers... No discrimination in what gets examined - disgusting or not. This is the time when we as parents get to do a lot of running and yelling - "no, don't put that in your mouth!", "don't touch that!", "stop licking the seats in the tube!" and "don't stick your hands in the toilet!" - in order to try and stop certain undesirable events from occurring. It's fun but quite tiring! Gotta go and put my runners on - to keep up with the little one. Heels? Forget it!

Happy first birthday K!

2 days ago my little boy turned one year old. I can't believe a whole has gone by since he was born. The feeling when I held him in my arms for the first time. Incredible, wonderful, beautiful... All the great adjectives you can think of - that. I still feel like the luckiest woman alive, having such a great family ❤❤❤.

K didn't notice his birthday was different from other days, I think. I banged a cake for him and brought it to his nursery. Hopefully he liked it. We also received so many greetings from our friends and extended family. It made me really happy. Just warms my heart to know that there is so much love out there for my son who is just a year old. Amazing.

The Beatles are right:

All you need is love

Merry Christmas

Yesterday was Christmas eve. We celebrated Christmas in London with my family and some friends. It was lovely to have everyone at our new home to celebrate K's first Christmas. K's baby friend L was there with her friends and she gave him lots of kisses and cuddles. It was so funny to watch!

Father's day

Two days ago it was Father's day in Sweden. I don't like Swedish father's day anymore. It reminds me too much of dad. It is still hard. I don't know if I will ever get used to it. I miss him so much and it still feels like he should be here with us. It is still hard. But life goes on...whether we want to or not.

Back to work

Summer finally ended and we managed to squeeze in so many things right at the end of it: Christening of a friend's daughter in Istanbul, hen party and stag do in London two consecutive weekends, visitors from Spain and Sweden, wedding in Czech republic and K's christening in Mallorca.

The day after coming home, it was time for K to start settling in at nursery. I had been dreading this day for a long time and tried not to think about it too much. But the day came and he actually seemed to enjoy being there. It was such a huge relief to see him playing with a musical toy and enjoying himself while I was leaving the first day. The rest of the week went in a similar fashion. I can only say "thank god" for that because the following week I was back at work.

That brings us up to this week. It was a good week at work. I jumped right into a new role at work which is being the team leader of the team I used to work in. It felt good to come back in that way. I didn't worry too much about K which was good, and I quickly got back into the swing of things. I feel slightly overwhelmed about all the things I need to get done before Christmas though... But so far so good!

 K after landing in London coming from Mallorca

After K's first swin in the sea

 Grandma came over to cuddle with her grandchild

The hen party that I organised. Here after makeovers at Chanel 

 We also drove karts!

Mr.Frequent flyer on the plane from Istanbul His first tooth on its way out here but we didn't discover until the following day

So many things

My little boy is now 7 months and 2 weeks old. Since I last wrote he's learned how to do the Indian wo wo wo sound with a little help of course, he has 2 cute little teeth in his bottom jaw, and he had just started sleeping in his own room. I know I might be boring some people with these leaps of progress but I just find it amazing. It was never amazing when I heard friends' kids did all these things. It's amazing because it's my son, the little creature who couldn't do much besides eat, cry and poo a few months ago. Now he's showing his strong will through sounds and gestures, he has a sense of humour.  He loves to laugh and to make me and his daddy laugh and we just have so much fun together goofing around.

I love being a mum. With everything it includes. The joy, frustration, happiness and worries. The good outweighs the bad so many times over it's rediculous. I'm so thankful for my life. If there is such a thing as karma then I must have done something really good to deserve it.

My baby is almost 7 months old!

Yesterday me, K and D were out in the sunshine. We went for a walk and then we chilled for a bit in a hammock in our local park. So much love in a hammock!

My little one snuggles up with his teddybear

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K is growing so fast!

I can't believe how fast K is developing and learning new things! I feel it's almost unreal that he was tiny just 5 months ago. I'm trying to memorise all the things he could do and at what age but it's impossible. Maybe partially because I'm suffering from the so called 'nappy brain'and forget things quickly...

Now at 5 months he's such a funny little baby with a sense of humour. Not just laughing at silly things me and D do but also trying to make us laugh. It's so refreshing to hear him laugh and giggle.  The best sound ever. He loves to stand up. He's shown a great interest in standing up ever since he was a month and a half. Now he gets really frustrated if nobody helps him support his own weight on his little feet. I have a feeling that when he starts walking he will be a hurricane. Like his uncle P maybe? or is the restlessness something  from D  maybe? Interesting but I guess well find out later when he starts walking. Can't believe he is almost 6 months and we  will start weaning him on to solids soon! Looking forward to it although I know we'll have food all over the place. That's the beauty of doing this... it's hard work but just a single smile or giggle can make you forget about the hard stuff. Love is everywhere.

Today K found his feet