Yellow giraffe.

Leia has plenty of teething rings, but she prefers this yellow giraffe:

It is a bath toy. Leia enjoying this nice weather today while we were on our walk. :) She got very excited when I took out the camera to take a picture. :))



She still isn't fond of taking water out of a bottle. So she is getting it in a sippy-cup or a normal cup.




She hasn't pooped in days. :/ So Fredrik bought some more formula from the pharmacy, so we mixed it with her other formula. On a normal basis, we give her a special easy-to-digest formula. And it has been working very well for awhile now, but she is.. completely.. constipated.. And it is affecting her sleeping during the days (nothing could keep her awake at night).

And we think the teeth are bothering her, which is bothering her sleeping. (Haven't we been saying for awhile it is her teeth??) Her gums aren't white, but they are swollen, and while she doesn't have a fever, her temperature is slightly raised.

But it is difficult to put a 6 month old to bed that can raise herself up to almost a standing position in her bed by herself. Not something we should be having to deal with right now. :/ :))

Fredrik is having a little boring time at work. This week he has to convert some older files for a new program they are going to be using at work. So he is having to drive around to plenty of places to confirm some things on maps.

He complains that I don't do any movie reviews, and I tell him that he can do my homework instead, so that I can write some reviews...... :P :)

School is okay. I don't really have much left to do with the bookkeeping class.
And I've worked on Swedish all day. For a "small" part of my larger assignment, I have to summarize the Age of Enlightenment, give examples of prominent people, things they wrote, and summarize the things they wrote..... Extremely enthralling.

We got the cover up on the deck, for the iron stand. :) It looks nice. Much nicer to sit outside now. We are trying our hardest to get things fixed and looking nice. Fredrik took tons of branches to the dump on Monday. And we are trying to plan more what we want to do with the yard. We want the tree of course. And we are thinking of putting in some more bushes. And we want to fix up the garden area, with some of the leftover floor stones from when they renovated the kitchen. We still need to get some cushions for the outdoor furniture. The seats are very wide, so it is more difficult to find something that fits.

We think our neighbors separated, but we aren't sure. :/ We haven't seen her since we came back from the US! So we are guessing she moved out during then?? We've only seen him, and the youngest daughter. The older daughter was only there everynow and then (as she was her child from another relationship). So, we haven't heard any gossip yet, but I'm anxiously waiting to meet the "gossip" woman down the street in the red house some day so she can tell me what has happened. :/ :) We really don't know any of the neighbors well enough to ask around. But we feel bad for him. Not sure why.. :/ :) Just weird. Not sure if it is true, just what we are assuming, since we haven't seen her in about 4 months.. :/ :) And they had 3 cats, but we've only seen 2 of them, the littlest one is missing, too.

No Baby Café this Thursday, as it is a Red Day (holiday day), as it is May 1st... Labour Day. So Fredrik won't have work, so that is nice. :) Have him home another day. :) And the week after that, there is a nature/forest walk for the slightly older babies, so no meeting that time either. The last day is May 29th, which is sad because I was hoping Mormor and Morfar could go with Leia and I while they are here. And the last day, they have a special "fika" (brunch).

Almost May.. :/ The last 3 months have gone by so quickly.. :/ Scary even.