Teething.

Yep.. :/ Leia is teething and it has made her a little cranky. She wouldn't be nearly as cranky if she would only eat something! She's been a bit picky with her food lately, so we are happy when she will just eat anything.

We're not sure if it is the teeth or her just being picky, but it can definitely be annoying when she'll take 2 bites and then refuse to eat anything else. But we're hoping that it quickly passes.

Her nose is SO runny though.. :/ Not exactly sure how many tissues we've gone through the last 3 days.. :/ :)

The meeting on Thursday evening was nice! Leia was the only child there. :/ There were 5 other parents/couples there. So 6 of us total, but we represented 8 of the children (a set of twins and then 2 siblings). All the other children were with grandparents..... But Leia had to be there with us, since we have no family to watch her when we have things to do. After the meeting, on the way to the car, Fredrik said to me "Yay.. we get to be the weird parents that have to take their children with them everywhere."

They told us about plans for the Spring. They are going to start teaching them about nature: leaves, trees, flowers and bugs, etc.. They hope to take some field trips! So I think it is going to be good for her.

Lots of others that I know in Sweden, they complain that their daycares are more like glorified babysitters. It makes me happy that we got Leia into a private daycare. Since the teachers invested their own money into the business, they are very interested in making everything work well. I'm so happy that they are actually going to try to teach the children things.

Leia has been saying "dumma" for the last couple of days. It means "stupid." Definitely something she has picked up from daycare.. not exactly one of the words I was hoping she would pick up early.. :/ She hasn't attached the word to anything yet, she just says it randomly. At least for now.. :/

Spring is supposed to be on its way. We had one last snow last weekend, but it melted away the next day. We had our first rain, on Friday I think it was.

I just looked at pictures from March of last year, and on March 2nd, we had no snow and we had some Spring flowers:



They are called "snödroppar" (snow drops).

Leia was 17 months old on Friday! :)
She is a smart little baby. :) At least we think so. :)
While going through her books, if she sees a cat - she points to it and says "dat," if she sees a banana - she points to it and says "nana," and if she sees a monkey - she points and says "apa." :)

Actually a year ago today, we were at a birthday party, here are some pictures:





The weather is a little different today than a year ago today.. :/ We still have snow and it is much colder. And the lake is still frozen.

Fredrik hopes to start taking off next Monday, not this coming Monday. Then he'll get to spend more time with Leia. :)

That is enough for tonight!! :)