I love my baby girl.

Sometimes words just aren't enough.

Photo mishap... #5??

Distraction.

After giving Leia the distraction of letting her play with my wallet, I was able to get something in her hair!

Emotions.

Lots of emotions started for me last night, knowing that Fredrik was going back to work. I sorta had that pit-of-the-gut feeling that you get the night before you go back to school after Summer break. I want to have him home with me all the time, and I get so "ehh" when he has to go back. :( Just don't want that time to end, that we get to spend together.

Leia also returned to daycare today. The drop-off went really, really well! She gave me lots of hugs and kisses and easily went to her teacher and didn't cry after me or anything, which makes leaving her a lot easier. So I had an empty house today for the first time in a loong time. :) I was a little lonely, but it was also nice to have some quiet time.

Leia will keep her present daycare schedule until the last week of August, and then she will start going 24 hours a week. I registered for classes on Monday, and I'll be going 75% time, 300 points, and it will be 3 classes. I'll be taking: Svenska som andra språk B (Swedish as a Second Language B - 11th grade Swedish), Engelska C (12th grade English), and Samhällskunskap A (10th grade Social Studies). We'll be paying the same amount for Leia as we pay now with her 15 hours a week. Since I'm going to school, she's allowed to have up to 25 hours under the same amount we are paying now. So she'll go Monday-Thursday 9-15.00. I totally feel like I am just throwing her to the side and I hate it. It is bad enough with 15 hours a week.

Ehhh.....

For the most part Fredrik is still alone at work, most everyone will come back next week. Things are going to slow down a lot, especially after summer, so he is thinking of taking more pappa-leave time, and I doubt that neither Leia or I will complain about that. :)

Leia is still talking up a storm. It is SO much fun! She will try to say most everything. One of her most favorite words is "komma" (infinitive form "to come"). She doesn't conjugate the verb, but just says "komma" if she wants you to follow her somewhere. :) The de-pacifiering is going pretty well actually! Whenever she thinks about her pacifier, she shakes her head no, and mumbles something to the extent of "Leia behöver ingen 'bapp'." (Leia doesn't need a pacifier.) :))) Every now and then she will shake her head yes and say something to the extend that she needs a "bapp." :)

One of my most favorite things to watch her do is when she takes a DVD out of the player and wipes it on her shirt and then puts it back in the player. :))) She takes it out to clean it, as she has seen Pappa do so many times. :) She looks so serious and "old" when she is in the act.

First boyfriend.

I think we have definitely decided that Nils is Leia's first boyfriend. :))

Here are a few pictures over the last few days of them ::











And some pictures of Leia stealing cherries off the cherry tree. She is really good with spitting out the pit! When she can't spit it out, then she'll spit out the whole cherry. We trust her with it and she does well! She'll eat all cherries - doesn't matter how ripe or sour they are! And the neighbors call her the "hallontjuv" (raspberry thief). :D Every chance she gets she runs into the neighbor's yard and eats off of his many, many, many, many raspberry bushes. :)))










The 1st of August came in with a nice warm day. It was fantastic to have a break from all the murky, rainy weather. :) Leia and Nils spent the entire day together, mostly in our yard, playing in the sandbox, going down the slide, coloring with chalk and crayons, and having a snacks here and there.





"Tut tut!"

Rain, rain go away!

With all the rain that we had in July, we couldn't not let Leia go out and run around anyways. So here are some pictures from July 25th: just one of Leia running around in the rain, and then plenty of pictures of Leia coloring. Fredrik brought home some discarded printed maps that he didn't need, so Leia got to color on them. What fun!

February pictures!

Finally, pictures from the month of February!

Alice, too.

Pictures from a few weeks ago. I am almost caught-up with pictures! I have tried to take very few lately so that I can try to get these finished. :)) I still have to finish putting on the pictures from our trip to the US !! Argh! I'll eventually get through it all.

The weather was beautiful all day yesterday and didn't rain at all. So we were able to work plenty in the yard and Leia got to play with Nils. :) We were finally able to grill for once!

Like I said, here are pictures from a few weeks ago, more towards the beginning of June. Nils' sister, Alice, was here for a visit and she got to join in on the fun!