Our family

Here's a picture of our family... according to E. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.)

She said...

One day, shortly after we brought baby H home, I walked into the livingroom and found E sitting on the couch with her shirt pulled up and she was smearing something all over her belly, her chest, her face... you name it. She looked up at me and said: " I like nipple cream, mamma!"

Background info for the next three:
I try to speak Swedish with E as much as I can and sometimes she looks a bit confused because she knows a word in one languages and now she hears it in another. So we started telling her that daddy says this and mamma says that. Lately she has been very interested in finding out how we both say something, which has caused some funny moments...

I was cutting up some ham and told E that daddy says ham and mamma says skinka.
E: "Daddy says ham, mamma says skinka, E says meat."

Chris was drinking tea from his travel mug.
E: "Daddy says coffee, mamma says tea."

I was making a Swedish meal for dinner, fläskpannkaka. E tried to say it. I think she wanted to figure out an easier way to say it so she looked at me and said: "What's daddy say?"

Baby H is here

It's been a while since I blogged. But Baby H showed up a couple of weeks early so we've been busy (and tired!). All day Jan 2nd I thought I had braxton hicks. I have never had them so I assumed that's what it was. But they started to hurt more and more and come closer and closer together. When I called the doctor they told me to come to the hospital. I thought that was ridiculous so I waited until we put E down for the night. Some friends of ours showed up to stay at our place with her. Thanks T & D! We went to the hospital and it turned out that I was 5 cm dilated already. The doctor was as shocked as I was b/c apparently you shouldn't be as calm as I was. And then again things happened very fast. I had to pee and right after that 5 cm had turned into 9 cm. So again no time for an epidural so it was another natural delivery. The doctor was delivering another baby so I got the midwife (I didn't like her). I asked how long it would be before I could start pushing and they told me I could push whenever I wanted to. Thanks for letting me know! I pushed for about 45 min, but I think I only pushed really hard for the last 10 to 15 minutes. Baby H was born on Jan 3rd at 26 minutes after midnight. She was 6 lbs and 19". Pretty much the same as E when she was born. I guess my body doesn't like babies when they get to 6 lbs and pushes them out no matter how far along I am.

Baby H is 3 weeks old today and we are all doing fine. E loves her and wants to hold her all the time. "I carry it", she says. I am so thankful that she is so excited about the baby and doesn't mind the new addition at all. Not that we don't see a difference in her. She is testing us a bit more these days to see if anything else has changed, like the rules. But no, sorry kid! =)

There are so many things I could write about, but that will have to wait (hopefully not another 3 weeks) b/c I have to go feed the baby now.

ending oh nine, beginning twenty ten

New Years Eve...
We went to a party at our friends' house (well, her mom's) and stayed there for a couple of hours. We had a great time and so did E. She didn't want to leave. But we went home and put her to bed and watched a movie and then we fell asleep on the couch and woke up at 6 minutes after midnight. Yep, we missed the ball dropping. We did however see some clips of the shift from 2009 to 2010 from different parts of the world. All I can say is fireworks, fireworks fireworks... and then we get to America... light bulbs - lol! Even though I was never big on spending a ton of money on fireworks when I was living back home I still miss the tradition of walking outside in the cold to watch them. Not really the same thing sitting in your couch watching a ball of light bulbs move a few inches.

New Years Day...
We went sledding with some of our friends. Well, the guys took the kids sledding and us wives stayed home with the youngest ones. Sledding is fun, but this year I preferred staying away from the hill.
Today was probably the last time we saw some of our friends before they move far away. We will miss them!
I'm still very much pregnant which means that C didn't get his tax return. Sorry, babe!
Right now E is asleep (only took one timeout tonight to get her to stay in bed. Improvement.) C is putting a wardrobe together for baby H and I'm on here. For about two more seconds. All done!