Loungemöbler

Fredrik och jag har nu funderat ett tag på vad vi ska ha för utemöbler på terrassen på framsidan, det är där vi kommer att ha kvällssol och förhoppningsvis kan sitta och mysa på kvällarna. Igår slog vi till på en soffgrupp med bord från Trademax som heter Wisconsin, den ser ut som på bilden nedan men dynorna som följer med är gråa. Nu hoppas vi verkligen att det blir så bra som vi tror att det kommer att bli och att det blir en varm sommar så att våra vänner kan komma över och njuta av de sena sommarkvällarna med och hos oss :)

Det verkar som om vädret blir bra idag, solen är framme och Emilia ligger och sover i vagnen ute på balkongen just nu. Jag har precis intagit frukost och ska snart göra mig iordning. Hoppas att ni alla får en fin måndag!

Not well

Our little girl has not been well for the past few days but she's slowly getting back to her normal self. It started on Sunday with fever and Monday morning she had a fever of 39,2 degrees. She was crying all day Monday and I didn't know what to do to make her happy. Yesterday was not a great day either but today was better. She has no fever anymore but her stomach is still iffy, I hope it gets better.

The past three weeks I have avoided anything with milk as we thought Emilia might be allergic to milk protein. Well I never thought so myself but agreed to give it a try to see if her dry skin gets better. I haven't really noticed any difference to be honest, perhaps her skin is slightly better but I think that is because we have put on the Miniderm cream as well every morning and evening. The milk free formula that we have been giving her has not been popular and sometimes she refuses to take the bottle. It has slowly gotten worse and in the last few days there has been a battle almost every single time I'm giving her the bottle. Today F and I agreed that I would start introducing milk again to see if anything happens, even though we have an appointment with a childrens doctor in two weeks and I said I would stay off the milk until then. I had yoghurt this morning and milk in my coffee this afternoon and I haven't noticed anything different with her skin. Hopefully I can start giving her the standard formula milk again (which is much sweeter than the milk free one) and I'll have a happier baby and no more food battles ;)

F and I are still working on getting our house into shape and we're slowly getting there (well we have a million projects to do in the house but at least we're starting to get that cosy feeling about our house). Our new project is now to do Emilia's room and we started by putting in some furniture last weekend. Since Saturday, she's sleeping in her own room and she has been so good. We're gonna put up some shelves and paintings and also put up wallpaper on one wall before it's ready (green with butterflies that I picked for her :)). As soon as we're happy with the room I promise to take some pictures that I'll show you. I'm hoping it will be as good as I imagine it will be!

My baby after a bath

No blogging for a while but now I'm back

Wow, time flies and I realise now that I haven't been blogging for a while. It's difficult to find the time now that we have moved into our new house and with a baby that pretty much takes all of my time ;)

Emilia is today 12 weeks old, can't believe she'll be 3 months soon. She's becoming a big little girl. She loves her food and I keep having to give her formula milk as well as breast milk. The amount of formula milk I'm giving her is increasing every day, well not really but that's what it feels like. She's a lot happier now and can spend some time in the baby gym or in the baby sitter by herself while mammy is doing some house chores ;) She has discovered her hands and put them in her mouth all the time. She smiles and "talks" a lot. She's getting stronger and stronger and I'm putting her on her stomach several times a day for her to practice. Today when I did that she rolled over on her back. Well, she kind of fell over but still! :) She's such a cutie and I so enjoy being at home with her. I thought the first two months were quite tough to be honest but it's getting better each day and I love seeing her develop.

We're in our house since 15th of December and it feels great. We had a carpenter paint all the walls upstairs in the bedrooms and re-build a wall to make two bedrooms three. Then F put in new oak wooden floors in all the rooms and new doors so it's slowly coming together upstairs. I have now ordered some curtains and pillows to make it look more cosy - that "soft part" is my job! Today we bought a new kitchen table that we can put in the kitchen to fill that empty space together with four new chairs. We also bought a new bed headboard that we fell in love with this weekend when we went to Mio to have a look. My parents looked after Emilia while we took the car and drove to Mio to spend some time together without her for the first time since she entered this world :)

Today I've been out for a walk in the sun and now Emilia sleeps in her baby swing that we have in the sitting room. I'm getting some time to myself and thought it was time for a blog post. Hope you're all doing well!

Our new home

As you know, F and I bought a house a week and a half ago and we're very excited about it. We thought it would take quite a long time to find something we'd both like, but after two weekends of house viewings we found a house where we both felt that this is a future home. We actually took part in the bidding for another house in the same street first, but we never got it. We loved the area in Skarpäng, Täby so much and realized that there was another similar house that had been up for sale for quite some time. The seller hadn't got it sold the first time around so we thought perhaps we could get a good deal. F rang the estate agent and organized a pre-viewing of the house. It was what we thought it'd be like and we even liked the layout better than the layout in the other house. After a bit of consideration we put a bid on it. The seller didn't accept that bid but we only had to give a tiny bit more in order to seal the deal. Happy days!

The bathrooms are in good condition but we're probably gonna fix most surfaces like paint the walls, paint the ceilings, put up wallpaper and put in new floors. We're also gonna build a new kitchen in time but I guess it won't be until the summer. There are three floors and we're gonna try to fix all three bedrooms upstairs before we move in. We get the keys on the 30th of November and I can't wait. It will be a great home for our little family :)

On Thursday we've organized for a house inspection, the seller has already had that done but we want to do our own as well to be on the safe side. Fingers crossed it'll go well. Below you can see some "before pictures" of the house.