Matilde & mummy in COLD Sweden!!

Matilde & I left Friday midnight to Skärhamn, Sweden for 10 days. It was quite nice only to fly with one child, and especially since she slept 6 hrs straight on the flight, halleluja :-)

We had a layover in Munich where we met up with an old collegue and friend, Lars Tylen, who was flying in from Hong Kong, and was heading to Gothenburg on the same flight as Matilde & I. The world is rather small....!

Tack tack Lars for all the help I got with Matilde!!

Big mistake during the flight: not to bring a stroller... carrying a sleeping 10 kg baby with handluggage off the plane, through customs, to next gate is quite tiring....

It is COLD in Sweden and a thankfully we got to borrow warm clothes of a friend, Sofie. TACK Sofie!! So where did we go for our walk in Skärhamn... ICA Nordevik of course with its playground :-)

Jetlag...hm... well, I must say Matilde was amazing as she didn't fall asleep until 5pm, and managed to sleep until 4am. So guess I shouldn't complain to much.... :-)

Sunday, we got visitors to Skärhamn, thanks for the visit Annelie & Pernilla!!

Wrapping up the weekend with 'fika' at great grandmother Irma's house, where Matilde fell asleep and didn't moved until next morning at 4.30....zzzzzz....!

Sentosa Beach play Tue am :-)

Dropping Hannah off at school and off we go to Sentosa for a morning playdate. 3 moms, 1 dad and 4 toddlers at Coastes by Silosa Beach, great start of a regular Tuesday :-)

Hannah has playdate with Naomi after school

This one is for the grandmas in Sweden :-)

I have started to prepare Hannah that Matilde and I are going to Sweden on Friday and Hannah will stay in Singapore with daddy and Nady. After putting some thought into this, she wanted to call grandma (my mom) and talk to her. Grandma suggested that she draw a picture to grandma Irma and Thomas and Hannah follows instruction....

After some drawing, she asks if I think that grandma Irma likes snails on her painting :-) so I suggest her to call grandma and ask, and she does. It is the first time she calls by herself and also finishing up by herself, it was great fun watching her... :)

Swedish Church's playgroup

Every Wednesday, the Swedish Church hosts a playgroup for our young ones. Cinnamon buns, waffles, coffee, lemonade and most importantly - circle time with Swedish songs :-)

Playdate at the Zoo

Sunday was spent at the zoo with Theresa, Greg and their daughter Olivia, whom Hannah goes to school with. We managed to squeeze in two shows (Sea Lion & Elephants) and playing at the water park and play ground. Very tired girls afterwards :-)

Rawa Island!!!

5 days vacation on Rawa Island, a paradise outside the East Coast of Malaysia :-) The sand was white, the water crystal clear, the resport extremely child friendly, great friends around us - couldn't have asked for more!! (except a few amenities in the bungalows....!)

We travelled together with Soren, Anna-Maria and their kids Eva & Sofia. You can choose whether to drive by yourself or get a bus to pick you up, where we went for the latter. It was a very smooth trip to Rawa, except that Hannah got fever the night before we left and she threw up in the bus... last three! vacations and one of the kids are sick (Matilde in Borneo, Hannah in Hong Kong last week) but luckily enough, they get well within 24-36 hrs (in HK, Hannah got well after 4 hrs and a visit to the the emergency room!!!)

Well there, we ended up having loads of Scandiniavian families from Singapore, couldn't have been better!!
Funnily enough, at one time, we were 5 families were everyone had daughters - hence 11 girls playing at the beach at the same time :-)

The waterslide was definitely a hit, Hannah loved it!! As the tide was about 2 meters, you had to make sure you used it in the morning, otherwise it was a 2 meter drop down on the sand....not so comfy... :-)

Almost all adults and older kids decided to jump of the pier, was really exciting for kids and non-jumping moms....!

If someone is thinking about going to Rawa, I think it is good to know that it is definitely not a luxury trip. The nature and suroundings are amazing, but the bungalows/rooms are nothing but fancy. You eat all your meals at the same restaurang, and the food is ok, but after a few days, you crave other foods. There are snacks to purchase but would recommend to bring your own, especially for the kiddos, if you don't want them to eat chips & icecream every day...

It was mostly families with young kids so if you have kids, great place for 3-4 days getaway! Going there simply as a couple...maybe not. Or maybe, we only managed to go there at the right time :-)

Family pics :-)

Baking-time....

Morten is off playing soccer and me and the girls are baking... good for me both of them decided to sleep for an hour :-)

It was not that easy keeping the fingers off the cupcakes....!

A big surprise today was when Hannah found a DUMMY behind som toys!!! She first hid behind a chair and then concluded she already turned 3 years old and she cannot use dummy anymore, and off it went into the trash :-)

Weekend Activities

Last weekend, we spent half a day at the zoo and the afternoon playing soccer & goofing around in the park...lots of family quality time! :-)

We spent about an hour watching the monkeys followed by another hour at the elephant site. The latter included a show that was really good! Hannah was very fashinated by the big animals, and especially when they were splashing water on us :)