so now we are back in sweden, and i have been too sick to even sit at a computer and update until now. so time for a little backtracking. one of the last items on our things to do list before we left was to hit the weekend market in bangkok. it is crazy big. they sell everything. you would almost think we bought everything. arriving in bangkok we had 20 kilos, flying out we had nearly 80! one of my favorite items i picked up was a zoe monster, as you can see she just fit in my bag. hahaha.
beside the market is a park. i had to put this shot in because it still difficult for me to believe that my darling, loveable, little offspring is such an avid meat eater.
zoe really enjoyed the tuktuks of bankgko. they are little car like vehicles that are actually more like a motorized tricycle, they manage to get through all the horrendous traffic jams in bkk. we had to let zoe ride a couple of times, here is here and papa on her first ever tuktuk adventure.
and here i believe we have the one and only family photo from the entire trip. after losing the majority of my fotos on that crashed harddisk (i am still recovering from the shock and horror of it all), i have realized we lost alot of memories, but at least we still have them in our heads, until dementia starts setting in anyway.
we walked a lot in bangkok. we walked here, and we walked there, heck, we walked just about everywhere. and zoe is getting big. she weighs a lot, and carrying her on our shoulders and in her sling can only go for so long til your shoulders and back start to ache, but we finally came up with a good solution, we emptied out the backpack we keep all of her stuff in and stuck her in it instead. she loved it, and was a bit easier to carry her, though when we had done too much shopping we had to take her out and put the stuff in.
as per tradition, every year we do a trip, every year we get a haircut. we waited really till the end this time, but we got it in. here is zoe being a pretty good girl getting her 2nd ever haircut.
and then it was time to say good bye to asia, but it was a long trip home, including a 12 hour layeover in dussledorf. but we managed to find some fairly comfortable couches.
i am under the impression that she is not blinking but actually closed her eyes on purpose in this shot because i said in the shot before that i thought i had blinked. kids are crazy mimics, be careful what you do around them, they copy EVERYTHING: scary.
then there was the "elders" of the family. the original "ugly" brother, "fat" brother, "mother" brother, "female" brother, "geeky" brother, and "bald" brother. (i keep getting the names messed up cause it seems like we are all getting old, fat, bald, geeky, and ugly, but luckily not too many of us are turning more female. ha ha).
zoe had so much fun in utah with her five crazy cousins, but i think that liz won a place in her heart forever when she made her the purple and sparkly skirt. liz, you are a sewing magician!
the trip to the states was a wonderful trip, it was so fun to see everyone and catch up. as an added bonus zoe's verbal english grew by leaps and bounds. she has always understood english fine, but not talked it so much. however, now she is answering me back with full english sentences, i am so proud of my little zoe monster!
first it was off to the annermalm's for a yummy fika and a bit of snuggles...
then we took farmor and farfar for their first trip in our new luxury van... think farfar really enjoyed watching ice age with zoe!
then it was time for our very first family foto of four. not easy with a screaming newborn and a wired 3.5 year old!
well, here you have it, a very big bellied family. i am so much bigger than i was with zoe, that i am really hoping i do not go over like i did with her. they might have to take me to the hospital in a lorry if i get any bigger!
zoe could not wait and had to start decorating before the branches were looking somewhat spread out, so the tree is a bit of a funny one, but ours all the same.
and of course the crowning moment when zoe got to put the star on the top of the tree. amazingly she still remembers doing that from last year too!
then we tried to get a family shot but the zoe monster and the furry beast were not so cooperative. Happy Holidays!
beside the market is a park. i had to put this shot in because it still difficult for me to believe that my darling, loveable, little offspring is such an avid meat eater.
zoe really enjoyed the tuktuks of bankgko. they are little car like vehicles that are actually more like a motorized tricycle, they manage to get through all the horrendous traffic jams in bkk. we had to let zoe ride a couple of times, here is here and papa on her first ever tuktuk adventure.
and here i believe we have the one and only family photo from the entire trip. after losing the majority of my fotos on that crashed harddisk (i am still recovering from the shock and horror of it all), i have realized we lost alot of memories, but at least we still have them in our heads, until dementia starts setting in anyway.
we walked a lot in bangkok. we walked here, and we walked there, heck, we walked just about everywhere. and zoe is getting big. she weighs a lot, and carrying her on our shoulders and in her sling can only go for so long til your shoulders and back start to ache, but we finally came up with a good solution, we emptied out the backpack we keep all of her stuff in and stuck her in it instead. she loved it, and was a bit easier to carry her, though when we had done too much shopping we had to take her out and put the stuff in.
as per tradition, every year we do a trip, every year we get a haircut. we waited really till the end this time, but we got it in. here is zoe being a pretty good girl getting her 2nd ever haircut.
and then it was time to say good bye to asia, but it was a long trip home, including a 12 hour layeover in dussledorf. but we managed to find some fairly comfortable couches.
then ended the day with a bit of a party saying good bye to the dive staff,which involved sampling many the crazy local moonshine varieties, can't say we will do that again! now we are staying at a super fancy hotel, kungkungen, in one of my dream dive destinations. yipee!
