snow angels and toothfairies

mid march and the snow is still here.  looking forward to spring and planting our garden, but still trying to have as much fun in the snow as we can.

 and zoe has lost one of her front teeth.  the other one is going soon!  watch out toothfairy, there is a whole mouth of teeth heading your way soon!

the long journey home...

well, it should not have been such a long journey.  there was a bit of a misunderstanding due to how far i was along in my pregnancy.  qatar airlines had informed us that we could fly until week 36, when we called and asked before the trip.  they did not tell us however that we would need a doctors note after week 32.  and we never thought to ask.  so they let us fly out of goa in the middle of night, but when we arrived in qatar, they would not let us on our connecting flight.  Instead after hours of back and forth arguing and heated discussions, they finally fixed visas for all of us to go out of the airport and sent me to a doctor where i had to have an ultrasound to prove i was not about to go into labor (luckily the airline paid for everything but the ultrasound, or it could have been a very expensive layover).   after being awake all night and then fighting with them all day, and then the long wait for the ultrasound, they put us up in a very nice hotel for a few hours before our next flight. i believe that i fell asleep the second my head hit the pillow and did not wake up till they started banging on our door that our ride back to the airport was there.  too bad we were too tired to appreciate the hotel, or the food, or even qatar!  cannot remember that last time i was THAT tired!

 well, once we finally could fly, we came up to a bunch of snow!  talk about weather shock!  the girls loved it though.  glad we manage to stock up on sun and beach before coming home to this cold.

zoe loves the winter...

but still hates wearing socks!  but we are somehow managing to get her to dress weather appropriate most of the time.  the school had a field trip to the ice rink, so zoe has been practicing at home.  it was her first time ever ice skating, and it has been reported that she did really well.  she absolutely loved it.  she really wants to go back to the rink, but none of us can skate, so we keep trying to distract her with other things.  bad parents!

 she made us a snow heart...

 uh, oh, look what glitter did to my winter gloves!  oops!  naughty dog.

the winter feeling...

the snow is falling. everything is white, and the girls are loving it.  sledding and snowball fights abound.  but makes us look forward to some warm days on a beach in india.

winter came early...

what happened to fall, winter is already here! boo hoo.  but zoe was happy to see snow!

 

then we headed to the swimhall, but it was closed for kids today, so we finally tried uggla baddet in perstorp wasn´t bad, but zoe likes the bigger slide in tyringe better.

back in cold, cold sweden

well, well, well, after a long flight, and we accidently leaving thomas´ laptop on the plane, and then having to wait hours for them to bring it down to us in the terminal, we made it back to swedish  soil.  big hugs to farmor who picked us up and then a stop at the hospital to hug farfar, recovering from his surgery, and then it was back to to bjärred for a nap.  but wait what is that?!?!  it is snowing!  oh man.  so much for coming home to the lovely swedish springtime. :)

farmor had an utställning på ottopersgård this weekend and she was even helping kids to make there own.  a pretty cool idea.  we stopped by to show our support.  pretty cool farmor.

zoe even got to try her hand at it.  here she is showing off her new mug, pretty proud.  she is excited for farmor the glaze and burn it. 

then it was back home to röke where the girls got there mormor snuggles on after five months. 

feels good to be home, but missing india already.

what? more snow?

so what else to do, then play in it!




and we say thank you to bonita for the wonderful snowy escort!

the snow is not going anywhere, so might as well in enjoy with...

a walk to the forest during sunset...
a crazy sledding ride being pulled by your best friend, even when she makes you hit a bump...
and land on your face in the snow...
so that you scream bloody murder for all of 5 seconds...
then when those five seconds are up, it high times again being pulled on the sled!
or you could enjoy the snow in a warm cozy stoller, gliding over the ice and snow like a sleigh...
or not....
but definitely one of the best ways to enjoy the powdery white stuff that just won't go away, is to make super duper spectacular snow angels...
like these ones that got four thumbs up!
and don't for get the great hairstyles you get after wearing your tuch outside all day!
hope everyone is enjoying their weather, whatver they may have!

eijla's first snow

though eijla was born on a very snowy day. she has never really experienced snow first hand, until today. here are my snow babies...
she discovered quite quickly it is fun to eat snow...
though i think the cold surprised her a bit. but after a couple of funny faces, she was back to licking everything snowy she could.
super happy because she figured out that she could put both her hands in the snow and lick them to her hearts content.

snow!

we picked the right winter to stay home.
as you can see on previous posts we have a bit of snow.
normally in this part of sweden the snow aint stayen. but right now we have almost half a meter of snow (about 2 feet, translated to those strange people who messure in that strange way) 2 months and counting...
zoe loves it and we try to go out playing almost every day.

neighbor's snowy photoshoot

we are leaving tyringe today, but before heading out of town, we had a bit of a snowy day photoshoot with the neighbors. linus was in a bit of a silly mood so it was basically impossible to get any normal shots of him, but at least his unique character really comes out in the shots that i did manage to get. here a a few shots i thought turned out well. the lighting was a bit difficult for me to work with, but i think i managed to get a somewhat good balance of light and color, though some of the exposures were a bit off.

snow and saying bye to maya

a bit of snow on the ground, so pappa and zoe hit the hills. that is right, sledding season is here. this really the first year that zoe has been sledding as we are usually away in the coldest months. she seems to be enjoying it, but she is a bit of a chicken. though she suddenly becomes very brave when sledding with our neighbor, ida.

also managed to get this shot of her today which i thought was quite cute.

then maya and monica came over for one last ficka before we head to thailand. we are really going to miss them.

zoe goes sledding

we usually seem to manage to get away every winter before the snow hits, but we didn´t this year. so zoe finally got to use the sled our neighbor dorthea gave us (it was full of mushrooms she picked in the forest, yum) last year. here she is going down the hill with pappa for the first time...
it was quite the day for photographs, even bonita was in the mood for posing, when thomas got a shot. i love having such a huge beatiful forest as a neighbor.

and the obligitory family shot...finally getting my fair share of them.