Birthday fun

My birthday looked to be sad the day before.
Everyone was busy, celebrating others, or doing more important things.

Half through the day I thought it would be only Sophia and I, and well, she didn't even say happy birthday!
But, ten people called, cancelled then rebooked.

We ended up having my favourite dinner, then cake!

It was amazing!

Even better is that the first proper snow came - I love snow. 2 days later and it's still snowing!
Sophia played I. The snow for the first time - she was indifferent.

Tonight two good friends arrive - cassia and Yulia!
Amazing!
I am super excited!

Tomorrow is the day

I am excited.
Tomorrow I will spend my first birthday with Sophia!
I wonder what she got me! Haha...

I guess I will make a cake, a princesstårta - princess cake, my favourite.

Other than that I think Helena is coming in the afternoon.

Soon it's time to start with Christmas candy - love it.
First of advent is on Sunday, and Friday two friends arrive for the weekend - amazing!

I give you an old picture

Fatigue

I am incredibly tired. I slept fairly good at night, and after two naps I am still exhausted. Oh well... The day was spent drinking julmust and playing with baby Lego.

The other day I ordered all my christams gifts so now that's done.

Dinner and then bed

Video Update

Here are three videos.

The first one is of Sophia 'dancing' on the potty, this was shot about a month or so ago.


The second one is of Sophia laughing when my sister is playing with her, maybe two months ago.

The last one is of Sophia walking by the table. I would have wanted her to dare to take a step 'alone', but as you can see - she refuses.

Nodding

I am about to fall asleep.
I am lying next to Sophia while she naps - for some quality mother daughter time - at least for me, and I find myself nodding off.

Why can't I be this tired at night?

My mom is sick now, although she seems better already, and is listening to her annoying cd-book. I am thinking about breaking the disc one night when she is asleep, only to blame one of the cats. We will see how doable that is.

BIG News

The big news I wanted to tell you wasn't that my mom also got sick - which she did just now, but that Sophia took her first tiny steps yesterday.

SAY WHAAAT!?

Oh yeah... she took 1½ steps.

Now you are probably thinking; Well, that's nothing.
BUT you are wrong, it is HUGE!

Gotta love that little monster!

Almost 3½ months ago

Love for cooking

I have found heaven.
A website dedicated to recipes. But not a boring, ugly, badly photographed site. An amazing one.

Punchfork - since I am using the iPad I can't link to it, but I guess it's .com

It's awesome and I have found several recipes that I will be able to cook when I come back to mexico - I.e. they do not contain spices, or ingredients not available there.

Although, I think I found a place where I could buy Greek/Turkish yoghurt. I am pretty sure I saw it in a dairy store in a forgotten mall.

I really hope so since all other yoghurt a contain sugar or sweetener - both of which we have decided we want her to stay away from on a daily basis, keeping it solely to birthdays.
Which means that our suitcases will not only be packed with the new clothes and things we got her, but also majskrokar/corn puffs (Cheetos without any flavouring), sugar free tomato purée, sugar free toddler cookies, and a few other products like these.
Sadly most things in Mexico contains sugar, including baby food, and surprisingly tomato purée. I had never thought about it until a Swedish friend of mine mentioned it when she was visiting.

So, go to punchfork, if you like cooking, and finding some inspiration, this is the best place. Each recipe is both rated on a 0-100 scale, and it can also be liked. You can search for recipes either throughthe top rated, most liked, trending or new. You can also search by publisher. The recipes you have liked are saved so that you can go back and see them - awesome.

Sophia had a HUGE break through last night - I will post about that later, need to tell Memo first!