Easy dinner

When I have either time or creativity to cook something "fun" I make oven baked chicken with potatoes and carrots and a Greek yogurt sauce.

Sophia and I Love it.

Cookie

Sophia wanted to have chocolate cookies.
I grew tired of the chocolate chip ones I sell so I decided to try another kind.

The Swedish check board cookies.

Starting

Nowadays in Sweden they recommend you to start putting your baby on the potty/toilet at around 10 months in order for them to get used to it.
The head psychologist said that they have taken these measures since, in general, children nowadays start potty training too late and become dry much later than necessary.

Anywho, I also put Sophia on the potty early - not to take the diaper off at 9 months, but to make sure they are used to it and comfortable using it.

Let's see how it goes with a boy.

Great New Things

Sophia's first two weeks went great (at the school).
She seems to have integrated well in her group and likes the teachers.

Life moves fast and I have been trying to start some new routine, find some inspiration and just live - for these past weeks. Find my place.

It's midnight and the baby woke up.

I will write tomorrow.

👍💜

Annoying

I am a bit annoyed at the moment.
So I will not write much here, becuse then all you get is negative posts.

But I will say.

Communication, communication, communication.

Something lacking here. I am glad that Memo has learnt it is the way to go, what ever problems we have at least we communicate.

Lunch Box Ideas

So, coming from a school lunch background - never had a lunch box in my life, with the exception of when the lunch ladies were on a strike.

Below is a list I have made of options to send with her as lunch.

Hopefully she likes the options.

No care in the world

I love that Sophia doesn't care that Batman and blue is "supposed to" be for boys. She chose color and cartoon herself - stickers for her school stuff

Monday

The weekend was tough - alone with the kids.
Leon got two new teeth and wants to eat everything - the broom, Memo's bike tires, Sophia's tiny toys plastic bags - he also wants to be everywhere.
Forgot about this part. It is fun, but tiring.

Today we bought the last supplies for Sophia's school.
For me it is pretty weird to have to buy these things - they would all be included in the price of free schooling in Sweden, and I would have assumes paying a fortune every year that it would be here too. But no.

Oh well...

Here it is.

Friday

Friday, we will take it easy.
Memo is leaving for the weekend and I have 0 plans. Not so much because I don't want to, but because the kids are a handful right now and I will be alone.

Need to save energy.

So far we will:
Take sophia to Ice skating tomorrow.
Maybe meet a friend or two.
Hopefully go to the library - both can play freely.

Europe

I haven't been back to Europe since I came back from my stay in January 2013.
Two - basically three long years are about to end.

On November 26th we will finally be back.
First Spain, Malaga to see my dad and then Sweden bound.

Life is good. Life is good.

New shoes

We went shoe shopping

The baby wants to start walking and Sophia for a new pair from the sales section

HUGE news coming this afternoon.

I did not forget

I did not forget about you and the news about Sophia.
I have just been busy, Leon's two upper teeth are finally breaking through the skin - they have been laying there, hurting him for about two weeks now.

Oh well, it should be over in a few days now.

Anywho, so the news about Sophia is that she will be bumped up a grade.
I am having mixed feelings throwing her into a group of older children - but everyone is telling me it will be fine - so fine it will be.

We will have to help her a bit more, give her more of our time to help her catch up, and keep up.

Now, back go binge watching Masterchef Australia.
Just got back from the gym and had a quick avocado toast dinner.

Great busy day

The daysl started out great at Sophia's new school.
More about that later today.

It was an early appointment and we then went to pick up Memo's parents cleaner that is going to help me put this week since they went to the beach.

Great!!!
I might actually have time for something but house work and the kids.

We then went back to Providencia to the Swedish consulate where we registered the little rugrat as a Swedish citizen.
A great addition to the Swedish population, if you ask me.

We celebrated with a magical meatball and mashed potato lunch.

Now, try to get the boy to sleep.

Life Decisions

We have a few exciting things coming up, tomorrow we have an appointment at Sophia's new school - a follow up of last week, and hopefully I can tell you what it's about later in the afternoon.

Another big thing that is comnig up should be decided on Wednesday, and I will definetly let you know as soon as that's done.

And then of course some news on the business project, we had a sort of investors presentation today, it was successful. It was necessary for us to get this one person on our side on order to facilitate the success.

Contacts and investment - the best help you can get.

Go us.

Below you can read about our summer adventures. Check the posts out.

Disney On Ice

Guachimontes

Vallarta

I give you a couple of pictures from April - Friends from work

Guachimontones

We took a half day trip to Guachimontones, I will not attempt an explenation, here comes what Wikipedia says (below pictures):

Los Guachimontones (alternatively Huachimontones) is a prehispanic archaeological site near the Mexicantown of Teuchitlán in the state of Jalisco about an hour west of Guadalajara. It is the major site of the so-calledTeuchitlan tradition,^[1] a complex society that existed from as early as 300 BCE until perhaps 900 CE.
The dominant features at los Guachimontones are circular stepped pyramids in the middle of circular building complexes. The 60-foot (18 m) tall pyramid at Circle 2 has 13 high steps leading to an upper level, which was then topped with another 4 high steps. A post hole was located at the very highest level, most likely for Voladorceremonies.^[1] The pyramids may also have supported small temples.
The word Teuchitlán is derived from Teotzitlán or Teutzitlán interpreted as "place dedicated to the divine", "place of the God Tenoch " or "place dedicated to the revered God".^[2]Possibly the city foundation goes back to the Aztecs, which erected it on a hill called Huachimontón, north of its current location.^[2] It was founded by members of Nahuatlacas groups that developed central Mexico during the postclassical period, however it is known that buildings at Teuchitlán were built prior to such development. The creative culture that constructed "'Guachimontones"' is called Teuchitlan tradition, its apogee was between 200 and 400 CE, disappearing in about 900 CE, possibly before the arrival of the Anahuaca colonists.

Football Field

Look like a Princess 

Frozen On Ice - Disney On Ice

Today Sophia was in heaven.

The picture quality is not the best, since I used my phone, but you get an idea of what she/we experienced.

Puerto Vallarta July 2015