A happy time with grandparents

Farmor and Farfar stayed with us for 3 weeks. A fantastic time with full exposure of Norrlandska, beautiful clothes from Aunt Annelie, a lot of picture showing and games from Farfar!

Most of the time Felicia has been sweet and happy, though one time she gave farmor a hard time when Jenny went to Yoga. This little girl defitely get smarter and smarter. We all agree that she actually knows much more than we thought. She knows when to scream and when to tease us with a charming smile. Hm... more strategies need to be implemented.

First time to try solid food

Grandparents brought Swedish porridge, and this is how it looked like when we tried with Felicia for the first time. A little bit suspicious in the beginning, but soon she started to scream for more! It took her 5 minutes to learn to swollow other food than milk, and now she is so good at swollowing and eating food in spoon. We also tried a little bit of baby juice so she started to learn how to eat by bottle. In the beginning it was not easy for her to suck, she would rather hold the bottle herself and play with it a little bit, which made her quite happy though :-))

I can drink by myself!

New favorite snack

Starting from 4 months, Felicia found out only tasting the thumb was a little bit boring, so she started to explore on her own cute toes, and obviously that was an amazing findout. Now every time we put her down on the diaper table or the bed, she would immediately drag her toes into the mouth and start to "guaji guaji.....".... Yummy yummy!

Time Flies!

Since our friend has been complaining that there are too few pictures. Here I posted some more!!

From new born to the latest. What a big difference in 4 months! Seeing the growth of a baby really make us feel how time flies!

Felicia's 1st picture

A happy little girl now. Smiling everyday teasing us :-)

Cute Feet Family 2008. Unfortunately the big cute feet were cut :-) , but the little ones are here :-)

To sleep or not to sleep. That's the question

Our lovely daughter is a very energetic little girl. This is most obvious after the 8PM bath when it should be time to sleep. Apparently it is much more fun to play with mother and father than trying to fall asleep. After some post-bath exciting games like bed spinning, handkerchief peek-a-poo, and Swedish lessons (trying to sound like father) it is impossible to get the little baby sleepy. Fortunately there is always the Beatles. We find that she loves to dance with beatles in Papa's arms (which is Papa's favorite as well). Usually it takes 5-6 songs then she would have leaned her head on papa's chest and stayed deeply asleep with a smile.

Sometimes even Beatles does not work, another trick (or, maybe we should say a "method") which turned out to be very efficient, is to put her into the stroller, put on the mosquito net, and take her out for a walk in the garden, even though it is dark outside. The fresh air, and the beautiful frog melody in the lake are obviously very tranquilizing, it never takes more than half a lap before she falls asleep.

Until that moment, we could finally give a relieve breath, and smile to each other and rush home. Now it's time for an episode of "Apprentice"! Yeah!

Big Milestone for Turning Over

Today Felicia officially presented her skill in flipping over herself without any external help. In the morning, I left her lying in bed and went to get a towel to clean her hand. When I came back after just 5 seconds, she was lying in her stomach with 2 arms supporting her upper body, still a little bit shaky -- in Yoga the "cat style". I flipped her over and just 2 minutes later, she did it again! Mmmm... great baby! but at the same time it raised a big alarm "you better watch out, I can flip all over till the end of the bed.... " I think we soon need to build some kind of "great wall" in bed for safety reason :-)

After a while, when the Ayi was doing cleaning, I asked her to watch out Felicia for a second. Not surprisingly, I heard a scream from the bedroom "She is turning over by herself!!!" haha! Now she can not stop it now. It must be a brand new wonderful world from her new perspective!

Kangaroo Baby

It has been such lovely weather during the later part of Beijing Olympics and especially the last weekend. We don't know if it is due to the odd/even numberplate day, the stop of construction work, or the closing down of industries within Beijing. Nevertheless - when the weather is like this, Beijing is heaven on Earth and we really hope it can continue.

This Sunday we spent the afternoon in Chaoyang Park together with Aileen, Zhang Tao, and their daughter XiaoXiao. Perfect temperature, blue sky, and good company. What more is there to ask of life? Felicia was as always falling asleep the moment we put her in the trolley, but after a while she woke up, feeling very alert. In order for her to watch the lake with the beautiful lotus flowers we put her into the carriage belt. She looked like a small little kangaroo baby.

When the sun started to set we put the now sleeping beauty into the trolley and went shopping in Solana. Jenny did not find anything while Felicia and Anders were enjoying the outdoor concert and buying passion fruit juice from Yunnan (a new favourite), and of course a cup of Mocca. After Jenny's unfruitful shopping we went to a nice Chinese restaurant where we could eat outdoors. It was very nice and Felicia was sleeping all of the time (a lot of sleep - something she compensated around 3AM when mother had a hard time convincing her that it was not the proper time for a walk in the garden).