Playing in the snow

Don't know what to think of this new year yet. So far it's been a bit up and down. It's been very cold too.

Since I hadn't taken W out in like over a week or so to play I decided to take him to the park even though it was like -15°C (that's 5°F for all of you who know that scale better). I could not feel my toes when we got back in and W had deliciously red cheeks. We stayed out for like 15 minutes all in all and I swear it took longer getting dresses and undressed before and after. That's life with a toddler.

I finally booked mine and W's tickets to Sweden this week too. We're leaving here on January 29th and land there on January 30th and we go back on February 9th so mark your calendars and send me your requests for days. I'll be making our schedule shortly and I would really like to squeeze as many of my lovely friends in there as possible.

I'll leave you with a browsing tip and an old photo of W from last winter since I didn't have any recent ones of him sitting in snow.

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I was on a play date today with my friends and fellow Swedes. It was very nice as usual and I'm really happy to have them here. I've known them for a little over a year now and their kids are amazing and I love them and they love mine. There is something overwhelming to me about the feeling that comes over me when other people love my child. It's a mixture of pride, love and happiness and it just fills me so completely. I love my child so much and to see other people love him feels like confirmation that he's great and fantastic and amazing and it makes me happy to know that other people see it.

W is pretty mellow when he plays with other kids, he's not really the hitting or biting kind with other kids. He keeps that for me (oh joy). He's not the best at sharing but he does occasionally give toys to the other kids he plays with and he doesn't really mind other kids snatching toys out of his hands. He's also very vocal right now, picking up new words left, right and center. He also knows all the animal sounds like I think I've mentioned before here.

It's always good hanging out with other Swedes, we can bitch about how everything is better in Sweden and our kids actually get to hear real Swedish being spoken, not just what I say to him which is pretty limited to "in the mouth", "NOT in the mouth", "NO don't do that", "Very good, you're so smart" and "Let's change your diaper".

Now I'm going to stop avoiding my Wii fit and try to get in shape.