LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGTHER

Wonderful feature - this makes it even more fun!

Unfortunately the sequence is filmed from the wrong angle so it might be hard to see, but just tilt your head. If anyone know how to get it in the right position, let me know!

BACK IN JULY...

GWB rules! Hope I can make it for Canada Cup, and hope GWB will participate! From left, Linda, Marie, Alie, Jo, myself and Lourdes. Great food, great company!

Miss you lots!

PAIN! My golden high heel shoes are gorgeous looking at, not to walk in....

As it has been so long since I posted stuff on the blog, and I wanted to share some photos with you from my going away party with the girls back in July. We had dinner at this great restaurant, which I unfortunately forgot the name of (if anyone reads this and remembers, please let me know) and after we joined Jo's friend at a private club for some drinks (awful ones, by the way) before heading out to Brant House for some clubbing. There of the look of my feet on the picture above:-)

OK..LET'S GO!

We really miss not having a bath tub, but V has adapted just fine to the shower, and it is possible to splash around in this one too...

Food......hmmmm, yummie!

Taking care of your teeth is important

Ok it's been a while, but here we go again! Let's start you all off with another V bonanza. She has grown and is now a little determined lady, with an increasing vocabulary. Favourite word for the moment beeing is "bajs!" (= poo) and to my great dislike "pappa" (=daddy).

What else - well we are back in normal life, I'm back @work and we are like any other couple with kids, trying balance work & family time. It's hard and we are constantly haunted by a bad consious, spending too little time with V.

....IT'S BEEN A WHILE

.... BUT NOW I'M BACK IN BUSINESS!

Sorry folks for not keeping you posted with what's been happening in Sweden - but the simple explanation is that I've been disconnected from the cyberspace during the last couple of months ( staying at different places, no internet access and no camera (got stolen this summer)....BUT now we've moved back into our apartment, Internet is up & running and we bought a new camera yesterday - so let's BLOG!

HAPPY CANADA DAY

Julia (a friend of Marie's visiting for a couple of days), Marie & Linda.

Funny how the girls always end up in the kitchen and the guys out in the balcony by the BBQ.....

Mr. BBQ in action.

M, V and Brett on the balcony. Brett and V is giving eachother a High Five!

Last Sunday, July 1, it was Canada Day, which is to compare with Swedish National Day or 4th of July. Brett and Linda had invited us over to their place for some BBQ and later on watching the fireworks at Ontario Place from their balcony. A very nice evening which went on til very late. Came home close to 2.30 am! We got started playing our music favouties at YouTube - amazing what you actually can find there.

Tip of the day; if you have not seen the movie Music & Lyrics and Hugh Grant as an 80's Ex-popstar, check out "POP goes my heart". It's on YouTube....

LITTLE MISS JAPANESE

Ordered Japanese Take out from our neighbourhood favourite, SONO, the other day and V is handling the sticks just fine. Well, it takes some practice to be able to eat with them, and one might as well start early.

GARY & DEBBIE VISITING

Börje Salming, the only Swede that has made it into the Hockey Hall of Fame so far....

Gary & Debbie

Splash! V having a great time getting herself and everyone around the CN Tower fontain wet!

V & DAD

A really great picture of V and her father taken outside CN Tower waiting for our visitors Gary & Debbie while they were up in the Tower.

M & V in front of the CN Tower.

During the past weekend we have had our friends Gary & Debbie here visiting. Gary was here only a week and a half ago, but apparently he just can't get enough of Canada:-). They came late Friday night, and on Saturday we did some sightseeing incl. The Beaches and CN Tower. On Sunday we had Brunch downtown before heading to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

BARNSÅNGEN @ RIVERDALE FARM

And another Bääää....at least if you listen to V:-)

A real life Bäääää

V in the front and back on the bench, resting while their kids go wild among the animals, are from left: Christel, Cia, Lena's oldest daughter (who I don't remember the name of.... shame on me) and Lena, who hosted the fika afterwards in their lovely house in Cabbagetown.

Since Barnsången officially ended on June 14, some of the moms generously offered that we all meet at their home instead, and last Thursday we all headed out for Riverdale Farm with following fika at Lena's house.

Riverdale Farm is a beautiful farm downtown Toronto in a park like surrounding. There you'll find pigs, horses, cows, sheeps, rabbits, ginuea pigs, chickens etc etc. Very fun place to take the children to, and it's for free!

HEJA SVERIGE

V in her hot, red & yellow ride:-) - V is not even a Swedish Citizen yet, but she wears the blue and yellow with pride!

...MORE FOR SALE

Armchair

Black panel curtains .... please observe, the little cutie is not for SALE!:-)

European Glass style Computer desk, desk lamp and office chair

FURNITURES & CURTAINS FOR SALE !

The black panel curtains with hanging devices

The book cases ... not so well organized because of a little someone:-)

The European beige panel curtains with hanging devices

The bed and a side table

With only one more week to go here in Toronto before moving back home to Sweden, there's tons of stuff to take care of. One thing is to sell off some furnitures, and fortunately it seems like our landlord might be interested....Sooooo as I, for some reason, kept getting delivery failures of the pictures via e-mail, I decided to post the stuff for sale on my blog and give Joe the link so he can view it online instead.

So unless, you're in the market for some furnitures I suggest you skip this part:-)

VINE & DINE SAAB EVENT

The end of the about 1,5 km long trail where we ate and drank us more than full..... Saabs, Wine and Food - 3 good things in life:-)

M and V taking a break along the trail.

Every year two Saab Dealers in the Niagara-region sponsor this fine event at Vineland Winery. Restaurants and other Winerys in the region attend and present their merchandises. Very good food, lots of wines (all kinds) and really nice weather made this an amazing event!

CURLED UP

V's preferred sleeping position......all curled up. Doesn't look very comfy, but apparently it is.

SPLASH!

With the heat around here in T.O. at summertime a pool in the backyard is a must and in the absence of an adultsized one we bought this for V - which as seen was highly appreciated by the young lady !

AMERICAN VISIT

Freestanding! V is now so stable that she gets up from the floor and stands on her own without any problem at all. Now it's just a mental barrier that has to be passed before taking the first step without any help.

And Nope, I have not cut her hair, it's just all up in a "Svinrygg" (don't know the word for that in english - kind of a bun, but twisted...), fastened with hair clips. If you know the proper word for Svinrygg, please leave a comment:-)

Sarah's now world famous Philadelphia Ice Cream. Sooooo good!

Cheers! Gary, me, V and Sarah toasting for the superb food grillmaster Magnus had prepared on the BBQ.

Had our dear friend Gary for a short visit between Wednesday and Thursday last week. The weather was excellent so of course we did some BBQ-ing and had dinner outside. Gary liked T.O so much that he's coming back next weekend with his girlfriend.

BBQ-ing AMONG THE HIGH RISES

It has been many hours of walking with Sarah here... and this is how V coop with it:-)

V & Gwen having fun with the Smörgårsrånbox

The Swedish Chef in action...:-)

Did some BBQ-ing at Martin & Gwen's place Downtown by the Waterfront last Sunday. They have an awesome BBQ Patio & Swimming Pool area in the house.

ANOTHER NIAGARA FALLS VISIT...

I think I've been to the Falls about 10 times now, but it is still as beautiful....

Here you go dear readers - a Niagara Falls Bonanza!

ME & BÄÄÄ

V and Bäää at the Niagara-On-The-Lake Saab Test Drive event last weekend. The picture is taken by M's colleague Brian, and I have to say it's an amazing picture.

Once again it has been too long since the last update... Sorry! I know I have a faithful crowd out there ( my mom:-)) who checks the blog every day for new V pics, but somehow the days just fly and I don't get the new pictures out there.

Anyways, here in Toronto it is soooo hot at the moment. We've had 3 weeks in a row with temperatures around the 30's and bright sun. It's a little too hot for my taste.

Sarah is just staying for one more day and the three weeks she's been here has just gone by in a flash.

V & SARAH

V showing off her two brand new front teeth in a big smile:-). She looks a little like Thore Skogman, but I hope that will correct itself further on. So lucky we now have a dentist in the family:-). She now has four teeth fully out and two more in the upper jaw on the way.

V and Sarah out in the backyard, playing on the very day Sarah arrived.

Smart girls!

Maybe a bit premature.... they are actually reading M's old High school book of Physics.

Last Tuesday, Sarah Andrén came to visit us for three weeks. Sarah is from Åmål, and a friend of the family back home. She's here to get a chance to practice some English and to do some "Au-Pairing". V and Sarah gets along just fine, and now M and I can enjoy some evenings out on our own.

VOV!

Mr. Raccoon relaxing at the patio in the sun. He is not afraid of humans, and reluctantly moving away when we are about to go out on "our" patio

One of "our " groundhogs, eating my flowers....

We have got a couple of new pets, and V thinks they are dogs... at least she says Vov, Vov, Vov! as soon as she sees them in the backyard. It's Mr. Raccoon, who lives under our patio and Mr/Mrs. Groundhogs. Up til today I thought we only had one groundhog in the backyard, but then I saw three at the same time! It's crazy back there... just like Zoo!

MORE V!

Her beautiful blue eyes. I could kill to get eye lashes like her's:-)

Just a picture to show you how long her hair actually has gotten.

Had to buy V a hairband to keep the hair from her face - and she looks so cute! It was a struggle to keep it on, but somehow she accepted it when we put it on directly in the morning when dressing her.

V BONANZA!

With the two most precious things in V's life (besides mom and dad of course) - Bääää & the walking stroller
Out walking in the grass. She has no problem what so ever to walk with her walking stroller - she almost runs after it!

Summer girl

SORRY FOLKS!

Somehow I just don't seem to have the time anylonger to be as active and post as many pictures as before ! I have gotten lots of complaints from my faithful readers back home - most of all from my mom, who misses to see new pictures of V. I'm sorry, I'll try to keep it up.

So enjoy! Here's a V bonanza!