The golf career is launched

Hugo has been nagging us to get to borrow our golf clubs. We've been to a minigolf course a few times now (it all started during the trip to Phuket) and he was enjoying it so much so we decided to let him have a go for real. He is now enrolled for down at the closest Kindergolf centre (down at United so very close) to take golf lessons once a week. It all came with a golf attire so now he is equipped with tartan shorts, a white collared T-shirt and a cap with Kindergolf's logo. We also got him a small putter to practice with at home so he doesn't go looking for our clubs.


Picture is still with daddy's putter. Hugo's is small and blue (his favourite colour, as he has mentioned about a hundred times) and very cute. Now he also wants a hole. We're trying to convince him that it would be highly unpopular with the people owning the building if we were to make a hole in the floor.

Hugo har tjatat om att han vill spela golf en längre tid och speciellt enträget sen vi provade mini-golf på semestern i Phuket. Istället för att han ska gå till förrådet och dra fram våra klubbor så tog vi med honom på en provlektion på barngolfskolan i närmaste shopping centret. Han tyckte det var jättekul så nu ska han få börja gå golfskola en gång i veckan. Han fick en liten golfskoleuniform på skolan, med rutiga byxor, vit pikétröja och keps med Kindergolfs logga på, och så har vi skaffat honom en liten putter att öva med hemma så vi får ha våra klubbor i fred. nu vill han bara ha ett hål. Han har med näppe accepterat att vi faktiskt inte kan göra ett hål i golvet åt honom.

Korpslingan - progress report

Today, I took some time off during lunch and went down to Segersäng to sneak a peek at the house. It was erected on Jan 12th, and there is good progress. They were finishing off the concrete floors (on which they will put the wooden flooring) on the ground floor when I came there, and started putting in the floor heating in the upstairs bathroom. I took lots of pictures that will be made available later, but here's a teaser.

To the left of the house you can see the carport and to the right is the small shed (for lack of better term right now). On the ground floor, the kitchen is to the left of the front door, and the living room is to the right.

Dagen bjöd på lunchfärd till Segersäng för att beskåda ägorna. Huset restes 12 januari, och det verkar som arbetet rullar på bra. De slutförde betonggolvet på markplan när jag kom dit, och satte igång med golvvärmen i badrummet på övervåningen. Givetvis tog jag en hel del bilder, som kommer upp senare men ovan kan ni se en liten försmak.

Till vänster i bild ligger carporten och till höger om huset syns skjulet/friggan/vad-det-nu-ska-kallas. Till vänster om entrédörren ligger köket och till höger är vardagsrummet.

Adam six months

Adam was celebrating turning six months with a tooth breaking through (painful), being 8,6 kg and 73 cm tall. He is now both heavier and taller than his brother at the same age.

He is working very hard on sitting up, has just discovered the fun of balls, even if they tend to run away from him, but the best amusement of all times is still his big brother. Food is also fun (hence the weight gain) and he eats loads, so we're finding ourselves very quickly weaning him off milk as only food and going into solids. So far mostly veggies and baby rice ceral but also some chicken, and he tried salmon the other day. And by the way, whoever said that an evening bath would calm babies? Not so much. Lots of splashing and water all over the bathroom floor more likely.

Adam har fyllt "halvår" och har nu gått om storebrorsan vad gäller både vikt och längd. Han äter så det förslår och gillar det mesta. Mest grönsaker men också lite kyckling och fisk. Roligast för tillfället är att öva på att sitta och så har han upptäckt bollar (även om de lätt försvinner från honom) men bäst av allt är fortfarande storebror. Och kvällsbad med storebror är höjden av lycka. Totalt frispel och vatten över hela badrummet.

Pictures from January

There are new pages out with pictures from January. Mostly from Volvo Ocean Race and our trip to Phuket over Chinese New Year (end of the year of the Rat and start of the year of the Ox; Adam is a Rat, Cissi is an Ox, Hugo a Rooster and Gustaf a Dog by the way).

Hugo now wants to go back to Thailand. There seems to be a preference for Australia still, as he wanted to move there after our vacation in Margaret River/Perth. He only wanted to have more holiday in Thailand.


We forgot to mention that we've been back at the fire station again. Hugo loved it as usual and this time Adam seemed to enjoy it as well.

A comment on the last post. Hugo was not only confused with kids speaking Swedish all around, but also that not all kids speak English. Very annoying when there are potential friends who speak neither...