On Sunday 7 June little miss Orla was 1! Can't believe how time flies. Haven't written on the blogg since March either....we've been busy I guess!
After spending March in Sweden with lots of things going on we had mormor to stay with us for 4 weeks in April. This was lovely and we had lots of help. I also started working 3 days a week from home, contracting for one of the websites I worked for before. Orla also started at her new dagmamma that we thankfully found very last minute. She lives 10 doors down the road, her name is Linda and she has worked with kids for 18 years. She runs it all with one of her four daughters called Stacey. We had a few tears the first few days, then she was fine and now she loves it. Lovely boys and girls to play with, outings to to Panda, Treasure Island and the miniture railway and more. They also have a great big garden out the back. So all of this fell in to place during April. We also managed a visit to Sissinghurst with Farmor Lynn, again really nice. And we took farfar along as well to Sara Raven's garden - very nice too! We also had a lovely bluebell walk and went up to London, stayed with Ruth, Chris and Millie. Visited Hampton Court via a boat trip on the river and made it up to pub club with work at London Bridge. So all in all a fantastic April!
May has come and gone too...we've had 2 bank holiday Mondays so some extra days off. After mum went my brother Pelle, Sofia and baby Julia came for a few days. They went around visiting Lewes, Battle, Sissinghurst and more while we were at work and we went for a nice walk and we went to the new art gallery, lovely and just down the road. Will have to return with details of May!
On June 4 we flew over to Sweden. Went for breakfast at Birgit's Friday am to see Pernilla and family who were there. Then we had Sara and Tommy's wedding! All went well, lovely ceremony and a good party with yummy food. They looked fantastic and were very happy with their day. Congratulations again! On the Saturday we managed a visit to Knalleland for some shopping with Pernilla and Thomas. Town was closed as it was Sweden's national day. In the evening the four of us went down to Pelle's for their housewarming party. Great food and a good evening including a session with the "basement band"! Got home at 2.30am so were a bit tired for miss Orla's first birthday. We still celebrated in style! Sang for her around 8.30am with Nora, Ella and Simon who had stayed the night at mum and dad's. Got her first few pressies. Then we went out to Faster's summer house for lunch before the party at 1.30pm. We counted 43 people! 15 of them were kids! They were very happy running around, discovering the loft etc. Had some cake etc too. The weather held out/up so we could be outside too. Lots of lovely pressies and great to see everyone so a happy girl! Monday we flew back after seeing Annacarin for a quick coffee at home.
The flight and drive home went well. We are tired but fine. Have suffered two rounds of cold in May though so have been better...hoping the end is coming. Just saw Orla with a runny nose so I hope she hasn't got another round too...today we are having pics of the flat done ahead of renting it out! Feels strange but good! And on Friday we are off to London to get Orla's Aussie passport. And on Thursday we are catching up with Lindsay, Lucas, Jessica and Scarlett - 1 year on!
Orla is walking, we put the 18th of May as a bit of a first...it was the first time we saw it happen properly with a few steps in a row. She's been getting up for ages before then and crawling too. She has 6 teeth and is around 10kgs. Hope to weigh and measure her again soon for the books. A bit more hair and full of beans, busy investigating everything and copying what we do. Still loving her food and talks a lot...some swedish words and some english and a lot of Orla language!
Will try to write a bit more very soon! Pics in the web album!
Take care for now!
Kram from us
