A Nice Family Weekend

As the weekend comes to a close, we all feel pretty good. It was a good family weekend. Yesterday, we visited the cities of Landskrona and Helsingborg. Landskrona had an old citadel (above) that we toured the grounds of (although it was pretty chilly!) and we spend the afternoon in Helsingborg, a larger city, with a castle. Linnea really liked the castle and was very agreeable to climbing all the stairs to the top!

A view of Helsingborg from the castle grounds. This is one of the reasons I really love being in Europe - old castles, how cool is that?


Now this we couldn't quite figure out. We think that it is a giant, stationary antenna used to communicate with aliens. Definitely built by the transcontinental Egyptians.

And Doodle being Doodle...


And Linnea didn't want to have her picture taken with this statue, I don't really know why, she loves statues.


The girls are doing great! They are adjusting so well, but Linnea does talk about going back to Minnesota and going back to playing with her friend Emma. If you didn't know it already, Linnea is quite the drama queen. However, lately she really has been cracking us up, it's hard not to laugh. This morning she was getting all moody and dramatic about not having any milk for her Cheerios. In her drama, there are a few tears and mostly whining. But I tell her there is nothing we can do for her, there is no milk. End of story, right? No, later she draws a picture in the car on the way to church. I ask who it is, is it her? No, she says it's a picture of a boy crying because there is no milk for his Cheerios.



We had great weather today and Linnea was able to fly her new kite outside in the field behind us.

Sonja is closing in on her first birthday and we just can't believe it. She is "cruising" all over the place and loves following her big sister around. She has just started holding fingers and walking around. Both the girls are in love with avocados and eating them every day. Luckily I've been finding them pretty cheap at the grocery store. Sonja eats almost everything now and gave up any baby food type food a couple of months ago. She just wants to eat what we're eating, which makes it a lot easier to travel with her. She is a real smiley girl, loves to laugh and giggle. She often hears her sister in the other room and will call out to her, yelling something that kind of sounds like "Linnea!" She is also learning to "fight back" a little by pulling hair and pushing Linnea out of her way. Showing lots of independence too!