Sofia met the childrens doctor today and gave her a good screaming at 🙂

All was fine and Sofia is now weighing in at 5.555kg, up from 5.065kg  2 weeks ago and she is now 61cm tall 🙂

Sofia really loves to watch her mobile in the morning while Mummy and Daddy eat breakfast 🙂

Daddy is old… I don’t know quite how old though because I started counting on all my fingers and toes, but I quickly ran out of them and still was nowhere near the answer.

Well, he’s one year older today and to celebrate we visited Ekebyhovs slott in Ekerö.

Mum and Dad had a fancy picnic and then we visited an orchard which has hundreds of different types of apple trees as a way of trying to keep specimens of the different varieties that can grow in Sweden.

On the way home we went for a walk in the grounds of Drottningholms slott and Daddy got his birthday present from me and Mum… A big icecream 🙂

Mum and Dad say I started first “talking” at the age of 6-7 weeks and according to Dad, my first word was “Heeeelooooo”… Mum denies that and said I started with a goo-goo 🙂

Since then, I like talking to my toys and telling Mum and Dad what I’ve been doing all day…

More visitors! This time, two very special ones… Granny and Grandad!

Granny and Grandad were desperate to see me but after a few sleepless nights and crying days they were maybe glad to take a day off to visit Nynäshamn 🙂

They brought me lots of presents and stayed for 10 days. It was a week and a half of firsts for me! We went out and about in Haga Park and around Lösjon and Råstasjon to Gröna Stugan cafe which was probably the firthest I had been from home. I also went and visited Paulina and Andy at their home in Kungshamra where we had a party to celebrate Paulina’s birthday. That was the first visit I had made to someone elses house!

Another first was meeting Mummy and Daddy’s friends Shauna and Ronnie who were visiting all the way from Boston with their little boy Malcolm who is nearly almost exactly 10 months older than me. They brought me two great presents of a bright pink elephant and a brand new “jogger” stroller which Daddy promises to take me out running in when I’m big enough.

I even went on a boat for the first time! We all went to Fjädderholmarna and ate some great lunch at the fish smoking house and took coffee and cakes at a great little cafe (just milk for me though).

On the last day we went to Olle Ohlsons house near my house and saw a lot of paintings of how my area used to be 50 years before I was born 🙂

On Thursday Uncle Neil came to meet me and to run a marathon with Daddy (who must be daft after 2 weeks with no sleep!)

Uncle Neil brought masses of presents from back home including a very scary “cuddly” Nessie.

I have discovered how much fun it is to scream at the top of my lungs all day, but Uncle Neil could get me to calm down with a quick verse of my new favourite song “Two little boys”.

On Saturday night after the marathon, we ate Pizza with Daddy’s friend Henrik and on Sunday, Barbara and Niklas came with a stuffed Penguin for me which I liked very much.

On Monday it was time for Uncle Neil to go home and he seemed strangely relieved, but he promised he would be back 🙂

Was a busy week this week with cards and presents coming for me almost everyday and people from all over the world calling to see how I was doing… It’s good to be loved 🙂

The health visitor came and I got weighed and measured and everything was going up nicely. Daddy made some inappropriate jokes about celebrating with a bottle of whisky and the health visitor sat him down to have a talk about the dangers of drinking with a young child and gave him some leaflets on coping with his alcoholism… What an embaressment!

Mummy’s friends Annika and Carina couldn’t wait to meet me so came on Monday and brought my first jeans dress and two tops with small red cat paws on them.

I also had my first ever bath this week. As with every new experience, I started screaming by default at first, but as soon as Mummy and Daddy put me in the water, I really enjoyed it and I did my best to leave more water on the floor than in the bath tub by the time I was ready and clean.

On the Friday the midwives finally said that I could go home. Mum and Dad’s friend Kaiyu came and picked us up from the hospital and drove us home. (And gave me lots of clothes as a present 😉 )

I was born on the Sunday and had to stay at the patient hotel with Mummy and Daddy untill the Friday because I was going a funny orange colour. The nurses said that this was because I had jaundice, but Daddy told them it was because I was a Dundee United fan… 😉

The doctors and nurses done lots of blood tests on me and my little hands were blue because they jabbed me so many times. They also did tests to make sure I could see and hear OK and I passed with flying colours!

The best bit was when they gave me my own solarium to lie in overnight to help get rid of the orange colour. Mum and Dad thought that I looked like an alien…

Mummy and Daddy borrowed a pram for me (we called it my rental car) and we went for my first trip outside. The old folks took coffee and we sat and looked out across Edsviken lake at Ulriksdals castle which is close to where Mum and Dad used to live and they would often go down there for picnics.

All the other little babies were getting visitors and had little cuddly toys in their cribs, so Mum made a phone call to my new friend Maria and she came to visit me and gave me my first teddy bear 🙂