Mother's Day

Vaxholm and Grinda (Archipelago)

A short countryside drive and a 45 minute boat ride and we end up on a quiet little island called Grinda where we ate on an outdoor patio overlooking a meadow and the Baltic Sea. It was what you call a perfect day!

The Field's come to visit

Our first visitors came only days after we moved into our house and we were so excited to host Mimi and Papa and "Olden" Thomas and Tia Milena. Thank you for making the trip to Stockholm. Please feel free to confirm with our visitors that our guest quarters are very accommodating if you are trying to decide whether or not to come!

We loved having family to have champaign toasts with on Mother's Day and were excited to do a bit of sight seeing in Stockholm and the Archipelago. Thank you to my dad who is responsible for most of the photos on these most recent entries.

Sprinkler Fun

While Dwight is in Singapore, I thought I would find time to capture more thoughts on our Swedish adventure. As I mentioned to one of my long lost "so called" friends (who will remain nameless since I might disown her if she does not download skype) that I was so thankful that my job as a mother has not changed...even in the midst of everything else being SO different. I still sleep lighter sometimes holding my breath that a little one is not going to awake; I still fret way too much about how well the boys are eating; I still feel the importance of teaching them what is right and wrong and wish I did not raise my voice as much in doing so; I still love playing games with William (even if he continually makes up new rules as we go); I still can't kiss Davis enough; and I still check on them every night and thank God for our many blessings.

What I really started this blog for was to add photos because these are worth a thousand words...maybe more...

Banana Boys!

Both our boys LOVE bananas. And since I recently heard the old saying should be changed to "a banana a day keeps the doctor away"...we have been all eating lots of the delicious, yellow "sports candy".

These are photos are from our deck off the back of the house which we are on all the time...eating, sunning, drawing chalk designs and gardening (William and I have planted herbs, sunflowers and a Beanstalk for Jack).

End of school year activities

William's school is almost out. We have enjoyed a wide variety of special days. The Spring Concert was performed around a flower decorated flag pole and William sang his song about a handsome prince that lived long, long ago.

Later that week we had International Day and William dressed up like Chipper Jones. He had a "passport" and visited table set up by each country represented in the school. We sampled hagas from Scotland, fresh strawberries from Sweden, jellies from Argentina, and sausages & gummie bears from Germany. In order to get the "sweetie" and the passport stamp, the child had to ask the parent a quiz question about their country. William learned kind of money they use in Ireland, what foods came from Italy, what the most popular girl name in Japan is, the colors of the Mexican flag and the national bird of Norway...the Dipper in case you are wondering!

Our most recent school event was Sports Day. William has found a new favorite hero, Sportacus. Sportacus was invented by a Dutchman and is the hero of a place called Lazy Town. Sportacus enjoys sports candy (fruit) and William has really learned about healthy food. In fact, he got a above average mark on his school report saying he displayed "a strong understanding of the importance and ways to keep healthy."

Check out the DVD series if you have youngsters that are not eating their fruits and veggies! We all enjoy watching the adventures of Sportacus and his nemesis, Robbie Rotten!

http://www.lazytown.com/

Davis is starting to say a few words...all one syllable ending in "uh". Bird is Buh, dog is duh and anytime he wants something...he just says..."uh"! And to all our left-hander readers - Emily, Brandon, Grandpa...we have another southpaw to join you!!!