Last weekend saw a tremendous party for Aron and his third birthday. We decided it would be best to divide up the occasion into two different parties, one for the family and another for his friends. It turns out to have been a very successful decision since each day was just as much as any party-planner would like to handle
The bicycle present was so huge for him that he still can’t really admit that he owns one,

Thank you so much to everyone for making his days great!

With cake and champagne (for the older children..), we took up a little table in the sun where the kids could run freely and the grownups talk more or less calmly. Many friends and family joined us and Aron could well have been entirely without toys before this party, since there was a veritable flood of trinkets, toys, and adorable books for him. Extra fun was also the presence of the many other kids. Aron is a bit rough now, never late to push och pinch people of his own size, but the party managed to pass without great incidents.

Thanks to all of you who were there and made our evening a great one. Aron got so many impressions that it was very hard for him to go to sleep.  

Photos by Gabriel, here is the full gallery

Imagine my surprise when the following little guy comes to meet me at daycare when its time to pick him up!

He had been using his glasses for the whole day without any problems. Its the first day of his life with glasses, and its a great day.

It has been way too long since I posted updated pictures of Aron. Here we see him playing the piano and singing at his grandmothers house. He is very talkative and can now differenciate between a car, a bus, an ambulance and a truck. You might say his special interest is cars, very noticeable at his recent eye exam, in which he scored a much higher scores when trying to find cars compared to any other objects.

This is our last week in Fålhagen by the way, next week we will be moving to a bigger apartment a bit out from the central parts of town. The only bad thing about the move is that kids daycare does not move so easily. Its going to be interesting to cart him across town in the mornings..

L spent last week in South Africa on a conference, so for one week I got to live the hard and unforgiving life of the single parent. While the kind services of my mother made it possible to still work full-time the nights with him were mine and mine alone. Aron has never been very good at sleeping entire nights, in fact were got pretty upset when we found out that there is a special section of BVC that only deals with infant sleeping disorders, when the first year, and the worst period had already passed.

So anyway, what you see in the photo above is young Aron annecting the vacuum-hoover into his already extensive collection of carts. He got very annoyed later when his pushing it around was impeded by the fact that it was hooked up to cable and hose.

After checking the goods its time to move on to grab a coffee at the coffeewagon, that is run by a group of african women, which is notable since its a booming business and its actually run by them, there is no fat-bellied husband to be seen skulking in the background. Their donuts rule all. Then, some light shopping, always with mandatory stops at the playground so Aron can stretch his legs. This particular Saturday i was shopping for a pair of reading glasses, after my surgery last week I see really well on long distances, but the synthetic lenses my eyes have now cannot adjust focus. Squinting does nothing, its flat-out impossible to read without some kind of glasses. The optician tricked me tho, and the ones i bought from Clas Ohlsson make me nauseus.. oh well. Luckily my old glasses kinda work for now.

In the evening we had invited my mother and Hasse to dinner, as a thanks for the lots and lots of help we have received, during the summer months.

So here are some pictures. This is Aron at his 1 year party. Attending are Aron, Arons parents, uncle and aunt, and grandparents on both sides.

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So how come a whole month without any blog updates? I have been pretty busy with a musical project that I’m not sure how much I can speak about. That combined with the fact that FSC is gaining a lot of momentum, making Linas workdays extra long, means that there is precious little time for daddy to hang around doing nothing (or blog..)

Anyway, here is the little man captured at a visit we did last weekend to the Botanical Garden. Note: He is standing on his knees in the foto, not on his feet

Update: I guess you could say that Aron said his first words today! We had a visit from his grandmother, during which he repeatedly said “Hello  hello” (well actually “Hej   Hej”)  while waving frantically. You could tell he knew he was saying!