Here are some pics to get you in the proper holiday mood. The photographer had to be on constant vigilance since he can fall down at any moment. As you can see he can sit now, but he still cannot put himself in a sitting position. Other things that are happening right now is that he is trying hard to make himself understood. He has been talking for a good while now, without using any real words of course. You can tell that he knows very well the meaning of “mama” and “papa”. When we sing songs with these words in them for him you can see him smile, trying to mimic the words.

This morning I woke up by his tiny little fists hammering away at my chest while he was yelling DADADADA, a sign of affection if there ever was one.

As the astute reader can observe I made a drastic layout change to the blog. Minimal and stylish are the rules I live by now. Hope ydu like it! Note that if there are any images in the post you need to open the actual post to see them (clllck on the headlne..)

So what is new? Aron turned 6 months last week! And he also got his first little tooth. A tiny white grain is visible, and he is drooling and biting on things with a little extra energy now to celebrate the occatlon. We are working on giving him some routines for sleeping and he is taking it like a champion

I also abandoned my swedish pride this week. After using the top-of-the-line SonyEricsson mobile phones for years i got the cheapest Nokia ever the Nokia 1112. and suddenly I am enjoying what others take for granted in a mobile phone,battery-life, a phone that doesn´t crash every day. Totally amazing.. the price was 43 Euro.

So what else? The cat dragged in a mouse last wednesday and staged her usual “house of horrors” routine for it. She has her own little cat-entrance so she can come and go as she wishes in our apartment. Since she knows how the entrance works it is a common tactic for her to bring live little animals into our home, and let them loose. That way she can hunt and have fun, knowing that her prey has no chance at all to escape: they dont know how the exit works.. It was a real Kodak moment when the mouse was sitting at the feet of our cat, looking around and trying to think of what to do next, while our cat was calmly sitting by and waiting for the mouse to make its next move. There is a little killer in our home!

Other points of interests briefly:

Aron and Lina flew to visit family in the northern parts of sweden last weekend. The same day they came home SAS grounded their entire fleet of Dash-planes due to construction errors, guess what model the plane carrying my wife and child back was!

I have been working a lot on my genealogical pages lately, thanks to Rodrigo Gumucio in Cochabamba and Mauricio Pilleux Cepeda of www.genealog.cl. A dedicated post about that is coming!

We had a very pleasant and relaxing weekend, and as always some new pictures:

We had a great time last weekend. Aron was a champion and endured the whole ceremony without complaining.

Gabriel also took great pics which can be found here: http://gabice.blogspot.com/2007/09/baptised.html

Aron as he is right now: Also today, while these pictures were taken he actually turned from his belly to his back for the first time, on his own!

This week it is suddenly impossible to sleep without music. Standing favorites are jean-Michael Jarre and Future Sound of London.

I keep a little geneaology database with everything I can find about my relatives. Which thankfully is a lot since I am just one of many with this hobby in my family. So to make it interesting I put a new site online today with the central point being, Aron! Who else?

The link is http://aron.asvattha.com/

I try to keep it as complete and as accurate as possible, so if you are a family member, spot yourself, and errors… please please let me know! Many thanks to Don for generous hosting.

Aron had a good time last weekend in Vreta, as you can see from these pictures. I had a great weekend to, actually NOT with Aron and Lina but on adventures with some friends.. another post about that coming up in a little while..

Last weekend we had my aunt Vera and family here for a visit, a great reason to take more pics of Aron New for this week is that he has started to smile a lot and he can hold his toys now!

Tomorrow Aron will be eight weeks old!