Martin Gumucio

I picked up the camera and documented a typical Saturday for us. We always start at the flea market at Vaksalatorg, to see if there are any new fun things we can get. We absolutely love the second-hand markets, recent find include one of these puppets, one of these keyboards, an endless array of xbox accessories.. you get the idea.

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.

We had a great time over at Lotta and Toms this midsummers, Aron learned some great things as well, how to administer a proper kiss, and he also took his first steps! Here are some photos from our new camera.

Here are some long overdue pictures of the little one in action. Every month brings new changes and its amazing to see him learn new things and piece together how the world works. He can walk now, if he has support, on his own he crawls with lightning speed around the flat. If he is outdoors, contant vigilance is neccesary, as he can make his move in a split second, get away fast, and even turns corners of buildings without looking back a single time..

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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I’m alone this week, Lina is working in Spain so I have the little kid all to myself. He is a real whirlwind now, crawling around the flat with lightning speed, investigating everything. He doesn’t walk yet, but can stand just fine as long as he is holding on to something, and he has been seen standing by himself as well but without realizing it. He really is developing at lightning speed now, and I’m fortunate to be home to see it all. Currently the most exciting things are the dishwasher, that be both opened and closed. And when shopping, to examine every item that goes in the shopping cart.

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

Gabriel took a lot of nice pics from our trip to ekoln some weeks ago, click the link below for the rest. (if blogger supported Trackbacks you would see this as a comment gabs..)

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!