Many news!

Hi,

So the last weeks has been rich on things to report... I'll try to cover them in this update.

First Théa tried some ordinary clothes instead of the normal body/pyjama -outfit, below you can see a photo of her... she was so cute!


She went to PMI on the 17th of April and measured 2940 gr and then the PMI closed for 3 weeks so we will try to measure her weight ourselves. So Saturday I climbed on the scale with Théa in my arms and was quite surprised to see that Théa was around 3,7kg (is this real???).
You can really see now that she has taken some weight, her cheeks are rounder and she has got some more flesh on her arms and legs.
She is eating between 90-120gr of milk every 3,5-4 hours all around the 24hours so I guess it is paying off having a great appetite! If she doesn't get her food in time she will cry until the milk arrives.

Her poo has started to smell quite notably and she has to be cleaned every now and then, but it's good mummy and daddy, and in this case grandma are there to help! (see video below):

So, we got a very welcome visit as you saw in the video, my mother Åsa came all the way from Sweden to see the wondergirl for the first time (live). She has now been staying here for a week and will leave tomorrow morning to go back home. Below are some nice photos of Théa and her together:

1st day together, happy faces everywhere!!!

...later on... serious discussions about the future and the present!

Finally, best friends... and someone to look up/down to! ;)

We have also received new gifts, by post and by monetary gifts as well as in person.
I am sure I have forgotten to thank some people in this blog but you can all be sure that it has been highly appreciated by us. Below I will try to show some things that have been given to us:

We received some money from Caro's parents to be used for Théa and with all the clothes that we have received from various people (Caro's brother, our parents, Thomas&Karen, Thomas&Cathy + many more...) we were in a great need of some place to put the clothes so we decided to go to IKEA the last week and buy some wardrobes (see result below):

We have also bought a couple of other things for the money other people gave, here is another thing:


I will try to get back later some time with more things but now I have to go and eat dinner!

Have a nice evening all!

/Magnus

Thursday means...

... a visit to PMI!

Today Thea measured 49cm and 2,970kg (or 2,940kg after she had pee'd).
That is just fine! She has been drinking some special milk to grow faster the last 2 weeks and it shows a good result. Apart from this there are not so much to report except the same old news (she eats, sleeps, and have her diapers changed every now and then!).

Here is a little film from today...

PMI Visit (again!)

Today Théa and Caro went to PMI for the weekly visit. Thèa is now 48cm long and weighs 2620gr, this monday she was 2470gr wihch means she has taken 50gr/day the last 3 days!

Théa has a cousin in Sweden called "Carl" he was born in July last year...
Here is a picture of the whole family when Carl was around 1 month old (like Théa is now!).

/me thinks he is going to be a boxer! ;)

Théa 1 month old!

We love you baby!

She continues to grow...

Hi,

Today Caro took Théa to the PMI again to have her measured etc.
Théa had taken 190 grams this week and was now at 2380 grams in total, she had also grown 1 cm ending up with a total lenght of 47 cm. It is so nice to see that everything moves in the good direction.

Yesterday I went to the Swedish consulate to start the procedure to obtain a passport for Théa, first she needs a "samordningsnummer" from the authorities (a kind of personal number when you are living outside of Sweden). Once we have that we (whole family) must pay a visit to the consulate and later also to the embassy in Bern, Switzerland in order to get a passport. Not so easy but we'll manage!

I tried to explain all this to Théa...

...first she didn't want to listen...

...then she didn't care and said the whole thing was stupid...

....finally she asked me to leave!

Hmm, that was not completely true but admit the photos are quite funny! ;)