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Théa eats for the very first time... (a few weeks ago)



Mmmmm, carrots and potatoes....!

Thea goes to Sweden for the 1st time!

Hi,

So our vacation has finished *at least mine* (Caro has some days left before her maternity leave ends). After visiting Caro's parents in a warm beautiful Nice and staying one week in our home here in Cessy it was time for aour family to do our annual summer trip to Sweden. This time was a bit special since it would be the first time for Théa to go on a longer trip and also to meet her grandfather, "Farfar"Jan but also her cousin Carl and his parents Mattias and Lisa.

Théa was incredibly calm and nice during the whole flight of 2h40min and the cartrip of 1h40min. We are really lucky to have such a nice baby... I was a little bit afraid since I have encountered plenty of screaming babies on the Sweden flight among the 8 years I have been travelling but our princess could not behave better than she did!

Family together by dinner table @ Jan & Åsa's home!

Grandmother, "Farmor" Åsa has already met Thea when she was 1 month old in our home but was very happy to see her again. She could really tell the difference in size since the last time.

Théa in the arms of "Farmor".

And "Farfar" Jan was of course also happy to meet the newest family member, they became friends almost instantly! ;)

A happy "Farfar" with the first girl in the family, little Théa.

As I already told this was the first meeting with Swedish cousin Carl and they seemed to like eachother, Carl got a little bit jelous of Théa when she was in "farmor" Åsa's knee once but no long hard feelings there. Carl is about 8 months older than Théa if I remember right but a rather different personality, not as calm as his baby cousin Théa but just as cute! Maybe it is an age thing? We´ll see....

Here are the proud mums with their loved ones! :)

During our stay in Sweden the Olympic Games in Beying was on it's last week, Sweden was not at all successful this year and did their worst olympics ever (finished 56 in the medal standings, just after Tunisia!!!) France on the other hand ( And I hate to admit it) did well and finished 10th.

Here we see Théa and "Farfar" watching the Olympic contestants in their hunt for medals!

Théa finally got a gift that was sent almost 5 months ago by my mum's sister Kerstin, she had the wrong address to us and the packet had been bouncing between countries before finally arriving to my parents place. The contents can be seen below!

Théa in the new clothes, cute as ever...

Thea liked to lay on a lambs fur, so soft and warm, made her all happy!

While beeing in Sweden Caro tried som shots of golf, here posing for the press!

Before we left to sweden we started to give Théa some "real food". We steam cook and mash different vegetables (potatoes, carrots, broccoli, "palsternacka" or "panais", corn etc.) into a purée. She gets about 130gr every lunch and seems to like everything we throw at her!
Thats a funny thing to feed her and see how she enjoys to eat something different from the milk!

Théa with some potato/carrot -purée around her mouth.

And here another photo of Théa eating.

Finally I want to thank our parents for letting us stay at their places and supporting us with Théa and also making our vacation into a lovely stay. I am sure they also had a great time and promise that there will be more of that later on! Also a thank you to friends giving presents and generally beeing nice, you are all welcome to visit us!!!

Théa is 5 months old today!

A long time has passed again since the last update, but Théa is coming along very well.
It has already passed 5 months since she came to our world, time passes quickly and Théa is growing like never before!

We went to the doctor today for a little checkup and doctor said everything was just fine with Théa, she is well withing the curves (weight and length) and she is growing according to the plan.
Her weight right now is 6670gr and she measures 62cm. We are of course very happy with that!
The doctor said that from now on we are allowed to start giving her some cooked/mashed vegetables (130gr/day). We were told to start with one vegetable and use the same for 3 days and then try another for 2 days and so on... later on we will be able to do the same with different sorts of fruits as well. Théa is now eating 210ml of milk, 4 times a day and she has a good appetite (just like before, every 3,5-4hours she has her meal). She is also sleeping whole nights, normally between 21.00 and 09.00, without interuption! We are (again) very happy with that! ;)

So what have we done since last? Well, we have had some vacation and visited family and friends in Morières (close to Avignon) and Nice. It has been very nice weather the last weeks and the temperature has been hoovering around 34-36°. It has been extremely important not only for us but for Théa to drink sufficient!

Théa's grandparents in Nice has been very happy to spend so much time with Théa and we have also been able to enjoy some time for ourselves. It is not so easy when you are new parents to find some time for just yourselves but we managed to go for a day trip to Villefranche-sur-mer and also to visit the island St.Margerite just outside Cannes. Two very nice days with bathing and sun.

Théa is very active (like always) and she is smiling alot, she has made some small efforts to laugh but just made it halfways. She is trying to speak but in her own way... yesterday we were watching TV and they showed the french flag bearer for the Olympic Games, and we got the impression Théa fell in love with him! Every time they showed him on the screen she was making big eyes and started speaking, we were laughing heavily and thought she was sooo cute! Then daddy said that she was only allowed to love him, and of course mummy and some relatives... we'll see about that in the future I guess! :)

Thèa has so far not had any problems with travelling, it does not matter if it is by car, airplane or other transportation. She is just calm and either sleeps or sits calmly in our laps. We are very happy for that and hope that the upcoming 2.40h trip by plane to Sweden will be just as good.
Last trip from Nice by plane we had forgot her dummy but she did not even complain once!!!
Now we have 1 more week before Sweden will show its face to Théa for the 1st time, here she will meet my father (her "farfar Jan") and also my brothers family (including the Swedish cousin Carl). I am sure it will be a welcome rendezvous!

Last we have some photos to show recent pictures of Théa:

Théa with mamie Danielle!

Théa biting her mum in the nose!

Théa in the arms of mamie Danielle.


Carla kissing Théa, in the arms of mamie Danielle again.

Daddy has just shown the horses to Théa, 1st time!

We visited St. Martin Vésubie (~1h outside Nice).

Proud father!

Thèa on her 5th month celebration, a happy little girl!

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Thèa goes on a weekend trip!

This Friday we went on a trip to Morières, a village close to Avignon to visit Caro's brother Thierry and his wife Stella and their two kids, Carla & Jules (they also have a cat and 2 small cute rats). The weather was superb (34°) so I was very happy to have air-condition in my car keeping the temperature around 20°. Thèa was very nice all the way and slept most of the time.
Its about 400km to their place so I was happy that she did not scream... well, only a little when she became hungry but that was 5 minutes before the planned stop so no problem!
When we arrived it did not take long before we were swimming in the pool that they have - wonderful!

We went to see Carla who had a performance (singing) with some other kids and then had a nice dinner before going to bed.

With her cousin Jules, it´s much more love !!!
Be careful, Théa, Jules is going to eat you.

Théa in her car seat and smiling at us !

Another car-seat picture.

The next day we all left to go to Montpellier to see some of the relatives on Caroline's mothers side. There was a family reunion and around 20 people invited. Luckily they also had a pool, frequently used by most of us. We had a great time and a big dinner with different types of sea food.

Here is an image of Caro's aunt, Martine feeding Thèa as we just have arrived...

The night we spent in a cheap hotel but sufficiently good for us as we were just sleeping there a few hours anyway. The day after we spent some more time with everyone before leaving at around 16.00. One of Caro's cousins is pregnant and will soon have her baby so we had to give away a wagon and a car seat that we had had on loan. We now have got a new wagon that we got from Caro´s brother and then we just bought a new car seat as well for the trip home. This seat will be good as it can be used until Théa is around 1,5 years old or until she is around 18Kg.

The brand/model is Isèos NEO and it looks just as the above pic!

The trip home went almost even better, we drove all the way from Montpellier to Bourg-en-bresse before Théa woke up. Then we just gave her something to drink (while driving) and she was fine again until arrival in Cessy. I guess she likes the new chair as well! ;)
The trip home took around 4 hours and the weather was excellent!

Here Thea is in a very cute new dress that we got from Caro's cousin Valèrie, thank you!

Yesterday (Monday), Caro bought a little inflatable boat that we put some water in so that Théa could have a bath in our garden, she seemed to be very happy for that! :)

Below are some of the pictures we took during her bath!

Thèa is smiling alot nowadays and she has started to charm us more and more, in fact I think that sometimes it's almost like she does it on purpose.
It is sometimes a little bit difficult in the evenings as she often screams a lot before going to bed but all in all she is such an adorable kid, happy, calm and beautiful.

4640grams !

Hi!

Almost a month has passed since my last entry in the blog. We have been quite busy and the internet connection has not performed very well either.
Anyway, there are some news... first of all Théa has now become a Swedish
citizen. We got the papers from swedish authorities and can now go on and apply for a Swedish passport as well. :)

Théa is continuing to grow and has now gained quite some weight: 4640gr the scale measured this Thursday. She is now 56cm long and drinks about 180ml of milk every now and then. This means her weight/length -ratio is just right and she is now within the normal weight/length -curves for babies around 3 months old.

Yesterday Théa got 2 vaccinations, one in each leg. So yesterday she probably had a small pain or a little fever because she was crying very hard for no obvious reason.

There's a little video (although a bit dark) here:



We are very happy though that she is a good sleeper, we can now put her in bed between 20:30 and 22:00 and she will sleep the whole night alone in her room, she does not need a lamp or anything and she will sleep until 07:00-08:00.

Here are some newly taken photos:

Tomorrow Théa will be 3 months old - Congratulations !!!

2 months has passed really quickly and Théa is getting bigger for each and every day. She is now close to 54cm long and has doubled her weight from when she was as smallest. That means she has taken around 1,9Kg and now weighs 3,8kg.

Last week she had a bit fever one night as she had visited the doctor to get 2 shots (vaccine).
It is normal that babies get fever after a vaccination but we gave her a rectal pill to get the fever down... it only lasted for a night and she is back to normal temperatures again.

Here are some photos from her 2 month celebration day!

Théa is now sleeping in darkness in her own room (good girl), she is sleeping longer and longer during night (not so difficult when she has a daddy that likes to sleep!). She also slept a whole night without waking up to eat... nice, we could get a long nights sleep as well!

Time goes so quickly and we are happy to see Théa develop for each day passing by.

/Magnus

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! ;)