Good morning!

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Sunday morning

Alice is sleeping after a big meal and i figured i could write something on here.
We took it easy this morning. Had breakfast with mormor (my mom) and then Alice was busy sleeping while i had a shower. Brian is out hunting with morfar and Bella the dog. Hopefully Alice and Bella will become good friends in the summer when she's a bit older. Bella likes Alice already tho. She's by her side whatever we're doing.

Yesterday Alice and I had lunch with Zarah and Oline. And after lunch we did laundry at my brothers place. There is a water leak in my parents bathroom so we can't do wash here right now. And the thing is that they completely re-did the bathroom like three months ago. Talk about bad luck!

Upside down picture of Alice when she's working out in her gym!

this post has serioursly taken me three days to finish...

yeah...we're busy bees! haha

Alot has happened and i'm gonna try to remember it all. We'll see how that goes since i can't even remember what i had for lunch some days haha "ammnings hjärna" i think it's called :)

Alice is now 4 and a half weeks old. She's eating, sleeping and growing just the way she should!
Later today it's time to see the doctor. We want to have that done before we leave Sweden. And if everything is good we'll just keep going to bvc and the baby nurse for weight  and length every week. We're leaving on October 21st. Very sad, but good to get going with our life. Brian is going back to work and we're gonna get a more permanent place to stay that's closer to his job. Hopefully Alice and I will find some other babies and mom's to hangout with! We're really going to miss our new friends Tilly & Annika and Oline & Zarah!

Alice can hold her head up really good when she's lieing on my shoulder. She is making new sounds everyday and today she smiled for the first time! A real smile!

I started writing this two days ago so we've already been to the doctors and the little girlie is doing great!
4115g and 55cm are this weeks measurements! Getting bigger!!

Tomorrow we're going to see Julia and wish her a happy belated birthday.

OK...i bet i forgot more than half but oh well...

Gnite!

kyrkis X2

Now, Kyrkis with Annika...after that Kyrkis with Zarah! haha if Alice feels like it that is. Big play date day today!

Alice is now 54cm and 3840g. My little big girl <3

Have a great day!

Last weeks update

It's not that easy to find time for the blog i've noticed this past week. Even tho Alice is a pretty good sleeper there's always something that i need to do...or not do. trying to rest and nap when Alice is napping when i can.

Anyways..last week,

Alice got a Swedish passport made. It will be in on wednesday. And she also got her picture taken for her Canadian passport. We sent all the paper work out for her and it will be done in about 3 to 4 weeks.

We were in the paper on friday! http://helahalsingland.se/familjenytt In the link you can see it on the papers website.

My grandma, uncle and aunt was here on the weekend for my mom's birthday. And to see Alice of course! Very nice to see them! Alice loves the Polarn o Pyret vindfleeceoverall and hat. And the very cute outfit from my cousin! And on sunday my other uncle and his family came over for some quality baby time. They gave Alice a super cute checkered dress, our little country girl! :) soooo many nice gifts! Thanks everyone!

Alice tryed the baby sling that we borrowed from a neighbour. She liked it and slept for a good hour in it while Brian and I baked apple pie for my mom!

Another not so fun thing that's been going on this weekend was the initial symptoms of blocked milk ducts (mjölkstockning) Fever, headache, a sore breast and an upset little girl that i think had a sore stomach on top of all that. poor thing! 

Baking with the sweet pea in the sling

Now we're gonna give Alice a bath and then we're off to bvc for weight check up!

Good morning!

We've been singing Pippi Långstrump and other favorites all morning! And of course eating and sleeping are two big favorites in Alice little morning routine ;)

Here are some pictures from the past week

Ida, Linnea, Madde and Elin over for a visit.

Alice in the cute little outfit mormor got her!

 In the adorable little pants Ida got her, Thanks!

And there's a little smile too! :)

 

Getting bigger!

Mammas lilla ärta is getting bigger, up 400g and 2 cm longer! The bvc nurse was impressed and so were mamma and dad :)
Can't belive she could fit in my belly just 9 days ago.
I'll post a picture tomorrow! She's been given so many cute outfits from friends that stoped by last week! Thanks everyone! LOVE THEM!

Now, bed time. Alice is sleeping and will probably wake up for food in an hour or so. She's been really good, eating at around 11pm, 3am and 6am. I can not complain at all.

Night!

She is here!

On saturday September 3 at 22.02 she was born! Our beautiful daughter Alice Victoria Doris Beninger. And she is perfect! Tons of dark hair (where ever that came from :) 3074g and 49cm.
Everything went really well and after i'm done being sore in various places i'll do it again in a heart beat!!!

We've had a few wonderful, emotional, excting, tiering, absolutly fabulous days at home as new parents now and we love it! I'm crying happy tears every other minute and i just can't belive that we made something so precious!

The first diaper change.

Mama and Alice the first morning together. LOVE

I'll try to update as much as i can. Alice is a good sleeper so i do have some time

  in between feedings and cuddles.  

another sweet pea

I'm going to shop for some cutie patootie stuff for a little sweet pea from Idenor today! :)
Brian's at school and off at 11.30. We're hopefully having coffee with Sofia after that before she goes back to university tomorrow. She forgot her cell phone in Spain tho so i'm not sure how to confirm our plans.

see you later!

Health Canada

I'm reading up on the breastfeeding recommendations from Health Canada and i'm very happy to see that it's all the same as the Swedish recommendations! Feels good to know that i can be a 100% confident in my choice of exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months. Now we just have to hope that baby Beninger agrees :)

Good wednesday morning

Here i am, four days over due. Pretty cranky and anti social. But today i think i'm gonna try a more posivite outlook haha if possible.
Having my midmorning snack right now, probably could do something more healthy but what the heck! Coffee and cinnemon roll, home made of course. Makes it ok right!?

I have to book an ultra sound appointment today. Routine if you go over due for more than a week i guess. Booking it for monday i belive. Hopefully we'll have a baby before that and won't have to go!

I'm out of flour...which is a big deal here. No bread baking this morning then. Brian's got the car and i think Brian's grandmother would have a heart attack if she found out i took the bike. it's probably about 8km round trip. Could help the baby out tho?

Back to my coffee!

Feels like fall

The baby ticker to the left has started to go up again...two days over due. No sign of baby.

Anyways, I'm making my moms, super easy to make, apple cake today (again) haha

Recipe:

2 dl (200ml) white sugar
2 eggs
2 dl (200ml) flour
about 5-6 apples
butter
cinnamon
pärlsocker (have never seen or found it in canada)

Pre heat oven to 200 C (400F)
Beat suger and eggs, add flour.
Pour batter in to a pie dish.
Peel and slice apples, place in batter.
Slice butter with cheese slicer over the cake. as much as you need to cover it.
Sprinkel cinnamon (the more the better) and "pärl"sugar on top.
Bake until it's got a nice colour and it sets.

still waiting...

Don't know what more to say then that we're still waiting...nothing new.
Just got in from a walk...hope that will start the process!

TODAY!

Today should be the day...i feel nothing in my belly. Except butterflys!
I just got a text from my friend Annika, she had a little girl a few minutes ago! :) so happy for her and her now family of four!!! Grattis vännen! On "my" date haha maybe i'll get hers, the 30th ;) But i'm still hoping for today!

Think we're going in to town to look around and get a new shirt for me! i'm so sick of the mat-clothes i've been wearing all summer!!! Can't freaking wait til i can go do some fall shopping for real!

Aaahhhhhh! Baby come out! to be honest i'm getting a bit restless and anxious. I'm more then really now!

anonymous

My dear friend and hacker Charlotta told me to change the comment setting to anonymous comments and tata! there we go! everyone can now leave a comment!

tomorrow i'm planing on having a baby! after breakfast would be great! :)

Good night!

one day left!

ok so we have one day left of pregnancy. I really hope it's just one day! can't belive it tho. I've been pregnant for 9 months! this is it now! i'm getting more nervous now when i think about it. not for the delivery but for the big change in our life i think. or really i don't know what i'm nervous about. everything i guess! but at the same time i know this is so right! and i'm more excited then nervous really!

Don't know it i'm just imagining but last night i totally (i think) felt some kind of period pain and i hope that's a good sign and tha the labour starts soon!

My midwife said yesterday that she can't sat a day, even tho Brian kept asking haha i guess nature has it's course. By the way, we almost missed our last midwife appointment yesterday cuz of me and my not so functioning brain. I was a 100% sure our appointment was at 15.15 and when i checked my calander to make sure at 9.15 it told me we should have been there at....9.15. Luckely she could fit us in at 11.30. But i still had time to freak out and cry for a bit before that was all figured out. Hormonol imbalance!? lol  

This is me today 39+6. I am Big!

oh my goodness!

Haha 3 days left!? that's almost a bit bizarre!
Brian's at school for swedish this morning..he went in the winter too before he left to keep working back in Canada. So he's just gonna go for a bit again before baby comes.
I'll be at home all day. Doing some baking and reading and other things i like! mmm some pre-baby quiet time. Soon we'll be way too busy and happy with diaper changes and stroller walks!

The pants came in yesterday from me&i. LOVE them!

comments again

Nope..the comments doesn't work still. like i said, i'm really bad with computers! if anyone knows how to comment without a google account or a blog, please email me! victoria.broddesson@hotmail.com

Now, Picking up a pair of baby pants i ordered last week from me&i! i'll post a picture later! Weee!

No baby

So there was no baby last night. Even tho Julia had a dream about it haha..But today might be the day!

We're going to Hudiksvall to get a USB stick for all my pictures i have on my camera today. I think i have pictures from easter two years ago on there...and everything that's followed. Not good if i would lose it somewhere! And now with the baby coming there will be alot of pictures taken i bet!

I've had some problems with the comment field in the blog. People that don't have a google account or a blog didn't know how to comment. But i tried and if you just put whatever like "shfksfhdjsfhsk" in the OpenID field it will work.

See ya!

blog design...

I'm so freaking bad with computers! I really want to make the blog look nice but i just don't know how to! I picked another template but it's not at all what i want the blog to look like...well well...someday maybe i'll find someone to help me.

My friend Julia just texted me to say that the baby is coming tonight!!! weee! haha she had a dream about it that had felt super real! she had to dubble check her phone when she woke up to see if i had texted her to say we were at the hospital! And after the 5km bike ride we just did i think it might happen tonight too!

I'll update tomorrow to let you know if the baby is here or not!!!

Sunday morning!

Good morning world!
I've been really lazy with the blog the last couple of weeks. But i'm back in the game now! i hope. When Brian's here i don't take the time to sit down by the computer. He's out hunting with dad this morning so I feel like this is a good opportunity to get some extremly impotrant stuff done! like blogging :)

It's only 6 days left til our due date and i can't even explain how excited and eager i am for baby to come out!! it's getting to me now, the pregnancy. everything's harder and I can't do what i'm use to. like painting my toe nails and getting my shoes on. haha the crocs are my best friends! even tho they are the uglyest things in the world! the other day we were in the car half way in to town when i realize i'm wearing them. I made Brian turn around so i could get my runners instead lol

We've been thinking alot about names and right now we're pretty set on Alice or Charlie. But that might change when we see the little sweet pea. We were thinking about William before and that was our first choice but after brian's sister and husband thoughtfully told us to consider the nicknames he might get, Billy or Bill, we kind of put the on hold! and with the choice of middle name we had, Robert (Bob) he might end up in an even worse spot = Billy Bob haha

Change table all set up!

family!

I'm sitting here just enjoying my 61kg (134 lbs) and my swollen feet! haha brian's here and that makes everything feels lika a walk in the park! He's out in the garage with my brother right now working on the car. The feeling of being a family is wonderful!

I've been preparing a bit for the hospital and the baby's home coming. Washed some tiny little clothes and blankets. It was the cutest thing too see them hanging there to dry in the sun! i've been trying to make a list of things to bring to the hospital but i'm sure i've missed something. Have to go over it again.

We had a midwife appointment this morning. Brian's first time meeting Maria, my midwife here in Hudiksvall. She did such a good job speaking english! Love her! Brian even got to feel the baby's head though my belly. "oh it's big hun!" was his comment! haha don't freaking tell me that!!! haha

I think i'm gonna go out and put my feet in a bucket of cold water and read a book now!
See ya!

View from Ofärnebacke the other day. 

Tomorrow!

Brian's coming tomorrow!!! i know i've been going on about this for a bit now haha but i'm just so excited! I'll pick him up from the train tomorrow afternoon/night depending on what train he gets on from the airport.

I work tonight, and that's almost good cuz then i won't have too much time to think about how much i want it to be tomorrow!

another pic from yesterday at sjösjön. beautiful sun set! 

And see, i'm getting bigger! everyone says "oh, but you're sooo small" haha

oh summer!

The most beautiful view at Sjösjön this afternoon

where Elin and I had a picnic and went for a swim in the lake. 

Only two more sleeps till my love will be here!

Good night 

It's coming to an end!

These five months are finaly coming to an end! The five months Brian and I have spent apart...can't belive that we're almost there! He'll be here on saturday. That's only five days away. I will have the love of my life back to hug and hold hands with as much as i want, in only five days! And we can finaly be pregnant together! :) Like a real family! I'm happier then i've been in a long time! Even tho i think every day how happy and lucky i am to have him, even when he's on the other side of the world.

BBQ at Brians dad's last summer.

Watching fireworks over Niagara Falls, also last summer

I will always love you!

Contractions..

I'm getting more and more contractions..like pre labour contractions or whatever they might be called (förvärkar) I think...since this is my first baby it's so hard to know how all this should feel. I have five weeks left before i'm due but i feel contractions almost everyday. i've heared that that's normal but i still feel a bit nervous to if it will come early. I'm more than fine with that but not earlier then next saturday! Cuz that's when Brian get's here! For the next baby i'm not leaving Brian's side ever haha!
Well...if anyone has any ideas or edvice they are more then welcome!

Now i'm having a skype date with my husband!

Rainy day...

Mom and I got some shopping done today...it makes me so tired to shop now! Met people we know everywhere, I think we did more talking then anything.

I got the shopping for nursing bras done! Feels like a relief to have that over with! Not a big fan of trying on bras. Found two at Lindex. A black and a white. And a tank top as well. Good to have on when we're just home...i think, since i've never done this before :)
My mom got a onseie for the baby to wear when we leave the hospital! From Lindex too. It's so hard to find cute clothes that are gender neutral! It's either extremly plain white or boring. So my mom said she'll go get all the cute things we saw today as soon as we know if it's a boy or girl. Yey!

A speciall little husband's birthday was a few days ago and there might have been some shopping for gifts done today too...you never know..  :)

It has a few pink details too! should work both ways :)

Belly and the only shoes that are comfy right now, the croccs!

Vacation!

Olala i have a week off work! It feels absolutely fabulous!
I've had some issues with an extremly sore tail bone (for some reason?) So the fact that i don't have to work 24h in a row 2-3 days a week for this upcoming week is good news for my back!

And another asbolutely amazing thing is that Brian's is coming in exactly 2 weeks today! It's going to be such a big relief to have in close! don't have to worry and think "what if the baby come early" and all that stress.
By the way, my midwife said yesterday that the baby is in possition now and is just waiting for the delivery to start! But she also said that it doesn't mean that it will come early at all. I might still be over due by 2 weeks. After two weeks i think they would induce me. Hopefully NOT! I wouldn't mind if the baby came about a week early! :)

Now, skype date with my love and then out to a girl friends cottage with Sofia Larsson!

it's getting closer!

22 days til my dear husband returns!! The count down is on! Can't wait to have him close everyday! And i can't belive we've soon done 5 months away from each other..it's crazy to think that we're almost there! I'm so proud of us..it hasn't been easy but we did it! For the baby!

And it's getting closer to the baby's due date as well! that is also HUGE! I'm starting to feel like it's time for the little one to come out soon! I havn't had much to complain about during this pregnancy, but my back is staring to feel it now! And i'm so excited to meet him or her! I was thinking about all the holidays ahead. They are all going to be so much better and more fun now when we have the baby there with us!

Going to work soon. I work 75 hours this week...good think i don't do that very often! But it's only 3 shifts and that sounds alot less! have to think of it that way!

(i'm not sure who or how many people read my blog. But it would be super fun with a few comments :) if anyone feel like it)

Monday

Dear baby, If you feel like it, would you come out soon? Maybe in say...6 weeks instead of 8? We just really want to meet you!

I got this adorable knitted body suit from Kappahl today! for the baby of course! It is really from my grandma. She wanted me to get something that i would like instead of her getting something i might not like as much. I'm sure i would have loved whatever she'd given us but i really did want this little suit so that was perfect!

Now, i think i'm going to buy myself a new back on eBay! sadly mine is broken...i shouldn't complain...but i do it anyways!  

Weee! how cute?

The very helpful office cat of mine..having a nap