Anatomilektion

Blodomloppet, matsmältningen, skelettet, delar av nervsystemet.

Pottränerskan

Julia, 19 månader, kissar på pottan varje dag och i går bajsade hon också. Och hon visar inga tecken på att tröttna på detta roliga. Hoppas att detta inlägg inte omedelbart skall jinxa processen.

Some Recents

Julia: The baby that LOVES babies. She squeales in delight, laughs out loud and chants "beebee, beebee" if she so much as sees a picture of a baby, let a lone a live one in, say, another person's shopping cart. She kisses her own picture if she sees it and can barely fit in her bed for all the babies that she has to have in there. If we are careless at bed-time and leave a baby out of her bed where she can see it, she is likely to wake up in the middle of the night, look around and cry incessantly "beebee, beebee" until someone (me) comes in, sees her pointing and retrieves the baby, at which point she cuddles it tenderly and goes right back to sleep.

They are also cared for during the day.

Isak and Elina didn't like that I had not posted a picture of our gingerbread house on the blog.

You're welcome.

Playing in Elina and Anja's room. Isak and Elina are by the Furry Frenzies track that Elina got for Christmas.

Lastly, here is Elina practicing for the Daddy-Daughter Dance that she and Mark are attending in February.

Rabid Readers

Isak was the "Thunder Reader" for his class in December. 1750 minutes of at-home reading. He is a good reader in English and reads well in Swedish too, just not as fast. When his teacher heard about my "college-fund" for the kids (teaching them to speak, read and write Swedish so they can - if they want to - attend University there at no cost) she allowed Isak's Swedish reading to count towards the mandatory minimum of 400 minutes of at-home reading.

I was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Swedish to Isak and Elina in November and then came that weekend when I was with Elina in the hospital at the beginning of December. We were half-way through and Isak could not stand the suspense so he finished it on his own - was rewarded by getting to see the movie (dubbed in Swedish, ha!). He is now close to finishing The Chamber of Secrets. (Can I add that the translations of both these books leaves something to be desired? Shh, don't tell the kids!)

Elina reads in both English and Swedish, too. But recently she does something more. She'll read an English book to Anja doing simultaneous translation into Swedish - including translating names into Swedish counterparts on the fly. Very amusing and impressive at the same time.