Erik with his sister and mom.

Ernst, my father-in-law, and me on the first crayfish party of the year.

The Eriks in party mode on a Tuesday!

Uncle Erik got big Lego for little-Erik's first birthday.

More from the wedding in Gothenburg/Särö..

Mårten and Frida, becoming husband and wife!

Congratulations in front of the church.

Friends and collegues; me, Frida and Rebecca.

Erik and I while waiting for the bride and groom to arrive to the party by boat. It had been raining all week but this Saturday, the sun came out!

It was a great party! Otherwise I wouldn't have danced all night in my high heels and gone to bed at three in the morning...

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Frida & Mårten, the wedding!

There is only one word that fits today, and that is perfect.

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Erik's birthday party, 2010-08-20.

Uncle Erik with little-Erik. The little one also has his birthday in August, on the 26 to be exact. He will turn one year old. Time flies!

Hagis and Lisa, hanging out in the kitchen with Catrin.

Hélène is helping herself to a piece of cake while little-Erik and husband Mikael are waiting patiently for their turn. Herman and Marcus also at the table.

Bo, Thomas and Magnus.

The happy birthday boy with his specially ordered white chocolate cake, and me. I am HUGE! And with very, very, very dark hair..

Later.. I am soooo tired!

Last ones standing! Marcus and Thomas were the last ones to leave the party. I gave up soon after this picture was taken and went to bed. It had been a long day and I couldn't escape the tiredness that comes with that belly of mine either.

August 21; happy birthday Daddy!

(Picture from last year's vacation in Dávod, Hungary.)

Who is this person I see in the mirror?!

That was my reaction yesterday when my hairdresser reveiled my my hair colour. I guess that is what happens when you let the hairdresser choose for you... Anyhow, lets focus on something more important; my due date is in exactly one month today! The countdown has begun...

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...and water for me!

I didn't even mind this time since it was so hot that I longed for nothing else!

..and Cat has her one and only drink of the night.

She has really become a fitness girl and as such she works out almost every day and is careful with alcohol. Kudos to her!

The drink on our balcony, pre dinner at Pampas.

Erik wears his "Happy Socks" (he only has like a million pairs of different but equaly fun and crazy looking socks of that Swedish brand) and does indeed look happy!

Dinner and drinks at Pampas Marina..

..with Erik, Cat, Hagis and Lisa! I started off the day by going to the beach with Erik, Marcus and Cat, then grocery shopping, a sundowner on the balcony and then dinner. It is half past ten and it is still 27 degrees Celsius, so it feels like we are abroad! Summer is the best!

Wednesday August 11.Checking out a new museum in town: "Fotografiska".

It was first and foremost for Lennart Nilsson's pictures I wanted to go. His documentary about life in the womb is truly amazing! I was accompanied by Erik, Hélène and little-Erik and everyone enjoyed the exhibition.

Annie Leibovitz "A Fotographer's Life 1990-2005" was also on display. There were a couple of classic, well known and recognized pictures of celebrities along with pictures from her own life, showing her family and places she had visited, as Rwanda and Sarajevo during war times. Alltoghether very strong pictures, sad pictures, happy pictures, showing life and death. Well, just showing life. Beautiful.

Vee Spears displayed her "The Birthday Party" with surreal, almost painted, pictures of children in different garments. The pictures are all pretty but somehow unpleasant in the same time. While the children play dress up they also seem to take on their future roles.


I really appreciated this experience and I would recommend everyone to go see these exhibitions!

All pictures are from http://www.fotografiska.eu/.

Doing some laundry.

But not any kind of laundry! It is all of the baby's stuff that are being washed. Without softeners, mind you! I learned, by chance, that none of that stuff should be even close to baby clothes. What if I would have missed that? Would that make me a worse person? Of course not, but it does feel better to be informed about that kind of things. So many things to know about this baby business, so little time..

An aquired taste..

My new shoes that I bought on a whim yesterday, when I really was looking for a dress to wear to Frida's wedding on August 28. Not very suprisingly, I found none. I wasn't really suprised because there isn't much to choose from maternity clothing wise, but it is curious that there is't more. Even pregnant people want to look good and feel pretty! Luckily, shoes still fit so at least I will have something fun and pretty to wear to that party..

What will he look like?

I am trying to imagine what the little guy that soon will be with us will look like, but I just can't do it. Therefore I took some childhood pictures of Erik and myself. Maybe the result will look something in between these two pictures?

It feels like my stomach has grown a lot since last week and judging by the pictures I  might be right. The little guy kicks harder and harder, especially on my liver and spleen, and just loves to grind his little tushy against my ribs and therefore give me heartburn.. But otherwise I feel great! =)

By the way, I haven't done anything to my hair other than taking a walk in the humid air, so no curling irons here! (I have a bad track record with those, I always burn myself.)

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Saturday dinner with the Agerlund family.

Helene managed to make dinner and entertaining her son without even breaking a sweat. Erik and I went there already at five and came home half past two, so we had a really nice time talking and enjoying the company.

The birthday boy with a squirming Catrin..

Having dinner at Bröderna Olssons Garlic and Shots on Södermalm where everything (even the beverages) contains garlic.. After a tasty dinner we went to Lasse i Parken for drinks outside and lastly to Tegnérgatan and Victor's apartment, where there always is a party going on. By half past twelve Erik and I went home, but the ones who weren't pregnant stayed. I would have stayed for longer, had not my body told me that it was time to sleep and rest. It was nice to go out a little, even with a big belly. 

What a night! Especially for a preggo..

To celebrate Marcus' birthday, Erik decided to treat him to a night out. For that reason, we met up at Medborgarplatsen and started it off with drinks in the late afternoon. In this picture we have moved a couple of metres to have dinner.

By this week the baby is about 2kg and 43cm. It is starting to get heavy..