Time flying

A week or two ago, Clara told me that "Daddy, for you an hour goes like this: w---h---o---o---s---h, but for me it g.o.e.s.l.i.k.e.t.h.i.s." One of the things that have whooshed by recently was a visit from Sampo and Venla:

Oscar is old enough to be a real help a lot of the time now (if he so chooses):

Tanja had a birthday party, and both kids got to stay up late (although not as late as at New Years). Here is Clara having a great time with Sylvan:

Weekends have been a lot of fun lately, despite the snow.  Here's the kids playing with our backpack:

More weekend fun:

Ever since around Christmas it's been almost impossible to get Oscar to take a nap at home (unless he's sick, as he happens to be today). Instead, every weekend day for the last month or so Oscar and I put on warm clothes after lunch and head out to ride public transit. We ride S-bahns and U-bahns and Straßenbahns and the "big bus" and the "little bus"until Oscar falls asleep on me, and then I carry him home and deposit him on the floor with his parka still on in our (unheated) bedroom. It's very sweet, but he's starting to get big enough that I wonder for how much longer I'm going to be willing to carry him home after such trips.  But for now it's a lot of fun for both of us.

We have a lot of debates about fairness these days.  The other morning when Clara woke up she told us that she had had a bad dream.  She dreamed that she got an ice cream, but Oscar got an ice cream and a muffin. It reminded Tanja and I of the monkeys from this talk (skip to 13:00 to see what we're talking about).



But Clara is also being the "big" kid a lot of the time, and letting Oscar go first if he really wants to, etc.

Speaking of big kid, Clara got a place in the bilingual school we had hoped for!  She'll have to take a bus across town, but we're quite excited about the school, and she's excited to start this summer. Besides their focus on bilingualism, I'm also happy that her class will be a 1/2 split class, and she'll continue in split 3/4 and 5/6 classes until she enters grade 7. I'm sure we'll have lots more to say about school half a year from now!