8 months!

Erik with grandpa'

Our big boy is getting bigger! Happy 8 months birthday, Erik!

Erik still has his good appetite, which is very much appreciated by his mother. The only time he eats poorly is when he is teething. He has just got his teeth nr 3 and, of course, there is more to come. I believe, nr 4 is just days away.
Our little Viking now also can clap his hands. It is adorable and so so cute. Of course, he can not do it on command yet but he does it very often and seems to like it :)
Standing is the "in" activity right now. He tries to take small baby steps aswell as we hold his hands. As it comes to crawling, he has learned how to move around his own angle and also how to move backwards. But he is not raising up on his knees yet. So stange, since Jennifer crawled when she was 6 months and was already standing up against furniture at his age. But believe me, it is totally ok that he takes it easy. I love that he doesn't hurry with his development like Jenni did. Especially since I don't get to experience this again with a new baby.
Erik has a wide assortment of different sounds. He says "bababa", "tatatata" and "nänänä". But the only one which is annoying is the sound he makes with his throat sometimes, especially at nights when he sleeps. It is a very loud high pitch inhaling-sound. We have spoken about it with his pediatric doctor aswell as our friend/doctor who has ears, nose and throat as her speciality. It is probably laryngomalacy, meaning that Eriks throat tissue, cartilage, is a bit soft yet. This phenomena is supposed to dissapear soon but it makes sleeping next to him a challenge. Both of us, but especially Agne, wake up when he makes this noise and for my dear hubby it is often hard to fall back asleep. My brain seems to kind of "sort it out" as a familiar sound that doesn't need my attention and obviously, I am sometimes able to sleep through it.

Double up with afternoon naps

Erik really loves to be around our fury friends and they are loving him back :)

I just love this picture :D

Tomorrow it is time to visit our nurse again. It will be interesting to see whether Erik will join the 10kg club already. I will return with news :)

Our little girl has now been totally nappy free in 1 week! I am so happy for it and I believe, so is she. Of course, we do have accidents but far from every day.
Jennifer got her very first face painting the other day. I kind of thought that she would back off from getting it  but she really wanted to be a tiger and loved it. Also, washing it of in the evening was performed with no tears involved.

Our little tiger prompted on sitting in a baby chair at grandpa´s as she was having a snack.
She knows that her daddy used the same chair when he was small!

Jennifer had her second haircut past week. She has not had much hair ever since she was born and it has been growing very slowly - especially her bangs. Still, since her first haircut in Mumbai in January, it had grown enough for needing some loving and tender care after the summer. She was so good, watching "Shaun the Sheep" on my iPhone, just like in Mumbai (her request).

Jenni has kind of disliked toothbrushing and even though she perfectly understands that this is something that must be done every morning and evening, she has been running away, trying to make it a game (so we hopefully would forget about it). The other day, I told her we have to find the 4 tooth-trolls in her mouth so they won't dig holes in her teeth. So now she really loves it. :) We have named her tooth-trolls Pelle, Pia, Kalle and Kajsa and I'm hunting them around with the toothbrush. In every corner of the mouth I finally get one of them and take them out, telling them not to come back into Jennifers mouth. But they are back each time we brush :) Next week we will visit her dentist and she really looks forward to it thanks to us looking at the dentist room pictures and speaking about the chair, lamp and the dentist who wants to count her teeth. Hopefully tooth-trolls have not made any holes in her teeth and the dentist will give her a high five for being such a good girl.