Peek-a-boo

Under protection of aunt Geri's angel, our "beautiful mess" has found her feet!



And life is just getting merrier and merrier...



Tonight Stellinha surprised her parents by teaching us a new game...




(The fuzzy spots on these last photos are lick marks on the camera lens.)

How did those get there?!


I so have no idea!

"Corny" photo of the day, requested by tio Patrik-Mr.Cool

Double Happiness

Two nights in a row of stellar performance!!!
Straight through from 21:30/22:00 to 07:50/08:40. Absolutely uninterrupted!!!!

Photo collage from earlier this spring, creation of Isoäiti

And what we found this morning...

A beautiful happy mess!!

Grandparents are the BEST!!!

What day is International Grandparent day anyway???
These spectacular people deserve some celebrating!!!
Here are a few happy photos of ST with her very own private GPs...

These first ones are of her wonderful first meetings with them (seems like AGES ago!!!):

Göteborg, January 24, 2008

January 31

February 3

Here are some other beautiful moments together (roughly in chronological order)...

In Novéant, France, over Easter...

And back in Göteborg...

This one is dedicated to the Nicaraguans

Busy summer!

After visiting family in France, Stella Taís and family attended the Tällberg Forum in Dalarna (more on that another time, perhaps). To escape the Swedish heat, we made a quick about-turn and returned to the cool south. Here are some of the highlights...

Making friends with Chinese Nikolai (3.5 yrs) and Victor (5 yrs), at their summer-home outside Lyon...




...and their French mother and grand-mother, and Danish dad...

Monique, Victor, Nikolai, Christian, Véronique, Jean-Do

Véro was the one who introduced JD & K in Hong Kong, sometime last millenium

Developing a first appreciation for the joys of literature...



Meeting 1-month-old Gabriel and his ecstatically happy mom, Rosana...



Travelling in style and comfort aboard planes, trains and automobiles...






Exploring historic sites in La Meuse. Here an American WWI memorial with amazing views...

JD and ST with Mamie Annick and JD's cousins Antoine and Miled

Many memorable moments with family...

Cousin Eliette, Papi, ST, grand-uncle Jean-Luc and Marie

With Belgian cousin Tabata

Enjoying French cuisine with help of cusine Louane

They say it is never too early to develop a healthy taste for consumerism!

(Or rather, for healthy consumerism?
Ecological fair-trade products are the family's first choice.)

And now for the BIG (GOOD) NEWS:

One of her first crawls (this one on July 18th)... Aimed at worthy objectives...

A sweaty affair? (Actually not, just a bit dribbly.)

Last but not least, Stellinha produced four new shiny bright white SHARP teeth. Here the top two were just "erupting" on August 1st...



And here the full glory - as seen today!

(Tacata/yupala sponsored by the Nicaraguans)