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Here we go with the numbers again! I thought I’d give you a quick update from my beloved geek-tool Google Analytics, as I (and I am probably the only one!) find it really interesting to keep track of how many visitors we have on our blog, where they come from, etc. So here we go:

Over the past 2 years our blog with a total of 724 entries to date has been visited by 20964 visitors or 3627 ‘absolute unique visitors’ from 90 countries or 1240 cities.

So there you go.

Whirlwind visit from ”Ammo!” and Roland

This past weekend Grandma Gertrud and Roland came down for a visit with the kids, to hang out and to help us build shelving in our storage. No visit from Grandma and Roland is complete without either a) a huge batch of cinnamon buns for us in their luggage or b) a home cooked meal of our choice from by Grandma, who is a chef by trade. This time we went for the latter.

Shaena has recently discovered a well kept Swedish secret called a ‘Smörgåstårta’, which translated is a ‘Sandwich cake’. A Smörgåstårta is basically layers of white bread soaked in goodness and dressed with vegetables, cheeses and delicacies like smoked salmon, caviar, smoked ham… whatever your heart and taste buds desire really. Divine!

So, whilst Shaena and Grandma were working away on the Smörgåstårta, which we got to stuff our faces with for dinner later that evening, accompanied by Uncle John and Mikaela; Roland, Ethan and myself converted the old broken futon from our apartment in Edinburgh into awesome shelves in our outdoor storage and also built shelves in our indoor storage at the same time. (Well, truth be told; Roland did most of the building and Ethan and I did most of the swinging and most of the playing in the nearby play structure!) Ethan and I figured that that was the most fair and even distribution of workload for everyone involved and in the end; the shelves turned out really, really nice.

We had a great time, a great banter and the kids definitely got their fair share of attention and playtime this weekend! Oh, and now we are also officially booked for Christmas and New Years up north. Very much looking forward to that!

A day in the life...

As many of you family, friends and more frequent readers know; Shaena and her group of mommy-friends are avid patrons at most of the playgroups and open pre-schools in the area. Today they headed out early to check out this new open pre-school that was rumoured to be pretty sweet, and man was the rumour ever true!

This one supposedly took the open pre-school cake of awesomeness by a mile and the boys had an absolute blast! It is so nice that these really cool venues and groups are available, free and just around the corner from us! We heart Sweden!

Cool dudes on a bus

Pretty sweet venue for kids, eh!

...and a great place to crash too!

Very fitting backdrop for these multi-national kids! Ethan who is (obviously)half Swedish, half Canadian and Kieran who has an Irish dad and a Swedish/Lebanese mom.

Boom!

Huddy Buddy is a happy little camper

Papa-days with the kids and Roxette concert, comin' up!

It’s decided! After a year filled with a lot of change, excitement, new challenges and more change, we decided we wanted to end the year with a bit of a break for the both of us. So, as of December 1st; Ethan and Hudson’s dad will be on paternity leave for 2 months! I am so very excited and can’t wait for December!

As I never really had any paternity leave with Ethan in Scotland, this is going to be extra awesome and the four of us get to hang out, maybe go see and do, and recharge those batteries for whatever 2012 holds.

Oh, and less than a month till the Roxette concert! We have scored a couple of pretty sweet VIP tickets; which means that we get to enter through the VIP entrance, we have the best VIP seats in the house right below the row that is dedicated to the Royal family, and we have access to a VIP bar where we can purchase VIP beer and VIP wine and mingle with our fellow VIP’ers.

Walking like a man, hitting like a hammer
She's a juvenile scam, never was a quitter
Tasty like a raindrop, she's got the look
Heavenly bound cos heaven's got a number
When she's spinning me around, kissing is a colour
Her loving is a wild dog, she's got the look

Awww!

Who are they? Only the coolest cats in town!

Doc Hudson

Ethan and his buddies!

Ethan flies a helicopter

Our kids will never know the link between these two:

So true.

Schwing!

Pick 'n' Mix from the past couple of weeks

Bad bad bloggers! Once again we've left you hanging for over a week without updates! So, to kiss and make up we've put together a bunch of Ethan-snaps from the past couple of weeks:

Ethan at the Kallhäll city farm. Yes, we have a farm right around the corner from us:

Resourceful goat


Ethan at his BFF Kieran's birthday party:




Ethan with his Lördagsgodis. Pick 'n' Mix. Literally:




Ethan-art:

Hudson 3 months