This Sunday, the first of Advent, Felix celebrated by wearing his hair Pippi style. He was inspired by Joanna’s hairdo that morning.
We had glögg, saffron buns (last years, from the freezer), ginger cookies and knäck, a toffee thing similar to brittle. Joanna said “Finally it smells like Christmas!”.
Felix is very much into counting and he likes to emphasize when there’s a lot of anything. “Mycket! Många!” (“A lot! Many!”) he screams in a happy voice. We definitely had “mycket” of candy and cookies on the table.
Joanna asked if she could light the first Advent candle. She could (with some assistance).
On Saturday, Joanna took part in her first gymnastics competition. Her whole group competed in a class called “micro”. They performed flips and cartwheels and they did just great!
But she wasn’t all that satisfied when three other groups got the gold, silver and bronze medals.
“I think it was because I moved around when we sat and waited in the line” she said. “Oh no,” I corrected her, “you were not the only one!”
As you can see in the picture the girls didn’t sit perfectly upright or anything. I find it more charming that way.
Check out Joanna’s cartwheel caught in the motion.
