SKYNI

Summer was coming to an end and it was really nice for my mother and sister, Pei Yao and my nephew, Ki-en to come for a visit. Before that, my british sister, Pau Ping came for a visit as well. It is really wonderful to have family around me.

I hope they enjoyed our not so warm weather and they did experienced a couple of wet days.

We did not do much but walk around Stockholm city, try Swedish pizza, shop and just sit around to talk.

We were all happy to see them but the happiest was Jonathan. For the week that Ki-en was here, he was a totally different boy. He was spontaneous, he interacted with Ki-en and they built Lego together. We have never seen Jonathan like this. Even his teacher in school told me that he was alot happier and participative in school. And when Ki-en had to go home, he was really upset and cried!

Thank you Pei Yao for coming to visit and bringing Mom here. I really appreciate it!

I recently moved Linn to another new daycare. This daycare is just 200m from our house and it would definitely help with the logistics, specially in the coming winter months.

It was Linn’s first day of school last Friday and I accompanied her to school as Sweden requires parents to ‘school-in’ their kids. She was fine with meeting new kids and teachers and quickly fit into her new environment. In no time, she was dancing and singing with the kids.

When her new teacher, Victoria asked if she has any another sibling, we talked briefly about Jonathan’s autism. Linn then told Victoria in swedish: ‘My brother, Jonathan is special because he does not have many thoughts in his head’.

I was surprised with her description and Victoria thought that it was a really good way to describe Jonathan from Linn’s perspective.

Jonathan also surprises me at time. The other day, he asked me if I am not feeling well and he asked me to sit down to rest. He then told me ‘I love you mummy’.

These moments are truly priceless.

I was playing with Linn the other day and was asking to identify some of the pictures we were looking at.

She was doing good until she stumbled on this picture on the extreme right hand corner

She couldn’t tell me what it was. I was really surprised as it was really obvious to me. She asked me if it was a car.

Then it dawned on me that she has never seen a real telephone. Nicke and I always have our mobiles and we have always avoided landlines.

I think I will start showing my kids things that I grew up with so that they knows how things have changed.