SKYNI

Feels a little like Chinese New Year…He gets 2 days of celebration. On Sunday, we celebrated with the family.

Busy weekend for the family. Most importantly, birthday boy was happy with the presents.

We spent the entire weekend celebrating Jon’s birthday.

On Saturday, we had his classmates over for Halloween birthday party. Jonathan was really happy and was very glad to see his school teacher as well. Åsa has helped Jonathan a lot in motivating him to draw and write. We are glad that he is enjoying school and like his classmates.

Linn was the party planner…she even decided on the activities and the candies that they will eat. Mummy just had fun making the Halloween candy. It was great!!!

Linn started to show interest in learning how to play the piano. She signed up for piano classes in school but her way of learning is really not the same way as how I was taught.

I decided that she should learn it HER way as my way is ‘not fun’ for her. Learning should be fun and I know what it is like to be forced to learn in a certain way.
I am not sure if her interest will last long but it is best to let her decide. After all, there is no point forcing her to continue if she loses her interest.

But she is really interested in scouts activities, learning about the nature and being out in the forest. She liked it so much that she will go to scouts camp even if she is in pain.

Jonathan is only interested in staying at home to play his donald duck video games and building his LEGO empire. It is hard to get him motivated to do anything physical. We really have to push him to do any outdoor activities.
We stopped motorcross as we saw that his interest was waning. We tried almost everything… atheletics, swimming, ice hockey, skating and even Wii games and Dance Central!!!

If any of you have any good suggestions, we will be most interested to hear them.

Perhaps, this is another trait he got from his mother?

Mångkamps dagen is a day when school kids get to dress up in costume and they can basically run around the school, play sports for the entire day. There are no school lessons on this day.

This year, Linn was assigned to be a pirate. We could not find any ready made Pirate girl outfit at the store and had to made do with what we can find at home.

It was fun.