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We just realized that I can really take advantage of the pregnancy just by making some adjustments to how I phrase things.

Just because you are not hungry right now, are you really going to make your ENTIRE family go out into the kitchen and cook?

Are you going to make your ENTIRE family go and get juice at the store?

Are you really going to watch this show when your ENTIRE family wants to watch something else?

Are you going to hog that blanket and let your ENTIRE family be without?

Are you going to eat all that when your ENTIRE family has to share this?

The possiblity are endless and we were laughing a lot while making up different scenarios. I think I will really use this from time to time!

I am beginning to realize that my wife is pregnant! We spent last Saturday looking for “the perfect stroller.” This is not an easy task. There is a huge assortment of strollers with many different features. It kinda reminded me of buying car. Mirjam has been pouring over consumer reports and we have amassed a pretty impressive stack of brochures.

Dispite Mir’s happy face, we left this store pretty disappointed.

Well, I kinda liked the purple one with the umbrella.

Later that day, we bought some maternity clothes for Mir. Here she is showing off her tummy…

Well, It is that time of the year again…April 15th is the IRS deadline for all of you procrastinators out there. Mir and I are fortunate enough to have the honor of filing BOTH in the USA and in Sweden! Fun!

Actually, we file our USA taxes online. It only took about an hour this year. Plus, It gives me an excuse to call my dad and chat with him. He is somewhat of a tax guru.

I declared via text message here in Sweden. It only took 2 minutes! That was definitely more my style!

Yesterday Jonas & Shie had their little Esther. Mother, baby… and dad are all doing great. When I talked with them on the phone after the delivery Shie was all excited and sounded like she normally does which surprised me since she had been doing hard labor for 12 hours. Jonas on the other hand had been holding his daughter (who was sucking on her own little hand) and sounded very tired and relaxed. I even got to hear Esther crying in the background.

Keep an eye on Jonas & Shie´s blog for more info and pictures in the near future!

I filmed a short clip of grandma two years ago when I visited her at her home. I begged her to play her guitarr and harmonica. She was very reluctant to do so since it had been a long time since she had played the harmonica. Finally she brought out the instruments and let me film with my little cellphone camera. She was about 82 years old at the time. I jus think it is amazing!

Click on the picture to go to youtube and watch.

Last weekend I got a new cellphone. Switching the SIM card meant I would loose all my pictures and movie clips I filmed with my cell. I finally figured out how to save my files onto the computer. I tried once before but it didn´t work so I just gave up. But now I had too much to loose. This means I can finally blog about some of the things that I wanted to blog about but never could, because of lack of pictures.

I would like to start with 1 year ago! This was fun! New job, new coworkers, you remember! Our boss and I took everyone out to a teambuilding day. Solving difficult situations out in the woods. We had to solve them together!

Rember we are 7 people, the thing is… we have decide how many of us are to stand on the box, balancing for at least 5 seconds. The boxes kept getting smaller and smaller until one was about the size of a regular-sized sheet of paper. We made it… all 7 of us!

The place that arranges all of this also have a hotel and regular conferences. It is all high up un a hill and on top of the hill is this tower. I couldn´t capture the whole thing from where I was standing. On the top there is a big platform. We were allowed to try to climb it. This was more for our own sake and not a team building exercise. The two most atheltic people made it all the way to the top. I made it to the middle, which is the skinniest part of the tower. I just didn´t want to (read dare to) jump over to another pole! It was a windy day so you had to sort of watch out for the hanging dangling things on the side.

It was really fun. I would like to go back and try that tower again!