Jessica has finally met her cousin, Isac.\u00c2\u00a0 We arrived in Sweden late on Wednesday so the two of them had to wait until Thursday to meet.\u00c2\u00a0 It went really well; Isac\u00c2\u00a0appeared fascinated by the smaller person and Jessica smiled, giggled then beamed at him in her own inimitable way.\u00c2\u00a0 They spent much time reaching out (Isac more so) and chatting to each other. There’re plenty of photos and video footage to mark the momentous event.\u00c2\u00a0 These, along with the many other\u00c2\u00a0photos that have been taken so far,\u00c2\u00a0will be posted in a separate folder on the main Photo Gallery. Although with the imminent move, there may be a bit of a delay on that.<\/p>\n
Another first for Jessica\u00c2\u00a0was the trip here.\u00c2\u00a0 The journey itself went better than Gabriella and I had anticipated.\u00c2\u00a0 Other than major grizzliness standing in the queue for Security at Gatwick Airport,\u00c2\u00a0(if you ever want to fast-track, get a very hungry baby!)\u00c2\u00a0it went pretty well. Take off wasn’t too bad as Jessica was feeding, this advice we’d be given to help equalise the ears worked well.\u00c2\u00a0 As the flight was when she would normally be going to bed, we were hoping that she would sleep through most of the flight.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn’t quite work as shortly after take-off, just as Jessica was nodding off, we hit a bit of turbulance and it woke her with a real jolt.\u00c2\u00a0 It took Gabriella most of the rest of the flight getting her\u00c2\u00a0back to sleep.
\nWe were picked up at the airport in Sweden and soon arrived at Malin and Norredin’s, where we are staying for a few nights.<\/p>\n
Gabriella, Jessica, Malin, Isac and I spent the afternoon in Uppsala on Thursday looking at some of the sights (totally wasted on Jessica and also, I suspect, Isac) – still we have the photographic evidence that they were there!<\/p>\n
Yesterday we all went to Hammarskog, a nearby mansion, to watch the erecting of a maypole.\u00c2\u00a0 Jessica cried her way through that, then promptly fell asleep so missed all the subsequent dancing.\u00c2\u00a0 Never mind, there’ll be other opportunities in the future and she WILL join in and have fun…!<\/p>\n
In the morning before we set off, there was yet another first for Jessica.\u00c2\u00a0 She had her first non-milk food.\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, she tried eating mild rice porridge with banana.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure how much she actually swallowed as a lot of it ended up all round her face. It’s going to take her\u00c2\u00a0some getting used to not pushing back out with her tongue.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, at least she didn’t hate it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think that’s going to have to be work in progress…<\/p>\n
Today (Saturday) we had a gathering of some of\u00c2\u00a0our (Malin and Norredin’s as well)\u00c2\u00a0friends.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great to show Jessica off to so many people!\u00c2\u00a0 Similarly, it was good to see other people’s kids that we last saw at Christmas (including one then-unborn child).<\/p>\n
I’m sure Gabriella will want to write things about the above events too, but I thought’d be good to write a post as I haven’t in quite a while.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll make sure not to leave so long till next time…<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Ian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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