Sweden holiday

I feel like I have been slacking a bit with my blog posts. Sometimes I feel like I don't have anything big to share or had time to collect and analyse thoughts and feelings and therefore I don't write anything at all.

We have just gotten back from a two week holiday in Sweden and me and Lance are taking it very easy and trying to find our rhythm again. It's been so intense, fun, amazing and inspiring that we ended up exhausted. I tried my best to not overwhelm him too much and only take him out on one adventure per day. I forget sometimes that every person he meets leaves new impressions and every situation he's in needs processed. But with him refusing naps and not sleeping very well during the night, he struggled to keep up sometimes and ended up grumpy, confused and very sensitive.
His speech is coming on so fast as well, which is obviously adding to the need for sleep.

I'm so happy Lance has so many cousins the same age, it was great to see him socialise and getting to know them a bit. He is quite reserved and likes to just watch the other kids and take it all in, but he came out his shell a bit more and was dancing and running around with them all.

He looks like a proper wee boy now, definitely not a baby anymore. And to think he's going to be 2 years old in less than a month is crazy. But I'm so excited to see more of his personality come out and getting to know him as he grows up and into his new role as a big brother.

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Swenglish

My little boy is firing out the words right now. It's absolutely amazing to hear him trying out a new word for the first time and keep trying until he gets it right. I couldn't be more proud of him. He's been waiting and waiting and taking it all in and all of a sudden he decided he was ready and started counting to ten in English. All the times we have been counting in Swedish and daddy's home for one week and out comes English. I would love to know what's going on in his little head. All these different words must be flying around and he's trying to figure out why mummy calls things differently to daddy.

I can already hear how some Swedish words are said with an English twang and vice versa and with other words he nails my accent completely. This will be such a fun journey to follow and I'm intrigued to see what comes out next.

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