Halloween

Wednesday this week, Malin said that she did not want to have the same vampire dress as last year for this Halloween. The selection of Halloween outfits is fairly limited in Sweden; witches, ghosts, vampires, Draculas and demons. Then I remembered that last year when we were in the US, I bought a velvet fabric with pink glittering spiders on it. I found it and took one of Malin’s dresses as a pattern and started to cut and sew. It has been a very long time since I sew a dress…. but a Halloween dress does not need any fancy details. It has been a full agenda for this Halloween weekend. Friday night Malin went to a disco at school, dressed as Monsters high Barbie, while Jesper went to a party celebrating the end of the soccer season. Mark and I had two hours on our own….but unfortunately we had too many errands to run so we only had time for a sushi dinner at the new mall. It tasted good and we actually had some time to talk.

Saturday, we had a birthday party for Malin with all the girls in her class plus the girls that she takes art class with, 15 girls! This year we had asked Malin’s dance teacher, Johanna, if we could be at the dance house and if she could have a dance class with the girls for an hour. Said and done. They got to learn a few steps to “Popular” a very popular song among the kids here. After the class we had FIKA with cake and cookies. It turned out great.
Jesper missed her party since he had a floor ball game to win.

But the day was not over yet……we went home and Malin had to get ready to go to another birthday party, now dressed in the new Halloween dress. They ate pancakes and danced to the Wii game “Just dance 3”. Full speed.

When Malin came home we carved our pumpkin. We had chosen a witch pattern this year.

Today, the pace is somewhat slower. Malin has a dance class and Jesper has two hockey games, then tonight they are going trick or treating with some friends.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Hockey goalie

No snow on the ground yet….but the focus has switched from soccer to hockey, a lot of hockey. Jesper has ice-hockey practice three times a week. Since he likes to be goalie in hockey as well, he does a double pass at each practice, one hour as goalie and one as a regular player. Last weekend was the first games of the season.
You should notice Jespers’ height compared to the goal. When you look at a goalie in NHL, the top of the goal is around their waist….

Earrings

Yesterday, Malin and I had a girls-only day. Mark and Jesper headed out early for a soccer tournament in Örebro. Malin and I started with a stay-at-home breakfast, a breakfast with a little bit of everything that last a little bit longer than a weekday breakfast. Malin then had art class; they are trying to make a mosaic motive now. So impressing to see their creative results.

The time had then finally come when Malin was allowed to get her ear pierced. She has been asking for that for a long time and we promised her on her birthday that she could do it soon. We headed down-town and went into a saloon. She got to pick-out which pair of ear-rings she wanted. She counted to three then BANG. She did not make a sound. The girls at the saloon said that many girls scream and do not want to do the second ear, but Malin did not hesitate. She is pretty proud of her ear-rings and wants to show and tell.

After that we had some sushi for lunch, before we headed over to H&M for some shopping. She had gotten a gift certificate for her birthday so we wanted to see if they had any good shirts or dresses. We did not find anything interesting there but we found some cool clothes at a couple of other stores. Her boots were falling apart so we found a new pair. By this time our feet were aching so we bought some candy and went home to watch Mamma Mia, the movie. We sang along and ate our candy.

When the boys came home she got to show off her new wardrobe.

Today the guys are going to Örebro again. Jesper’s team won all their games yesterday. No more shopping today for Malin and me, we need to focus on homework and housework.

Malin is 8

Malin turned 8 this past Monday. My dad, sister and brother came this weekend and we started to celebrate Malin already on Sunday. We ate strawberry cake and Malin got presents from her wish list; a new Ken Barbie, a bathrobe and a one-piece.
Monday we celebrated again, as we always do, with strawberry cake in the morning. However, with her new bed it was difficult to eat the cake in bed.

We also associate Malins birthday with when we moved into our house. In 2003, mid-october it was -9 C outside, so we know winter is just around the corner.