Saturday, December 11, 2010

Day 488

December 11th

16 months old!

I sometimes let Alexander make a mess to buy myself time if I need to cook dinner or something. Today, he played with Emma's stickers for 10-15 minutes while we cleaned the apartment, and it only took about 1 minute to clean up the stickers. A good trade off! Other times it doesn't work out this well :-)


We rented a car this weekend and had a busy day of cleaning and shopping for food and visiting friends in Tullinge and running errands and decorating the Christmas tree. In Sweden the Christmas tree is put up very close to Christmas while in America it is put up as early as the day after Thanksgiving, so we compromise and put it up around Emma's birthday.

Alexander helped with the hooks.


All the glass balls/decorations stayed in their boxes this year!
Looks nice anyway with wood, metal, plastic, and paper decorations.


Emma made some Christmas candy, marzipan hearts dipped in chocolate!