Notes from the Gobles: What happened? well...

I have not blogged for a long time now.. I missed a whole month. Being busy can be one excuse, but being lazy is probably a more honest excuse. Well lots of fun stuff happened during this time so I will update with some photos.

- Matt turned 30 years old. I guess we can call him a grown up now. We celebrated by having dinner with Friends at Friday's and of course they came out singing for him.

- William figured out how to sit by himself, drink from a bottle and go from sitting to 'crawling'.. he is not officially a crawler yet.. more like a squiggly worm who is trying to move forward but mostly pushes himself in backwards instead.. This he finds really frustrating. His parents however loves the new progress since this really makes things a little easier now when he is starting to be able to do stuff on his own. More supervision needed, but you do not always have to constantly carry him around.

- 2 trip to the US.. yep not just one during this month but 2 trips. Sandra and William travelled alone there in end of March, since she had to go to an INS interview. She passed the Citizen test. The second time to Chicago we all travelled together and we went to Chicago to hang out with friends, celebrate Matt and Sara's birthday and for Sandra to get sworn in. It was great seeing our friends again and they really make traveling back and hanging out so much fun and actually easy with William

- Trip to Stockholm. We had a to go to the American Embassy to report William's birth. We visited with our friends when we were up there. We had a mamma date with Caroline and cute little Vera. We also had some coffee with my friend Sara and her 3 week old Elsa. That weekend we had dinner over at Paula and Andres' house. Leila was also there with her son Adrian. It was so good to be together again the three of us, but the group has really increased now with husbands and babies.

- Sandra and William are not dual. Yep, both Americanos and Swedish. The two passports make me feel a little bit like an undercover agent..

- William graduate from baby swim.

- My parents sold their house in Tungelsta (outside Stockholm) and moved to Hockhult in Småland outside Hultsfred. We were up there to stay in my childhood home for one last weekend and then we also helped with some unpacking at the new farm that they bought. We already have our eyes on the small house on the yard that we are going to turn into our summer house this summer.. A lot of work needs to be done to it, but it will also be an awesome project.

William in the stroller while hanging out in Chicago with just mommy for a couple of days. We did a lot of shopping. The trip was really nice and we were worried about traveling without daddy, but we have some amazing friends that made the trip so much easier. We did miss Matt on the trip though...