Newsletter 2006

The year 2006 was a good year to finish a garage, to go to Denmark and for Cacke to turn 40. The biggest thing was that the car and the bikes now actually are in the garage, out of reach for snow, sleet and rain. No more iced windows or frozen bike seats, and no more frozen car locks! Instead we fight an automatic garage door that somehow turns non-automatic when it gets cold. All the men in the family have been busy putting roof tiles in place, and mounting windows and a door. The only things missing are curtains with a car print and frills as well as oak windowsills for flower pots.

As the garage can hold a lot of stuff besides a car and bikes, we have moved things from the basement into the garage, something which enabled us to actually see the floor in the basement! Cacke now dreams of a fully equipped 3-room workshop, and not only the small one room thing he has had so far. The basement has turned into a favorite pastime for all the boys, and they spend a lot of time building wooden boats, cars and dynamite cartridges.

The trip to Denmark was full of sunshine, adventure and Legoland. Wherever we go now Johan wants to go to Legoland instead. The house we stayed in had so many rooms that Johan had a room with a double bed all alone. When we came home he wanted us to buy him a larger bed...

The kids are cuter than ever. Johan every now and then turns into the big blue mother rabbit, while Axel is the small pink baby rabbit. Right now Johan fancies Herbie (a thinking Volkswagen with its own ideas) and he wears a Herbie hat as often as possible. In the spring Johan used to tuck his daycare teachers in when it was nap time, and then he would tip toe away to do mischief. Axel got a big bike for his 5th birthday, and is now able to ride it very nicely. He still loves sushi and really dark chocolate, and when he goes to the shop to by something really tasty he chooses thin slices of lamb steak Provencale. Axel is experimenting a lot with the language right now, inventing new combinations of words. He also knows how to count backwards.

People tend to be surprised, and some even don't recognize Kersti anymore since she cut her hair short in May. Kersti visited Budapest for a conference in June. A stay in Hotel Gellert can really be recommended and Budapest is very beautiful city. Cacke visited Japan, mainly to work but also to buy spare parts for our garden rocket.

Our big worry at present is that our balcony animals can't stand the modern weather. Just because a few trees and forests are lying flat in a storm, I can't see why our balcony animals should try to run away. Well, well, we hereby open a balcony animal contest, and all winners get to have their balcony animals on our balcony! If you want to join the contest, just send us a balcony animal (preferably flat and wooden). We will also gratefully accept glass panes for the green house.
 

In February we celebrated Cacke's 40th birthday. Everybody had to suffer him playing the trumpet (interesting) and afterwards they were rewarded with food and music. As he still is 40 but 13 everything is pretty much the same as always, he still has not become grown up.

 

 

Kersti & Cacke 

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