Luxury Resort!

Mum and dad spend 2 days and one night at a beautiful luxury resort! I was lucky to spend the day with gramie and her sister and we went shoe shopping!!!!

My new friends: Ming & Mei

At gramies and grandpas place I got some new friends: Two pugs with the name Ming and Mai. Every morning I run downstairs shouting Miiiing Meeeeeei and I got so happy very day to see them. I cuddle them and kissed them a lot. I eevn slept in their bed and they slept with me a few times, though Ming and Mei snore loud. The best thing was when I got to go out with them and hold on to their leash. If they walked to slowly I pushed them on the bum.... didn't work!

I even tried to drink water like them and sometimes I put my socks in my mouth just like them!

Back home I have to stuffed animals and I named them Ming & Mei, I am very sad not to see them anymore and mum and dad can see that I miss them a lot :(

Construction everywhere!

The city has a lot of major constructions going on 24/7. Highrise buildnings for offices and homes, huge above ground traintracks, huge hotells, huge shoppingmalls, roundabouts and roads. The construction workers comes from for example: sri lanka, india and pakistan. They work 10-15 hours shift, live in camps and get very low paid, but they manage to support their intire family back home. Usually they get to go back every 2nd year to se their family. The taxidrivers drives every day and only takes a break when sleeping, but they earn even more money because of the tip from customers.

With a degree in engineer and construction you can get a very good work deal here! Many engineers come from Europe and USA and Canada. The work package consist of: workhours 07.00-17.00 or longer -5 days a week, big nice house in a very safe neighbourhood, big car, moving of your furnitures, paid rent, water, electricity and phone bills, medical insurance for intire family, school costs, 2 months paid holiday July/August, holidayflight ticket paid for entire family once a year. Monthly salary for an engineer about:6-10.000 AUD and NO tax on that, right into your pocket!!! I meet a few very happy young families from Sweden that just moved here. I few year and you can buy a brand new house with cash :). Maids and gardener are very common to have here.

My own room :)

I even got my own room to play in. The cot was used the first week but then I went back to my old habit of sleeping in mums and dads bed. I had a lot of nice toys some new and some from my dads days when he and his sister where kids!!! One of my favourite was a Fisher Price bus with little people inside and a doll that says mama/papa/laughing and crying when you press on the tummy. I brought the doll back home :)

The couch was really comfy, mum sat on the floor in the sun and I sat in the couch resting!

Welcome to Dubai!

After a long long airplane trip we finally arrived to the big city of Dubai in United Arab Emirates (forenade arab emiraten). We where flying the Emirates Air which was a success, very good service and very good food, also we where lucky to fly with 3 adult tickets which means 3 own seats in a row and luggage for 3 adult!!!! Gramie and grandpa picked us up in their big car.... everything is big and new in Dubai!

Tomorrow we leave for big holiday!

And only mum is awake to pack all the bags and organize the big trip tomorrow! Dad and Bella sleep tight, mum is thinking of putting on a strong coffee to wake up dad or maybee not, let them sleep! Tomorrow won't be much sleeping. Hope the long airplane trip will be good and fun for Bella, keep the fingers crossed for us!

See you when we get back in 3 weeks! Bye bye

1 year ago!

1 year ago I went on my first big trip to Sweden!!! Soon it's time for my second big trip to Middle East!!! Se how little I was one year ago. Tomorrow is the first birthday of my friend Jakob and my mummy. She got a gift this evening from dad and is very happy :)

Happy Birthday to you all! Love Bella

Morning walk to our little centrum!

First I was a bit afraid of the water because I looked down in one of the holes and it sprayed my face with water. A gang of teenager started to laugh but I cried out loud :( but after a while I got curious again. This time mum went in the middle one and jumped over it, soon after I sat in it and screamed of laughter!!! I entertained a lot of people passing by because I had so much fun there!

We had some lunch there and I sat nicely down on the bench and ate my pasta lunch, well almost nicely sometimes I had to stand up to but I never got on the table there mum draws the line...no legs, feet or babies on tables! Mum was very happy with my nice behaviour. On the way back I walked next to the stroller and chated with mum. She didn't understand me but seemed to agree with whatever I said.

It's very har for me not to run away from mummy or the pram so today we exercised walking next to mum and the pram, and with lot's of encouragements and praise it worked! Mum was less sweaty this time!

Water girl!

Mum bought me this new dress a few weeks ago. It has some floating device on the chest and back so it's ment to be very safe in the water. The only problem is that I look like a body builder in it and have trouble bending down to pick up shels, also my arms can't come close to the body because of those floating devices....

Is it safe int he water? Well when I get into the water I flop around in this suit instead of trying myself to keep my balance, not safe at all in other words. But it makes me a little bit lighter in the water when mummy holds me.

My new pool, here I am singing for my doll and mum and dad are drinking sparkling white wine, leftover from the wedding! I can swim on my tummy and jump in the pool. Very nice afternoon!

Stairs climbing!

We went to visit a friend in her huge apartment right on the beach.

I enjoyed some time climbing all the stairs up and down!!!

Spice trouble!

I like to smell the pepper and then move all the spices to the stove!!! That makes me laugh!

My big fish!

Australia Day

Another holiday spend at the beach with some friends of ours and their son Iriga. The day was beautiful and lots of people celebrated the day with barbecues, drinks and playing ball in parks and at the beach! We spend all morning at the beach and both kids fall asleep once put into the car.

Jumping

Bella looks on in admire, she would love to go jumping like the big kids!

17.30

Dad finish work at 17.00 and then little Bella starts to head to the backyard gate. Usually we play outside, kickin the ball, watering the plants or hanging the laundry and then out of the blue.... dad shows up! and it's always fun!!!

Mum likes my red top with blue clouds on it. I just wonder what mischief I can do now.....

Beach house!

A evening visit to the beach house. Hello there koala whats happening?

Someone know exactly how the machine works..... though still cheep entertainment.....at no cost, wonder for how long!

First day as a married couple!

We went out to a lookout place and had a very nice brunch!

Having fun! Home made wedding!

Our wedding was childfriendly with a start at 5 so that even the younger one could have some fun before night time! We loved it, lots of little kids running around. Adult guests where 27!!! excluding us! and little kids under the age of 8 where 12!!! Our guest came from all these nationalities: Kenya, Sweden, Danmark, Kurdistan, Pakistan, India, Germany, Austria, New Zeeland, South Africa, Greece! That's international!

Steve and I did most of the food preparation beforehand and after the ceremony just handed it out on the tables! We borrowed chairs, cutlery, bowls and eskys from our friends and also got a very nice huge food tray containing nuts, cheese, crackers, dried meat.... made up by Ken as snacks before the bbq started, very popular tray!!! Thanks Ken!


Almost all kids went home before 9.00 and then we had a few late guests. We all sat down around a candle light and talked about funny stories, Bella played her part with putting on a plastic bowl as a hat and laughed over and over again, a little monkey in centrum!

When all gusets left the building and Bella fell asleep....late, we decided to do all the cleanup! It took us less then 1 hour: all dishes where done and all garbage out and in the right bins! After that we opened all the gifts and ate chokolade!!!! Great fun!

Cutting the cake!

Back from the beach and a bbq in our garden/yard! grillmasters above look happy! The wedding cake was made by our good friend Caroline (Oscars mum) and it was a very good Swedish strawberry cake!!! It went quickly :)

Signing all 3 papers in very windy condition!

We signed the paperwork and our friends Arne and Rikki (friends from Alice) where happy to be our witnessess! Bella saw the pen and wanted the pen to write and colour her legs.... so she made a few attemp to catch the pen from us but mum hold her away from the table and all important documents!