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Jochberg, Easter - there is a little reflection in the window

 

After a few days in Vienna we head to our place, Jochberg. Where we feel so much at home, it is hard to describe. I could never skip this trip, though it was a little exhausting with overly full trains for Easter. There is still some snow covering the fields in this mountain village, but when the sun shines it is getting very warm. So it happened on Easter Sunday, when this picture was taken. Do you recognize Antonia and me in the window reflections? Mama, as always, decorated the houes nicely, this time in Easter style. During the week, we walk regularly our "Schradl-Dorf-Runde", meet with family, go skiing. Antonia is overly happy to see all her cousins and aunts, her uncle, granny and babushka and deduschka. And to walk around in the garden. She surely is a Tyrolean girl :)

 

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Vienna we are coming!

We are finally traveling really to Vienna. The trip was planned for a long time, but until the end we were not sure if we can manage - luckily we did. As a result this week was quite busy if not stressful and i had lots to work and plan and pack, and i rarely had time to take pictures. This picture was taken in the airplane on the way to Vienna on saturday when i started to breath again and had time to look forward to this trip. She kept us busy throughout the flight, but it wawe ok because we were so happy to travel. More pictures to come from beautiful Vienna and Tyrol :) I want to note down as well that this week marked the 70th birthday of my mother (it was on monday) and of course we skyped with ehr on that day. The presnt from us children was of course a photo-book.

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Painting, one of her favorite things and me exploring the light of the balcony door

Sometime I manage to get a picture with Toni & me, with timer, which is even somehow sharp and not so bad. So I thought I chose it for this week, which was otherwise little bit empty week. Tanya went to St.Peterburg on wednesday and in the following days, i was chasing our little girl. Chasing her while painting and running around with the black marker which is a dangerous toy, really. Cannot figure out yet how many strokes we have already on the floor. She also climbs up every chair and runs around without a break. I was obviously quite tired on sunday and very happy when Tanya returned. She has some connection with the kitchen chair where she stands with pleasure. Only, no food please. I really hope that Anne-Mari will be satisfied with her weight next week when we meet her.

 

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Body-painting children art

This week half of our family was ill. First Antonia got sick and when her fiever reached 39.5 ° C we even went to the hospital. Ear infection, antibiotics, 1 week at home. Aaarrhhh. Poor girl for some days she was really feeling miserable, very tired and not interacting at all. On top of that, Tanya fell sick as well during the middle of the week and I played nurse at home. This was really not fun but I managed. Only by the week-end things got better and we even met Nina & family on Saturdays. Sundays we played memory and painted. I told her not to paint on the furniture, wall and clothes - apparently i forgot to mention her body in this list.

 

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Maybe one of my favourite pictures so far

It looks like she is very thoughtful, in fact she was watching a snow mobile shoveling snow from the street. Whatever, it is a typical Antonia face. She was again painting this week in the Kindergarten, and they were also singing. Apparently, Antonia loves singing. Well, she does not talk, but sings. It is not true, she DOES talk, simply nobody understands her. But she interacts and babbles, and often imitates that she talks on the phone. With a bread or something holding to her ear. Very nice, when we picked her up once this week from Pikku Pietari, they said again that it was a good day, and that she is an “iloinen tyttö” which means “happy girl”......so true. This week had incidentally also another theme, which was "color red".

 

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Antonia sitting at our window

 

Antonia’s new habit is climbing. She climbs everywhere, preferably to the window and on the chair and table. Best places are the ones she is not allowed to. She is not so much interested in books, more in moving. She was a little sick this week, with a nasty cold and some fever, followed by Mama Christina who was alying for 3 days with high fever. So the week was a little shaky, but ok. Unfortunately it has impacted on her apetite, so she is not eating very well any more.  We aso received the first post card of our daughter, a valentine’s card with a cute bear on it which she painted herself (well, she placed the colors i think).

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Antonia on the children’s playground in Kuopio

 

Antonia was 4times in daycare this week, and it went fine. She sleeps well there, usually over 2 hours, and she continues to eat well, what a relief. She was painting a card for Valentine’s day for us, wich we hopefully receive next week. I think Maarit, her kindergarden aunt, likes her very much, Antonia talks now also a lot, simply nobody understands her :). But “Mama” comes already quite clearly and loudly already, sometimes also demanding. Just to note down: she has now 4 more teeth, all together 8. On sunday we went to play on the playground.

 

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