::| h o c k e y |::

Recently hockey has been Sanders favourite activity and sometimes "play hockey, daddy!" has been the first words out of his mouth when he has woken up. I understand that I have a big part of this and that I have influenced him in liking this sport, but I never thought that he would get this crazy. At preschool he even plays "broom" because they don't have any hockey sticks inside. I only hope it lasts long enough to pay off! ;D

Most of the time Sander wants to be the goalie and have me to shot some pucks on him. Doesn't he look a bit like Henrik Lundqvist in this pic?

Last monday I had a day off from work and I spent the whole day at home with Sander. Well, honestly we weren't at home that much. First we attended Skellefteå AIKs training session and there we met Andreas Hadelövs wife and two kids. Sander asked them if they knew where Antos was. :D

After the training session me and Sander went for a short training session of our own at Norvalla IP. Sander made his debute on skates and he just LOVED it! He never stopped laughing! I couldn't take that much pictures since I had to hold him up most of the time, but here you can see him sitting on the board infront of the substitute bench.

::| g i n g e r b r e a d |::

Sander and Erika went to grandma Monica and grandpa Kimmo and baked some gingerbread in all imaginable shapes. As seen on the picture above there was for example gingerbread camels baked. Sander just loves to bake and every now and then he gets to bake some breakfast bread with mom and dad on saturday and sunday mornings.

When the gingerbread figures were done Sander and Kimmo got to taste them. According to Sander they were "Jättegoda" - really good!

I know that I wrote about being more frequent with my blogging in my last post, but I'm sorry to say that I haven't been able to live up to that promise. This will be the second and last post of november...

::| t h e O i l e r s |::

First thing first, I have to apologize for the lack of pictures and other contributions to this blog. To my defense I blame it all on Facebook and the satanic impact the Vampire application has on my life... I promise that I will try to improve from now on!

Sander found my old Oilers jersey I got when I was a kid from our friends John and Janet over in Edmonton. He got really excited and he wanted me to fetch a helmet and his hockey gloves.

I guess this is Sander showing us how he'll be celebrating winning the Stanley Cup someday in the future... Me and Erika are a bit sad though since it looks like he'll be playing with the wrong club... We were hoping for LA Kings, but maybe he can be traded after winning the cup?

::| i n d e x f i n g e r |::

Every tuesday and thursday afternoon Sanders grandmother, Monica, picks him up from preschool since both me and Erika work late. As Monica and Sander get to spend a lot of time together they also get to play with each other a lot. One game they have played a lot recently is to draw faces on Sanders index fingers. When Sanders has the "guys" as he calls them on his index fingers he hides them away or makes them talk and kiss each other. It is really cute.

Sander really likes the "guys" on his index fingers and when they have rubbed off he always asks "-where are the guys, grandma?"

In this picture Sander is singing and doing the moves to the swedish children song "Var är pekfingret?" translated into english it would be "Where is the index finger?" and it goes something like this...

"Where is the index finger? Where is the index finger?

Here I am... here I am..."

::| f a c e s |::

Everytime me or Erika asks Sander to make a funny face this is the first thing he does. Isn't it adorable?!

..and this face is the runner up! I look like hell in all these pictures, but Sander is cute as always so please pay more attention to him, ok?

At this point both me and Sander where laughing too much to make this funny face work...

Sander didn't really know how to do this last face - blowing up your cheeks, but still he tries to pull it off!

::| a i k |::

This last saturday I took Sander to his first ice hockey game ever. Skellefteå AIK were playing Linköping HC and our beloved, Skellefteå AIK, came out victorious. The final score was 4-1. Sander was totally into the game and when the crowd was singing he clapped his hands and sang along with them. At one time when the crowd was silent he actually shouted "Heja AIK" three or four times all by himself so that other fans turned their heads. He is already talking about going to upcoming games.

Uncle Johan followed us to the game and he helped out holding Sander so that he could get a better view of the action on the ice. But in this picture it kind of looks like Sander is more interested in something other than hockey. I can't imagine what it could be...

A nice picture of me and Sander in the stands waiting for the second period to start. Sander was really excited and he was really impressed with the big crowdand all the players. The only time when he was a bit uncomfortable was when Anders 'Antos' Söderberg (Sanders favourite player btw) scored and the whole crowd went bananas. Sander wasn't ready for this and the massive cheers just about scared him out of his wits. But I said something funny so that he started to laugh instead.

Like I said earlier Sander really enjoyed the game and all the hockey players, but honestly I think one of his favourite parts was the popcorn he got from Rose and Daniel. :D

::| n e w s k a t e s |::

Sander got his first pair of skates today and he couldn't wait to get home from ICA Maxi and try them on! Remember this day!


Sanders stick was outside and since he already had his skates on we didn't have time to go get it. But his gloves was inside and Sander really wanted to have them on. As you can see Sander already has his mind set on playing for Skellefteå AIK.




I don't really know what Sander is doing on this picture but I guess he tries to skate or something...