back in colombo

and the weather is warm...

at the new pool and looking up towards dad's office

alex and oskar at fountain gate, zurich

swiss miss

what every swiss miss will be wearing this summer?

cookiez

a welcome gift for oskar from the hotel scheuble in zurich

blue tongues

anna, gustav and oskar pose showing their tongues after a lolly pop. uh huh! you're right oskar didn't have one but he wanted to stick out his tongue anyway.

happy birthday miss camille

hope you have a great birthday, lots of love xxx

on the beach

yes, the flattest water in the world (although tine and thomas assure us that with the right wind, surf is up) and the rocky coastline - welcome to a danish beach.

apparently the pastime of tha youth is to try to skim the rocks to sweden - well you can't do that with a swell, so i reckon it's always flat.

fabulous walk through heath covered dunes and beautiful summer houses to get to the beach - and helena christensen has her house just down the beach from here.

summer house (but it feels like winter)

family portrait at the summer house in the garden

hello to tine, thomas, anna and gustav

after nearly 5 years, alex and i get to meet up with tine, thomas and anna - our friends from new delhi. in the meantime, tine and thomas had another child, gustav and alex and i had oskar. it was so nice to meet up with them and get to see their family - anna was just a little thing when they left india. we only spent a few days with them - but it was great. we spent some time with them at their new house in copenhagen and also at their summer house at the coast, 30 minutes away.

oskar, anna and gustav got along brilliantly and played together all the time. we all agreed that oskar could have been their third child as he was blond and morphed into a scandinavian toddler very quickly.

here's to hoping that it is not 5 years next time.

swiss air

so we drove back to zurich after 2 days in aosta and took a swiss air flight to copenhagen, denmark to see tine and thomas.

francesca's camera

well, alex and i thought that we lost our camera at etroubles and didn't manage to take any photo's until the last afternoon once we found the camera at the bottom of chrissy's handbag.

all other photo's were taken by francesca and will be posted when she sends them on. thanks francesca

tres euro or aussie?

oskar and alex on the main pedestrian street in aosta.

it is not every father who ensures that his shoes match his ultimate accessory - the stroller.

hip hip hooray for italia

yes, this is oskar's first plate of spaghetti in italia from ristorante la croix blanche, etroubles (a metroplis of 439 inhabitants on via naz gs bernardo 10). he didn't finish the whole plate but he did manage to entertain all of the diners with his spaghetti twirling prowess as they shouted "bravo, bravissimo".

(alex and i had polenta val d'aostana, and alex did help oskar finish the spaghetti)

switerland en route

we left new york for zurich at 7pm on saturday night. thankfully oskar slept most of the way.

we arrived into zurich at 8am sunday morning, ready to go and pick up our car and drive to aosta to see wally, francesca and yuri. the drive took 4.5 hours because we stopped at lac de la gruyere for some breakfast and a break. oskar enjoyed being here as there were numerous painted cows.

the view with the blossoms is in the direction we were headed - the pre-alps towards italia.

the mountain is one alex photographed as we were heading towards the pass du gran san bernardo en route to italia.

on our second last day

oskar and alex spent the afternoon at the 23rd street park on the corner of 5th avenue. i think they had vietnamese noodles for lunch afterwards

it did eventually become spring

and oskar loved getting out in his short sleeves. ab/cd was a popular shirt in nyc

mini elton

excuse the blurriness of the photo - but he just looked so cute standing there playing the baby grand at laurice's house

one thing we did find out on holidays

we have a healthy looking little bubba due in october

picture 1:
full body profile of our new baby (ok technically a few months away from being a baby - but who's counting)
right to left: bottom and legs, spine and abdomen, head, arms up towards the mouth

picture 2:
head profile, little lips and nose, with its chin resting on its chest - looks as though it is sleeping peacefully

heartbeat at 158bpm. also did a lot of kicking and turning during the sonogram.

all the white you can see, except for the lens flare is bone.

some new york snaps are missing

they are on jenny's computer and when she sends them to us, they will go up.