Jeepers Keepers

I'm not alone when I say these are simply beautiful shots, am I?

Fashion Police

As you can all see, Benji isn't afraid to try to be different. He isn't content with a brightly coloured scarf or a differently patterned hat. Oh no, instead he likes to go for a striped apricot number with some form fitting glass beads topped off nicely with some seasonal fur boots. Next up, Benji gets a little more tribally inspired. He opts for a primitive look with some beads again, this time with a seasonal NZ hat and the fur boots contrast nicely. If that doesn't deserve a big smacker from his caveman Dad, then nothing will.

Assembly Experts

After acquiring a new sofa, Benji took it upon himself to help with the assembly.

Bubble trouble

"Where did that come from?"

Trainspotter

Right place, right time.

Benji is seen here taking full advantage of the chocolate carnage from one of Mummy and Daddy's many film evenings. Well when we both don't have much to do and our weekends are mostly spent inside away from the cold, one must always have a little chocolate. Mustn't one? Benji doesn't even know they are chocolates, he just likes the shiny paper...he he he.

Benji the Tank Engine

A very generous gift of a train track and some trains came, from morfar or Grandad depending on which side of the clan you come from, which was very well received by his royal highness. Hours of toot toot and chugga chugga to follow.

Painting

30 Years Young

The world's best Mum and 30 Years young. There's not much else to be said really.

Happy Birthday sweetheart!

Face Painting/Learning to Eat

Mummy Daycare

Off he goes for his first day at daycare without Mummy. Surely someone so small shouldn't be going anywhere by himself?

Morning has broken

As you can see, Benji and I need a little time to wake up in the morning.

Curious George

A classic when I was a kid, when ever that was? Gosh it seems like such a long time ago, and living away from NZ for such a long time, I have half forgotten who I am. Well I remember some things. One of those things was watching Curious George after school lying on the lounge floor while eating from a 20kg sack of apples in the kitchen. To make a short story long, Benjamin loves Curious George, who is called Nicke Nyfiken in Swedish. Nyfiken means 'curious' and of course Nicke, is just a cool name right? Hmmm? Well it rhymes right? Hmmm? I think it's like calling him Curious Burious, a Slovenian monkey who works in a mine all day and gets ribbed by his mates for being called Burious, and has the last laugh by being as Curious as he can be!

What a ramble. Benji loves him anyway and we are planning to paint his bedroom with vast amounts of Curiosity with flashes of Georgeness!

Fighting the bulge

As you can see Benji loves his food. He eats everything at every meal and often asks for more. His favourites at the moment are bananas, bread, broccoli and barrots. Well he can say the 'B' sound so well, so let's just call them barrots shall we? But he will seriously eat anything as this classic photo shows. Do you think he can see what the scale says over that almost perfectly round tummy bulge?

Anyone got any ideas for a caption?

Benj George

If any of you remember the 80's (when?), well I do and it was absolutely awesome for one hit wonders and terrible fashion. Here is a blast from the past. No one had 'better' fashion sense in the 80's than Boy George!

The Boy in the Mirror

There is something refreshing about a boy who can be driving heavy machinery, stop to kiss himself in the mirror and then be on his way.

Well I think it's refreshing anyway.

Lights Out

Cathy leaves Sweden bound for Germany. See you soon little sis! xxx

Learning to Smile

As an adult, we never stop and wonder how we got where we are. I for one, never thought you needed to learn how to smile. Of course there are those adults, (I see lots everyday) who still don't know how to smile! Benjamin (with a lot of help from Mum) is learning how to smile. As you can see he is getting there.

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Happy New Year

Stockholm fireworks 2009-2010

Sleds Will Roll

A short warm up before Vancouver 2010...

A Very Merry Christmas 2009

The first present is always the best.

The Christmas angel.

"Pappa, can't I just take one of these off the tree, only one?

Can't I just take another one off the tree, only one?"
Pippi Longstocking meets Santa Claus.
"Who the hell is that?"

We are happy to report that Swedish Family Wilkinson, although very low on family during the Christmas break, had a very cosy and relaxing Christmas. Everything went to plan, Benjamin even got a very Swedish visit from a very Swedish Father Christmas. Bless him!

Well the weather outside is frightful...

And the fire is so delightful.

Well that's how the song goes anyway. The weather is perhaps not exactly frightful, but not far from it. After one week with crazy amounts of snow and one week of heavy flutters we had a good base on our hands. Maybe 1-2 feet of nice soft snow. Not good snow for a snowball fight or making snowmen but enough to make all the Swedes happy and make even the greyest day look a little brighter. More wintery fun to come.

Santa's Greetings!

Santa's Photo Session #3

Santa's Photo Session #2

In keeping with the New Zealand christmas theme, Benji has dropped all customary Santa attire and gone for a hat & jandal ensemble! We at SFW think this could be the next big thing.
Even the best ideas don't always work the first time around!

Bath Boy

Winter Attire

Santa's Photo Session #1

Welcome to Estonia

Finally, after 9 months of post production, the travel giant Lonely Planet has released this quick guide to Tallinn, Estonia.

Cuddling

Benji has learnt how to cuddle. He cuddles Mum all the time and as you can see likes to lie down with his teddy and cuddle. In Swedish it's called "mysa", I guess a translation would be to cosy. Anyway several times he walks up to Mum and cuddles her by placing his head on her tummy and smiling. He hasn't cuddled Dad yet, but then looking at the state of me I'm not surprised!