Last week when I flew to Malmö I found a pirate-themed sticker book at the airport. Adrian loves it more than I had expected.

Sticker books did not exist when I was a kid. We barely had stickers in fact. We had water slide decals, though. I remember how careful you had to be to get them where you wanted them and how easily they tore.

So sticker books to me are kind of a lazy thing. Today’s children have it too easy, “when I was young we had to …” and so on.

But Adrian is taking this one very seriously. He is really set on getting the stickers positioned just so, so the pirate’s boots properly cover his feet and the hat sits just right. And it is trickier than I would have expected: the pirates have fancy coats with curved sleeves which take some work to get right.

What a cake looks like when Ingrid has cut herself a piece, aiming for the biggest strawberry.

Spiderman in rubber boots, attempting to climb a tree.

Eric, with a movie and a cookie.

Ingrid got an atrociously annoying, loudly beeping electronic whack-a-mole toy with this week’s Kalle Anka. Opening it up to put batteries in (which had to be done as soon as we got in through the door, right there on the hall floor) was more fun than actually using it. I think even the kids found its noise too much.

Ingrid and I playing Machinarium together.

Adrian had Rufus the plush monster. Then Rufus mysteriously disappeared, and Dinah arrived to replace him. But Dinah was never quite the same and Adrian still missed Rufus. So now we made Rufus Junior together. Ingrid embroidered the face, I did the assembly, and Adrian cut and stuffed.

“This is my stone, you don’t have to sit right where I am!”

We went out for a bit of geocaching in the afternoon, in Lunda. I had planned for a longer outing in a wilder place, but Ingrid was coughing so much this morning that we had to cancel those plans. But Lunda is 15 minutes away by bike (at Ingrid’s pace) and there is a decent-sized green space which includes an iron age burial ground and some traces of a very old village, as well as a nice large playground with an archaeological theme (Viking ships etc).

I learned today that the burial ground in Lunda is the largest site with iron age graves in Stockholm. And we bagged our first multi-caches.