I get fond of my woolly socks and mend them over and over again. Adrian takes it to a whole other level with his favourite socks and shirts. Except he skips the mending part.

We visited Eric’s brother and his family, including a new baby son.

This was the quietest baby I’ve yet to see in the Bergheden family. It was almost spooky. No crying, no screaming, only some small meeps at times.

Not too old yet for playing around.

The neighbourhood cat who’s been visiting occasionally is getting more comfortable in our house. Previously it used to cautiously look around but stay at a distance from us. Now it’s OK with being touched and sleeping in our sofa.

Adrian is practising multiplication. Not just simple times tables anymore – now one of the terms is a double-digit number, so it’s two for one and some addition and memory training as well.

I make up the problems for him by randomly sprinkling numbers on the page. I usually skip one (too easy) and start at two. Work my way from two to nine and put each number on a random line in the first position, and repeat that until there’s a number on each line. Three cycles gives me 24 lines which is roughly what I can fit on a normal page of squared paper. Then put a multiplication sign on each line. Then do three cycles from two to nine again for the first digit of the second term, and then the same again for the second digit. Voila – random maths problems on demand.

The washing machine started complaining about an E-18 and refused to drain itself. Upon inspecting the drainage filter, foreign objects were discovered.

Guess who forgot to empty their pockets before throwing their trousers in the laundry hamper…

We went for a walk on Järvafältet. Eric wanted to do some recon for their upcoming scout hike. And since we were going out anyway, we might as well grill some sausages, too.

I’m really pleased with the pop-up grill I bought a while back. Easy to pack, lightweight, easy to assemble. The only small problem it has is that the coals end up slightly too far from the food, but that’s easily fixed by propping up the bottom slightly with a rock once the actual fire is finished and the coals are down to a glow.

Mud cake (kladdkaka), of course, and balloons.

Friday night is movie night.