Swedish lessons and Midwife Appointment

It is day two of Swedish lessons.   Today we worked on numbers, ages, years and relationship words.  In Sweden, the word for Daddy is Papa.  Ellie has already run into this a dagis and is a little confused by the concept.  We have been talking about how Chloe has different words for her grandparents like “nana”, and  I think that has helped some.  The really interesting part of the relationship words I think is the words they have for grandparents.  Your mom’s mother is your “mormor.”  You mom’s dad is your “morfar.”  Dad’s mom is your “farmor”  and Dad’s dad is your “farfar.”  Not sure Ellie will adopt these terms but that sound better than “my Alabama grandma/papa”  and “my SC grandma/papa”  which is how she differentiates now.  After class a group of us went to the train station for pizza.  It sounds like a strange place for pizza but they have excellent pizza and it is right across from Electrolux which makes it easy for the guys. 

 Joannah, Angie, Ellie and I went craft shopping after lunch.  Ellie found some stamps and paints she just had to have.  She loved stamping at the Electrolux carnival and has been eager to try it again.  Ellie and I then met up with David for a midwife appointment.  I had gained a pound and the baby was measuring good.  My BP (100/58) and blood sugar were both in good ranges.  Our midwife also helped us find a pediatrician for Ellie and the baby.  In Sweden well care and sick care are delivered separately.  We will go to one clinic for all of the well care appointments and see the equivalent of a nurse practitioner.  If Ellie is sick there is a separate clinic that we can go to or afterhours they will see her at the ER. 

After the appointment, Ellie and I headed back to the station to catch the train home.  After waiting about 15 minutes we discovered that the green line was down.  Thankfully we were not far from T-centralan.  We were able to walk there and catch the blue line to Friedemsplan and then a bus to St. Eriksplan.  It amazes me how organized everything is when part of the trains system goes down.  They always have a backup in place very quickly.