The kissing hand

Today is the 3rd day since Landon started his preschool. The morning drop off has been harder and harder. The first day he only cried when he saw I was leaving, was proud and happy wearing his backpack, The second day he only wanted to wear his backpack with one arm and cried when we were approaching the school gate. Today, the third day, he asked me to carry his backpack and started cry when we were leaving home. He told me his hand hurts, his neck hurts, the school is closed and he doesn't want to go to school.

My friend Tania recommended this book to me: The kissing hand. I bought it on my way home and what a sweet story. A baby Raccoon was afraid to go to school, he cried and wanted to stay home with mom. His mom kisses his hand and then he puts it to his cheek where he feels safe the whole day at school. Baby Raccoon then got to do that to his mom and kissed her hand as well so she could put his kiss next to her cheek. I am going to read the story to Landon tonight and kiss his little hand tomorrow when I drop him off so he can put next to his cheek when he is afraid and sad.

Love you so much baby

First school day

Landon starts his school today. He was rather excited and told our nanny he won't be joining her at the park anymore and he was so proud when he put his backpack on and didn't want to take it off.

Waiting in the garage and saying good bye to our neighbor's cat - Emma

Daddy dropped him off at the curb side of his new school

In his new classroom with his teacher Miss Brooke. Thats when mum knows Landon is a bit sad, he walks with his head down

No more photo after this, after I took the next picture, he turned his head and saw I was leaving, he started cry and wants to run to mum.

 Have a good day baby, mum heard your crying but you will be fine. Mum is crying too but she will  be fine too...

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I turned my face for ten seconds then I saw this little face, it makes me laugh, Landon was feeding his sister some Nutella he no longer wants, or maybe he was just wiping his fingers on her face. Poor little sister...

La Petite Magazine Issue 5

Thank you dear Rachelle. I love the latest La Petite Magazine. Not just because the wonderful editorials you did for Suvi Ainoa but also every single amazingly chic page of this issue.

Finnish-Chinese collaboration

Via Kasino

Books of Faces charts Finnish-Chinese collaboration fuelled by the Shanghai expo and leading the way to world design capital Helsinki 2012. 42 Faces, 21 from China and 21 from Finland - including artists, architects, businessmen, promoters and general visionaries, who give you an idea of all that the Finns got up to at the expo. So much. This 200 page passoort-like wonder is available online, here

Babiekins Issue 6 is out

Check out the latest issue of Babiekins Issue 6, another beautiful issue.

Thanks for featuring our Suspender pants

Finn Fest

There were a Finn Fest this weekend here in San Diego. We were so looking forward to it and then all four of us got sick right before the weekend, Landon and daddy were feeling much better already, so they went and Nea and I stayed at home.

I find it rather interesting to see what souvenirs the boys brought home, if I went myself, most likely I will get something Marimekko, Iittala etc. Here are what they brought home:

- Two pins, one says in Finnish ' Finnish boy', another is 'Finnish girl'

- Two vintage style apple and lingonberry soaps.  I like everything about them, they feel and smell so authentic and Finnish to me. I don't know if people are still using them in the cities?

Karelian Pie . They are not really a pie, more a salty pastry I think. Super yummy. Antti was already eating it before I shouted, let me take a picture first! That explains why the bread has 1/4 missing

Of course, Rye bread. He found a Finnish bakery in Georgia that makes authentic Finnish rye bread and they even ship within US. That was such a great news to my husband. Now we don't need to bother all our friends and families to 'smuggle' those bread into US custom anymore.

In addition to those, he also brought some brochures of a Finnish Sauna maker here in US, who makes authentic Finnish prefab sauna. Now Antti has his rye bread, if we could have a sauna one day in our house, I think this Finnish man will be very very happy.

11 months

I can't believe how fast time goes, Nea is 11 months old today, 11 months, what have we been doing during these 11 months?

A few days ago, we were playing in a park, Nea was crawling on the playground, a little boy came and asked me if she is a puppy

Toothbrush

I am a person who is guilty of often buying things only because of its beautiful design or sometimes just nice packaging.

But one thing I never thought about design matters is toothbrush. I guess there are people who thinks differently

Kanelikauppa

Looking for posters for our home, love those prints

Images are from Kanelikauppa

Thanks RTIF for recommendation

sun rise sun set

I can't believe it is already August. I don't remember how my July has passed, what we have done,  I guess it is a good thing, slow living.

Landon was having some plum this morning and I asked if I could have a piece. He didn't want to share but he didn't want to say no directly either. So he told me: Not now Mama, wait until the sun come out in the night. I guess that is his version of No. But my boy, you have not visited daddy's country yet, there is something called mid night sun during the summer! May mum have a piece of plum then?