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This is my son, Erik, with his new permanent teeth and a somewhat new jacket. B est wishes, Anna First Commenter: Kat of Mom's Place

This week's PhotoHunt-Theme #206 is "Fresh". What could be fresher than the first spring garden-flowers picked (without permission) by the children, Elisabet and Erik, yesterday, Friday the 26th of March? Happy Weekend! Anna First Commenter: Sparkle the Designer Cat PhotoHunt

H is for heart(s). This is is my son, Erik's ice-sculpture with paper hearts frozen inside. Here is Erik himself in his snow-cave that he dug out himself. Here are heart-patterned pants, belonging to my five-year-old daughter, Elisabet. For more abc-Wednesday-H-posts please click here . Happy abc-Wednesday! Anna First Commenter: Sylvia K.

I am participating in I Heart Faces Photography's Photo Challenge for Week 9 "Hilarious Outtakes". This is Erik as Spiderman. This is Elisabet as a winged fairy or princess. Elisabet with her jewellery-making tools. This is Erik as a happy pirate, perhaps a Capten Jack Sparrow? Here we have a more serious Capten Sparrow. Happy Tuesday! Anna

Soon eight-year-old Erik is featured today for Semi-Wordless Wednesday . With my permission, he walked home alone from school for the first tim e. He crossed several city streets to do it. My first baby is growing up. Happy Wednesday! Anna Some of you may recall Erik as the playful pirate at Halloween? First Commenter: Lin , Duck and Wheel with String

Wordless Wednesday: Little boys like to play super-hero. This is my hero! He has a very special smile right now, that he only will have a short time and never again exactly the same way! Happy Wordlessness! Anna

In August the children played Indians. Erik wanted to build an Indian teepee. I suggested that he first making a drawing of what it should look like. This is Erik's drawing of a teepee. He wanted to make one - lifesize. He ended up making one using bed clothes, chairs and a step-ladder. Anna

A happy cut-throat! I almost regret signing up for, "NaBloPoMo", this "vow", this "oath, that I have taken to write a post every day for the next thirty days. 'I need this like a hole in my head', I thought to myself this morning, as I bicycled to our son's school to go to a meeting at the principal's office. Erik does not recognise all the letters of the alphabet. But he can talk about a wide range of subjects that the other seven-year-olds don't have a clue about. If his ability to read and write does not improve soon, they will start testing him for dyslexia. Is Erik really dyslectic? Or is he just lazy and lacks good study-habits? This is one of several problems that won't go away. 'Why did I promise to write every day for thirty days?' I thought to myself, ' No one will read it!' But then, I noticed that someone had left comments, and dicovered these three fairy godmothers of writing: Jakill , Surfie and Lin : J aki...