Viivis B-Day, Spring,Stockholm

Hello everyone,
Seems like Im updating once a month nowdays, but what can I say, not that much is happening, days are getting longer, life rolls on and we are all happy:) I dont feel like writing about small things like what I had for breakfast or what shoes I bought...:) , but now when summer is coming I think we will have more going on over here again.
Viivi turned 4 years old on saturday 28.04, and she is very proud! She had a kiddies birthday and we had a bunch of children visiting. Everything was quite at first but give the children 5 minutes and it sounded as we had 50 children in the house:) But they had all fun! On monday we went to a friend/collegues 40th birthday party, a very fun evening, the guys did the balloon dance towards midnight....Im not going to go into detail about that, but it made us all laugh, great done guys!:) When we came home at 02.00 in the night, Viivi was still up and keeping my dad company, by dancing and singing for him....not what we had in mind for her in the middle of the night( no more daytime sleep for her, as she slept 3 hours in the day that day..and my dad is not very strict in getting the girls to bed).
On 1st  of May we took the girls on their bicycles to the 1st of may happeing here in our village, and Liina is doing great on her own now, Viivi still needs some guidance to steer the bicycle in the right direction, but we made it there and back. Afterwards we had a big lunch at Katcha& Anssis house.
This weekend I have been in Stockholm with my good friend Immo, we left on saturday morning, arrived to a sunny Stockholm at about 10am, checked in to the Hotel Sture Plan, a nice hotel and very well located for us, as our main activity for the day was shopping, and there is plenty of shops we like in the area,but at 1pm we realized that we had not got further than to Sture Gallerian, where we also did have lunch, so after lunch we speeded up and rushed further, walked trough Biblioteksgatan and almost run to Åhlens, our plan was then to start from there but suddenly the time was already 4pm and we had to be at Berns Asiatic restaurant at 5pm, no chance , so we changed the time to 5.30 pm, just to get enough time to get to the hotel and get ready for the evening. We had a wonderful dinner at Berns, and after dinner and 3 glasses of wine it was time to go to see the Musical Dirty Dancing at China Teather, and what a show, I just loved it and laughed and felt a few tears pushing trough also a few times, I do recommend everyone to go and see this musical. It doesnt matter how many times one has seen the movie, the musical is still something of its own class. After the musical we where so tired that we went back to the hotel and fell asleep with a happy smile on our lips and tired feet:)
And Stockhom, it is a lovely spring town, I love to visit this city, to feel the atmosphere, watch the people and just enjoy the vibe, it gave me lots of energy.
Now Im home again and it feels great to be home! But definitely soon again a visit to Stockholm is planned in.
Next weekend we have south african friends coming over , they do live in Tampere nowdays , so we will have a braai, biltong and savannahs:)

And about travelling, in about 2 weeks we are going to Italy for 5 days, looking forward to that.

Love to you all and have a wonderful May!

Jannika