Mumbi, the fast crawler

Even now as i write this, she just crawls around the house. Taking down my cds at the moment. :) she started crawling like a week ago, exploring different rooms, not just rolling around in one place. She was sooo happy when she realized that she can actually move and go touching everything :)

My small worm ;) hihi

One more thing for today....

Happy 9 month bday our dear Angeleena! :D...yep, our second born is already 9 months today...can't believe how fast the time is going.
Now she is crawling so fast and saying few words already and oh, she is just adorable! :)

Isabella Wairimu Malaika Mutahi

Ok, now I have some little time before I go and get this lil' princess from the daycare. :) So, I am going to tell a little bit of my own first born flesh and blood. :)

Isabella Wairimu Malaika was born on the 28th of November 2007 at exactly 16.47 (Finnish time). Her height was 49cm and weight 3360g. Her due day was 11.11.2007 but well, she decided to go further for like 2 weeks or so....:) The labour was started but it took like 3 days from the starting to the day that she was finally taken out with c-section. It seemed that she could've even stayed longer if it was possible..hehe..there was no hurry for her to come out. :)

Aanyways, I was taken in to hospital 26.11. and I got some tablets to start the labour...got contractions but there was no changes..I was not opening at all...on 27th around midnight the water broke but it was brownish/greenish so I went to ask if everything is fine and they told me to just take it easy and its ok and that I go and take a shower if I hv contractions...so I did, but they were getting more and more. I tried to call Phares but he was not hearing my phone calls...probably sleeping so deeply as usual...;)...I almost panicked since I didn't have anyone now there to help me out apart from the midwives who just told me to relax...;)....I got to the maternity ward around 4 am and I also managed to get in touch with Phares and he came there around 5.30am....the water was dripping all the time but it was green, the pain was too much....the midviwes were changing shifts so I don't even know who was there sometimes :D hehe...Only one of them was really nice and helpful to me...I got the epidural around noon and ooooh, it was so reliefing...phew....the doctors were wondering why I am not opening even though I have so much pain, etc. Around 16hrs another doctor came and checked and told me that the baby cannot come out the normal way because my hips are too narrow and the head is not facing the right way...I panicked again, because at this point Phares had left the room for some coffee or something....and when I called him, he was actually at home, making food for Simon...I told him that they are going to take me for c-section because nothing is happening, so if he wants to be here, he should hurry and be there in 10 minutes. :D I was taken to the surgery room and given a spinal anesthesia....oh boy, I have never ever experienced such bad thing..I was given too much so I practically felt like I was dying..I could not feel myself breathing..I panicked..My eyes were dry and my mouth and I was just gasping for some breath....luckily Phares was there holding my hand and trying to calm me down...well...everything happened fast...while I was there gasping for some breath, I heard a baby gal screaming and ooooh...I was happy but scared at the same time. Phares took the baby and people started fixing me now and took me to the recovery room where I started freezing so much...that my teeth were just rattling :D....

Phares came with our beautiful baby girl Isabella and ooooh we were so so happy and proud parents. :) It was still the happiest moment of my life. :)

Monday, hot Monday...

Another week has started and now the sun is shining and it is still hot. Strangely hot for this time of the year :) Nice though! Keep up with this weather...me like it! :)
Soo....I am looking for some new opportunities but it seems this municipality doesn't want me to do that. Well, I'm not giving up, that's for sure. Just have to continue and meditate and pray and think positively so things will happen to me. :)
Exactly one week ago I achieved something small atleast - bought a house with three apartments in Nairobi, Kenya...wuhuu! :) Well, we bought it together with my mum and it's really nice feeling. Atleast we can own something in Kenya if not here :) hehe

Oh dear, my maternity leave is coming to an end soon..actually, it should've ended already but I extended it because here the daycares don't accept children under 1 year old. Weird, huh?...that is something that I miss about Finland too...the system sometimes...it is so much better there and easier atleast with all this parenting things...even after living here for three years now, things are hard sometimes and they are still new to me. Well, anyway...the leave is coming to an end in October and before that I should have already some new plans for myself....so I just pray that I will get some inspiration and fire to do something that I would really like to...coz' now my head is so empty...I don't even know what I want to do. :) Something totally new but what? :) Any ideas? anyone? :D

Simon Mutahi Wangunyu

Ok....now I will start telling something about my children...my dear "bratz" :D

Simon is not biologically mine but I still consider as my own son because I love him and wouldn't want to be without him :)
We had been discussing with my husband about bringing his son to start schooling in Finland...it scared me totally at first because I was pregnant with our first child at that time and was thinking how I could manage two kids at the same time...thinking that the other kid is already 6 years old and I don't know him at all plus that I will have a baby whom I don't know either yet....:D
Well, I agreed anyway that he comes since it was good time for him to start the first class in Finland...after all, Simon had had a very tough childhood in Kenya so I even felt that it is my time to help him out now....

fear, happyness, anxious, etc....those were my feelings when he came to us from Kenya in August 2007. He didn't know much english, only swahili...Phares was working as a truck driver then and he was away alot so the communication between me and Simon was pretty tough...he was a confused small boy then, but soon we started communicating abit although it was hard. Simon didn't say much, but then he did alot of things that were new to me and made me also confused...how should I manage with him...how will I be his mother etc.

Time went...he started the school, started learning finnish but he had alot of problems in schl...fighting other kids, being angry and all kind of things that made me feel so furious at times...I had to call Phares all the time and tell what happens in school and ask him how I was supposed to now deal with Simon...slowly by slowly things got better...but then Isabella was born and I was now busy with the new baby...I felt bad many times because of not having enough time to get to know Simon better and teach him stuff. Luckily I had my dear friends helping and spending time with him also when Phares was not around. Thank you my friends. You know who you are! :)

So, Simon learned finnish in like 3 months time and our communication got better but now he started testing us somehow..did all kinds of things that I wouldn't have imagined that he would think of doing :)...he lied alot, came home one day escorted by a police because of shoplifting, lied even then that he hasn't been stealing even though he was caught on the act...he lied practically about eeeeeverything..and he had always the stories ready when I asked what happened or why he did something :D...clever boy in that way...

When we now started planning our moving to Sweden, I was nervous because I didn't know how he would react now...moving again to another country with new language and such...well...it all went well anyway...we moved and he got a place in the swedish-finnish school in Stockholm where he could learn swedish slowly. He liked the school and has been going there since then...now he is a wonderful young man who helps me sooo much at home. He is a loving and caring boy. Loves his small sisters very much and takes care of them all the time. Ofcourse there is also fights between Isabella and Simon but most of the time they are good together :)

Simon was born 24th of October in 2000. He likes football, dancing, theathre, scouting and all kind of activites that can be available!

We love you lots Simon! :)

"Shortly" about me :)

Oh well, it has been now a while since I last visited here and actually started the bloggin, but better late than never, isn't it? :)
Let me start now by telling something small about myself first....
I was born on the 5th of February in 1977 at 21.05 pm here in Stockholm. When I was about 5-6 years old, we moved to Finland with my Mum and my small life was abit hectic when I look at it now. We moved around Finland alot, started my first class in Nastola, Lahti but after few months we moved to north where my grandmother lived. We lived in Pello and Väylänpää (a small village where my grandparents and uncles were living) and then even moved to Kolari for a while, but when my mum went to work in Norway, I stayed with my grandparents and went to a small school there in the village. :)
My last year of comprehensive school was fun - we were only like 4 pupils plus 2 teachers and a chef in that school. :D I consider myself lucky to go to school there.
I went to upper secondary school in Kolari and those were not my best years...I was being teased 'coz of my looks (yep, I was a chubby girl back then)...I'm telling you all, kidz can really be mean to eachother....and the worst part is that teachers didn't quite care back then about the teasing....so, that time left scars on me for a looong time, but now I just see that as part of my life that has brought me up to today, being more stronger person.

Btw, sorry if my english is not perfect but I'm sure you understand most of my writings anyway ;) heh....

So, when my 9th class was over, I moved to Tornio (border to Haparanda, Sweden) with my mum after being apart from her for several years...well not completely apart but not seeing eachother everyday since she was working abroad much and living in another town and since I didn't want to start changing schools anymore so it was best for me to stay with grandparents. :)
I lived in Tornio for like 5 years or something....and after finishing my commercial college there, I moved to Oulu to study to be bachelor of business administration and IT and I managed....in 2002 I was ready and started working in Nokia and later on in Fujitsu Services Oy. I was also volunteering alot with youths during those years - went even to Portugal for a youth camp in 1999. :)

Alot of things happened during my years in Oulu, I met many good friends there and enjoyed the city to the fullest. I still miss it alot and I miss my friends there! I happened also to meet my husbands familymembers there and became friend with them and in the year of 2003 I was lucky to be able to travel to Kenya and meet all the beautiful people there. It was my first time to travel sooo far and oh boy was I excited. :) That is when I met my husband for the first time :)....

After that trip we started communicating with letters alot and phonecalls and next year (2004) I travelled again there with my sister-in-law and her boyfriend that time. We had discussed if we would get married so that we could perhaps start a life together in Finland but I was abit "scared" and unsure about all....well, when we arrived to Nairobi, I found that things had been prepared for us already to get married :D hehe...well, it was shocking at first but I was not forced to anything anyways :) I told that we will see how things go during the 3 weeks stay there and if I feel ok and he feels ok, we go ahead and do it....:D ...aaaaaaand we did it...we went to the magistrate and got married! :D heh....that was in June 25th 2004...

look at us now...8 years have gone and there is nothing I would do differently :)...I have no regrets! :) I love my husband, Phares Wangunyu, and our own small family now! :D We lived in Oulu for 5 years after marriage and then we moved to Tyresö, Stockholm (in 2009) where we are now living. :)

Now I just wish myself and all of my family many more happy years to come! :) <3