Vacation Over

Milton´s first family vacation. A two week vacation in his 1/4 part homeland (him being part finnish and all). We stayed at the family summer house close to the russian border. This vacation was a part work vacation since we needed to "freshen" up the house a bit. A total of six adults and three small children painted the house, chopped down about 10 trees, trimmed the yard and more. The first week wasn't much of vacation but the second week was really nice.

Milton had his first dip in finnish waters :) and enjoyed it. We walked in the woods, fished and played games at night. I got three pikes and Elina got one, her first in life. If the hook didn´t destroy the inside of the small pike we would have tossed it back in, but instead it became soup.

I noticed that Milton has started to stand up from a sitting position with only the help of balance (which he does not have yet :). Now that I know he has the strength to stand up by himself I can´t wait until he develops balance.

All and all, our first vacation together was great. Grandparents, great grandparents, unkel and cousins all together.

..and this was his facial expression when we told him the vacation was over.