Maria & Julia VV

On holidays

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Some like to relax,others like to read.

Julia learns to jump

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In the park with Julia

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Maria cycling with her tricycle

Julia loves the slide

Maria's 3rd birthday

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Fishing outside

Lot's of presents
Lot's of people

Maria's first Barbie (thanks to Annu)

Pajutila

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After Vappu we took the grandparents to the Pajutila farm where the sell
willow-tree made decorations

Vappu

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On Vappu (1st of May) Mummu Ritva came to stay with us.
We went out with Marianna and Markus to a greek restaurant and to the
playground.

Maria feeding Julia

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Soon Tuija and me don't need to be here when they eat ;-)

Julia's first birthday- The video

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Julia's first birthday

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Well techincally is the second one, here are the pictures

Martirio

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Maria having fun at the spanish play school.

Colour soap

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This is what happens when you bath these two with colour soap. Today's funny present from Anu N.

Best sisters

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Maria showing Julia how to sit on the loo

Back from holidays ... someone is standing

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The tower helps ...

But the basket full of toys is more appealing

This year the sledge is really fun

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New Au pair from spain

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We got a last minute visitor that proved to be an excellent helper

Playing with the box of nappies

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Julia is entertained with very little.

a little raindeer

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Snow is coming now for good

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Mini-cruise with kids

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Maria playing in the ferry terminal

All the kids (except Maria), Oscari,Julia,Iida and Sami

Iida and Maria best friends

Maria was a bit scared of Moomin peiko

Julia was waking up Maria from the nap

Please do not try this at home.

Flashback

2007-11-02T22:36:00.000+02:00

Sorry to go back in time but I forgot to put some Pics from Julia's Christening.

First snow

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Amparo and Vicente's visit - At home 1

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Amparo and Vicente's visit-At Home 2

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Dad trying to do some push ups with me on top.... he did not manage many

Having tea under the stairs

Amparo and Vicente's visit - Särkäniemi

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While dad was working we went to the funfair. I went to the rides for
the first time

Amparo and Vicente's visit- Baby swimming

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We took them to the baby swimming lesson

Visit to Muumin World

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Entering Möorkö's cave .....I was a bit afraid

Summer holidays - Week 2

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Ferry trip to Kolmaärden and Stockholm

I was not very convinced about this ferry trip so I decided to investigate the top deckMum bought me an ice cream but dad thought that this was a disaster in the making. Luckily I only messed the clothes of the family (mum and dad) .

There was a real Muumin house in the play area everybody wanted to go in so I had to put a bit of order

Julia chilled as usual

Kolmården Safari

I watched all the animals from inside the bus.... they didn't let us out

Kolamården Zoo

I saw for the first time elephants!!

.... and rhino's. After that I fell sleep

We had a nice walk around the zoo. It rained cats and dogs at some point and Julia got hungry so we had to do an emergency feeding at the toiled in the monkey section

Finally the sun shone again and we saw bears!!

at that point I woke up again

Day in Stockholm

We slept very well in the hotel in Stockholm

it was a bit windy that day

on the ferry to the Skansen area

shouting in the park so everybody could notice me

on the way back dad requested a window for the cabin... this is the view

Summer holidays- Week 1

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The trip to Raahe went quite well. Julie behaved like and angel

In Raahe....We went to the local playground with mum and Ritva-mummu

Went down the slider
Picked up some flowers
I ate some berries
We visited some relatives and had nice BBQ

Julia met our great-grandmother Lili
And best of all... I jump for the first time on a "elastic bed" (Spanish name)

Summer Weddings

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Dad and Julia in Harriet and Petteri's wedding. Julia was wearing the dress that Monica bought for her. She got lots of attention in this wedding

Playing with the piano

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We are in Raahe, at Tuija´s parents. Here María has found Tuija´s old piano.
Here she is playing with it.

Julia wants to talk

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Maria's second birthday

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David M visit

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It was almost two months ago when David Moncholi came to visit us. He brought a very nice book for Maria. It's her new dictionary.
Then we ask them to pose for a picture and this is what came out.... yes, we were asking Maria to smile.

Bubbles

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Vappu 2007

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Maria enjoyed the big lolly pop and the liquorice

Sleeping sisters

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The only moment of peace for mum and dad

More Julia

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With dad

Julia: First Month

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First outdoor trip of Julia

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Visits

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Minna, Maria's nanny, came to meet Julia. She brought with her 2 of her kids: Jasper and Lassi.

Here you can see Maria bossing them around and giving them that fiery look.

Then she managed to get the eldest to sit and eat the imaginary meal that she had.

More Julia

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No, she is not dead.This is her face after one feeding session. You can feel the satisfaction

Dad hasn't lost the feel for the nappie changing

At home with Maria

Jamming with dad

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Maria playing the "trumpet" with dad. The trumpets are actually puppets that the Spanish grandparents brought as a present

Julia sleeping

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This time without a hat. We think that the hair is darker than Maria's

When Maria met Julia

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At the beginning the toys in the visiting area of the hospital were very interesting.
More than my sister

Since they didn't let me hold her I had to sit down on a chair like the rest of the grown ups

At least my sister has brought me this nice teddy bear

Finally!! I can see her.

She is very little!

Mission accomplished!
I know my new sister and I got a new toy.... GREAT!

Julia Aleksandra

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Hi my name is Julia Aleksandra Verdu Vilmunen and I have just arrived here. I was born about 4:45 in the morning today. My mum push me out in less than 3 minutes. What else could I say about myself? I don't have that much to say, my weight was 3,070 Kg and I'm 49 cm tall. My mum seems to be in good health after my arrival.

This is better... I was a bit cold in the picture below

Hei someone put me some clothes on me please!!

Painting with mum

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Saga's laptop

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My friend Saga Maria has a latop and unlike my dad she lets me use it.

I have seen my dad using this let me show you

Maria's new bed

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I have been evicted from my cot, so my parents have bought this new bed for me.
Isn't it cool?

Give me a grape

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pleeeeaase

María the cannibal

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This is what happens when María eats crepes with blueberries....
at least she is happy

Driving on the sea

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With my friend Saku driving on the frozen sea. He has a very cool sled.

Mum's little superstar

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Practising Sumo (de Limon)

Down the hill

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A nice and sunny day
We decided to go and try Maria's new sledDad and me went first

We went quite far

Grandparents in Helsinki

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At the Sibelius' Monument

In front of the Train Station

With dad in front of Sibelius himself

Grandparents from Spain

2007-01-19T17:01:00.000+02:00

This week I have my grandparents from Spain visiting us.

My grandfather Miguel is suffering a bit with the weather.

But I'm having lots of fun in the swinger

I am also practising my skills as hairdresser with my nan

She is also drawing with me.... it's very entertaining

Shopping center

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We went to a shopping center with my grandparents

It was fun until my grandfather Miguel started to tease me.
At the end we were fine, just dancing tango.... look:

Shoes games

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Maria has a new game: to wear dad's shoes. Sometimes she gets upset when we tell her to stop.

Others she just looks to the other side and ignores us.

Modeling

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Here I am practicing my modeling style of walking.

Joulupukki - Santa Claus - Papa Noel

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This year I didn't cry when I saw Santa.....

... actually combing the hair of my cousin Ville was more interesting

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Merry Christmas
and a
Happy New Year!

In Xeraco

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I did a bit of a mess eating, but my grandparents didn't mind at all

Night party

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Eventually I got used to the spanish meal times.

In the boat

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My grand parents took me to sail in Antonio & Pilar 's boat, it was great!I had to use my hat, it was very sunny

They didn't know where to go so I told them : not to worry, let me drive.

Surprisingly, they let me!!

With the help of my grand father Miguel we found a nice spot

So everybody went for a swim, but they forgot to take me with them.... how unfair!!

Eating paella

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My aunt Amparo let me taste paella for the first time, it was delicious!!
PS: The paella was done by my great uncle Vicente, an expert on paellas

More family

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We went to see more relatives in Spain..... I just wanted to go with my daddy.

Finally in the beach

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I met my friend Carolina

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Here we are with our dads

We also swam in her swimming pool, it was very refreshing

In Elche we went to a park with swingers.

With my auntie Amparo

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When we Arrived we stayed some days at my auntie's place. I was very excited to see her!

My auntie Mar also came to see me and to play with my private swimming pool.

Flipper was a bit scary!

I had a great time in the castle that my auntie bought for me.

Traveling

2006-12-17T21:27:00.000+02:00

We had to stay one day in London, dad could not find a direct flight. Here I am in Stansted Airport waiting patienly.We decided to go to Cambridge. This is the first english city that my dad visted. It was a lovely afternoon in Parker's Piece park.
Later we went to eat chicken, in Nando's of course!
Finally we made it to Valencia, it was very sunny.

Holidays are over

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My first holidays in Spain are over. I did many things and met many people. I saw the sea for the first time. I'll post some of the best videos shortly , this is a starter.

Ready for the summer

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With my new sun glasses

I am 1 year old !!!!

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The party started with the family and Sanna,Heikki and Iida.

I started to open presents straight away.

Sometimes I misbehaved and dad came to "pick me up"

I also got lots of cards, they were very tasty... I tried them all.

Dad helped me to open some presents

Mum also helped me

Iida and me had a snack....it's so tiring to open so many presents.

One of the presents was bilingual. English and Spanish. Now I can start to understand mum and dad when they talk.

Nice books from my great auntie Concha.

My mum did a gorgeous chocolate cake. They put a candle on it. At first I didn't know what to do. Then dad helped me to blow it.

It was fun after all. I was very pleased

Then I tried the cake..... nice

With my friends: Iida, Markus, Charlie and Ameli

una, dos y ... TREEEES

Family picture!

The next day we went for a meal with my spanish grandparents.

My first Vappu

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We went down to Helsinki in train. There was a nice playground area for me.

We stayed at Iida's place

We went to this huge park, everybody was having pick-nick. It was a nice party.

At home

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Playing with Markus

Jumping instead of being still while mum changes my nappie

Enjoying a quiet time with mum

Dicovering very strange things in the kitchen's drawers

Hoovering at my own style

More clothes !!

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Saga and Satu came to give me some of Saga's old clothes. Saga decided to try her clothes one last time to make sure they were really small.

One of those clothes was this lovely hat!!

Harriet's visit

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She a very funny girl, we were friends inmediately!

Yep, this is Finland

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For the non-finns, VERO means TAX. I received last week my first pre-filled tax-return (Declaracion de Hacienda). They say that in life there are only 2 things sure: Death and Taxes. Well here in Finland they teach you this really soon!!

Thank God, my dad helped me with the instructions, now I think I can fill it by myself ;-)

Shopping

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Eating orange

Our last shopping trip started well. I was behaving pretty well!

Until mum bought oranges. I love oranges!! But for some reason they didn't taste as well as the normally do.

My new teeth

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These are my new 2 top teeth, now I can really bite. Ask my mum and dad.

Benjamin's visit

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We had lot's of fun in my little playground

He brought me a present for my next birthday, sadly he will not be there :(

Two can mess up more than one

We both can stand up in the tower

Let the mum talk and lets go to play

Iida's birthday party!!

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I didn't want to miss any detail

Gardening with Iida is very tasty

I love balloons! but mum is scared of them... I don't know why

Iida has lots of toys!

Next day we had lunch together

Around home

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Bathing with my little duck

Let's see what dad is keeping in this drawer!

Behind bars

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They say that is for my protection but those stairs look like fun.

I'll have to play with the rest of the furniture then!

Or climbing up to mum

Uuno's birthday

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This was my first birthday party, I met all my friends from music school, Anna and Uuno

Uuno had a lovely birthday cake!

And all the grannies wanted to hold me, I didn't cry this time even
I didn't know them at all!

Fully mobile

2006-03-02T17:21:00.000+02:00

Maria can move and go everywhere, nothing is safe. The papers in the coffee table

dad's laptop

power adaptors in the shelf

and photographs

This weekend's moments

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Bathing is more fun with foam!!

Standing on the coffee table is very easy now, and it is easier to watch TV from here too!!

Jenni's visit

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She came to do some shopping and to play with me!

Standing up. The video.

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This video is 15 times better than a picture (per second :-)

My new chair

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I can finally seat with mum and dad at the table while they are eating.
Great!

The crawling begins

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A quick rest in the way to mum

Now, this is mooooving !!!

Evening mess

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Before going to bed I always have some porridge. It's a difficult time for my parents 'cos I put quite a fight before let them give it to me. Look how I look after the battle.

Bathing

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While I was in Raahe I had a bath in a little red basin. It was ok, but at home I have more fun, look.

Week in Raahe

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This last week I was in Raahe. Mum and me took the train. The seats were quite comfortable.

Once I was there I learned to crawl. It's very useful to get around.

I also was introduced to the new trend of MP3 players.

Appart

2006-01-27T11:45:00.000+02:00

This week dad has been on a business trip to Bulgaria. Mum and I have been in Rahee.

Today we are going back home to see dad!!!

Hanging out with dad

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Dad showing his new beard, while I am jumping happily.

I love jumping, look here how I do it!

Happy New Year 2006

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Daddy cooked a lovely dinner for mum.
I was enjoying my carrot while mum and dad had their dinner

My first x-mas

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Mum and grandmum trying to decorate the x-mas tree and I was taking them down as fast as I could
My great grandmother Lilja

I was a bit afraid of santa- wouldn't you be?

We got so many presents with dad

Playing with my new toy.
I learned to sit with no support, COOL

My new home in Kangasala

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Snowman and my eskimo dad.
Getting ready to go out
I sleep very well outside in my pram

Happy with my grandmother

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My great grandmother and Auntie

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