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Kajsa not terribly long after she and Tim met. This was taken in Kajsa and Helena's house in Chifley ACT. |
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Kajsa is resting her arm on trusty old Wolfgang in this photo. It wasn't long before Tim gave Wolfgang to Jeremy. Jeremy later gave Wolfgang back. |
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For some reason Kalle had taken it upon himself to eat tissues. |
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Eating petit miam, another favorite pasttime was a little messier. |
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Sitting out in the sun one day, not sure when. |
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We visited Stockholm around the time we got married. Kalle spent a lot of time in his backpack, which he enjoyed because the scenery was much better |
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Tim and Kalle sat outside one day to enjoy the nice spring weather at Storey Street, Curtin ACT. Tim is reading the paper. |
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This was taken out the back of our house in Revely Cresent, Stirling ACT. It was probably not long before Tasha arrived. |
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Talking of Tasha, this was one of the first photos taken, on the first day she arrived to live with us. |
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By the size of Tasha, this couldn't have been more than a week or so after she joined us. She was such a cute puppy! |
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She soon made friends with the littlest human in the house, probably because that human didn't have a firm grasp on his food. |
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Reveley Crescent had horrible green bench-tops and a very dark kitchen floor. That is all changed now. |
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We actually did buy Tasha a nice bed so she didn't have to lie on the hard concrete. She destroyed it pretty quickly. |
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This was a professional photo, taken at a very cold dog show. Can't remember how Tasha did at it. |
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Sometimes, just to spite us, she would lie near the destroyed bed. You can see Tasha's dog-house behind her, she didn't use that much either. |
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She grew quite quickly and by the time we left Reveley Crescent, she was adult. |
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Tim is very proud of this photo in which Tasha looks great and the composition isn't half bad either. |
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Birgitta and Uffe visited us in Strathfield, here is Agnes. To the right are bookshelves which hid a room we couldn't get into. |
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This was taken during a visit by Tim's dad. Kalle dressed up as Batman and spent about 20 minutes running around the couch singing |
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Kalle and his friends from daycare. |
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The first photo of Taltarni. |
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Tim's Dad with the newly born Taltarni. |
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An early photo of Taltarni, taken during a visit by Jeremy and Pat. Note the furniture is the same as in the photo with Kalle and the tissue incident |
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Tim and both Kalle and Taltarni. This photo formed the basis of that year's Christmas card. |
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Taltarni and her proud father and grandfather. |
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Tim's brother James is a proud uncle. |
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Lysa, Tim's sister. Not sure if this was when Taltarni was born or later around the time Tasha had pups. |
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Taltarni learning to walk. |
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One of Kajsa's good friends came to visit us, again in Strathfield. All the windows were screened, security being important in that part of town. |
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Sadly Cheryl passed away relatively young, she was quite fond of the kids and looked after Kalle while Kajsa studied in Caberra and Tim was at sea. |
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Bath time at our house in Strathfield. |
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This was the downstairs bath, the upstairs bath was a jacuzi which the kids were terrified of. |
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Kalle absolutely loved this bouncer, Taltarni was somewhat less impressed with it. |
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Learning to crawl on the bed. |
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A more laid back approach in the bouncinette was more Taltarni's style. |
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Downstairs starting to crawl. |
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As soon as Taltarni could crawl, she headed inexorably for the stairs. This was taken one evening half way up. In her mouth is a champagne cork. |
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Sometimes there as a little gyrotopple in the crawling. |
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Not sure where this was taken. |
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The floor in our house in Strathfield was marble tile, very nice to look at. Bit cool in winter if you are crawling. |
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Our next door neighbour in Reveley Crescent came to visit us in Sydney. |
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Taltarni confidently sitting. |
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Even walking, probably not long before we left for the US. |
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We bred Tasha and spent a great amount of time preparing for the big event. We read somewhere that you need a lot of newspaper and a nice quiet spot. |
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Finally the puppies arrived, Frey and Freya. This is Freya, the darker of the two. |
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Frey, the little grey boy. |
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Frey starting to make his way in the world. |
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Freya, on the other hand, is happy to just lie in the corner and wait for Tasha to return. |
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Tasha feeding, the pups are quite a bit older here though and the newspaper etc has all gone. |
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Here is a much later photo of Tasha and her pups, taken in the back yard at Strathfield. Frey here is learning to fight. |
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Freya didn't go straight away though, she had to be old enough to leave Tasha. |
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Silver Frey stayed with us a little longer, he was very cute. |
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We regularly weighed the pups to make sure all was well. |
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Kalle and his friend at Mortlake Day Care. |
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A photo taken from the stairs in our Strathfield house, looking down into the kitchen. |
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Kalle half way up the same stairs. |
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Kalle downstairs at Strathfield, this is taken with the front door in the background. |
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This was our last visit to Melbourne before leaving for the US. We visited Tim's grandfather and Taltarni got christened. |
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Taltarni and her godfather, Anthony Tham. |
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Another post christening shot. |
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A shot with the priest. Taltarni was christened at Swedish Church, where we later took the kids to go to Swedish School. |
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Taltarni and her grandfather. |
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Taltarni and her great-grandfather. |
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Tim, Taltarni, Daniel and Kerrie. |
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James at Taltarni's Christening party. |
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Simon, Taltarni and her great grandfather. |
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The second last photo of Wolfgang/ |
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The last photo of Wolfgang. Tim took off the wheels and the we stuffed Wolfgang with bits from a broken fridge before he was taken away for scrap. |
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Paul and Helena at a Lebanese restaurant before we left for the US. |
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This is our house in Sweden, though at the time it was Kajsa's mother's house. It has snowed recently. |
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Kajsa dressed up to go out somewhere, probably in the US. |
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This was taken in the US, probably not very long at all after we arrived. |
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Kalle at Vienna Town and Country in the US. |
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