Finding Easter eggs with Anna

Playing with sand in the garden

Visiting Viggo and Ingelis in Slagelse

Planning the US trip

Spring has arrived and we are getting hold of the final small details for our New York / Washington trip. Knowing the we are going to a BIG town we went out to buy a light stroller for Sebastian. Just in case that he will refuse this we also bought a carrying sling (Sebastian has the weight of a one year old) where he can sit close to our body, and still make is easy for us to walk around. As anticipated he refused to sit in the stroller AND try the sling! Well, we have to have some serious practise going before leaving on the 2nd of April! Tears and cries - here we come!

Winther is infection time - and Sebastian had to go through a fouth infection this year (now two weeks ago) with stomach pain, vomitting and diarrhoea. It lasted for 10 days, but he seems to be doing fine again and is back in kindergarten. 

We are looking very much forward to the US trip and are going to meet up with two doctors in New York, Dr. Arleen Auerbach and Dr. Boulad. We find this a great opportunity to try to find out more about the illness, and hopefully to get a little wiser regarding the prognosis for Sebastian. We will see.

We are going to spend a little week in New York, and will then take the train (!) to Baltimore, where we will stay for a couple of days. After this we will rent a car and drive towards... well we are not really sure. If you have any suggestions of what to do / see in the Maryland / Virginia area you are most welcome to e-mail us (use mail@  with the domain address: lacourmarkerrasmussen.dk). In the weekend of April 14th-15th we are visiting friends in Washington followed by yet another tour into the unknown (!) for four days before leaving back home on the 20th of April. We will of course try to update the journal and the pictures as we go along.

Early Spring in Raageleje

Having fun with Samuel

Jumping with Josefine

Playing pirate with Vera

From pirate to cowboy

The snow storm has arrived! Everything is white and the wind is howling outside - fortunately I am inside, tucked in a blanket and with a hot cup of coffee! Sebastian is back in kindergarten after yet another week at home, this time with the flu (probably). He ran a high fever for a couple of days, but as his counts, until now, have stayed up, even during infections, we decided that we this time would avoid the trip to hospital for check-up bloodcounts. Of course we cannot do this every time, but this was his third infection this year, and we were happy not to have to go again.

The tickets for our New York / Washington trip have now been booked (2nd - 21st of April), together with a hotel on Manhatten for the first six nights. We are starting to plan the trip more carefully, and got some very nice links and ideas from Anne Marie - Thank you! We might want to stop by Philadelphia and Baltimore on our way to Washington DC, where we are meeting up with friends and from where we are flying back on the 20th of April. 

On Sunday we went to a Fastelavns-party ('mardi gras') in our neighbourhood. Sebastian had since Christmas wanted to be a pirate for Fastelavn, which was just perfect as he got a very nice pirate outfit, that he has even played with AND WORN a lot since then (not like the dog outfit, which I bought for him last year. He wore it once, forced by his evil mother, and has turned it down with a frown ever since. And yes, who wants to be a dog in the first place? ...). Then two weeks before Fastelavn, he claimed that he now wanted to be a cowboy - NOT a pirate. Well, as you please master Sebastian! I started working on a horse, found a cowboy hat and wanted to make THE cool cowboy outfit. Well, the horse 'Valdemar' was created and the hat in place (not on Sebastians head of course - he refuses to wear it!), but he went ill and could not make it to the Fastelavns-party at kindergarten. Then for the neighbourhood party we gave him the horse and the hat, as it was outdoor - but NO, dressing up is, apparently, not fun! As we told each other last year: better luck next year!

Fastelavn 2007