Unloading the iPhone

My phone isn't as fancy as Brian's (his has a much better camera) but it does allow me to take on the spot photos and I like that. Tonight I uploaded a few of my favorites from the last few months.

Sick babies are no fun - the best part is you can see the drool spot on Brian's shirt before she rolled over. She's adorable even when she's sick and crabby.


Woot Woot Bar...Steffi Helicopter




One of the 'friend books' we have to fill out for school


New to us farm.


A hat story:


Anna signing "hat"




Peace out Trevor...


I'm going to slide.


AWESOME sideways cake at the Brothaus bakery!!!


She loves to floss!




Shopping at KIK


Passed out during snack (after school)


Oslo is expensive...$50


$100


Viking ship at the Viking Museum in Oslo


Museums = sleepy baby


No pictures!

He's soo creepy!


Dinner: Pizza and Whale, funny thing is Anna didn't eat the pizza, she ate the salad :D that's my girl!


The most epic settee ever...wait until it's done...


Baby rides too!


pigtails


Anna pulling Trevor






Colored pencils at school


Anna @ school


Snack @ school (On her first day I took banana bread, which was OK I guess b/c I was there - when I sent it again, I got in trouble) No more banana bread.


Feeding baby

Sick Baby...and sick mommy.

Brian is in Normandy, France this weekend with our friend John Aklan. Anna and I have been holding down the fort with our colds and a little kindergarten sale shopping. Yesterday I scored a cute cardigan and a BARBIE HELICOPTER (for 5 euro so like $7 with today's exchange rate)!!! Well it's a Steffi helicopter, but awesome none the less! This pretty much wraps up the kindergarten sales for the year which is probably a good thing for my wallet.

Here's a few videos. Some are recent, some are not so recent.







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Pregnant Barbie...err Barbie's German cousin Steffi.

Yes. I bought a pregnant Barbie..err Steffi and I think it's pretty much the most epic thing ever. I saw her at Kik (think Dollar General or something similar) for 8 euro. At first I was a little freaked out "WHO WOULD BUY THAT FOR THEIR KID?!!" I thought. 35 minutes later I was walking out the door with Steffi. Done. I used my handy dandy iPhone to do a little Amazon research on the real pregnant Barbie seen HERE.

I saw the $120 price tag and decided Steffi had to be mine. I think Steffi will come in handy when baby #2 comes along.

Since then I picked up an AWESOME German (it has a German license plate, how cool is that?!) Barbie VW beetle. My friend Pam and I hit up a few German kindergarten sales (each town's kindergarten has a yard sale twice a year). I scored the Barbie car and the ever awesome Little People Farm - the older style one like my sister, Jenni, told me I had to get. Which is worth every penny of 9 euro I paid for it. Anna hasn't stopped playing with those two things ALL week!

Since I haven't given her Steffi yet, she's been..well...making it work. Sophie is a great driver!


Since I've picked up these two items, I've been searching ebay for all kinds of Barbie things and it's AMAZING the fantastic stuff that you can find on ebay. Like THIS AWESOME Barbie house that my sister had.

OK OK enough about Barbies...on to DINOSAURS!! We went back to the Ludwigsburg Pumpkin Festival again this year. This years theme is dinosaurs. I'll be honest, I was pretty disappointed. Especially with the T-Rex. I expected a two story T-rex.
Not only was it smaller then I expected, look at those WEAK ARMS! WEAK!





















Brian chasing our buddy, Ryan, and Anna chasing both of them!

Lucky you x2!

Anna eating her chicken sushi


Anna and mommy in Norway


It rained a lot in Norway






Anna putting on her house shoes at school - first day!

Lucky YOU! :D

Two blogs in one week!! ;)

Anna is having a great time at school. She has three teachers Mrs. Annette, Miss Sandra and Mrs. Claudia. Annette and Sandra both speak perfect English, but only to me, they speak German to Anna. Currently I'm working on her birthday book, which I need to take to school this week before I get in trouble. I'll take some photos before I take it to school. For right now Anna is only staying 4 hours in the morning, so she doesn't eat lunch at school, just snack. I was warned (by friends and her teachers) no sweets aka. no fruit roll ups, no gummy snack packs, no packaged pudding, etc..aka no junk. I can totally jump on board with that. I would actually prefer they didn't give her juice at snack (they offer a fruit tea - very common for kids here and juice - I honestly think they would give her water if I requested it, but I haven't). A lot of parents send a piece of bread or a soft pretzel with fruit and veggies...or maybe a small sandwich. I got in "trouble" this week for sending (homemade of course) banana bread!!!! ...and I don't even use that much sugar in my bread! Life lesson learned, no banana bread for snack. They take my kid for 4 hours a day for 5 days a week for less than $100 a month, so we'll keep our banana bread at home!

These photos were from her first day of school in the afternoon.

We started out in the yard:






Anna climbs up on her slide to see the horses over the fence (she does this pretty often, but this was the first time I got a shot of it)




I wanted to get her on the porch with a little sign saying "first day of German Kindergarten" but she wasn't having any part of the sign...it went something like this:


Someone was tired




It got better






A few weeks ago we went to our friend Ryan's birthday party at http://www.spieloase-jola.de/Bildergalerie.htm . The photo I posted of Anna in the last post eating the cupcake (aka zucchini muffin with cream cheese icing) was at the birthday party. Here's one of Brian, Ryan's little brother, Trevor, and Anna on the 'race cars'. This place is a fantastic place to have birthday parties. I have a feeling Anna's #2 will be there! The kids love it and you can bring your own food!



We love going to Spieloase! It's fun for parents and kids and this particular day we had the whole place to ourselves for awhile (not that it was planned - it just worked out that way) which made it even more fun for Anna. She's a big fan of the XL trampolines and the fast slide. I'll post more photos from the day when I get them from Erica.