Gifts, Gifts, Gift

Last Friday I made it to the mailroom. I was a little worried, cause these past three times I couldn't get that suptid maillock open... I know I'm blond and stupid... (thanks Brian..) So this time I tried it for like 10 minutes and I was on the verge of giving up and asking a lady for help again, when it finally openend. YAAAAAAAAAY.... and I got two boxes in from grandma Arlene. Thank you so much grandma again. We loved all the gifts. We finally got to listen to the personalized Cd for Lucas (children songs that all have his name in it) and it's too cute!! I already wore the black pullover and it kept me so warm. The oil defuser is already doing its job in the living room and of course Lucas got to watch Sesame Street for the first time (too cute). I'm gonna go through the cook book this week and see if I find something yummi to make. Oh Brian said I am supposed to wear the appron for him, when he gets back... (dirty mind.... *lol*) Of course all the other things were really nice as well!!

Here's Lucas wearing the jacket. It's too big, but it should work just fine next winter

Then yesterday we finally got to open our 'secret pal' gifts from the GermanSpouses Forum. I was so happy about my 'Wichtelmama'. She's the best!!! She even thought about Lucas and put something in for him.... Thank you so much Yvonne!!!

We opened it right after breakfast. Your cookies were very yummie. The tea is awsome as well and last night I got to try out one of the bathperls thingy. I used the purple one and it smelled so delicious!

Climbing up the couch

... and attacking....

Hum.... smells so yummie...

I want a cookie!!!!!!!

Playdate

This week has gone by pretty fast, because we had something to do every day. It was really nice, because there's nothing that I hate more than staying at home all day long and time passing by slowly.

Yesteday we had a playdate again with the whole 'group' (babies from my lamaze class during pregnancy). The last time we had one was in September. Not all of them came, but we were quite a few, so it was nice. It was so crazy to see how they all grew and one of them, that was born a month before Lucas is already speaking his first words like Hallo, Licht (light), and some other. They were all running and jumping around and about. Laura can't walk just yet, but she's trying real hard and I think it's just a matter of time.

Here are just a couple of pictures

Babies everywhere



Hi there, Sara with a biggg hand


Smooches

Ewwww, hold on, why do you keep your mouth open like that....???


Laura doing the hoola hoop

wazzzzzzzup?

Lucas' favorite 'toy' at Dominique's house... that chair. He was climbin on and off the whole time and was watching others carefully as they tried to 'steal' the chair from him... hahah

Another day at our family's house

Just a couple pics that I wanted to share


Hey guys, I wanna take some pics too.




Thinking real hard




Yay, I found two chocolate boxes...




Bravooooooooooo




Using all his strength and he still can't open the box

Same procedure as every day

So every morning we have about the same procedures we go through. This morning I was taking a few pictures while I got ready, to let you see what Lucas is doing. Of course he's like a dog and always by my side. Every once in a while he goes to his room or so for like five minutes, then he comes back into the bathroom. And every morning he does the same.... checking out the washing machine, putting his toys or other things he finds in the bathroom in it, sticking his head inside, throwing everything off the cupboards, throwing things into the bathtub, if he finds a tube he's trying to squeeze things out.... i also have to chase him away from the toilet every once in a while. He realised that it's yucky, so he doesn't go there often. (TG) But every once in a while he still tries it out...

Stocking up on body butter literally...

And walking his treasures around the apartment

Froehlichen Nikolaus euch allen!

Today is the 6th of December, which we celebrate as 'Nikolaustag' in Germany. If you didn't know, we don't have Santa bringing the gifts on Christmas but an 'Angel' aka Christkind. But on the 6th of December we have Nikolaus (which could go through as Santa) coming to every child's home, leaving little gifts and ususally some nuts/nectarines etc in boots the are left outside the door over night. Lucas doesn't understand the whole thing just yet, but I still got him a little something. It got him a CD with chilren christmas songs, that I even had when I was younger. Of course it's playing up and down, bringing nice childhood memories back to me.

Here's just one of the songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcoW7DcxKtk

Christmas Outfit

At Oma and Opa's