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

This is what made me happy today

I went to the PX to see if they still had the book Set that I wanted to get for myself and the one for Brian. I had a feeling, that I HAD TO GO TODAY and I was right. There was only one left of the Twilight BookSet

I got this one for Brian and it will be on its way as soon as I get the other christmas gift for him ;-)

Then I went to the Commissary and just had to buy these teas. They sounded yummie. I tried one so far and it's a little too cinnamony for me, but I'll get used to it. The other one with the Candy Cane smells pretty good like Peppermint.

Happy Baby

Big Kiss for Mama

Yummie Balloon

What's up with the tongue? He's got a long one like Mommy

Someone saw that Mama's teacup was standing there all by itself... haha

Swimming and other exercises for my Rugrat

My friend Beata and I are planning on weekly things for our rugrats like swimming and also a baby gym class. Well we went swimming once so far, this week we couldn't go because Sara is ill with a bad cough. Lucas didn't like last time's swimming too much. He didn't know what to think about it, but I hope that with time he will love it. He was barely moving his arms or legs and just looking out of the window for birds. (hahah). They have only one pool there and it's too deep for him to stand. So I am holding him the whole time. But yeah, at least for the winter time we plan on going there weekly now.

We are also looking for a baby gym class. We have that thing in Germany that is called Mutter-Kind Turnen (basically gymnastics for the mother and the kid). Most of them start for kids around one and a half years, but some also for kids that walk well. We went to one this week. It was alright, but not what we expected. It was overcrowded with mommies and their kids. They all seemed to be 2 years and up, so ours were the youngest. It began with everyone sitting in a big circle and we were singing a song and one of the kids had to run around the circle with the mommie when their name was mentioned. That was funny. But then after the song the 'teacher' said that everyone is just doing whatever they want. We were like !?!? She had some things build up for the kids to climb on and do exercises. But she never showed us anything or even asked us how we like it or whatsoever. It just wasn't what we expected. We would like to go somehwere, where the teacher shows us different things to do with the kids and things we all do together in a group... Lucas had a blast of course with all these kids running around. He was running around the whole time, jumping into the crowd. I always had to run after him, because kids were jumping off to a mattress and he would climb on the mattress and be in the way. He was chasing after balls and by bedtime he fell alseep immediately.
Sara even hurt herself when falling off the mattress and against a wooden wall with wood bricks. She scraped her forehead and screamed real loud. It was poorly secured I would say, but that's not the point. The teacher didn't even look for her or ask what was wrong.
It would cost 6 Euros a month, which isn't bad, but she said that we can only pay it for three months in advance. Well Beata and I agreed to look for another group and see what else is offered. We still have some time I guess, since our kids are still young.