Successful mission

Playing tug of war with Lewis


Amie arrives at the airport, with her suitcase packed. She spent the whole morning walking around with it on her back, even though it was really heavy.. she was so excited to be using it.


Amie and Noah having fun waiting to board the plane at Hamburg airport

We're back from our trip to the UK, and have managed to find a house that we both really liked, in the little market town of Wokingham. We had a look in London in Richmond, and in Windsor, Ascott and a place called Sunningdale... but Workingham seemed to fit our needs best, although it'll be a 50 minute commute for Rich (some peace and quiet and time to read his books I think). Richard's friends Vicky and John bravely put us up during our trip, and I was amazed at how good the kids were. Our friend Caroline, from our old days in Holland who's parents live in Workingham was kind enough to meet up and show us around. It was lovely for Amie to meet Lewis again, they hadn't seen each other for 2 years, but still played like old friends. And I finally got to meet Aidan, Lewis' little brother, who's only a few months younger than Noah. Nana and Pa drove down to look after the children on Friday and Saturday, and it was such a relief to be able to view houses without them both running around and complaining of feeling sick in the car. But in the end we picked the 3rd house we saw on the first day, (I think we viewed 15) so we could have saved ourselves a lot of stress. Just 6 weeks left in Wedel!!!! Yah :)




Higher, Higher

In other news, Amie is home this week from Kindergarten till Thursday because they phoned this morning to say that there was an outbreak of measles. Amie doesn't have 2 vaccinations against it, so she can't go in till Thursday....... will try to find things to do with them both, since I've also no German class to go to either.

Children's Party in Wedel

Amie sitting very still getting her face painted as a butterfly. I'm not sure how effective the end result was, but she certainly seemed pleased with it, so that's all that matters.


SMILE

We were at a Childrens Pary in Burgerpark Wedel today, where we had to queue for an hour for the pony rides, but there was no way Amie or Noah were going to go home without having a go on them. I had to feel sorry for the parents ahead of us who'd also queued for an hour only to have their child scream frantically when put on the pony, and have to be take off after 2 seconds.


Not a great picture, but the only one we have of Amie on the pony (not that we're blaming anyone eh?)


This ones a bit better, probably because Rich wasn't chasing after Noah at the time


I'm not sure what Amie and Noah were doing with these packets of nappeis this morning....


... but it's clear Noah didn't want me to find out.


Having a rest after a hard days fun

Back from London

Emma and I had a great weekend in London, and Rich did a great job looking after the kids (so far as I can tell ;) )


That baldy head belongs to Ralph Finnes, we spotted him in the West End on Saturday night.


A walk in the woods


Amie showing Noah how to use the potty today.......


..but he still gets confused!

He sat on her potty today and said "wee wee", so I took his nappy off him to see what would happen (the answer is, nothing much). I'd rather not start potty training him so young, and with the house move only 8 weeks away, but I guess if he's showing an interest in getting started then it's no harm to encourage him and see how things go. I know a lot of women in my course potty train at 9-12 months, so it's POSSIBLE but I'm just not sure I want the hassel at the moment.




Noah and Upsy Daisy. He seems to use her as a sister substitute when Amie isn't around :)


Amie with her little friend Angelina




Amie and Noah sitting on a rock at the Wilkomm Hof in Wedel