Last of Soccer

Soccer for this school year has just finished. Here are some photos from the last week. (Including when Nils "lost" his pants while running!) The photo of me is, once again, by Nils. He is really turning into a good photographer!

Nils and Nolan II

Another play date with Nolan, this time at his house.

Play Date with Alexander & Katarina

The day after we got back from Oma's, the kids had a play date with our friends Alexander and Katarina (their parents were not there this time). After a bunch of playing, we all grilled and had dinner together. It looks like Jay and Nils have been instructing Alexander and Katarina on how to use a light-saber.

Visting Andre

Andre, Michael's cousin, is Jay's godfather. We went to visit him as well during our visit to Oma. He has an 18 month-old son, Max, and a newborn daughter. (Ouch!) Andre got extra points from the kids for giving them a whole bunch of light-sabers from Kelloggs. I think they must eat a lot of cornflakes in that house.

Visiting Oma

We went to visit Oma and Kurt last weekend. Here are some photos from our visit to a huge park. There were a lot of different playgrounds and one garden in the park with a koi pond. The kids got the fish to come and "kiss" their fingers. By the way, what is with Jay and Nils touching the statues' bottoms?

Crafty Nils

Here we have Nils doing some crafts. He loves glue. He has (on more than one occasion) simply spread glue all over a piece of paper and given it to me as a picture. I've learned not to touch his art too quickly or I may get stuck to it!

Three Little Bears

Jay's school today had a performance of the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." First his class performed it for the whole elementary school, then for the parents. They kids may have given it their all for the school because a few of them (Jay included) were a bit worn out when it came time for the parents. There are a lot of kids here, I know- this is actually both of the Reception classes. They did a joint performance.

Baseball 2009

It's baseball season again! This is also my third time blogging about Jay and baseball. Nils is still on the sidelines, but I suspect he's having more fun than Jay.

Mother's Day

You know how Jay and Nils love to go to the river and just throw pebbles into the water. They've expanded into pebble collecting. We spent Mother's Day at the river and baseball (next blog entry). The kids each gave me a pebble as a Mother's Day gift. I am Stein reich, the German expression for "filthy rich" (it literally means stone rich).