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).

Nils and Nolan

Nils is the type of kid who is happy playing by himself or trying to tag along with Jay and his friends. He really doesn't have any friends of his own (*sob!*). So when he kept talking about a boy in his class, Nolan, I thought he might like having Nolan over to play. Mind you, he has been going to preschool for almost two years and this is the first time he has gotten excited about playing with another kid. Mostly, he plays by himself or reads. Here are two photos from their playdate last week.

May Day III

Unbelievable, but this is the third May Day (May 1st) that I'm posting! So of course I have to show you photos. The camera ran out of battery power right when we got to the horses, so I don't have any of those for you.

There's always next year.