249/366 - 05. September 2012

Enjoyable morning

My girlfriend and her kids came over this morning to spend some time with us because due to an incident we didn´t meet for nearly two weeks now. Today we had a lovely time together, the big boys entertained by opi and supporting him at his garden work...

Max and Paul pointing out a plane

... our little ones strolling through the garden having fun with the slide, the swing and different toys. So we had some time to talk and just watch the children being busy! Now it starts to become more and more relaxing because even Lina and Felix get more independent and less demanding. Oh how good for us, ha!

Lina took away Felix´pacifier but didn´t really like it... oh... just to bite it

Harvest

In the afternoon opi and Max harvested potatoes on our field. Max was so very fascinated by the vegetable that came out of the ground. Of course my boy took the rake and tried to get some on his own as well.
In the meantime Lina was discovering this and that in garden. Had the greatest fun just walking around and looking at everything. She liked the dirty potatoes very much and took a taste!

 Was such a pleasant day... so very good children and not stressful at all!

248/366 - 04. September 2012

Caterpillar

Max is totally fascinated by little hairy caterpillars. He was convinced by me to take it on his hand and to observe the sweet crawler. First he was a bit afraid but then he saw that the little caterpillar was so funnily crawling on mama´s hand that he wanted to touch it himself.

Slide

Lina was shocking mama a bit today. She crawled onto the slide like her big brother is doing this and then lying on her belly and sliding down. She is such a brave girl but fortunately cautious as well.

Love,

Mama

247/366 - 03. September 2012

Outside

It´s such a pleasure to be outside at present. The temperatures are wonderful... not hot any more and not cold yet. I love the summer with the hot temperatures but for the children it is more than exhausting. They are not able to play in the backyard without sweating like crazy, you have to overprotect them against the bad sun, they are not really hungry, they sleep badly because of the heat and so on. 

My little ones didn´t even want to go out when there was the worst heat. They prefered to stay inside to play. But now the weather turned out perfect. They would like to stay in the garden the whole day... it´s so wonderful!

Blocks

Lina is one smart little girl. Daddy showed her how the game with blocks works... to put the correct form in the suitable hole. And she did it... of course... some shapes were still too difficult but most of them were pretty good to handle. Oh how I love to observe the progresses she makes. It makes me so proud to see how clever she is!

 Love,

Mama

246/366 - 02. September 2012

Sandpit

It was the cutest thing ever to see how happy the children were on the beach. First I took lots of pictures and then just played with them... we sat midst the sand and had fun. This was awesome!

We went back home in the afternoon but going there was totally worth it. Spent relaxing time together, the children had fun and our undivided attention... and I think we got the last summer days on the beach. Fall is starting to come at home!

Love,

Mama

245/366 - 01. September 2012

Shopping

Due to the fact that the weather was quite unstable we went shopping in the morning before going to the beach. This wasn´t the worst decision this day, ha! Got some adorable pieces at Guess... woahaha!

Max went to the penny arcade while mama and Lina were searching for handbags and clothes. Yeah... that´s called holiday!

The most important thing when you are on holiday in Italy is eating as much gelati as you can... and we did. Fortunately the children share our passion for this sweet frozen dream!

 How cute is this? They are driving the old Fiat together...

So much fun with you, my loved ones!

244/366 - 31. August 201

Off on vacation

The party marathon is over now and we needed time off. Going on holiday with two little ones is not the most relaxing thing ever but it´s change of scenery and sometimes that´s enough!

So we met lovely friends and went off to beautiful Italy for three days. Getting the needed stuff together was hard work but from the moment on we sat in the car I started to relax. Max and Lina were tired and slept through the ride... so did I.

The first day was a bit windy but warm. The children discovered the beach and fell in love with the sand. Of course... Missy dived into the "dirt" soon but Max simply touched it with two fingers first... lol!

This was the time Lina was still neat...

Max didn´t really love the water. He tried it just one time and did not return... oh my... I hope he will like it some day!?

Then we went to get some food. Max was quite hungry and got his demanded "patate fritte"... the french fries... doesn´t fit to Italy, I know! Lina ate fruits and was reading books with daddy. I loved sitting there and having time to watch and eat and just doing nothing! Gorgeous!

Great day...  we really enjoyed it! This is going to be a wonderful short trip!

243/366 - 30. August 2012

Shipping

Long time ago, while strolling through our city, we promised Max to go by ship along our river one day! He was so fascinated by the thought to step onto the huge ship and to swim on the water and couldn´t wait to do this.

So this morning we decided to go on this venture. Departure was very early and we were late as always... had to run like crazy with Lina in the pram and I took Max piggyback. It was too funny how we were running across the bridge.

It was such a wonderful time on the ship. The weather was awesome, the children too and mama and papa had relaxing time... Max found children to play with and my little girl fell asleep.

 

Love,

Mama