Our little angel woke up at 5am today...for no good reason. I wonder if the heater is clanging too much and bothers him. I'll look into that.
Today is St. Martin's Tag, a celebration in our part of Germany in which kids parade through town with home-made lanterns, giving pretzels to the poor, and ending up at a huge bonfire. I was planning on making a "Laterne" today. I found a small gift bag that Jonathan is going to color with his new crayons, then I'll cut out a couple of windows, I found a battery-operated candle in our Halloween box, and he carry it around. Today is also the start of Fasching. And, it's Danielle's birthday. Clearly, a busy day!!
Jonathan slept until 10:30, so we missed our morning playgroup today. He is getting really good at 'bowl' and 'spoon' although they sound more like 'boh' (not to be confused with 'ball') and 'sbuh.' I had tea, and he kept yelling out 'hot' and pointing to it and saying 'mama.' not bad, eh?! After a lengthy breakfast, we played downstairs with some trucks. He wandered over to the garbage can, opened in, and put a piece of fuzz in. Typically, I don't let him touch the garbage, but that was pretty neat to see. He's also sliding down the stairs forward on his butt; each step makes him giggle louder. We're going back and forth between sliding down forward and stepping down backward; not sure which way is safer/easier.
I really want to take my car in for an oil change, but the places around here seem to want the car for over an hour and during J2's nap time (p.s. Jonathan is pushing 4.5 hours now.). This is very inconvenient. So, that's probably not happening againg today. Instead, our #2 floor estimate guy did show up today. He's going to bring me some samples tomorrow...and hopefully a quote too. And, #3 should come by tomorrow evening. We are moving along nicely!
The house feels icy today. I've already had 2 cups of tea and have 3 layers on. My fingers are really cold. Somehow outside doesn't feel as cold.
Alas, the prince is waking up...it's lunch time (at 5pm). After a quick and light lunch, we made his first Laterne for St Martin's Tag. See the pictures at: http://picasaweb.google.com/hardwicks03/20081111StMartin#. We picked up Dave and then walked up and down our dark street (sorry if the pix are a bit dark!), so you could really see the glow.
Dave and J2 have spent some QT together. Time for the prince to eat and head to bed (no bath tonight). He's only been up for about 5 hrs today........
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So,today is St. Martins Tag. At least I got the correct week. We remember a runny nose, rosey cheeked pair of maedchen carrying man-shaped pretzels and a froggy Laterne at bonfire in Sohren when the "Bishop" rode up on his huge white horse. Lady Ariel was in a stroller so it was probably our first November. Don't we have the best times, kid?
for sure! I have spotty memories of those, so the whole event doesn't really flow for me. Don't recall what we did with the Laterne (did they go into the Feuer?) and what happened at the Lagerfeuer? No matter, I did my best to recreate it here. good times, good times.
I vaguely remember "Kermit" socks serving as mittens that went passed my elbows underneath my coat. Maybe something similar would work for J2?
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