Backe, Backe, Kuchen

When we're bored... we're baking :)... haha... No, actually Zoe wanted to bake cupcakes. Or better 'eat cupcakes' ;)... so we made some.

As soon as the cupcakes went into the oven, Henry was glued to the oven, waiting for them to be done! HAHAHA... hilarious!

Gym

Well... it's gotten so quiet around us... I know!!! Since I go to the gym we don't really do that much anymore. Zoe is going through a tough phase right now with not wanting to leave the house ever... doesn't like her room anymore and gets less sleep than she used to (since no napping anymore) and you can tell. So we're trying to get through this stage as good as possible and make the meltdowns as easy as possible ;). 

It's been very cold lately and all the traveling probably got the kids a little off track maybe. Henry is still his same old but much more independent, wants to walk all the time and he barely lets you hold his hands! He's playing very well alone and also with Zoe, but it's very cute to see that sometimes he just wants his space and wanders off into the play room by himself and goes through books or plays with his train set while other times he's getting into Zoe's playing (I guess that's payback for her taking him everything every earlier in life). It's a lot of fun watching these two and Henry is still eating like crazy while Zoe becomes a 'snacker'! She barely eats much anymore but snacks like crazy. Theirs clothes are getting smaller, they seemed to have made a big growth spurt lately!

Here we're just coming from the gym, on the way to music class while snacking a bagel from Tim Hortens to keep our bellies happy :) ... kids are loving it.

Mr. Henry eating!!! Today I made homemade Meatballs and Homemade pizza *YUM*... Henry was literally sitting in his high chair for an hour demanding to snack at least 4 meatballs and then he also ate a piece of pizza!!! Wonder where he leaves all this food!!!

Btw, he seems to be a left handed one :)... he holds forks and spoons with his left hand. My father in law was a left hander as well but back in the days they made him write and eat with the right hand. I think it's cool. I always loved the uniqueness of being left handed... we'll see... Zoe is def. right handed.

VACATION!

Oh I'm sorry guys but somehow I was so busy with other things going on and vacationing that I neglected my lovely blog :). 

Well, we had a great family week while we were gone. As I said it was a 'family overload' the moment we arrived and we LOVED it! Every single minute of it was a blast and we enjoyed being with family so much that it was very sad to say buy again a week later :(. Between a Family Reunion, Watching the Football Game together and the Ravens surprisingly winning (Frank was so happy to be home celebrating this moment with his family instead of his grumpy wife who's so not into football *lol*). Then us four went on a mini vacation down south on the eastern Shore, with a stop in Cape Charles, VA and Norfolk, VA exploring the area around it and we totally fell in love!!!

Here my wonderful 'Schnittchen' German Style, I HAD to bring something typical German to the Reunion :)... you know me :)

Our munchkins enjoying their first PanCake:

Henry didn't like them much and neither did Zoe, that stupid picture on the menu was more delicious to Zoe than the pancake itself :(

Here some pics from houses in Cape Charles, VA and these are the 'newer' ones, we didn't take pics from the old historic DownTown Cape Charles. Unfortunately it was raining all three days long :(... but we still enjoyed our little mini-vacation a lot.

There were even two gated Communities. Apparently there are a lot of vacationers having second homes and the city only has about 1000 locals living there

A break in a mall, kids loved to get out of the car!!!

Gorgeous!!!

 

Back home again and we got some snow yesterday, Today it's very cold (-18C) but it's ok, the sun is shining all day long and beats into our windows. LOVE IT!!!
My little man, goofing around

We finally turned Henry around facing forward! He was kicking and screaming every single time we put him in the car seat since he got the new car seat rear facing. He was always fine in his baby seat but the next one he just never liked rear facing. So we decided to turn him around and making him a big boy and oh man was he excited!!! My little baby!!! Not a baby anymore :(

Family Reunion

Here I found myself at my first family Reunion USA style :). It was sooo exciting to be a part of this. My mother in law and I were preparing food and so did many others do. We had such great food and a lot of fun. Kids did so well and had a lot of fun as well. 

Zoe and Grandma

Zoe

Henry and Daddy

From 10 Siblings, there are only three siblings left living strong:

My little Man

1st Cousins

2nd and 3rd Cousins

Our little Family

Having Fun

Sad Zoe

Life is tough! Specially if your brother has something that you wanna take away from it and mommy doesn't allow it ;)

But we have a happy Henry is his new toy: Daddy's Shoebox. The kids love boxes at the moment... it's funny, the cheapest things are sometimes the best.

I rearranged the office... more space and I needed to clean it up as well. Next step was hanging pictures :). Now I wanna paint it *lol*... we'll see... first I have to hang all the pics I wanna hang and then I'll take a picture again for you guys.

I added this little table for the kids in the office (now that I have so much space). It's great for Zoe to watch a german DVD while I work... she's miking it :)