First let me say – sun or snow – will one of you pa-lease make an appearance and bring some light into our dreary January.  So the beloved penguin backpack is not so beloved anymore. Snif. A lot of the kids at school have messanger style bags and Bea has been asking for one. So…

Another weekend adventure for Brian and Bea. This time to a nearby town called Kusnacht and some ruins.

We made a marble run: We were inspired by this:

Bea’s first year of school has been hard, very hard. It has all felt so heavy and I’ve felt unable to deal with it so many times. So when we get a good and encouraging note from her teacher it makes us all want to dance. We’re not out of the woods yet, but today…

This is the first year in quite a while that I haven’t gotten a Stendig calandar. But since I’m not taking photos of a baby on one this year I thought I would save some money and just print out some calendar pages for our wall. This has lead to a lot of talk about…

Technorama – what a cheesy name for a nice science museum. We went on Sunday – we were desparate to do something fun and avoid the rainy weather.  There were lots of buttons to push: Big bubble making: Bea’s favorite part were these complex marble run type things. Wooden balls went through chutes and you…

I made a shirt for Claire from an old shirt of Brian’s. The pattern was Burda 9503 and it gave me trouble. I couldn’t figure out what the pattern was telling me to do for the cuffs so after ripping out what seemed like a million stitches I just cut them off and hemmed them.…

So we can do a parody of this video (see below): *not really – sorry grandmas

The trees at our little park along the lake are pruned heavily each year. I think they are Planetrees. I should have paid better attention when my Dad-in-law was here. Anyway they pruned the trees today and the branches were discarded all over the ground – waiting to be collected tomorrow. Bea had a great…

This probably isn’t very amusing to anyone but her Mummy. But here she is having a snack of crackers with nutella on top – our Chocolatey Claire.