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We’re off to Michigan!

I bought a big gingerbread man cookie cutter at the Stuttgart Christmas market so we had to try it out.

We had our Swiss Christmas on Sunday and Bea’s big gift was a two wheel scooter. I remember so well when we got her first scooter for her and it doesn’t seem that long ago. She seemed so big then and her new scooter gave her a new independence. But of course she seems big…

We went to Germany this weekend for the Stuttgart Christmas market. It’s only 3 hours from Zurich. I love the Christmas markets at night – the lights are beautiful and there are interesting things like this gigantic nutcracker everywhere you look.  Here it is in the day. The girls were happy with plenty of sweet…

Bea and I had so much fun ice skating this weekend. I was so proud of how well she was skating. Fun, fun, fun! Brian and Claire had Gluhwein and cookies.

Brian took the girls to a Christmas market in Einsiedeln – it’s across the lake and up into the hills. There were lots of photos of the girls smiling and goofing around so I think they had a good time.

We like snow… well, actually Claire’s not sure about it sometimes. Samichlaus visited Bea’s school and left oranges, peanuts, chocolates and the ingredients to make bread people. Typical Samichlaus gifts. She likes me to take a picture of all her acomplishments lately. We printed another brilliant free coloring page from Mr. Printables. A giant Christmas…

Bea lost her third tooth today. It came out when we were sledding, but because she acts so odd about things like this I didn’t hear about it until after we got home. She was hanging out and playing in the snow at the bottom of the hill for a long time and then suddenly…