This post is long overdue, as are some other posts that will hopefully be coming shortly.
About a month ago, we met up with some friends in Niederwerth, which is an island in the middle of the Rhein River, just outside of Koblenz. I know Laura and her family from Houston. They moved out here just over a year ago to go to graduate school. It has been a lot of fun getting to know them better and having friends from home nearby.
Two weeks ago, Tybee finally realized she can walk around all by herself and pretty much get where ever she wants to without any help. It has been so great and so scary at the same time. She gets into everything and wants to go everywhere, but I don’t have to be right there with her all of the time. I can finally get some things done that I need to ( a little bit, anyway).
It was such a beautiful day today that Tybee and I had to get out of the house. We ended up at the river and had a great time. She was laughing and making happy noises the whole time we were there. We even made a couple of friends :)
We were really lucky on Monday because both James and Ethan had the day off. Two separate holidays, but the same day. Yay! This rarely happens, so we decided to take advantage of it and go see a castle about an hour up the river. It was a little chilly, but perfectly sunny and beautiful.
This last week Ethan had a bit of a break from his normal school routine. They mixed up the entire school and assigned kids to different projects. Ethan was assigned to underwater animals. Some of the other projects were pets, fire, Egyptians, horses, and many more (those are the only ones I can remember). He had a great week…there was no homework and he got to watch Finding Nemo in German. All week he learned about underwater animals and made his own aquarium and a water snake out of clay. On Friday the parents were able to go and see all of the different projects and learn about what the kids learned about. It actually worked out perfect because James had the day off for the holiday weekend and so he was able to come with us. Yay…I didn’t have to be entirely clueless all by myself!
