Coffee from a Reusable Ceramic Mug

Matthias’ sister, Sandra, and our nephew Maxim have been here visiting us since Wednesday. Even though there are three adults and only two babies, it feels like we are out numbered!

Clair is a wee bit jealous of her mommy holding and cuddling with a little baby, but she is slowly getting used to it. She showed off when we were on Skype with Oma and Opa and was being really sweet with Maxim. She doesn’t try to hit him (much), and she pets his head and tries to give him things. It is sweet. She calls him ‘baby’, like she calls most cute little baby-like things.

It has been pretty relaxing having Sandra here. Her English is very good so we all ending up speaking a lot of DEnglisch. My brain gets a little mixed up, and when I went to see my friends Sarah and Andrea yesterday, I kept stumbling when trying to speak only English. Fortunately, both of them are fluent in DEnglisch.

Here are a few photos from the past few days. We’ve been handing around home, going to town and to the swimming pool. The kids loved the pool. Clair is finally warming up to the water and spent the most amount of time ever actually playing in the pools. Clair has a fabulous swimsuit cutesy my friend Liz in Phoenix. She was the best dressed toddler in the place until she pushed her swimming diaper to the limits and had to be changed into a fresh pair of disposable swim diapers for the last half hour (her swim diaper works - phew).