Big girl bike rider

Our crazy European pedaless bike has now successfully trained our third how to ride a bike without ever using training wheels. She just made her brother's marks of riding a bike at three years old by 6 days. We never told her that of course. No pressure, but lots of pride.

Anna Lena's 4th Birthday

First day of First grade, and Second

Anna Lena's First day PS2

Talk, banter back and forth

Anna Lena "my tummy really hurts, I need to eat some pop cycles then it won't hurt. But it really hurts a little bit"

Jonas "how much is a billion minutes?"

"How much is a trillion seconds? More then a year."

"How much....( you get the idea)

Zaky "invention is my middle name"

Me "I thought quick was your middle name yesterday"

Zaky "yea, yesterday it was but today it's invention"

Zaky "daddy said he got to watch the Smurfs when he was a kid before school"

Me "that's because we didn't have all the thousand different cartoons you get to choose from"

Zaky "so you got to watch it too!"

Me "we only had three channels with cartoons, we watched what was on"

Zaky "what?"

Me " ya when I was a kid there was no such thing as internet, or iPads "

Zaky ( blank stare ) "did you have computers?"

Me " we didn't get a computer in our house until I got a bit older"

Zaky "but no internet?" (Blank Stare)

Just don't get it

They complain about being hot at night. They move the fan right into their face. While refusing to sleep on the top bunk, then sleeping on top of one another! This evening I let them sleep like "Pop Pop" without their shirts..

Jet lag sleeping

Jet lag coming East stinks. Up all hours of the night and poor sleeping up until early morning hours, then like a rock until noon. I was squeezed on my sliver of bed space just on the other side of Zaky's feet. This picture was taken at 9:30am, we got up at 11:30.