Winter Wonderland...

The snow is too early this year, in the Netherlands anyway and too early meaning: too early for having a white Christmas :-). But, of course not too early to have some fun. In fact, would it have been a few days later we would be missing it altogether... Anyway, Tobias was quite excited (actually, extremely excited) when he looked out the window this morning and saw everything covered with a blanket of snow... Of course he had seen snow before, but it does not happen that often over here. We had some serious snow and ice last year and that was great fun, but this morning we had some fun too.

He was somewhat disappointed that I would not let him bike too school. Instead we walked and he liked that because that enabled him to toss some snowballs here and there... On a wall, on a tree, on the ice, in the water.... loads of fun. And then of course on the shoolyard at other children :-). Everybody was excited, even the parents who gladly joined the snowball fun! I only had my phone on me to capture the moment, hence the bad picture quality, but it is better than nothing, right?

I hope there will be still some snow to play with when he comes home from school today...

Update (2010.01.14): There was. As a matter of fact, there was enough to build a snowman...! And we did. Before I post anything about Tobias' Christmas vacation I am going to post a picture of Tobias and our snowman, made and taken after school that very afternoon!





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Biker Boy

Tobias is quite the biker these days. In my perception there are two main reasons for this:
1. His friends are better and faster at biking than he is...
2. He really likes biking and is actually quite proud of himself

Last week on my daddy day I picked him up from school (where he biked himself) he told me: "Papa, I want to go on a really long biking trip with you.". Well, I wasn't so sure about that since the weather was not all that great and of course we would have to take Lorelei with us, but I took our chances and went anyway. How can I deny my boy an opportunity to go biking really far :-).

Anyway, before we left we first had to grab some cookies, because, as Tobias explained, we have to rest somewhere and then I have to eat a cookie so I can have more power in my legs. Well, who could argue with that? :-) (and also, that is exactly what he did with his Opa two weeks earlier :-)). I took a route where I would still be able to make it a short ride in case it started raining. Well, it did not start raining until we were almost back home. And, we took quite a ride as you can see (when you click on the link). We went for about 8 km (5 mi). The benches in this picture (our only stop) are at the turning point in the trip. On the way back he started complaining about being tired, but he did the whole way by himself.

I did have some scares (as did he, because of my reaction I think) because at one point we had to cross a very busy intersection. There are lights, also for the bikers, but it still takes him quite some time to cross the road. Anyway, just as we came to the other side, a moped approached from the right distracting (and startling) Tobias who made a slight leftward move and as a consequense missed the bike path and ended up on the wrong side of a lane separater (the size of a curb) among the cars! My goodness that scared me, but I could not just drop my bike and grab him because (as you can see) Lorelei was on my bike. So, I got him to stop, went close to him and dragged him, bike and all, over the curb. Other than that the trip went fine :-).


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Pirate Tobias

Sinterklaas was good to Tobias this year. He got the most gifts by far! He got a marble run, a book, handpuppets, sweets, but the main reason he got the most gifts is because he got a pirate outfit with all the accessories (wrapped separately :-)).

I am kind of a pacifist, so, I have quite a serious problem with weapons of any kind and hence, I do not like my kids to have toy weapons. Well, I have come to realize that weaponry is really hard to avoid, and if you try too hard all other toys become weapons, like a tinkertoy shooter or a water gun or a stick sword etc.

What I do like is the fact that Tobias does a lot of pretend playing. He pretends to be all sorts of stuff ranging from a police man to a bad guy to a hamster to even a mammoth just this morning :-). Sometimes he doesn't need anything to get really into this pretend play, he'll just pretend he has a gun, a car, a bike, or whatever it is that he needs. So, we thought it would be nice to get him some dress-up clothes. Lately he is into a lot of stuff involving weaponry, including police, pirates and knights. As you can see the dress-up kit for Tobias included a pirate hat, an eye patch and a pirate shirt (you can see the white collar in this picture). It also included a compass, a treasure map, two money bags with gold and silver in it, and....... a sword. Well, actually a dagger and a sword. A dagger made of wood and a sword made of plastic. All of these items, but mainly the clothes and the sword, have already gotten quite some playtime this past week :-).

Tobias got even more dress-up clothes this year, because at school they had a "pietenochtend" where everybody got to dress-up like "zwarte piet" (Sinterklaas' helper) or Sinterklaas. Lisa bought him a pieten-suit, but he preferred Sinterklaas. Since the pieten-suit was about two sizes too big Lisa decided to get him a fitting Sinterklaas outfit and he went to the "pietenochtend" as Sinterklaas. For some reason I only have a picture in his piet-outfit...

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Milestone: Biking to School

As I wrote before, being able to bike is quite the milestone in the Netherlands. Well, Tobias reached that one a while back. Yet, he did nog bike to school on his own bike yet. He kept telling me he would start doing that when he is five... This picture is not Tobias on his way to school, but he did bike to school for the first time last Thursday. He didn't pick the best day to start, because is was pouring down with rain and by the time we got there he was soaking wet, but we made is nonetheless. Tobias was soooooo proud.

It took Tobias quite some serious training to reach this point. A week or two ago two friends came over to play. They suggested they'd ride their bikes. Tobias was not quite as well trained yet and he could not keep up. That night he practised until dinnertime. He was biking up and down the alleyway behind our house in the dark! He did that for almost two weeks and I guess by that time he figured he was ready for the real biking-world: Biking to school.

I have to admit I am quite proud too (but terrified at the same time....).


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Pooped...

Gijs is one of Tobias' best friends at the moment. He lives a few houses down from us and he also is in the same school and class as Tobias. So, they see eachother on a daily basis. A lot of times they will play together after school, sometimes outside, but recently, being the fall and all, more inside than out. This picture was taken after a lot of playing outside and as you can see both boys are pretty pooped. They kind of just crashed on the couch and watched a movie (I think it was Cars this time).


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Electric Guitar

Tobias has had a guitar of his own for quite some time now as you can see here. It is still working, all the strings still there, just a few scrapes and bruises here and there, but in all Tobias has been quite careful with it, as I think he should be with any musical instrument. Recently he has been grabbing it every once in a while to play a tune for his sister. He'll strum the guitar and sometimes sing a song like "When you're smiling", which is pretty definitely Lorelei's favorite song at the moment.

Well, the other day I was playing my electric guitar. Tobias has take an interest in the electric guitar in the past, but he has only been watching me play and listening (and sometimes complaining it hurts his ears because it is too loud... :-)). This time he asked me if he could play. Knowing Tobias to be careful with his musical instruments (:-)), I didn't have too much of a problem with that, except that it is still way too big for him to hold. So, we held it together. Tobias strummed, I picked the chords, and Lisa took this picture.


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Halloween...

The Netherlands is not much of a Halloween celebrating country. Yet, we have bilingual and binational children, so, it is only fair they get traditions from both sides of the Atlantic. So, we celebrated this year. Tobias talked about all the candy that he likes and about what candy you need to eat when you want to be Dutch and what candy you need to eat when you want to be America. For example, you cannot eat "Drop" when you want to be American, yet you have to eat "Drop" if you want to be Dutch :-) (Drop is kind of similar to licorice, yet different... you have to try it to know it...).

Well, one of the things you do when you are American is celebrate Halloween; carve a pumpkin, dress up and go trick-or-treating. And that's what Tobias did. Lisa got a pumpkin and they carved it together. It came out quite well I might add, as you can see for yourself. Then, Tobias and I were going to scare Lisa. We were making a costume and had decided we would go around the back and then ring our doorbell and scare mama, his only trick-or-treat address on his route.... (since we didn't want to bother all the Halloween-unaware Dutchies...). You can see his costume in this picture. He is a "spider-ghost", the sheet being ghostly and his hat being a spider. It gave Lisa quite a scare (:-)) and it got Tobias some M&M's :-).

It was a nice Halloween.


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Beautiful....

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Swords, Guns, Canons, etc...

Tobias is currently very much into pirates, police, jail, bad guys etc. He also recently discovered cannons. Ever since he has been using his tinkertoys to build cannons and he has been asking a lot of questions about what happens when a cannonball hits you. In short, he is quite interested in all sorts of weaponry...

Well, we were in Monaco and at the Monaco Palace there were some cannons on display. So, I was all excited and said "Tobias, come see the cannons...". He grabbed my hand and we walked toward some cannons, but as we got close Tobias stopped and jerked my hand. I hadn't realized this, but he was scared.... I guess he thought the things still worked... There were lots of them and there were whole piles of cannonballs, so I guess it did look kind of threatening.

He later explained to me that it was not him, but baby-bear who was afraid :-)


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I-i-i-i-i-t's n-n-n-n-not that c-c-c-cold

Tobias LOVES swimming, our vacation house had an outdoor swimming pool -> We HAD to go in it...

As I said before, we had some nice and some not so nice weather on our vacation. The water in the pool had already cooled down significantly and since the sun is the only heating system the pool has we had to deal with the temperature as it came.... which was, well, just pretty much freezing cold! But, like I said, we HAD to go in....

When Tobias first jumped in he could hardly speak, it was so cold.... he kind of stammered: "I-i-i-i-i-it's n-n-n-n-not that c-c-c-c-c-cold....". That was actually very funny, and I have to admire his stamina because we even stayed in that pool for quite some time...

After the pool we had to take a warm shower though in order to get Tobias warm again...


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Tobias Schumacher

My goodness, it has been a while since I posted. One reason for this is that we were on a vacation for a week during the fall break. That was really nice. My parents took us to a little town called Sainte Maxime in southern France, fairly close to Nice. We had some nice and some not so nice weather, but it was a really nice week out. It was in honor of my parents' 40th wedding anniversary. Friends of my parents have a house there which is where we stayed. We spent a lot of time in and around the house, but we also took some trips.

On one trip we went to Monaco. There they had a carnival and at the carnival they had bumper race cars. The best thing about them was that Tobias could go in there by himself (rather than with one of us...). He loves it and as you can see here he is quite into the racing thing :-).

The Carnival was probably the best to Tobias, but we had a nice day in Monaco too... although to us it was actually quite a shame the carnival was there because it took away from the view of the marina... Even so, we had a good time there, it is a beautiful place and a beautiful area. In Monaco we had a comfortable 23 degrees and a sunny day, but during the same week we had a day of very severe rainfall causing roads to be flooded and closed down, even the next day. From what I understood it was the heaviest rainfall they had had in a long time!

So, lots of different weather, lots of different sights and lots of food, wine, talk and fun!


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In the Forest

As we were driving to the petting zoo last saturday we passed a thick patch of trees alongside the road. Tobias said: "Look Papa, a forest, I love the forest!". I of course told him that it was in fact a thick patch of trees and not a forest, and then suggested we'd go to the forest someday. He yelled: "Yeah!!! Let's go tomorrow!". Since I was with the kids by myself this weekend (Lisa and Shelli are off to the octoberfest in Munich...) I thought: "Good idea Tobias" so, this past sunday we went to the forest.

In this picture Tobias is holding baby-bear, a bear he has been carrying around for the past two weeks or so. He talks to him, takes him to bed with him, shares his meals with him etc. So, baby-bear also had to accompany him to the forest. Tobias was our "pathfinder" meaning that he would find the arrows we had to follow. He did a good job at that. Also he had to find leaves, acorns, pine-cones, and, in this case, mushrooms. He was actually quite excited. This afternoon (it is not my daddy-day, but Lisa is still in Munich today and will be home tonight, so I took the day off) we are going to collage his collection onto a piece of paper... or at least that's what he said he wants to do before he left for school this morning. That would be nice :-).


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Riding a Pony

Last saturday we had a party to attend. Friends of ours took us to a petting zoo where they have all sorts of farm animals. Tobias got to feed and pet goats and a cow. He got to see pigs and piglets and he got to share a piece of cake with a chicken. As a matter of fact, the chicken jumped on the table and ate out of his hand... That was a bit scary at first, but in the end quite interesting :-).

And.... Tobias got to ride a pony (that black thing in the bottom of this picture is the pony :-)). It was only a short ride, but a ride nonetheless and he enjoyed it thoroughly. As you can see in this picture he did have time for a smile! How cute!


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School Picture

Tobias (and Lorelei, but I don't have access to a digital version of hers yet...) had his school picture taken last week. Here is the result.

I have two words: Picture Perfect!


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Biking (continued...)

Of course you can always have someone else take a picture :-). In this case the most obvious alternative: Lisa. This was taken during the weekend so Lisa was around to take some pictures and as you can see he is really doing it. Me running after him at this time was not all that necessary anymore other than for his peace of mind... I did still need to be there for him to get started. He still needed a little push for that at the time this picture was taken.... but, he is past that now too (which makes biking a lot earier, not only for him, especially for me :-)).

As of last friday he does not need help anymore with starting. I layed the groundworks and Opa finished the job... Also he can now turn corners. On this particular ride he tried to turn a corner and ended up in a rose-bush :-). As you can see we got him a helmet. This is not something I grew up with, but is becoming more and more common in the Netherlands. As a matter of fact he had a friend over to play two weeks ago who was already biking by himself. This boy was wearing a helmet as well and of course Tobias wanted to try it on and then wanted one for himself. To be honest I think it is quite a good idea... Not in the least because he looks soooooooo cute in it!

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(Almost) Back to School

Tobias is back in school now.... It started this week. Last week was still his vacation though, and I took the opportunity to take him and Lorelei out one more time. Obviously I used my daddy day to do so and we went to the Dolfinarium. This a kind of an amusement park set up around dolphins. They have other animals too, like seals, sealions, walrusses and such. The animals are trained and they perform shows. Especially the dolphins show was really nice. Tobias enjoyed all the animals, because he is kind of into them right now. He has a couple of books on science-like matters like insects, sea animals, the human body etc. It is so much fun to go through such topics with him because he remembers everything and he will ask lots of questions about it.

Anyway, we had a very nice day at the Dofinarium, which ended in the playground of the park where he found this digger.... Despite his interest in scientific matters he is still very much into Bob the Builder as well :-)


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Milestone: Biking!

Milestones like sitting, crawling, walking and such are quite a while behind us for Tobias, but, being half-dutch, there was still a pretty serious milestone for him to pass.... biking. Well, he passed it yesterday. He is pretty proud of himself and, as you can imagine, I am too. On top of that he is proud of me since I am his "biking-teacher" :-).

Anyway, it took a while. I bought him a bike last year and in retrospect I bought him one size too big. Honestly, I did so against my better judgement and aided by the advice of the salesperson, and, I admit, worried that my "investement" might be too small too soon. Well, the result was that initially he could not reach the ground and when a training wheel came loose he fell and was temporarily traumatized. He did not want to go biking at all for quite a while.

Last month we visited our friends in Paris and they had a little bike and a lot of grass, so we practiced a little and it actually worked quite well. Plus, it helped me convince Tobias that he really didn't need training wheels anymore, as long as I would hold his bike by the seat while he was riding. For the past few weeks he had weekly biking lessons on the weekend with me bing his teacher (and breaking my back in the process....). As with everything he is quite a fast learner and he took to most of the instructions I gave him. Vern, the little turtle shaped horn-like thing on his bike (named after a character from the movie "Over The Hedge") "helped" him go even faster (or so he claims... :-)).

Well, yesterday was the day he realized that he could keep going without stopping at every single lamppost and he actually rode his bike for an entire block! And even better, he wanted to do it again later (which meant that I did not have to bend over and hold his bike-seat anymore, but I had to run all the much faster and further to keep up with him....). I think we can officially say that in doing so he passed this, for Dutch measures quite important, milestone!

Oh, yeah, taking a picture while running after him ready to catch him in case he (almost) falls is kind of hard to to, hence the ommission of a picture. I will try to take one during one of the next lessons in which he will learn to start and to take turns...


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(Rahther Large) Headphones...

I love how my children make me laugh in ways that are sometimes quite unexpected. Last sunday Lisa and I were just having a cup of coffee and talking and Tobias was sitting at the piano. He has been doing that somewhat more often recently, much to my delight :-). Suddenly it gets quiet and the he starts yelling really loud: "Hey Papa, Look!". I look and see this image :-). He had grabbed and connected the headphones and was playing piano like this. Obviously it was quite loud...

Another such episode occurred yesterday when Tobias was playing sports with Lisa. I wasn't there, so there are no pictures, but the anecdote made me laugh just the same. Playing sports is one of Tobias' favorite games outside these days. We play hockey, soccer, tennis, golf, american football, and baseball, which was the name of the game yesterday. These games get increasingly hazardous for us parents, and yesterday Lisa had a baseball hit her face. So, she says to Tobias: "I should wear a facemask!". So Tobias goes: "Yeah, I am going to wear a facemask..." and he runs inside and comes back with a Lion's mask that he got at the zoo quite a while ago..... Of course the mask has nothing to do with baseball at all, but he wore it just the same for the remainder of the "game".


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Taking a Bath

Taking a bath has always been one of Tobias' favorite things to do. It still is, although there are nights where he'd rather skip one... We have actually had a brief period of time where we had to skip baths because of eczema type rashes. That was a while back though... The effects are still there in terms of the frequency of bathing. For a time we were at the historic low of about three times a week (doctor's orders...).

Currently we are up to at least every other night, sometimes more, still way down from every single night though! But we are getting there and of course, with Lorelei there too, bathing has become even more fun, especially now that she can sit up by herself. Tobias likes that too. He does not have to be that careful anymore and most of the "jokes" or "games" that he comes up with these days make Lorelei laugh. Aren't they cute together?


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Helter Skelter

This past Sunday I had an appointment to go biking with one of my friends. He lives near a hilly forest so, it is possible to mountain bike there, which is what we did. Initially it was going to be just me, but we talked to them at another friend's wedding and they invited all of us over. My friend and I would go biking first and have a BBQ afterwards. Well, that's what we did.

Tobias played with their children pretty much the whole time! And they had so much fun. Here you see him on a skelter, which, I am afraid I am going to have to buy too someday in the not too far future.... (it was slightly big for him at this point, but it won't take long....). Later they played with water squirters which, of course, was loads of fun too, although it does tend to make one kind of wet :-).

Unfortunaly we ended the day with a sick Lorelei. She had a fever, which of course alarmed us. We went to the doctor and were told not to worry.... Eh, where had we heard that before....? Anyway, by tuesday it was gone and as I am writing this a very happy and healthy Lorelei is sitting on my lap :-)


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Having Fun Together

Tobias enjoys looking at pictures of himself. He will ask me: "Papa, what did I look like when I was a baby?" or "Did I also do what Lorelei is doing when I was a baby?". Of course the answer is yes most of the times and given the amount of the pictures I took of Tobias as a baby, most of the times I can show him as well. And I do that and enjoy that. So does Tobias.

Last week my parents were on vacation which meant that we did not have daycare on friday. I took the day off and since friday is only a half day of school I got to spend quite some time with both my children! Well, Tobias asked if he could see some pictures of when he was a baby. We did, but while we were looking at the pictures Lorelei woke up. I got her out of bed and she joined the fun.

As you can see, not just me and Tobias, but also Lorelei enjoys looking at pictures :-). Oh yeah, and as you can see in this picture as well: Tobias is soooo much the big brother! He is sooooo sweet to Lorelei! Moments like these make my daddy-days (or in this case, the occasional day off) so unbelievably pricesless!


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Raai de Kraai

Tobias is adjusting really well to school these days. Initially he was shy, waiting to see what happened, staying close to the teacher, playing by himself, if at all. These days he is more into playing with children and participating in all sorts of stuff. His teacher told us that she even had to reprimand him for playing too wildly with the sand-table. Tobias' take on it was: "We were just playing pirates in the sand...". It sounds like he is making some friends judging by the fact that we hear a few names repeated significantly more often than others...

At home he is more outgoing as well. The other day I caught him calling out "Loek!". So, I checked to see what he was up to. Turns out he was looking into the neighbor's yard, saw their little boy (Loek, who is less than a year older) sitting inside, and wanted to play with him, hence the calling. He later told me that he just wanted to play tennis with Loek... Also he takes out his bike or tractor more often and goes into the alleyway behind our house and stays out there quite a while sometimes. Usually it turns out he met someone and is racing or playing ball or whatever else they do out there. Very nice to see...

Just like it is hard to imagine what it is like to have children until you have them, it is hard to imagine what it is like to have children in school until you have them... (or children going out into alleyways by themselves for that matter...). It was only 2 weeks after he started school that Lisa and I were sitting in the school gym watching the children, including Tobias, perform a dance-night. Then there was the parent-teacher meeting, the cleaning of the classroom, the sportsday and all that. We try to participate as much as we can, but it just isn't possible to participate in everything. Personally, I particularly had a knot in my stomach having to drop Tobias off at the track for sportsday last Wednesday...

It was, however, certainly possible to participate in a personal assignment, or in this case in entertaining an unexpected visitor: Raai de Kraai (Raai the Crow). He is a character they use in the reading method at school. Raai is a hand puppet and he experiences all sorts of stuff through stories. Well, the handpuppet spends a weekend a year in each child's home. The idea is that Raai's experiences are recorded by the child (read: parents) and gathered in Raai's sleep-over book. As you can see we took Raai to the beach. He had a great day as did we...! Tobias and Raai were quite inseperable at times... :-)


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Americanization...

Whenever we visit the US we Americanize ourselves and our kids for a little while (well, for now, mainly Tobias I guess, but I am sure we will Lorelei too, sometime in the future...). It is very nice to get a chance to do that every once in a while, and even nicer to be able to give our children the opportunity to experience some of Lisa's culture and up-bringing. 

This time American Football was on the menu.... pretty much every day :-). I bought Tobias a "PeeWee" sized ball and we played. I was his primary teacher, but hey, what do I know. So, I showed him how to throw, not that I am any good at that myself.... Fortunately we had a secondary teacher too; Granddaddy. After some instructions from a seasoned veteran at the game Tobias is able to toss that thing quite well... (We all were quite amazed by how well he picks up such stuff). I taught him how to kick, which was good because most Americans have no idea how to kick a ball (of any kind...), even the pros ;-). Here you can see him in action. I also taught him some of the terminology like "Touch down!", "Field goal!" and such. So, the football practice looked somewhat like this: Tobias tosses the ball to me, I toss it back, Tobias catches, runs around the yard and falls on the ground somewhere near a tree shouting "Touch down!". Then I set up the ball for a field goal, Tobias kicks it, then runs after it shouting "Field goal!" (times 20...). So, loads of fun! Another term I taught him about was "Fumble", which apparently was very amusing to him, because after that he kept fumbling any ball tossed at him...

Another part of Tobias' interest during this trip were fire hydrants, as they were over a year ago when we went for Christmas. Then we only saw red ones, but this time they came in all sorts of colors (apparently something to do with the water pressure...). Anyway, this one is "no-color with a green helmet" :-). As you can see in this picture a real professor is explaining how the fire hydrant works! That was exciting. The other kids in this picture are Tobias' second cousins Tripp and Brandt who were staying at their grandparents place because of the swine-flu (their school was closed that day...).

The next scheduled Americanization opportunity is Christmas. I am pretty sure I am going to have to get a baseball and glove then. I am already looking forward to it! Another item on our next schedule is attending a sports game.

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Paris By Scooter...

During our stay with our friends near Paris we went into Paris one afternoon. We had brought the stroller with a board attached that Tobias can stand on. The main purpose of this is that Tobias moves at the same speed we do and that he doesn't get too tired. Well, Valentine had a scooter for that same purpose. She can ride it pretty fast and doesn't get as tired as she would walking all that distance.

Tobias thought the scooter was quite interesting and wanted a go at it too. He got the hang of it quite easily and started "racing" (as he called it) down the streets of Paris... Nice huh?


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