Boring Can Be Good

I'll start this post off with a warning: there isn't much happening here in Bonn right now. Nothing exciting to report, no big adventure we've just returned from and, thankfully, no new injuries! Basically, we're living life, but in Germany.

So what has happened since our last post? I took a 10 day trip to the US, which was a good mix of work and family time. We celebrated Clara's birthday while I was home: pizza and cupcakes..the girl is easy to please (sometimes!). I spent almost every evening with the kids, which left very little time to see anyone else. I did manage to have a nice evening with Sara, James & Tim (Brian was in Costa Rica) where we enjoyed home made sushi courtesy of Sara, and some excellent chicken & gambas (prawns) whipped up by James & Tim. I brought my smiling self & a bottle of vino.

Instead of staying in a hotel, I shacked up at my brother's place. It's much more fun to stay with Andrew, Katherine & Parker! My little niece has turned into quite a charmer!! In return for letting me impose, I took A&K out for a great dinner at Crush on my last night in town, and billed it to the company. Travel for work does have its perks!


Back in Bonn, we took Reed in for his U4 this week (4 month checkup) and it turns out he's a 4 month old. Happy, healthy, and exactly 50th percentile in both height and weight. Truly unremarkable, which for a doctor's visit is perfect. The doctor did tell us that Reed is turning over the wrong way (stomach-to-back rather than back-to-stomach) but I'm thinking this is a German thing...

Not much else to report on. Dinner with friends tonight, then back to the grind. Oh, one thing to inform everyone on: Daylight Savings Time happens on different days in different countries. So while in the US this Sunday the clocks rolled forward an hour, it won't happen to us in Germany until March 27th!! So for the next 2 weeks we're an hour closer....

Tchuss!

A Major Milestone!

Yes, it's true. We are the proud parents of a baby who can roll over. We feel a bit guilty about the whole though because we've been doing "tummy time" with Reed on a blanket which we lie on top of our soft, thick, shag rug. I decided to lay his blanket on the hard carpeted floor today and 10 seconds after putting Reed down, he flopped right over. We'll have to remember to tell him when he's older that the shag rug was our way of showing him that "Life's not always easy." In fact, we may start teaching him how to walk in the snow so that when it melts, he'll be up and running in no time!