Busy Busy Busy!

Oh my, we have been busy bees this past week. A week and a half ago William started to get sick- then he got VERY sick. We took him to the doctor and came home with a brown paper sac full of drugs for the poor child. After 3 nights of no sleep for William and I- I got sick. Then I got very sick. Are we seeing a cycle here? A few days later, of course Nathaniel got sick. All three of us sick just in time for the 3-day weekend followed by our 3-day trip to France. Perfect. Well, red runny noses and sleepiness aside, it was still a fabulous week. I have so many pictures to post- but so as to not overwhelm I'll space it out a bit in postings during the week.
For the 3-day weekend our fabulous friends David & Rita came down from Belgium to visit and give us some tasty Belgian chocolate and waffles! We had dinner on Friday night that I would like to say was positively delicious, but all I can tell you is that my chicken was moist. I couldn't taste a thing. Everyone else enjoyed the deliciously flavorful meal though! On Saturday we all went to visit Wurzburg, Germany. It was a charming place and William was so well behaved the whole trip. What a good boy!

Sick baby boy! If you click on this picture you can see where he banged himself in his eye. Poor little lamb.
William is beginning to get clingy. After all day spent with just Momma- he just can't get enough of Daddy
Wurtzburg. I loved the yellow building!
A stray parade that we happened to see. Notice behind them is a church with shops at it's base! Peculiar.
Random sticker.
UNESECO- Weltkulturerbe Residenz. I'm not sure but I think we could have gone in this building. I think I was too tired. Sorry D&R for being a party pooper!
Trying to look angelic....
City center fountain...

Festung Marienberg

William, Nathaniel, David & Rita

A friendly catfish we met in the market place
William was such a trooper! After the entire morning in the stroller we let him crawl around a bit. He was quite a hit with the ladies!

Family Fun Time

Here are some pictures from the past couple weeks.

Playing on his new quilt from Aunt Tamar. (see his teeth?)
Car shopping: Going for his first test drive.

And his second.

We put in 50cents for this to see what he thought of it...which was not much, apparently.

Bored last Friday night-we took off to the Kid Zone! The place was deserted at 5pm and we had free reign of the whole place.
William helping Daddy with ski ball (it didn't help much- Mommy still won. By a lot.)
Playing in the toddler zone.


New years fireworks. I swear- Germans go crazy for New Years! Everyone, everywhere was lighting off tons of fireworks! It was like our own fireworks war-zone. Very fun and a little overwhelming too. This is a terrible video- but it gives the general idea of the mahem that was Midnight.

You can almost see how tired Nathaniel is in this picture!
Camera was on a weird setting for this picture, but I still thought it was cute.
When he doesn't want to nap I find him chewing on the crib. Yummy.

Strasbourg, France

Wow- sorry we're all behind again! We've been a sleep deprived household so I'm slow moving these days. Here are a few pictures from Christmas and from a visit to Strasbourg with my mom when she was here.

Christmas outfit and blanket from Poppy & Grandma Fawni. So cute!

fröhliche Weihnachten

We had a wonderful Christmas and hope you had one too! Lots of love from Nathaniel, Felicity & William.

Last minute Christmas Eve shopping (he stands up every opportunity he gets!)

We had Christmas dinner with our friends the Hughes. After a Hughes family tradition dinner of KFC, we had a Christmas program. We were privileged to play the part of Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus (note my mom laughing in the back left).

William in the manger

The three wise (super) men: Nathan, Steven, and Jacob

Grandma and William sporting his new outfit from Aunt Tabby.
This picture doesn't quite capture how amazing and enchanting the hoar frost display was these past few days. It was so amazing and made the Christmas atmosphere at our HO-TEL even better.

Christmas morning 5 a.m. You can see the sleepiness in William's face. I would love to say that it was the excitement of Santa's arrival that had my bouncing bundle of joy up at that hour, but no, it was his first tooth.Trying out a new Christmas gift
Opening presents with Daddy

Oh dear me... what have we here. It seems that my little destroyer has found the toilet paper. What are new toys when there is a fresh roll of Toilettenpapier?

Do you cuckoo?

Yesterday was our anniversary! Three years has flown by, but also somehow seems like 30 years. It just feels like we've always been together. I love it!
To celebrate, Nathaniel surprised me and took William and I down to the Black Forest! The town is known for their clocks and is home to the largest cuckoo clock and also the tallest waterfall. We didn't make any clock purchases though. Most of the clocks start around 300 euro ($450USD) and frankly- we just don't like them that much.

William and Nathaniel outside the shop of 1000 clocks.
Dinner at the restaurant. William is so good in a highchair now!

We asked for a "kinderbed" and this is what we got, an enormous rocking cradle. I started laughing! Can anyone say accident waiting to happen? It would have been great about 3 months ago though!
The little monster trying to eat the camera.
This was as high as we could hike. They had the rest closed off because of the ice.

Silly boys!!

Battle of the Bulge

Last Saturday Nathaniel and I joined our friends, the Steffens, on a trip to Bastogne, Belgium to participate in a walk commemorating the Battle of the Bulge. Having a history of pathetic history teachers- I had no clue what this was until Friday night before the event. It was an amazing event with WWII cars, attire, and decked out soldiers everywhere. I walked with Lisa, her son Colin and William on a shorter version of the walk and the rest of the men walked the 12 mile length. The countryside was so beautiful and it was so sad to imagine the scene that took place there.

Nathaniel with some enthusiastic participants. The man on the left said his foot had been bothering him, so he'd be riding his 1944 bike on the trip instead!

Nathaniel and Matthew in the foxhole.

Me (showing them how it's done) and Nathaniel. The foxhole was really decked out! There was ammunition, 1940's soda bottles, maps, radios, military gear...

I cannot even express to you how FREEZING COLD it was that day. William was a trouper for about 2/3 of the trip and I ended out having to carry him the rest of the way. Poor little lamb (though, this is a bear hat!).

Nice Christmas decorations- grenades and bullets!