Goodbye Germany!!!!

Happy Easter, everyone! On Sunday we dressed up (I got to wear a real suit with a tie!) and celebrated that "Dee-dus" (Jesus) rose from the grave! We also had our official goodbye at the chapel, and then had Easter lunch with our friends.



Two days ago, three strange men came into our appartment and started putting our stuff into boxes and then carried them outside to pack them into a HUGE box thing on a truck. It was fun watching them until they began to pack MY toys. I made sure to tell them that those were MY things, but they didn't seem too impressed. As they packed, I commented "Ohoh! (insert toy name)! Mine (insert toy name)! Byebye (insert toy name)" ... I was a good sport right up until the appartment started to REALLY look empty. Then I cried and cried, walking around the apparment saying "Ss-tuff all gone! Oh no!" My Momma and Dad explained that our things are going on a HUGE boat to the country where Gramma lives. Now I reassure myself by repeating that our 'ss-tuff' is on a 'boat' to "ahMah."

We leave Germany with a sad and a laughing eye (that's a German term). Our time here was wonderful, but we are also excited to begin our new life in Vancouver!

12 more days 'til we move!

Wow, just 12 more days until we move back to that mysterious place called America! I don't quite understand what my Momma and Dad mean when they say "move" (which usually means that I have to scoot over?) but I can tell you that we are going to sleep in a "new Mark house" and that we will see "ah-Mah" and both of my "Da-pah"s... and I know that we will fly in a "HUGE" airplane!

My Momma and Dad took me to Rothenburg this weekend to pick up my cousin Diana! We had fun walking around the town, and I really like Diana. She plays with me, and tells me that I am cute!

In between, I decided to be naughty and run off. Luckily for my parents, we were right next to the torture museum, and so, I was punished appropriately... with 30 seconds in the stockade! (We didn't go into the museum)


Here I am proving that I am my Momma's son... I inherited her love for rocks, errr, I mean for "wroughts" (as I call them). All those silly old houses didn't interest me one bit, but when I spotted this fine, pebbled parking lot, I let out a delighted yell of "wroughts!" and ran onto it. Then I sat down and proceeded to pick out my 20 favorite rocks... and then commanded my Dad to "dit dow-nnn!" right next to me. He didn't understand, so I patted the ground again, saying "dit, Da!" The big meany only let me take ONE "wrought" away from the lot.

"Shhhhhh!" We are in an old old church, so you need to be as quiet as a mouse! Just like this! SHhhhhh! (It is not very easy to be quiet when there are gargoyles looking down at you that look like lions and dinosaurs, both of which MUST be pointed out with growly sounds!)

This is Rothenburg... or one part of it. Our hotel was right next to the upper entrance tower. My Momma took lots of pictures of the old houses, and will watercolor them once we have time... which will probably be some time around Christmas!

Bubbles!

Hey! Did you know how much fun bubbles are? Well, I got to find out last week! At first that weird white stuff looked VERY suspicious, and I did a funny little dance trying to get it off of me. When that proved to be hopeless, I decided to make the best of it, and played and played and played until all the bubbles were gone. I was so impressed by the bubbles that I told people about them for days after my bubble bath! ("bubboh ba-hhhh")

Did you know that bathing is one of the best inventions in the world? Now my Momma and Dad just have to get a house with a bathtub that has a glass shower shield, so that I don't flood the bathroom when I splash...

Hmmm, these bubbles just keep on multiplying! They are getting everywhere! Not sure yet if I trust this weird stuf...

Err, I just tried to lick the bubbles off of my duck. Definitely a bad decision. Yuck.




Well, time for my Momma to get back to writing her paper. She has to hand in 3 loooong papers on March 13, and has already finished two of them. Boy will I be glad when she is done. I don't like it when she has to sit at the laptop typing all day. Oh yeah. Less than 4 weeks til we move to Vancouver. Wow, time goes by quickly!