All 9 of us!

Michael took care of the boys in the morning and I slept in. Ahhhh! He got me up at around 10am because we met our friends, The Knipples, at San Francisco Coffee Shop near where they live. They are leaving this week to go to Wisconsin for 4 months so we won’t see them for awhile. We haven’t been able to see them much because between 5 boys and 4 adults, we’ve all been sick at some point throughout the last few months!

It was a really great visit with them, always is. They are so much fun to talk to and it was just non-stop chit chatting. The boys (all 5) did very well. Their neighborhood San Francisco’s has a play area for kids that you can kind of partition off and it is really nice. Even though Rowan and Elijah were tired, they didn’t hardly fuss at all until we had to leave. We were also joined by an Australian couple who were just up for the weekend (they’ve been in Switzerland for a few weeks) and was happy to speak to English speaking people. Steve told us funny stories about how Logan is getting really complex thoughts and knows so much stuff that they had no idea he knew. And he eats as much as his dad now too! I don’t know how we’ll be able to afford two vacuum cleaning eaters in the house!

One cool thing that happened today was that the boys figured out how to use a straw! They really like the mango smoothies that I get and I usually give them a little through the straw. I suck some up into the straw, and then release it in their mouths. This smoothie was particularly thick, so they had to suck it out. Once they understood this, they could suck stuff up the straw. How very exciting!!! Our friend Shari got us these tupperware cups that has a cover that accepts straws so maybe we’ll get to finally use these and quit washing the dreaded bottles!

It was time to say goodbye, we are sad to see them go, but they’ll be back in twon in September and will be here another 2 years.

Elijah was not happy at first

We went home and decided to let the boys (and us) nap. After that we got all packed up and went out to Garmish. Michael had some place in mind to go, but while we were on the way, we passed by this place that had a nice playground and all kinds of things for kids to play on. We turned around and went there. It was a little cold, but not too bad. We took the boys out to the play area and Elijah was not happy. He just woke up from his nap in the car and went from warm car to cold outside. Any time I tried to put him down, he would scream bloody murder. Rowan was fine though and happy to do whatever. We decided to try and eat something in the restaurant, but as soon as I sat down, Elijah started screaming again, so we left. We decided to stay outside and eat a little something since we came all this way. At least an apfelstrudel! Elijah cried but it didn’t matter since there was no one around. We got bottles out for him and then he was instantly happy. It was so weird. He wasn’t even that hungry, but for some reason I guess the bottle represents safety? I don’t know. Anyways, they both procured a bobby car each and rode around and around and were happy the rest of the time we were there.

There was one of those air blow up thingys that kids can jump in and it was really dirty, so when you saw the kids playing in there they had really dirty faces and hands. Some of the kids walking around look like they came from the coal mines. We laughed and laughed, it was so funny to see all these really dirty kids. I would’ve taken pictures but thought the parents might get mad.

Michael was watching the boys while I ordered the food (in German!) and when I came out, he was chatting with a woman. Apparently, when Michael passed by, he said “hello” and she was so taken aback by this friendly gesture and she thought “he cannot be German!” So they started a conversation in English. She is from Belgium and there people say hello when passing someone, but here they don’t do that and she thinks that’s really terrible. She was so happy to talk to us, we invited her and her son to our table and we spoke more. She is a midwife and her husband is an OB/GYN. It was really nice to meet someone and she was very friendly and was super surprised to meet other friendly people. She sometimes drives up to Munich to go to the English Gardens, so we told her to call us whenever she does. I do hope we see her again.

In the evening, Michael was planning what to do for his day off tomorrow and I was relaxing on the couch trying to figure out what to have for dinner. I fell asleep (since it was so comfortable) and didn’t get up until 4am! So, I had no dinner. michael cooked some meat or something.