Visitor Update: Matcy and Granddad are here! We drove to Strasbourg to pick them up. They had flown into Paris, visited with family friends and then taken the train south. We are having a great visit. I got to show off Sindelfingen in bloom. Matcy has taken up knitting so we've been to the knit shop a few times picking out wool and trying to learn new techniques. The woman at the knit shop is eager to help. She is probably in her late 80s and has forgotten more than I could ever learn of the art. She patiently explains in rapid German with vocabulary I've never heard (anybody know the German for "cast off a thread then pearl one"). She then looks to me to translate. I tell Mom, "she said the word 'left,' and 'once' and something about 'needle'. Mom smiles broadly and "Yes, I see. Thank you!" She'll return with her knitting supplies and watch where she can copy. TG has taken up learning (a friend in Pennsylvania had started to teach her last fall) and the two of them sat on the sofa last night working on scarves.
Tracy toured the Mercedes plant yesterday. We'll go to Rothenburg for a daytrip, then Munich and
Schlossneuschwanstein this weekend.
Spring update: We are on to tulips, pansies, flowering trees, quince, grape hyacinth. But the landscape is mainly blooming lambs. White, puffy, bleating lambs skipping after ewes have cropped up throughout the fields.
MAA update: he has discovered the hilarity of voluntary burping.
MM Update: still climbing her twin peaks of learning to read and ride a bike (but not at the same time). She was promoted up a lane in the swim club!
TG Update: daily scootering and rollerblading with a neighbor friend. They are discovering all kinds of new paths and trails through the neighborhood.
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OK, I'm laughing out loud at Micah discovering the joy of voluntary burping! He's a little late in that discovery, I think, but then, he has big sisters instead of a big brother. :) John, too, has dicovered that joy. (We're so proud - he's not yet three.) But, of course, he can't actually burb. So he makes what he considers to be burping sounds and then laughs delightedly at himself. His parents frown disapprovingly at him. His aunt giggles appreciatively.
Go, Micah!
i love these updates. i miss you all!!!
We miss your family!
Thanks for a taste of Fordham humor at the Spring Cleaning. I heard rumors that a certain Casa Canti Restaurant song traced its roots back to you. It was the only standing O.
Thanks for blogging so we can stay mildly and electronically connected.
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