We are back

Hello again. It's been a while. We just moved house (to somewhere we hope to stay for a while - there has been a lot of house moving recently). We have a garden and lots of rooms, and a lot of stuff still to unpack or put away. For a while there we had no internet, so no blogs, but I will try and catch up. First, in children news, since we've been 'away' Ilona has become very very good at crawling, very good at pulling herself up to stand, and very good at stopping crawling as soon as I start to film her. Here is today's crawling video

Meanwhile Bluet is still into Peppa Pig.

Finally, we are almost through packing, but whilst in the process of unwrapping boxes and other paper-wrapped items (like a really boring Christmas when you already know what everything is, and some of it you actually don't really want anymore...).

Then I started to unwrap this bookcase

Inside I discovered 2 fully inflated balloons.

This begs two questions 1) how did they stay inflated for 3 months? and 2) why did the movers pack the balloons in the first place? I can only assume that moving men know that balloons stay inflated in shipping crates, so pack them to give you a lovely surprise at your new home. Otherwise why pack something that is obviously rubbish

Still, Bluet enjoyed playing with them. Strangely the red one had deflated within 3 hours of unpacking, whilst the yellow one was still going strong.

Strangely the red one had deflated within 3 hours of unpacking, whilst the yellow one was still going strong.

On The Road

Greetings from Arkansas!

So this is it, our time in Texasis over . Our house is packed and in a container on its way to Zurich. I am driving the car to Missouri whilst Emily took Bluet and Ilona on the plane this morning. Tomorrow I will join them at Emily's parent's house. We are looking forward to spending the next 3 weeks relaxing in Missouri, then finding out what life in Switzerland is really like. Here are some pictures of Bluet and Ilona from when the house was being packed up yesterday. Bluet spent most of the time watching Peppa pig and Ilona found time to catch 40 winks.

Improvised dinner chair

Ilona supervises, Bluet eats an apple

All our stuff came nowhere near to filling the shipping container. 

Some things Bluet made

Here is Peppa Pig making dinner

And here you can see 'Big Emmet and Big Stylewyld' in a 'lovely flower garden'