Happy Birthday Time!

I can't believe it has been 4 years already, etc and so on. Anyway, today, as you may remember, is Bluet's birthday. She has been excitedly telling us what she will be getting for her birthday for months. Last week she even went as far as to write a birthday card to herself all by herself (it says 'Happy Birthday to Bluet').

Not only did she have to make her own card, she also had to bake and decorate her own cake. Here she is adding sprinkles yesterday morning.

And of course she was up at 6AM, ready to open presents this morning (actually, she didn't immediately demand birthday fun at that time, which was nice). So we let her open a couple, the rest of the presents are ready for after her special dinner of spaghetti and birthday cake tonight.

Forgotten Lizards

I just found these photos from 2-3 weeks ago (just after we returned from the UK) of an afternoon trip we took walking down the river - back then, it was still sunny in the afternoon, sunny enough for all the lizards to be out basking on the rocks. The trip down the river we did several times because there are many playgrounds along the way.

This particular day we ended up at the Wipkingen GZ, where they have a 'farm' for kids with rabbits, pigs, goats, and of particular fascination to Bluet and Ilona on this day, chickens. I remember Bluet saying "that chicken is looking at me because she loves me". No idea where that one came from.

Another day we went to the river playground, where Bluet found chalk and wrote her name on the paddling pool that has been drained for winter

Of course, now it is cold so when we go out we wrap up warm, and the lizards are nowhere to be seen

At Work

Last weekend Bluet went to work with Emily, and practiced her lecturing style.