Week 41

'Tis the Season!

Everything is Christmas-y now... I love it!!

The backerei's have their special Christmas breads out. I had to get a Weihnnacht's Bretzel for everyone to share.. it was huge.

Friday night Connor had scouts but he was really excited since it was his first meeting with his new scout uniform. He also got is Wolf Scout handbook that night and hasn't put it down! He's already half way done reading it. He's really into scouts I guess.

That night after scouts we went to the Holiday Magic festivities in Heidelberg. I thought they really did a nice job for this.

There were horse and buggy rides (which we did not do since we were freezing!!!).

They had a little carousel that was Whitney's favorite part!

Lots of yummy food!

Then they went to see Santa.

I had a very embarrassing moment here because I could NOT stop laughing! There was a really long line of parents waiting to see Santa with their kids waiting in the freezing cold and I was just cracking up...

So this is what happened. The first picture I took was ok, but I wanted one with Whitney on Santa's lap. In the second picture I noticed Connor was making this funny face. I pulled him over and realized he had a bloody nose. I gave him Aiden's glove (the only thing I had on me) to hold over his nose while I took the last picure with just Aiden and Whitney.

After the last picture I looked at Connor and his face was covered in blood!

Poor guy... he didn't even know (which was making me laugh even harder).

Saturday Connor was invited to a birthday party at Kid's World. We have been here once before right when we first moved into our house. It's a really fun place for kids (a nightmare for paranoid Moms - like me!!).

Even though Connor was there with all of his friends from school he still chose to do everything with Aiden. It was really cute.

I didn't take a lot of pictures because I was going crazy trying to follow Whitney around. She was a mad woman! She didn't stop for 2 seconds. One of Connor's classmates had a little sister there who was 4. Whitney immediately bonded with her and they were attached at the hip the whole time. The hilarious part though was when I tried to take a picture of the 2 of them together Whitney was acting so weird! She was trying to act like she was really cool. Nothing I did could get her to smile she just had this "I'm so cool and hanging out with a 4 year old" look on her face the whole time. lol!

St. Nikolaus Day

December 6 is St. Nikolaus Day. Apparently, he is Santa's German brother. The boys learned, in their German class at school, that if they shined their shoes really good and put them outside their bedroom doors on the night of December 5 that St. Nikolaus will fill them with toys and goody's in the morning when they woke up.

The boys came home Friday and informed us of this German tradition and made sure their shoes were in tip-top shape!! We were a little worried if St. Nikolaus came to American children or not but it looks like he does! :)

Connor was worried about St. Nikolaus being able to walk up the stairs to the bedrooms "cuz he's really old" and insisted on us putting the shoes on the bottom stair.