My apologies

for the temporary interruption of blog programming. Shelby's family was here visiting for Thanksgiving and we travelled all over. I will try to post pics and updates soon from our travels. We visited Trier, Paris, Versailles and Heidelberg. Wednesday Shel and I leave to head down to the German Alps and spend a week skiing and sightseeing in Garmisch. I will do my best to update before then. :)

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Yabadoo

Yabadoo

Today we took Colin to one of the indoor playgrounds here called Yabadoo. It has all kinds of cool playthings like bouncy castles, ball pits and pedal cars. Colin has a ball running around there and making us chase him. He also has an obsession with collecting the balls and putting them back in the ball pits. This entertains him for quite a while because the other kids want to play in the ball pit and throw the balls out and Colin just runs around gathering them up and putting them back where they belong. Silly boy.

We had a very healthy and nutritious lunch of pizza and brats and Colin even got a lolly for dessert. I am not sure why the Germans think giving babies lollys is so great. Clearly they aren't the ones trying to clean the sticky off them for the next three days. Funny thing is Colin only gets them every once in a while but boy does he remember exactly what to do with them!

Colin had a great time as you can see.

Soccer Game

Tonight I went to my first soccer game. I've known that soccer is a really big deal here because I've seen how packed the bar gets for games. The larger city near the base here is called Kaiserslautern and they have their own team. Shelby has been to one game before without me and had a lot of fun, he insisted I come along for this game. You often see cars with stickers on them supporting the team and people wearing clothing with the team logo on it as well. Even though it's like a farm league team the people here still love them.



The game was a lot of fun and the people go crazy! They pretty much sing and jump and clap and cheer the entire game. They have lots of chants and songs that the whole crowd knows and gets into. I have to learn the words...it annoyed me to not know them! I took a bunch of videos to show just how into it the crowd gets.



Here they missed a goal..


And here they scored, watch all the flags waving at the end of the video!

Wordless Wednesday

OK so it's not really wordless....I need just a few words to tell you that Colin is obsessed with pushing a chair to the desk and climbing on top of it. We've caught him up there more than once now.




Yes he is sitting on top of my printer and playing with my cell phone!

Pool and Leaves

Pool and Fall Leaves

Sunday Shelby and I took Colin to the pool to swim. Now that he walks and better he has so much fun climbing on the slides and playing in the pool. He also loves playing with all the other kids. He went for a good hour and a half before he got tired and it was time to go. After stopping for some lunch we drove around and took some pictures of the amazing leaves here. I had a little wimpy glimpse of fall in AZ, AL and GA...but this is incredible. I have never seen anything like the fall here. I just want to spend the whole day driving around and looking at the trees, lol. It was kind of an overcast day so the lighting really did not do the leaves justice, but you can still see how amazing they are in the pictures.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween

We took Colin on base to go trick or treating for the first time. He had so much fun running around and checking out all the kids and decorations. He only went to maybe 5 or 6 houses but he ran up and down the road wearing himself out, which made me very happy! He had a few little pieces of candy in his little banana peel treat bag at the end of the night. Shel dressed up in his chicken suit to go trick or treating with Colin. At first Colin wasn't so sure he liked his Daddy in that funny chicken costume, but he got over it and let Shelby hold and carry him around.

Today I ran upstairs to go put some stuff away and when I was up there I could hear Colin downstairs laughing hysterically. When I came back down he had broken into the coat closet and taken the wooden stick that we use to "lock" the door from sliding open. The doors slide and we keep them locked so Colin can't get in there and throw the closet contents all over the house. He had taken out the stick and was running around the room very proud of his mischeif. Kalia was chasing him and playing by trying to steal the stick from him. This went on for a while before he got tired of the game. Here is the video I took...

Monkey on the Loose!

Monkey on the loose

Yesterday I took Colin to the pumpkin farm in his costume to take some pictures. He loves to play with pumpkins and leaves and had a blast running around checking stuff out. Of course he was far less interested in looking at me when he had all that other fun stuff to check out. I thought it would be a good practice run for Halloween in his costume to see how he would act in it. He could have cared less about the costume, however I cannot say the same for the litte dog that lives at the pumpkin farm. The dog was apparently afraid of monkeys and barked at Colin. Colin, used to his own bad dogs, wasted no time yelling at it like he helps mommy do when our dogs bark, lol.