King of the castle

As I am almost 6 months now, I thought it was about time to post a blog. Mmmhhh, what can I tell you about. Well, I have had a great life so far - mummy always jumps when I open my mouth ... Daddy is a bit of a harder nut - he also tries to convince mum to let me scream every now and then - fortunately he wasn't very succesful so far :-)

I have got a big sister, Hanna. To be precise, at the moment she is a bit bigger than I am but I am trying very hard to catch up with her - weight-wise I am doing great - I only have to gain 4 more kilos!

I am sure you would like to know what I am doing the whole day. I like to sleep, preferable in the morning, that's when I am most tired - it's all that screaming during the night - it tires me out ... . Also mornings are boring because Hanna is at daycare. Once Hanna is back, life is getting a bit more exciting here, I like pulling her hair - if mummy brings me close to her - which is quite often, I already told you I just have to open my mouth and she jumps ... If I don't pull her hair, I like to pull her pullover or T-shirt or nibble on her books. Nibble, that reminds me of my toes, yeahh I don't know if you guys know that you have toes on the end of each leg - very interesting things - found them the other day and they are great things to bite, nibble and play with!

Other than that I can tell you that I don't like lying still - definitely being still is only for when I am asleep. I like to jump around (with mummy's help) and roll myself from the back to the tummy and back. Soon I will be rolling through the flat - man, I am looking forward to that!

So, that's enough for now - have been sitting still far too long ... :-)
Cheers,
Marc

A weekend in the mountains

Our birthday present to mum was a weekend together in the mountains. It was not easy to find a weekend that suited everybody, however we managed - and it turned out to be a great one. We chose Rauris as our destination. Rauris is situated on the edge of the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. It is still in the district of Salzburg and therefore not far for us to drive.
Richard, Hanna, Marc and me already left on Friday after lunch. The kids had their nap in the car on the way there. When we arrived we went for a walk through downtown Rauris, which didn't take us long :-) and then waited for the rest of the crew to arrive (mum, dad, edith and arthur).
On Saturday we went for a big hike - big, considering our circumstances and the fact that we have to carry 2 children around as well. We did something that we normally wouldn't do (unless in winter to got skiing) and used the cable car to go up the mountain and started a 4 1/2 hours hike over 2 peaks from the cable car station. It was absolutely wonderful and the scenery really stuning. Hanna and Marc had a great time (well, Marc slept almost the whole way) and we had a good excercise.

On Sunday we took it a bit easier. We had a big Sunday breakfast and left a bit later for a walk in the Rauriser Urwald. This is a forest area, which is not "looked after" and therefore very natural. For the orienteerers: it reminded us a lot or skandinavian woods with lots of little boulders and blueberry bushes, little marshes and ponds. We loved it! In the end we walked much further than we had planned. Unfortunately it started to drizzle on our way back, but we could make it back in time to a restaurant before it really started to rain! In our online photo album you can see a few photos of our weekend!

It was a wonderful weekend - all 5 of us enjoyed it immensely! For me it was also the last holiday weekend, as schools started again on Monday. I had to swap my always-ready-to-go swimming bag with my school bag! Although I am sure it will be a hard year - with the 2 kids and a half time teaching job, I look forward to it. It is good to get out and think about other things than nappies, feeding and household stuff :-).

Have a great day!
Christine

Photos from the hiking girl

Have a great day!
Christine