TraTra

... is probably the most spoken word by Marc at the moment. Can you guess what it means? I will help: he talks about a tractor. Marc loves tractors and there are lots of tractors where we live. So life is pretty exciting for the little guy. Finally, only after he started to talk about "tractors", he learnt to say Mama. His 3 other words (where we actually understand the meaning) are Aisha, which he uses for all animals, Hanna and Dada (daddy).

One week ago Marc's dream came true and he was actually allowed to sit on a tractor.Have a great day!
Christine

Finally ... a sign of life

... I won't say much about our long absence of the blog, because I don't have any spectecular excuses :-)We are back now. One of the reasons being is that my school/work year is coming to an end and therefore I have more time for the pc and the internet. I put up a couple of photos on our online album where you are able to see what we have been up to.
Recenty we spent a weekend in the very western part of Austria, right on the border to Switzerland for an orienteering event. It has been a long time for Richard and me, but although we are both very unfit we had a great time. The kids loved it as well so I think we can slowly start increasing our o-weekends again. I miss them. However with kids they tend to be even more tiring than without ;-). The orienteering competitions were national races for both Austria and Switzerland. It was great to compete agains a bigger (and more competitive) croud than we are used to.

As I already mentioned the school year will end in 10 days and then there is a long break for me which I am immensely looking forward to. I will try and collect strenght for the upcoming terms. Next week I will go to Vienna with one of my classes. Richard is on kids duty for 2 days and 1 night while I will try and keep 28 teenagers (15 year olds) under control ;-).

Have a great day!
Christine