A week tomorrow we are going home to T.O for the first time in over a year. It has been too long but with so many visitors from home, we have been able to handle it relatively well. There is lots to do to get ready including mundance things like laundry and fun activities like Christmas shopping. I am also looking at the eight hour flight with excitement and some trepidation. If anyone has some really fun activity ideas that I could do with Frunty, please let me know. So far I have:



portable dvd player/earphones with two hour battery and Barney/Teletubbies dvds

modelling clay and press-outs

crayons and colouring book/scrap book

lots of stickers

baby scissors and glue (to cut/paste duty free magazine items for our scrapbook)

story books

Gummi bears for ears

some French childrens' magazines with activities/colouring pages etc.



Any other ideas? Would love to hear them! Thanks.



In the meantime, we are going to Stuttgart for a long weekend to enjoy the Christmas market and we will visit family and friends nearby. Daddy has to work there as well so we have decided to tag along. We kicked off Christmas last weekend with the making of crafts, the drinking of Gluhwein and the listening of carols. We also put our new snowman deckle on the front window. Even though we all have terrible colds (boo hoo!) we are going to have fun anyway.



Hope you're all having fun too as the Christmas season gets underway! Happy 1st Advent too!