Again I find myself trying to catch up with all the fun things going on with our kids who are growing like weeds and just had their hair cuts by Da-da so look even older. Since I last wrote we really enjoyed the rest of our summer together and made sure we did a lot of great activities together. I wrote a list of things we wanted to make sure we did at least once a week and we really did stick to it. Here is the list:

unstructured play in between naps
face painting/dress up/puppets
dancing/music games
yoga/eye exercises
baby massage
adventure by train/tram/bus with picnic
puzzles/read stories (stories daily as usual)
games/crafts
ball games/tag/swim/park/scooter
snuggle on couch while watching movies
blowing bubbles/fishing for plastic fish
bake a cake or bake/cook something even just a blender shake sometimes
invite friend over/go to friend's house

Some weeks we only face painted once, other weeks several times. We also managed to go see Ratatouille twice (once in French/once English) and Shrek 3, twice as well, both times French. It sounds busy but we had a lot of time at home too, just hanging out. I enjoyed every minute and I think the kids had fun too. Sometimes Dad-da took a day off or half day to participate too.

Gramma and Grampa arrived at the end of the summer and we all took off to Cyprus where it was 39 degrees and sunny. Finally we experienced summer! We enjoyed their three weeks and the kids had a ball visiting the lolly truck everyday by the hotel!

Frunty is back at school and Pit and I are back into the fall routine of Little Gym, French Club, the odd playgroup or music morning and lots of visits to the club which has an awesome new indoor play zone and still, very warm pool.

Frunty is enjoying school and gave his teacher, Marie Catherine, a big hug immediately upon entering school. She said all his friends were really eager to have him join their class as he was two weeks en retard due to Cyprus. Albert's daddy has started a soccer team for the kids and last week we went to the first pratice. Frunts loved it and can't wait to go to Coach Eirik's team again and I will get him shoes this week. He outran, even in his old sneakers and wet grass, the other kids, even the older kids. He was incredibly fast.

Tonight at dinner we started talking about what to do in the case of a fire as we had just visited Seneffe and a police security day. Frunts seemed to know a lot about what to do, like crawling along on the floor to not breathe the smoke. I said, "yes, the smoke can make you very sick" and he said, "it can make you die". We asked him where he learned all of this as the theme at the show this weekend was street/transportation safety and he replied, "I saw it on the map on the plane" (meaning the little info, laminated leaflet that is in the pocket which shows you what to do in the event of fire.) Daddy and I laughed in amazement and said, "blogworthy". I know we fly a lot but it is amazing what goes in because I have seen him study that little leaflet.

He also knows the song "Hoppa Hoppa" that Gramma sings and sang it to her on the phone. She couldn't believe it and neither could we as I think she just taught it once and now when I do "hoppa hoppa" to Pit, Frunts sings the song. They are real peaches and cream, these two and we treasure them as each day passes. They still seem to get cuter and cuter, that's for sure.