Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

-Charles Swindoll

Happy Mother's Day to everyone yesterday! Oh, to be a Mom seems like the greatest joy imaginable.

My guys made me crepes yesterday with Gramma's raspberry jam on top...heavenly and then they took me to one of their favourite places called the Pass. (www.pass.be) It was really fun and we all enjoyed ourselves. Then they made me dinner when we got home. (my favourite fish, Lotte, in a pesto sauce) After that, they gave me my half hour of stair climbing before we watched "The Incredibles." I forgot the gift. On Friday Frunty and Daddy made me a Mother's Day card and Frunty said for the very first time in his life to me, "Happy Mother's Day". What a sweet moment in my own life. Then yesterday they gave me a kitchen scale which weighs both metric/imperial and is battery operated so wherever we move, I can use it!

Cheerio everyone!

Yesterday was 30 degrees Celsius in the sun here in Brussels! It feels like we have gone from winter to summer with hardly a spring at all. But since the winter here is quite spring-like (except for the two weeks of snow we had) it all seems fine to me!

Yesterday was a very busy day. The guys headed off to do a hike and look for a "cache" and I headed out the door for a run at Woluwe Park. Near the end of my run, I got a call to meet the guys at Cinq. park for a bicycle festival. We had a really nice picnic and saw some neat bikes. I really like the little, three-wheel fold-up adult bike and will consider it down the road. Mowgli enjoyed the shade. After looking at all the stands and trying an organic cola (very good) we went home to drop off Mowgli and go for our hike. After my one hour run, I felt a bit tired but what a glorious day to go to the forest.

We hunted around for the "cache" but couldn't find it. Frunty and I waited by some trees while Daddy checked his GPS up ahead. Sometimes these scavenger hunts are very hard and we'll have to try again another weekend to find the treasure!

Hope you all have a lovely week with great weather too!

Last night we went downtown to the Grande Place to celebrate! Why the celebration? We all went to the doctor at noon and found out that our Tiny Baby is doing just great and everything is "perfect". And what a surprise to see the ultrasound pictures which show his/her face so clearly?! With Frunty we only had one ultrasound at 17 or so weeks. Having an ultrasound at 33 weeks with the new 3D technology available is absolutely incredible and one of the highlights of our pregnancy. Dr. de Vylder was in his office with the door open when we walked by so we showed the picture and he said, "What a beautiful baby." and that we definitely weren't disturbing him by sharing our joy.

So what better way to celebrate seeing our Tiny Baby and hearing an excellent report from Dr. Cos than to walk around one of the most beautiful squares in Europe, if not the world? Well, actually, we ran around it as Frunty found white lines on the cobblestone and wanted to pretend we were trains. Before getting to the Grande Place though, we had to stop for icecream this time at Haagen Daas. Instead of a waffle smothered with Belgian chocolate and various icecreams, we went for a brownie. Frunty wanted "red" icecream which means raspberry. We made short work of gobbling up our delectable desserts and walked through the narrow streets to the Grande Place. What a special night!

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

-Theodore Roethke

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Daddy picked Frunty and me up from Bemel park yesterday afternoon so we could take off for Halle Bos and enjoy the beautiful sunshine and gorgeous carpets of blue bells. We quickly ate our picnic as soon as we arrived as we were all starving and I waivered between going for a run or just lounging in a bed of blue bells. (Daddy packed my running gear.) I decided to go for a run because when do you get a chance to run through beautiful forest pathways with flowers on either side of you? And Daddy and Frunty went on their adventure with the GPS to find the "cache". I met up with them on my run to see the "cache" which was a glass jar hidden under a tree trunk with little viles of perfume inside and a notebook. After writing a few words and reading everyones adventure stories, Daddy left a little trinket. (a bike reflector in the shape of a lightening bolt!)

I took off again running and when I met up with the guys at the car I instantly got a huge whiff of a stinky stench. One of the perfume containers was a spray bottle and Frunty wanted to see how it worked so Daddy showed him by testing the perfume on their wrists. It was pretty funny to watch Frunty sniff his wrist and tell me about all of this and even though the ride home was polluted with this crappy perfume, it was still a really fun experience. And one of my favourite pregnancy runs to boot. Mowgli was exhausted though from all of the excitement of being loose in a big forest but I am sure he even would agree how wonderful it was to go to Halle Bos.

We stopped at Colyrut in the countryside to get some groceries just before closing time and there was only one other customer in the whole shop. What a treat! No line-ups which I have never experienced in Europe before!

I hope we can go again before the blue bells disappear because it was so beautiful and hard to take in during one visit. Perhaps we'll try another forest. It's fun to celebrate spring this way.