Sunday is Pancake day

I like thick pancakes, golden brown, with ice cream, maple syrup and fruit on top. The reaction from the rest of the Family indicates they get a thumbs up from them too.

I think tomorrow morning should be a pancake start to the day. Why not ?

These are pancake shots and after shots. You can see Andrew liked them so much he was pursing his lips for hours afterwards. Even Sunny and Mingyu stopped teasing each other for a post pancake pic on the porch.

Samuel

Samuel is following along behind Andrew especially when it comes to crawling and physical development. Although he still has got the larger body weight he has only advanced to crawling backwards, while Andrew is in fast forward. But he has a great sense of humour and when he starts laughing he either cant stop or he laughs at the smallest thing, especially when Mingyu makes a face. Its a real belly laugh and he goes on laughing and laughing.

 

A few more photos

Here are a few more photos, I did a quick check on the computer and we have 11,405 photos in 292 events. Good thing we have a MAC computer to handles the pics. The Iphoto is great at managing the photos in a easy to find way. It has some basic edit functions too, we mainly use the red eye removal function. Anyway these are obviously daytime shots and no red eyes  so I will stop this rambling on and do a quick blog for samuel.

We got a visitor

Gini called in for a night during her 40 day back packing adventure around Europe. She was in Geneva the night before coming to Cham and then went onto Prague by bus from here. It was nice having her to stay and she did apparently sleep despite the boys waking up every hour on the hour. It was a good excuse to crack a champers and relax for a few hours over dinner. Sunny was happy to see her ex colleague from Johnson and Johnson. I did not envy her, since she had run out of cash already and with Prague and Paris still, left on the schedule did not leave much room for any special treats. Sunny bought her a jacket to keep out the advancing winter and we searched the cheapest transport to prague. A student bus leaving from Zurich with an 11 hour overnight schedule. 

 

Andrew called me Dad

I got back home 930pm last night after an overnight trip to Copenhagen. Sunny and Andrew answered the door with smiles. We sat down in the living room and chatted for a few minutes with the boys on our knees. Then andrew said DAD, twice! Wow would have floored me, except we were already sitting on the floor. He said it and gave me a hug, so cute.

Andrews view of the world

The lads are having a chat in their high chairs. 

Andrew selecting a book from Mingyu's library .

Samuel thinks he is a turtle. 

Boys new Toys

This Saturday we went on an epic journey to Ikea in Spreitenbach near Zurich. We were in the store for over 3 hours including a meal break of meatballs and pomme frittes.  The boys were ok for the first hour after that the crankiness level increased and increased. Then back to home with the kit including new high chairs for the lads, a red play tent , rug, photo frames and other bits and pieces. 

Little Plastic Box

The boys enjoyed time in the little plastic box,  with smooth bottom surface and smooth floor it was a good combination for sliding along, powered by Mingyu. They had their Reilly dog on board to keep them safe and secure. 

Mingyu's First Soccer match

Saturday was mingyu's first soccer game, he proudly scored the first goal too ! It was a tough match against the Aegeri 9 year olds, most of which had those horrid rat tail hair cuts. They brought a secret player onto  the ground in the second half to try and put our team off but the doggy had no impact, except on the goalie who had a few stressfull moments during a kickout. 

Before the game I dropped Mingyu at the clubhouse and went in to talk to the coach and get the roster details. Mingyu got changed and then we walked around the facility and out onto the fields to see the team and coach. We couldn't find them and had almost given up when we saw the coach in the car park with a few other parents and the team. They asked if I was driving to Aegeri (a town 15-20 km away), we had now idea it was an away game so I drove mingyu up to Aegeri and then went back to cham to pickup sunny and the boys. 

We  got back in time for the second half and watched the Cham team finish with their first win for the season score 2-1.

The Bee in the Bakery

Occasionally you find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Last Friday I thought I was in the right place at the right time, it was the neighborhood bakery in the evening and the idea was to pickup some bread on the way home. After choosing some bread and a few little tasty exras, I waited at the counter. I noticed the lady behind the counter looking above my head, then I felt a bug buzz near my ear. I moved my hand up to swat it away but before I could I had been stung on my ear. It was painful and the dopey lady behind the counter did not say or do anything except ask for the money.   

Here was the result...and a bloody painful one too!