Ava's "Holiday"

Ava just had a 2 week "holiday" from school. Normally, as a teacher, I would forward to these breaks and love every single day. Now, as a stay at home Mom, I am really looking forward to tomorrow morning when she goes back to school! I hate to sound like "that" Mom, but after 2 weeks, it is time! The first week was great, the beginning of the 2nd wasn't so bad, and by Thursday and Friday I was counting down until Monday.

During the past 2 weeks, we have actually been quite busy. Thankfully it has been nice, so we have been able to be outside, meet friends at the park and go downtown to walk around. Ken was sick for about 5 days last week - fever, cough and chills. He is feeling better, but still has the cough. I am looking forward to the day all 4 of us are healthy! It seems someone always has a cough or runny nose lately.

On Wednesday of last week, I took the kids to "Carnival" in Basel, Switzerland. There was a group of us that took the train from Strasbourg. The day went better than any of us expected. The kids were great, the weather was perfect, and we went with a family that used to live in Basel, so they knew where they were going and the rest of us just followed and enjoyed the day. I had many "I can't believe that I live here and this is my life" moments that day.

 Ava's first train ride (I think...).  She was so excited that Evrard was coming with us.

She talks ALOT about Evrard!

 My handsome boy.

 He is going to be crazy!

 Basel, Switzerland

 I had to hold Ava for the first 20 minutes of the parade because she was so scared.

 Some of them were pretty scary.

 The kids loved throwing the confetti!

 Getting a little more brave.

 Beckett with his first love, Millie. Too bad she doesn't love him as much as he loves her.

 So tired.



Thankfully, no children fell in!

Playing in the fountain at a restaurant in Basel.

This week we also visited Le Vaisseau which is the childrens museum here in Strasbourg. Both kids really loved it. 

Beckett loved the water.

"The Magic Carpet Ride"

The kids get to look at a TV and it looks like they are flying. Becketts face cracks me up!

On Saturday night, Ken and I took the kids to a section of downtown Strasbourg called "Petite France". Ava loves walking downtown and watching the river.  

 She insisted on doing some kind of ballet pose for the picture.