Kaia as you can see is quite comfortable with Melanie, and Melanie is so wonderful with all children.
Carl, even with his bad knee was put to some use with making a playlist of music for the night - Theo wanted to help as well of course.
A German tradition for New Years involved melting a small piece of tin over a candle, then rapidly dropping it into a mug of water - and pulling out the resulting shape to be deciphered according to what will be coming your way in this New Year. Small happy children, buffalos and Darth Vaders were are spotted!
(Go figure!)
Another tradition for Stefan apparently involved creating a hot air balloon and flying it over the neighborhood. He has never actually been successful at this, but bless him for trying. This night was not a success despite his best efforts with a garbage bag or two, and all of us helping/hoping.
Well, one of the reasons we love Melanie and Stefan so much is their coffee-making abilities! We slept over and the next day we were offered plenty of these lovely cafe lattes in their garden. Ahhhh ...
We lounged in their garden for half the day on Jan.1st and let the kids enjoy the pool, the water buckets, and the praying mantis that invited himself to lunch!
Kaia has no problem here with cooling off from the mid-day heat
Here is Kaia drawing a picture of Grandma (not sure which one here, can you tell from the drawing?)
and in case you think we forgot the little guy - here he is napping away the morning after partying the night before to ring in the New Year ...
Happy New Year everyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cannot guess which Grandma Kaia drew but at least she is thinking of us.
ReplyDeleteI think Id love that coffee. Stefan and Melanie sound like a a lovely couple as well as being such good friends...how fortunate for all!!!!
Hey Kaia draw a picture of both of your grandmas.It would be interesting to know what we look like through your 4 year old eyes'...........well maybe.