Christmas & Advent will be here soon!

Well it's that time of year when I need to get my usual German food supplies from German Deli.com. But luckily this year, we were able to find most of our Advent and Christmas supplies from our local Aldi.
Here are the things on our list:

• Lebkuchen (puffy gingerbread cookies)


• Spekulatius with Almonds (yummy spicy cookies that are great for milk & tea dunking)


• Christmas Stollen


• Marzipan
  
• Gummi Bears (well....really,that's an all year thing)


• Advent Calendar (with chocolate)
  

Also St. Nicholas Day is fast approaching, December 6. So I need to get supplies to fill the boy's boots, big and little!

Pushing Ahead

Here you can see what Konrad did today. A day in the life, so to speak....! Note that he is officially walking now (as of today), so he is all over the place and into everything. He immediately crashed out after all this ruckus. This is the best entertainment ever!

Applesauce Part II

You can view the latest & cutest video featuring Konrad in Applesauce Part II at Brendanpendant.

Anniversary Get-a-Way

This past weekend was sooo wonderful. I had surprised Brendan and Konrad with a weekend get-a-way to Washington, D.C. We stayed at the Fairfax at Embassy Row, which was very luxurious. We were upgraded to a king suite, which was super sweet! I had thought that staying in the heart of all the embassy's would be nice and romantic, we could stroll the streets looking at all the different countries' buildings. We had stumbled upon an Irish pub, I had my Guinness and Bren tried a couple different beers, then we stumbled down embassy row. We later ate at the Old Europe Restaurant, the best German restaurant in D.C. I snarfed down a big juicy pepper steak, Brendan had the Schlachtplatte, and Konrad had Spatezel (his favorite). The next morning, we went to the Finnish Embassy for a children's event "I Kid You Not-Kids and Teens in Finland", which featured the Moomin and some of his friends (Finland's equivalent to Disney characters - but so much better than Disney (except that Little Mermaid, yes Brendan...), music and Finnish children's lifestyle exhibits, Marimekko pillows and play areas... oh it was such a great time. Here is a short slide show of our adventures!