Flight to the States

Wow -- I made a lot of friends in business class on our flight. The seats were big and roomy and I even got to eat ice cream! Yum Yum I still got really tired of being cooped up on a plane and there was still 3 hours left in the flight. All in all, my mommies said that I was a great traveler again. Once we landed we collected our many many suit cases and went to our temporary temporary "home". To avoid confusion, I refer to this place as my hotel. My room even has a big girl bed, we've put some fabulous princess sheets on the bed and I love showing off how big I can be.

More goodbyes

We said more sad good byes to our friends, big and small. Here are some photos of the great going away party from my play group. I'll miss all my buddies. I hope that they keep in touch so we can stay pen pals for a long time.

Boxes Boxes everywhere

Some strange people came and packed up all my toys, they put them on a big, big truck. Mommy and Mama say that they are going to put it on a big ship and sail it to our new home in PA. It was sad to see all the toys going in to boxes, but it will be nice to play with everything again.

Sad Good byes

This was the first of many sad good byes this week. We had to say good bye to the Calders today. I have had a great time seeing them so often over the last two years. We've celebrated lots of things together and I love being so close to them. I will miss them, but we already have a plan to see each other in PA/NJ this June. I am happy to know we'll see each other soon.

Day in the Snow

Today we drove over to France to play in the snow. What a fun day -- there are so many cool pictures, I hope you enjoy them. It took us a while to get all dressed in our snow suits, but then we headed out in the snow. My friend, Mia and her moms had picked out this great location, we took our sleds and did a bid of sledding along the way. At the top we at lunch and played in the sun. There were lots of great pictures taken during the day, so it's hard to pick just a few to show you.

Here's the group at the start of the trek
The kids with the new snow friend.
Lunch time.
Me and Mia sharing stories.

I was so tired on the way down, I even took a nap in the sled! It was a great day for everyone and a good chance to say good bye to my friend Mia and her mommies, Ruth and Julia. I will miss them a lot.

Here is the group at the end of the day.

Saturday fun times

Today we kids had a great time going to an indoor play park. There were all kinds of cool bouncy things, slides, a great climbing maze. Our friend Lucia joined in the fun too. We even took a break for lunch. Mommy took lots of pictures. This place was really close to our house and Aunt Nanielle kept asking why we have never been before -- I'm wondering the same thing myself. While we were gone Mama and Uncle Greg worked on some things for our move. It was really cool and we got so tired, that we took nice long naps when we got home.

Birthday Celebrations

The Calders arrived in Switzerland, just in time for Hugh's birthday party. The kids had a great time playing together. After dinner, it was time for the birthday cake! Here's the birthday song before blowing out the candles.

Harper shows the dangers of eating a firetruck wheel.

Opening presents is so much fun. It's hard to let the birthday person do all the work. So Harper and Heather acted as Hugh's assitants.

Here's a photo of the birthday boy and his big sister!

Packing and planning

I've been helping Mommy pack and plan. We've been very busy, so there hasn't been any time for cute pictures. But Heather, Hugh, Aunt Nanielle and Uncle Greg are all coming to visit this weekend, so I'm sure we'll have some new photos to show you by Monday.

Growing up with my buddies

Here are the different "line-up" photos we've done over the past 2 years. We used to try and line up in age order, but for our 2nd birthday party we decided it age order was irrelevant, it's the fabulous friendships that count.

This photo is a little dark, but you do what you can with wiggly squiggly 1 year olds.

This was the second birthday party -- we don't need adults to hold us any more. We are big kids now!

Yep, another birthday blast

This time I partied like 2 year olds with all my birthday buddies.

You see, Mommy and Mama went to this class called pre-natal before I was born. It was a group of English speaking parents awaiting the arrival of their bundles of joy! After the class ended, the group started meeting to talk about baby things and then the babies started arriving! I of course, led the charge and arrived first in our little group! Since then we've been getting together once a week to play together! Along the way we've picked up a few more friends. It has been so much fun to grow up together for the last two years. Here are some photos of the wild party gang. This was our second joint birthday party. I'll do another post to show you how we've grown up together. This time the party was at my buddy Audrey's house. She is so cool and she's got a great kitchen set to play with.

Till's family made the cake this year! Wow was it fabulous. It looked just like a fruit tree! And it was yummy too. Here is the group blowing out the candles. Notice that Devon is all ready set with his plate. Leave it to the boys to be so un-cool! Just wait a minute dude!Mommy suggested that I put in more pictures of the adults, but I really wanted you to see all my friends! Hope you got a good taste of how much fun we had! We had a gift exchange too. Everyone got cool gifts. I got a cool art project kit and a fishing game.

State Side Trip

After a few days of being home in Switzerland doing laundry and stuff, we got on the big airplane for a trip back to the States. We were busy, busy, busy during our short trip. We had to find a mail box, a place to live, check out some new cars, and my favorite thing visit my J cousins in New Jersey.

We got a lot accomplished before taking an overnight flight back on Friday night. We are now back in Switzerland doing laundry again. How does that happen?

Here are some photos of my visit to the Miller cousins. I let Mommy hold baby Joshua for a little while anyway!Check out my new personalized hat and scarf from my buddy Miss Robin.

Jill all dressed to play out side.Grandmum taking time to teach us all about t-ball. Even doggy Sliver got into the game!

Home at last, Home at last

Oh it is nice to be home, playing with all my familiar toys and enjoying all the comforts of home!
I also received a few more birthday and Christmas packages to open and enjoy. Here is my new princess dress from Aunt Keebo and Uncle Wes.

Mommy and Mama have been doing laundry like crazy and haven't put away any suitcases. There is talk about a plane trip coming up real soon. I hear we are making a short trip back to PA/NJ to find a place to live until we can move back into Woodland Drive. I love riding on planes, it is the jet lag that really gets to me.

Oh well, until then, I'll rest and enjoy our time at home.

Back to Switzerland

While we are back in my native country, we are in the German section visiting the big town of Zurich. I'm having a great time, but can't wait to get home!

We spent much time wandering the city and enjoying the cafe's along the river. Our hotel was the ontop of the Crazy Cow restaurant and carried the cow theme combining it with a Swiss theme. Our room had goats in a Swiss Alp pasture painted on the walls. I felt just like Heidi.

Here's the photos from our city tour.

Liechtenstein

Once again another new country for me. Over the course of 6 days I've been to three new countries, I have to say, I'm impressed with myself! This tiny, but beautiful and very interesting country was very subdude while we were visiting. We arrived on January 1st, but both the first and the second are holidays here. So a few things were open for us to see, but we mostly had to stick to seeing the country and enjoying the food and wine (apple juice for me!)

Salzburg, Austria

We parted ways with the Calders on the 30th of December. They headed back to Germany while we headed on to Austria. I have to say this is a beautiful country! We only had a short time to see the sights in Salzburg, but it was worth it. While still bitterly cold, we experienced a beautiful snowfall during our day on the town.

We toured the Fortress at the top of the hill, walked around the old city, saw where Mozart was born and where he lived, took another horse and carriage ride, saw the cemetery where part of Sound of Music was filmed, played in the snow, and just enjoyed the atmosphere. Everyone was getting ready for the big New Years Eve celebrations -- I'll tell you more about our celebrations after the photos.

Sound of Music cemeteryPlaying in the snow at the fortress.Petting the horses that took us on our carriage ride.

See Mozart is standing really still just behind us! I'm trying to watch the skaters on the skating rink!

While everyone else was getting ready for the big fireworks display, we all went to the pool in the hotel. We had a grand time playing, jumping, splashing, and laughing. It was nice family fun before we all were sound asleep long before midnight.