Ezra’s first plane ride

Ezra had his first plane ride this week from Zurich to Washington D.C. He was wonderful! He had a couple of fussy moments when he needed to take a nap & couldn’t fall asleep because there was just too much going on. We had only gotten 2 seats for the two of us, but when we got to the gate to board the plane, they told us that it wasn’t a full flight & offered to move us to 3 seats! It was such a blessing! 1 flight down, only 4 more to go!

Look, Mom, my own seat!

Mom is happy that she doesn’t have to hold the baby all the way across the ocean!

Watching a movie with Daddy

Meal time

So happy to be reading a magazine (actually to have his picture taken)!

More of our favorite little guy!

Helping mom get ready in the morning

All Clean!

He’s getting better & better at sitting up (although Dad does still have a hand on him here)

What else can I say? He’s already said it all!

Nothing beats a wet washcloth for eating

Ezra wearing his moccasins from Banff, Alberta!

He LOVES sitting up! I still put a pillow around him as he isn’t too steady yet & usually ends up tipping over.

Self-portrait time again

6 months!

Thanksgiving & Christmas banquet

We don’t get Thanksgiving off from school, but we still managed to have a nice Thanksgiving with our friends, the Welbourns.

I love things like Thanksgiving, because it gives me an excuse to get out our fancy water glasses & use a tablecloth. Although, some year I hope to live in the same house as my China!

We had a wonderful time. Such a wonderful time in fact that I never remembered to get out the camera & take a picture. This is just the remains of our dinner. I made TWO new things: stuffing & sweet potatoes. Both turned out really good, thanks to wonderful recipes! Mmmm…. just thinking about all that good food is making me hungry!

Two days later was Christmas banquet. The theme this year was Candyland

They did a good job decorating & we all enjoyed eating the decorations!

At the banquet

We had a lot of fun with our fellow tablemates Kristi, Kari, & Mike

Suzanne & I had a good time too!

Swine Flu

BFA has the swine flu. There were lots of students out sick & they had 7 of them tested. I believe that all of them came back positive for swine flu.

 

So, the administration along with the German health official decided that we needed to close down the school. So we did. Everything ground to a screeching halt on Friday night & didn’t reopen until Wednesday morning.

 

 

Any pregnant moms or moms with young babies (that’s me) were asked not to come to school all this week just to be safe. Also, any dads with pregnant wives or dads with young babies (that’s Micah) are staying home this week until they know that everything is under control. Sounds like a great break for Micah & I, right? Wrong. He flew off to Madrid on an accreditation trip on Saturday morning, leaving me alone with Ezra & NOTHING to go to, not even church (that was canceled too). But, enough complaining. Back to the swine flu…

 

 

The one thing that did happen over the weekend was the High School play. (As they say, “The show must go on!”). It would have been really hard to reschedule  it into BFA’s already full schedule. Not to mention that parents had flown in specifically to see their kids act in it. So, the answer was for everyone in the audience to wear surgical masks to avoid spreading germs. Some plays you get handed a program – at ours you get handed a mask along with your program!

 

 

Everyone was a good sport & wore their masks, including our director & his wife. Well, everyone except the actors of course, because that would have been weird, but they did put their masks on before coming out to greet their well-wishers.

 

 

See, don’t we look great? Just wait. We’re going to start a new fashion trend & all the cool kids will be doing it!