Gaming Everyday Play Days

My Ministry to Mom helpers are amazing!!! And take amazing pictures of the kids out having fun! Here are a few of their recent pictures :)

St. Patrick’s Day 2019

On St. Patrick’s Day it was beautiful outside! We walked with our friends - and nephew Billy, who was in the country for the week - to the Beer Well!

Prost!

Tooth Fairy, Chefs, Pirate, Snow Queen & Crab

It’s been a full week around here!

On Sunday night, after days of lots of wiggling, Ellie lost her first tooth while eating some raisin bread. She was so happy! She wanted to keep her tooth, so she placed it under her pillow in a tic tac box along with a note asking the tooth fairy if she could keep her tooth. Ellie was very happy to tell us in the wee hours of the morning that her tooth and one euro had been left behind. I heard her tell Francis in the morning that the tooth fairy knows her name now because it was on the note she left. I asked Ellie after school the next day if she told her friends... she responded, on the bus I told Zach-Zach, “Well, life has changed” and then I showed him my missing tooth. :)

 

Monday was Rosenmontag... the kids dressed up as chefs at school, played on pots and pans as drums, and ate mini pizzas. 



Tuesday was Faschingdienstag... where everyone in town dresses us! The kids enjoyed eating Krapfen (doughnut with apricot filling) at school. 



Lent began on Wednesday. The kids and I did the Stations of the Cross with the books they colored on Friday afternoon. 



Wishing everyone a blessed Lent!

Ps, we just got the kids’ school pics :)

Ellie, just turned 6, final year of Kindergarten 



Francis, almost 4, first year of Kindergarten 

Aquapulco Pirates World Water Park

Brian was in Rome for 6 days last week with the students so to celebrate being back together as a family we took a special trip: to the water park!

About 1.5 hours away near the town of Linz, we went to Aquapulco Pirates World water park for the day. 

It was amazing!!

The water in every section was as warm as bath water! We did all the indoor activities - as it is March. There was a splash pad, Baby Bay, the main pool that became a wave pool, a dancing monkey show aboard the pirate ship, and 5 big water slides. Francis could do one of the slides sitting in our lap and loved. Ellie could do that one alone and the other ones with us - including the double inter-tube one and the one that dumped you into the outdoor pool. You could swim in between the indoor and outdoor pool. We didn’t spend too much time out there since it was rainy and quite cold outside. 

We all loved it & it definitely tired everyone out :)