Snow Day

Well, it wasn't really a snow day, but it could have been, had it started snowing 12 hours earlier. By evening rush hour, several inches of the pretty white stuff had fallen, and we spent a fun evening outside, sledding, skiing and shoveling.

Growing up fast

Dominik is growing up so fast. In the last couple of days, he added such critical words as NO, HI, and ON (or AN in German)!

Skiing Together

In a mixture of boredom and insanity, I decided to take both boys skiing by myself a few weeks ago. Dominik had never been out and only practiced once in the basement, but immediately started walking on his plastic "skis" over to the bunny hill. Lukas has been getting good enough that he can ski without tethers and too much interference from me. So we spent a few hours on the bunny hill, with me riding the magic carpet up right behind Dominik and then skiing down with him between my legs. Exhausting, but fun!

Fettsack

Seit einem Jahr oder so nennen Nadja und ich Dominik ab und an liebevoll "Fettsack". Ist er ja nun wirklich nicht, das Kind ist ein Fliegengewicht mit seinen 20 Pfund. Aber er hat so süße dicke Wadeln und so einen runden Bauch nach dem Essen. Nun ja, vor ein paar Tagen begrüßte Lukas dann Nadja morgens mit "Fettsack"! Ab sofort heißt Dominik jetzt "Kiek", nach seinem momentanen zweitliebsten Wort, Keks, und das Wort Fettsack hat Hausverbot.

Wir sind wir

Santa scares little boys all over the world


Dominik taking apart our furniture


Lukas hiking at Taylor's Falls

Special Chippendales Performance

Dominik doesn't like clothes. When winter came, he kept pulling on his long sleeves and was quite mad when I put footed pajamas on him. Every day, I find his socks in the strangest hiding places around the house, and we rarely bother to put them back on anymore. Yesterday, I came home, he was already short-sleeved and bare-foot. After saying our hellos, he disappeared around a corner, then came back, handed me his jeans and walked away again. Spent the rest of the evening in his onesie. I can't wait until he learns to unbutton those and starts taking it all off.

More than Words

Dominik's current collection of words:

1. oh-oh
2. wow
3. papa
4. mama
5. daddy
6. nada (nadja)
7. goo-goo (guck-guck = peekaboo)
8. ee-ah (hee-haw = i-ah)
9. moo (cows)
10. bah (sheep)
11. cool
12. digga (tiger or "Dicker"?)
13. doggie (all things furry)
14. papa bear (this is from a German kids CD)
15. lookatdad (look at that)
16. tssinder? (what's in there?)
17. duk (truck)
18. tunnel

This is starting to get interesting, because there is more every day now. Finally!

Lukas Skiing Photos

An album of Lukas skiing between January 2007 and January 2009 has been posted on Uta's Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=57267&l=13496&id=584380901

The Boys in 2008

A photo album of favorites of 2008 has been posted on Uta's Facebook profile.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new home of Moncur.net! We've decided to discontinue or old server and find free and easy-to-maintain hosting elsewhere. A blog seemed ideal for its ease of posting new text and photos.

We won't post too many photos for personal reason, but if you are a family member or a friend, please find us on www.facebook.com, where we will regularly update the photo albums.

Enjoy!
Uta and Mike

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