One of the first things we had to do was Owen Proof the house. Why? Because he's been crawling EVERYWERE. In the last few weeks he's even started cruising furniture! [Cruising is a technical baby term for walking around while holding onto stable objects]. Owen doesn't like the measures we've been taking. Here's a photo of him "in gaol". He's helping the socks to escape - "run away, run away".
Because we're waiting for our shipment to arrive, we've had to give Owen a bath in the full sized tub. Lots of space to play with his bath toys!
But that's nothing compared to Owen's REALLY BIG bath - the local swimming pool. We've started Owen on some swimming lessons - somthing that was just a bit too hard to do in Germany. Not because there weren't any pools or lessons - rather it was organising it all in a foreign language! He doesn't look too distressed in this photo, and actually he's pretty good for his first ever swim. He did cry a bit when his head went under, though!
We left Owen's high chair in Germany, so we bought a new one here. Here it is. The Germans will recognise it as a european style wooden high chair. We couldn't help it, we've turned into Europeans!
Not really, of course. We still love lots of Aussie stuff, not least of all the yummy tropical fruit. This is our first "Real" Mango for 2 years! They have them in Germany, but they are nowhere near as nice.
Now that we are back in our house with a backyard, it's back to gardening for Nathan. Here is the first attempt to clear the veggie patch. Doesn't look like much? You should have seen it before he started. See the bin on the left? That's full of weeds!
We're already missing Germany and all things German. We went to a school fete at the German school to hear the language again and enjoy some of the food. Here's Jo eating a Bratwurst. You can tell it's not Germany because the bread roll is WAY too big. In Leipzig, the bread roll is so small it seems to be just a convenient way to hold the sausage rather than part of the meal. Rather disappointing was that there were no dishes with Quark in them. We met a couple that had spent 14 years overseas, mostly in German speaking countries. They were at the fete for the same reasons as us! Actually, we've heard quite alot of German - mostly tourists, and it's been fun to chat to them a little bit. I think they're quite surprised to see Asians in Australia speaking their mother tongue.
One rather disappointing thing is how quickly we've gotten into watching alot more TV. It makes a difference when you can choose from 5 english speaking channels. Hopefully we won't turn Owen into a couch potato - he's certainly getting the right belly for it. More about that and Owen in general in the next post...
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