Here was our snag from the first and second trip to the closest grocery store to our house:
I haven't tried the tortellini yet, but it looks delicious. We may have that tomorrow. The little yogurt-looking cups are actually rice pudding...Milch Reis (milk rice). They have such a variety of rice puddings here...the first two I picked up to try were cinnamon sugar and chocolate, the next two I chose were mixed berry...thus far, the best has been the chocolate, the berry and cinnamon were a little strange. They are made like little "fruit on the bottom" yogurts, so you can avoid the added flavor altogether if you want. I'm going to look for a plain one next time because I really do like the taste of the regular Milch Reis without the additional flavor. (Still doesn't beat the Kozy Shack brand rice pudding, though...)
Another neat find was the little basket of garlic cloves I bought, which I bought because I thought they were miniature onions, but when I cut into them to cook with them, they turned out to be little bitty individual garlic cloves! Not much bigger than the diameter of a quarter! And beautifully shaped...
The kids are growing up and enjoying having a house to live in and fresh air to breathe here in Germany (minus the smokers...man, there are so many smokers!). They are very cuddly with each other, most of the time, and love morning cuddles with their littlest sister:
The older two are especially loving the time they can spend outdoors in our backyard. The trampoline gets quite a bit of use these days, and the weather has really been beautiful and cool these past few days, so perfect for them to get silly outside:
As for the littlest one, she is really getting big and learning new things every day. She still isn't sitting up so well by herself yet, and doesn't care to sit in the tripod position for too long, although she is quite capable of sitting there. She has most recently learned that she can grab her toes and bring them to her mouth, so she frequently lifts both her legs up and brings them down to make a "thud" on the bed...it is part of her "settling" routine, so she'll do that for a bit and suddenly she'll be asleep. Strange, but cute. We did have a well-baby visit last week, and she goes back for another immunization shot tomorrow, but I don't know what her height and weight are right now...so I will post that at another time. In the meantime, here are some photos of the wee one...I've been playing a little dress up, too. ;)
And last, but not least, we have been going to this little ice cream shop since we moved here and I kept meaning to take a photo of the shop, but kept forgetting...so here it is. The chocolate ice cream there is absolutely the best (I do believe it's actually gelato). It seems the popular ice cream choice is a "spaghetti" ice cream, where the ice cream is made to look like spaghetti? I'm not sure, and I haven't worked up the courage to order it yet, but one day...one day. It really is the best ice cream shop in town, although I can't really be a true judge because I haven't tried the other places, but hey, it came highly recommended and it has been fantastic, so I can't complain.
Well, that's about it for me for tonight. Hope everyone is well and planning to visit us... ;)
On a final note, as we were leaving the restaurant tonight, the lady who waited on us said, "Tschuss" which is "bye" in German and Shinah turned around and said, "CHEESE!" hehehe...I guess that's what it sounded like to her.
Gute nacht! (Good night!)
