Well, that escalated quickly.

Grandma G sent off a package back in December that didn't make it until today, but that means it's SECOND CHRISTMAS!!! 

Bailey is teaching her fox how to make spaetzle.  She's actually getting really good at making stuff in the kitchen; cracking eggs like a boss!

John has gone "round the bend", as they say.  He made himself cry at the dinner table when we started discussing how Audrey would one day be six years old.  

Aaaaand as a balance, here's Audrey acting completely normal.  

 

When I asked her what she wanted to do during her break from school work, Audrey says: "I want to read my Octonaut books!"

Everyone in the US is freezing...and we're over here like: "Wanna go to the playground? No, you don't need to wear a hat."  Best Winter ever.  

Bailey invented tea on a stick today.  She's on a roll today.  Now she's banging a rolling pin and a wooden 'stick of butter' together, muttering "Make. Fire. Make. Fire."

Bailey is wearing a pretty epic outfit today: plaid, polka dots, a bear shirt and a Grandma G original headband!

Bailey says: "Ooooh!  I like that! I want that at my house!!"

This is the main street in our district--just around the corner from our flat. We spent the day today wandering around the first district as we so often do. We noticed that as we headed out, our neighborhood was still littered with confetti and firework brick-a-brack, but the closer we got to the city center, the cleaner things got.  I'm seriously impressed by the amount of work these people get done between midnight and dawn.  The Austrians know how to do some things well...and I guess cleaning up after thousands of drunk people is undisputedly one of those things.