Snow

Finally after three years we had some snow again. This morning everything was covered with about 2 cm (1 inch) of powdery snow and Mia's and Jacob's preschool class was canceled. Erika's school was two hours delayed and so the three of them could head to the little sledding hill in our neighborhood.

It wasn't quite the amount of snow we had in January of 2010 but it was enough to have some fun

Mia could also tried herself and she wasn't scared at all

Mama was a bit more cautious

Hopefully there will be some more snow this winter

Chloe's Birthday Party

This year Chloe had two birthday parties. One for her friends from the French school and one for her other friends here in the building. The second party was in the building's common room so the parents could have some wine and it was easy to get home

The highlight of course was the birthday cake.
Jacob and Mia made sure they had a good position next to the birthday girl

The German school

We have signed Mia up for some German preschool classes on Saturday morning that are offered by the German school for Washington DC. The class and especially the teacher were highly recommended by a colleague and this way Mia can interact with some other German speaking children her age.

The school is really big and we had some problems finding her classroom.

But luckily we had showed up 10 minuted early.
The teacher seemed really nice and Mia enjoyed the morning

There was also a little break on the playground

Since the weather was really nice we stayed a bit on the playground after the class was over and nearly got locked it. Luckily Mia's teacher who was cleaning up the room saved us

No training wheels

On a gray and wet day Mia wanted to try to ride her bike without training wheels. We have the lomng hallways with carpet which are a good place to practice.
First we had to made some adjustment so that everything was straight

Then Mia went off without the training wheels. She was a bit wobbly but did pretty well

We also mad a little video

Georgetown

Ji's cousin Yilei wanted to get togheter on Saturday evening in Georgetown. Traffic was a nightmare but once we had found a parking spot we had a nice eving.
We met at the waterfront where Ben Ben and Ella helped Mia to feed the ducks

This time nobody fell in

 Then the children played a bit in the park

Ji's uncle was there as well

Ella wanted to hold Mia's hand

Later we had dinner in a French restaurant

Barbara und Ulli's visit

Barbara's boyfriend Ulli is visiting Washington DC before she joins him in Kinshasa, Congo in a few weeks for her new job. Mia had liked Ulli when he was visiting last time in March and she was looking forward for them to come over to our place.
After a round of miniature golf in the hallway she put together a light dinner

Then she showed Ulli some of her toys

After dinner and desert we had a little break

Then we played the squirrel games Mia got for Christmas

The Builder

After not paying much attention to her building blogs for some time Mia put together a little tower. It turned out to be surprisingly tall.