Petting zoo...

Whitney: We've gotten behind on our posts the last few weeks so we'll try to bring you up to date on a few of the things we've been up to. A couple of weeks ago we were learning about farm animals in preschool. On one of of preschool days we took a trip to a local petting zoo to check out the animals. We saw a tiger, jaguar, kangaroo, and lemur (not your typical "farm" animals. We got to pet sheep, goats, deer, chicken, and a llama. Here are a few of the pictures:

New bike...

Whitney: Here's a video of me riding my new two wheeler bike. It's just like Mom and Dad's bikes (well mine still has training wheels for now). What's even better was that I was able to buy it with my own money. It only cost $5 at the thrift store! Now I don't have to wait for Santa to bring me one.

Park days...

We sure love going to the park to play. Each Wednesday we meet our friends at a different park to play. Mom also takes us to the parks on the base a couple times a week at the end of her run. Here are a few pictures of us having fun at the park.

Nana and Papa....

Our Nana and Papa (our great grandparents) came to visit us a few weeks ago. We had fun going to Chicka-FilA, shopping for clothes and toys, and eating chocolate. We even went an overnight trip to North Carolina with them to see where our ancestors lived and were buried. Mom says we saw the grave of our eighth great grandfather! We're excited to go see Nana and Papa in a few weeks at their house in Arizona. We sure love our Nana and Papa and miss seeing them as often as we did when we lived in Arizona. We took the above picture before they got on the train to go to New York City.

Happy Halloween!

Maren: Sorry we've been lazy about blogging, mostly because we can't get mom to do the typing for us. Something about too much to do lately. We hope you had a very Happy Halloween! We sure did. We started the day off with a Halloween party at our house with our park day friends. We got to decorate pumpkin cookies and play with our friends. I actually had two different costumes to wear for Halloween. I was a piglet for the party and a little fairy for the evening festivities. Our pumpkin did have a Cinderella design in it until I decided her face looked yummy to try to eat. Sister wasn't very happy with me.
Maren: This is what it looked like until I got a hold of it. Whitney: I was Sleeping Beauty for Halloween this year. We had a lot of fun celebrating. In the evening we went to the church to play some games and then go trunk or treating. Afterwards we went to the base housing area to do a little trick or treating and to go to the fall festival they were having. I really enjoyed the big slide and the cotton candy.
Maren: My favorite thing of the night was eating two lollipops!
Whitney: Here's me cheesing it with my princess pals!

Preschool...

Whitney: I've been attending preschool for a couple of weeks now. I go to preschool with 2 other friends and we rotate whose house it is at each week. We have it two mornings each week and our moms are the teachers. Each week we learn about a different letter and have a different theme for each day. Last week we learned about the letter D, eating healthy food, and good hygiene. Here are some pictures from my first day of preschool!

Sprechen sie deutsche?

Guten tag! No sprechen sie deutsche, but we better learn some soon. Daddy says we're moving to Germany next summer! You will have to come visit us! The first picture shows on the map the town where we are moving (Landstuhl), the second a picture of that town (notice the remains of the Nanstein castle on the hill), and third is a cool castle in Bavaria, Germany that we'll have to visit.