Bisous from Brittany!

A foretaste

Guess what's tomorrow?

New glasses

Alina has been complaining recently of having tired eyes and headaches at the end of the day.  So, she now has reading glasses.  They're only a very slight correction, but the opthamologist says if she wears them for reading any anytime she's in front of a screen, she should feel better.  They had a two-for-one offer, so she now has glasses for school and glasses for home.  I also got new glasses.  This isn't a great picture of me as, among other things, I appear to have a stovepipe growing out of my head.  But, at least, this gets the idea of my glasses across.

Xmas 2016

Christmas Market 2016

 This weekend, we celebrated Thomas's dad's birthday.  It was also the annual Christmas market with, as usual, free face-painting and pony rides!

Tassia was feeling tired and grumpy and refused to get her face painted.

Alina's 8!

Yesterday, Alina turned 8 for the third time (she may or may not actually be ten, but SHHHHHH!!!).  Here are the present pictures:

 True to my high-school and college habits, we wrapped her presents in newspaper.  OK, OK, so we didn't have any wrapping paper!  I think that this so offended Thomas's wrapping paradigm that he almost refused to do the wrapping. 

 A very enthusiastic hug to say thank you!

 She loves her new parrot from Grandma.  And, the new parrot (who may or may not have been given a name at this point) was happy to make the acquaintance of Enormous Penguin.  Much ado was made out of their difference in size.

Trumpet