Maggie's new 'do

The kids and I made homemade goo/slime/flubber this week (that comes with plenty of it's own tales).  We put it in Ziplocs so they could play with it whenever they wanted.  Maggie and the boys got their goo out to play with one day and I walked in to this.  She told me she wanted pink hair so she put her goo in it.  It's only made of Elmer's glue, Borax and water so it wasn't stuck forever, but it was definitely stuck until we washed it.  She was very proud of herself.

Speaking of new 'dos--Cormac decided one day this week to "style" his and Cadel's hair with real hair goo (Pat's leftover pomade).  They thought they were pretty cool.

Toothless

Cormac is now without his two front teeth.  He lost the first one while we were in Bibione.  He lost the other one this week.  That brings his total of lost teeth to four.  I think he looks really cute without his two front teeth.

In their words

Cormac (while rolling down the car window):    Eat wind Gus.

Maggie:  When do they turn on the waves? (This was at the beach in Bibione, not at the wave pool at our local pool.)

Maggie:  You can't open the door, Mom.  Only princesses can open the door and you are not a princess.

Maggie:  I'm a girl so that means I'm a fingernail. (She meant female but I liked that one)

Cormac:  Too bad you guys aren't Cormacs because I have lots of plans.

Maggie:  There are too many Germans at my German school.

Wildpark Hoellohe

Our summer weather has been pretty non-existent this year (I know many of you are sweating it out, and boy, we wish we were) so we can't just be pool bums.  Last week I took the kids to Wildpark Hoellohe in Teublitz, about 30 minutes east.  It is a little nature park with some of the local wildlife to view and a very big playground.  We spent some time wandering around looking at the animals and then the kids played on the park.

Cormac's favorite animal this week is the turtle so he was excited that there were some turtles.

Maggie brought her camera along to take some pictures Cormac also brought his camera but didn't check the battery until we got there and it was dead, poor guy.

Annafest

A week ago we took the train to Forchheim for Annafest.  Forchheim is about 15 minutes north of Nuernberg.  Annafest is fest that takes place on the kellerberg (cellar mountain) in Forchheim.  There are 20 breweries that have beer cellars there and every summer they have a fest right there at the cellars.

The area is called the Kellerwald or cellar forest.

The kids thought it was cool that it was right there on a "mountain" with hiking and walking trails.

And, of course, they had to do fest games.

Then we all took a ride on the Ferris wheel.