She's Walking

Yesterday, the 30th Syd took 3 steps one after the other for the first time. Up until now she had done one step from one piece of furniture to the other. Now she walks with one of us towards the other person and takes the last steps by herself, and she does this with the biggest grin on her face.



Sydney also celebrated her first Halloween yesterday night in the traditional American way. Lots of candy, people of all ages in costumes and a spook alley. Too bad she is too young to enjoy any of these activities - but she looked really cute in her pink butterfly costume.

Flowers & Shoes

My husband is the greatest. What does every girl love, flowers and shoes. Well on Friday my husband brought me flowers just cause he saw them on this way home and thought they looked nice - which they do, he got me 7 different colors of roses all mixed with fall colored leaves. Then on Saturday, he actually told me to go and buy shoes - which is a very rare thing, seeing as I have a closet full of shoes. I love him and all the sweet things he does for me.

Sydney's new toy

Who ever said that kids need toys is wrong. All they need is the packaging from the toys. I opened up a package today, and Syd was going crazy dancing and going round and round the box. She circled it for over 45 minutes today. It was just too funny to not take a video. Enjoy

I HATE Traffic Jams!!!

So on Thursday we left just after 1pm to head off to Jahnsdorf (400kms away,) to go to a cousin's wedding reception. Okay, so 400km, plus traveling with a small baby, that should take what 4 1/2 to 5 hours right. WRONG.
There are so many things I love about Germany, but Traffic jams on the Autobahns here have to be the number 1 thing I hate about Germany. It took us over 7 hours to drive just over 400 km due to countless construction zones and endless traffic jams. We obviously weren't on time but we still did get to enjoy the reception.
The rest of the weekend was spent at my In-laws, so Syd could play with Oma and Opa.
Sunday around 2:30 we started back towards Stuttgart (also just over 400 kms away) The first 2 1/2 hours were fine, very little construction or traffic jams. Then just after 5pm, we saw a km sign and figured we'd easily make it home by 7:30.
Not even 5 minutes later we entered probably the longest traffic jam ever (at least for us), not only were the regular commuters head back to work, but there was also the people coming back from the long weekend. There was one construction zone that we were stuck in it was 8km long and only a single lane, David was so happy driving through this section. The only benefit of driving on the German autobahns is that once you finally get out of the traffic jams, you can drive as fast as you want. So David drove up to 180km/h. He would have driven faster but we only had a small car which didn't go faster. Anyways, we finally made it home at 10pm, almost 8 hours for a 400 km stretch of Highway.