1. Advent

It's getting harder to take good pictures of Clara. As soon as we take out the camera, she asks to see the pictures of "Gaga" (yes she still says her name that way). When we convince her to have her picture taken first (before she looks at it), she gives us her best camera smile:


Clara and I decorated the advent wreath together! She picked out the decorations and directed me, while I put them on. I think it worked out pretty well. Although if I hadn't started to distract her, Clara would have been perfectly happy to put every single piece of decoration in the house on it. She kept shouting excitedly: "noch mehr!" (even more!)


Here's Clara in her cool motorbike pajamas before bed last night...


And finally a natural smile!

If you notice the red cheeks, that's because the picture is from this afternoon, and Clara was already running a fever... Bets are on for which kind of virus it is (piggy or not?), whether Chris and I will also get it, and whether we'll be up all night changing sheets and clothes... Since Chris starts work for real this week, a sick kid was just to be expected, no?