On Saturday Jan, Lina and I explored the city of Ueberlingen. The weather was wonderful, the sun shined most of the day, and we even got to enjoy a coffee outside! To top it off you could see the alps beautifully. It was the ideal coffee drinking spot.

Lina loves to be outside and watch all the people. Her smile makes many other people smile too!

She is now enjoying her high chair! Thanks Michael and Baerbel! It is so much fun to have her at the table with us when we eat.

Concert week

Many of you know that this week is concert week for me. During the last couple weeks Lina has started "singing" with me as I play. She is totally content in listening but chooses to chime in every once in a while. I noticed it is usually when I play higher pitched notes that she chooses to contribute. The first time she did this while I was practicing she really scared me because I thought something was wrong. My practicing in this clip is not very focused so please don't listen to me too carefully. I just wanted to try and capture her squealing for you all to hear. :)

Way before the blue hour

To those of you parents out there... you hear the little one cry and debate between the following: pacifier, time to eat, diaper or just let them be for a while. Not to mention that on top of that you, yourself are dragging and you look at the clock, "Is it really already 5am?"

Lina usually gets up about 7am but the last few days she's began "talking" at 5:15 or so. This weekend is also my orchestra rehearsal weekend (Saturday and Sunday 9:30 - 5:00). A lot of playing but very good for us. This morning I need to be in a neighboring village at 9:15 to start tuning the orchestra for the rehearsal. After about an hour and a half of trying to figuring out ways to get my little one to fall back to sleep I finally gave up and got up. She was awake and there was nothing within my control to change it. I was dragging a bit and suddenly saw that the clocks were exactly one hour apart on the computer and everywhere else in my home. "Could it be?," I thought to myself, fighting in the place between asleep and awake. "What time is it?!?!?!"

Yes, it is daylight savings time in Europe. So I finally came to the conclusion that my dear sweet little girl did not start her "talking" at 5:15 but at 4:15am because of the time change. I thought I had rolled out of bed at 7am but it was really 6am. By "rolled" I mean that I had finally gotten out of my bed for the 10th time in an hour and a half and after pacifier replacements, a feeding, a dirty diaper, trying to get her to sleep on my chest and then at the end resulting to the fact that she wouldn't just play in her crib by herself for another 30 min.... I rolled out of bed.

As I write this I feel like it is somewhat of an "oh, poor me" story, but not really. Now that I have "rolled" out of bed I am quiet content. Drinking tea, having breakfast, watching the sky get brighter and brighter. Now what's my calling now?... another dirty diaper.

This wraps up the post. Cheers to all the wonderful parents and our beautiful children. :)