Just a few quick pics... First dual bath. As we have to pay for water at this house, and as Jonas is pretty much sitting on his own, there will many more double baths to come. Plus, having a brother in the bath with you makes it twice as fun!

Another first: Ezra's first night in his big boy bed. He donated his crib to Jonas. He's done pretty well so far.

Jonas' 5 month birthday. What a handsome boy! Even if he does have eczema cheeks. Poor kid. Some days are better than others for the redness. Of course they had to be bad for this picture...

Matching jammies!

We love our brother!

This weekend, we decided to take our first German day trip. Mike set his sights on the birthplace of Beethoven in Bonn, Germany, and the Dom in Cologne, Germany. It wasn't as close as we thought--a little over 2 hours each way.

The pink building is the front of Beethoven's birthplace and where he lived until the age of 22. My favorite part was seeing his pianos, some of the sheet music he had written, and his hearing devices. The picture of the 4 of us was taken in the "back yard" with a sculpture of Beethoven in the background (it looks like it's coming out of my head). We then walked into the town square and that's were the building with all the flags was. Bonn was actually the capital of Germany for a short while before it changed to Berlin. The picture of the obelisk was also in the square. There was a market going on and some food vendors so Mike ate some sort of weiner. We also picked up some yummy breads for SUPER cheap. Then we headed back out onto the road to travel about 45 more min to Cologne.

After driving around trying to find a place to park, we were too late to make the climb up to the observation deck in the catherdral (The Dom). I don't know if you can tell how huge it is, but it dwarfs everything else in the skyline. The inside was cavernous. I took a few pics of the amazing stained glass, but they're kind of dark and blurry so I didn't include them. What I did include however, is a picture of a ghost. Ha, ha right? Let me first say, that I am unsure as to what I believe about ghosts. I definitely believe in angels and demons, but I'm not sure what category ghosts fall into if any. Also, I will preface by saying that on Halloween Mike and I were wanting to watch something scary and stumbled upon a ghost show on TV. It explained about "orbs" (round, fuzzy, balls of light in a photo or video) and "vortexes" (supposedly part of an apparition in a photo). I have never experienced those things in any photo I have ever taken, but in the cathedral I took a pic of the ceiling in a wierd area and captured both. I'm sure it's some sort of reaction of light in the lense, or some otherwise explainable photographical (is that a word?) phenominon, but I thought it was coincidental and more than a little spooky and wanted to share it will all of you. I would also officially like to declare the Dom in Cologne, haunted. Ha!! Whatever...

Disclaimer: I am unable to run spell check and I'm in a super big hurry, so please don't think I'm an idiot if I spelled something wrong. :)

As most of you know, we are currently in temporary lodging at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. We have been searching for a house, have narrowed it down to two and will be making our decision this week. Hopefully, it won't take too long to move in. The first several pictures were taken at our last Sunday school fellowship where we had a pumpkin carving contest. We did not win "most creative" or "most artistic", but we did when the best prize--"most spiritual". Ha! The picture of our zebra and lion was taken right before we went "trunk or treating" at Aviano.

In other news, we had our first trip to the emergency room. Ezra fell in the room and busted his head on the tile, where the tile meets the carpet. I was alone with the kids and had NO idea where to go or how to get there, so I called the emergency number. So I firetruck and then an ambulance showed up to assist us. We went to the ER where they gave him 3 staples to close the wound. It's a little hard to see. They even stapled some of his hair in there. (Apparently, that's ok.) He was a trooper though.

Our hotel is right next to some on base housing, so I took Ezra around to a few houses just to have the experience. He did great and was even saying "thank you" by then end of the night.

Here's a pic of one of our perpective houses. Mike likes this

one because it's in the country and has a great view of the surrounding countryside. I like it too, but it's 20-30 min from base and doesn't have a fence around the back yard. The other is a townhouse with neighbors (ugh), but it's waaayyyy closer to town. Mike could be at work in 10 minutes, and we could potentially walk to church. But it's surrounded by Americans (which to us is a negative). Decisions, decisions....

Gotta go. Mike's watching the kids in the room so I can steal away a few minutes to come and blog. There's no internet in the room... :( :( :(