Bavarian festival weekend at Frankenmuth

This weekend the girls and I went up with Oma and Grandad to Frankenmuth to the Bavarian festival. There are all kinds of fun things to do here along with all the regular fun things like thier crazy cool pool in the bavarian inn and the kinder playland. We spent most of the day in the beer tent listening to mom's favorite German band play and spent a little time letting Liesl ride the carnival rides. She enjoyed them a lot and was very independant going on them herself. She is auch a brave girl and didn't ask me to ride once. A good thing too because I was busy with her sister. There was a nice dress vendor in the beer tent and I was salivating over a pink Dirndl for myself but sprung for one for Liesl that she should be in for a couple years. I will use it as a pattern to make another for her possibly more elaborate and one for myself.....Heather please help. Liesl and Jeannie ended thier day abruptly both knowing at 930 that it was time to go to bed, which is what they told me. Good girls.  They were both very easy on me today. Liesl really liked being rough-housed in the pool too today. She doesn't get scared at all being tossed around in there. Jeannie also got her first taste of swimming today too. She enjoyed it I think kicking a little with Oma and momma
Mom got a sewing machine this week. I am going to have to try hers out. She had to one-up me and get more stitches on hers. I would love to try it out. Maybe she has some more interesting embroidery on hers for our dirndls. We have been working on quilting Ota's old clothes into blankets. They are really turning out nice. It is nice in her basement working on that kind of stuff. Lots of room to spread out and Liesl now has all her toys in the basement there so self contained.
We visited IKEA this week to pick up some bookshelves and Liesl got to visit Smalland which is thier one hour day care. She really enjoyed it and is very independant not worrying about where Oma and I would be. A big change from earlier when she broke my heart when we were trying to leave her home and she gave me devastating tears to please go with us.
Mommy and Daddy had thier fiat date since Jeannie arrived last night. We went to see Snow White and the huntsman. Awesome flick. I loved the beauty of it....kristen Stewart could have been better but whatever. Charlese Theron carried her. When we got back to Oma Ronnie's 3 Hrs later Jeannie was cradled in Opa's arms in the lazyboy with her binkie just looking at me happy as could be. I was so proud of her. She even took a walk with Oma in the double stroller and a nap in the bed.
Liesl is getting very good at coloring in between the lines, working on bigger puzzles, helping momma out with putting together bookshelves, swimming and is getting way better eating out. I sometimes get so frustrated with her thinking she is much older than she is when she has a meltdown or acts like a normal 3-4 yr old then try to catch myself. She asked for her first hair cut the other day when age saw me cut Jeremy's and Daddy's hair. I just trimmed it but it makes it more manageable especially when it is brushed. Sometimes I threaten her with cutting it all off because age makes such a big deal about brushing.
Jeannie is now very interested in her mobiles in her bed, her play mat, loves her swing, is doing great with neck strength and holding her head up, tummy time is her favorite and she is pushing up on her arms for short periods, she sleeps for long periods and is slowly having more awake time but not much, at nightime she has been sleeping in her bassinet from about 1030 to about 7 in the morning. That is a pretty big deal. I am wondering when she is going to grow some hair.
We are hoping to do some camping on the west side soon before daddy goes back to school for summer session. Maybe Lexington on father's day. Jim had a great birthday at mom's bbqing. I don't know if I mentioned but Barb came and suprised him playing the pipes. It was fun.
It was great to finally find out Melisa and Scott's baby's sex. Can't wait for the cousin! The house is coming along great, can't wait to see that when it is done too! Stoney creek has a new play structure that we have been frequenting since the holiday. It is pretty amazing and the kids never get bored there. So happy for the metro pass and to be so close to our park! So many things to be thankful for.
We also recently visited Dow Gardens on the way down from the cottage. Liesl loved all the freedom of running around and looking at all the flowers and running through the mazes. She is getting very good at identifying plants, trees and flowers and can from us what a lot of them are. She does very well at one on one learning that way. The gardens are beautiful and I would love to go back and visit the children's gardens more as they were being painted when we were there. Liesl had a great time with everything especially the bubble wands in the huge pans.