Grandma in the Box
Birdy has two grandmothers. One grandma lives nearby and she meets her every Sunday. The other grandma lives in a box and talks with her…
“Does she understand German?” – First Multilingual Troubles
The other day when I was picking Birdy up from the KITA (i.e. the kindergarten) one of her group’s teachers used the relative…
Our TOP 3 Toddler Travel Gear
The last few months we have been pretty busy travelling. We spent the beginning of May in Latvia, went to Berlin for a…
Birdy Goes to Kindergarten
Here in Germany a baby’s first birthday marks the end of the paid parental leave and many little ones begin going to kindergarten, known…
The Daddy Bedtime Solution
What would you say if I told you that eliminating nursing from a baby’s bedtime routine is incredibly simple? That it is not…
The Unexpected Side Effects of Having a Baby
Last week we celebrated Birdy’s first birthday. Hurray! Despite the overall busyness of doing the last touches on her room, baking two birthday…
Parent Café: Coffee and Music Included
The rainy, chilly winter weather of Hamburg would have probably turned me into a little hermit for the whole beginning of the year…
5 Things I Learned at Baby Class
As some of you might know, for over half a year Birdy and I attended one of Germany’s most popular courses for parents…
Babies don’t grow, they come in updates
“Babies don’t grow, they come in updates” hubby announced yesterday while having dinner. Well, that is one way of seeing baby development, I thought…
