My last post was 2012, 4 years ago. So many things have happened since then. My children have grown beautifully, and despite some health issues - some since recovered, some ongoing, they have remained picture perfect.
Emma is now in her 2nd year of school. She has blossomed in her class, and enjoys learning but much like her mama, she enjoys the social aspect perhaps a bit more! Her struggles in math were my struggles in the same subject. I hope that someday she will find her foot and be able to plant them firmly on the ground. Her creativity and love for sport outshines almost everything else. She has mastered a unicycle and loves her gymnastic and trampoline courses. She enjoys singing in the choir, too. I wouldn't have thought it, but she loves to be apart of the spotlight, albeit not directly IN the spotlight!
Romy, my little princess bride, is a wonderful little girl full of all the delicacies true royalty should possess, but she burps and farts like an old truck driver - this dichotomy is the real wonder! Romy has struggled for over a year with blisters in her mouth and now on her gums. The German Social Insurance system has truly let us down - not that I'm shocked after Henry's initial foray into asthma, but that they would let a little girl hurt for over a year and not feel compelled to do something is inhumane. My loathing of the doctors here is regarded as one of the reasons I don't think, "Germany is all that". Despite that fact, she dances and sings and brushes her hair like a champ. Romy loves hard and fierce. She will be interesting as a teenager...
Henry. Anyone who knows Henry, knows that Henry is...Henry. The name is synonymous with words like, "tornado", of course the classic, "hurricane Henry". He's a beast like no other. He's a little boy trapped in a raging Hulk's body. He was the last of the three (in all senses of the word) to really be able to express his feelings and thoughts; because of this it has manifested in his getting angry quickly when something doesn't go his way or he sees it as "unfair". He's a tough little guy, but he has the real heart of a King. He shares with his friends, and at the Kindergarten he takes care of the smaller ones like a Papa. He's gentle, loving, and helpful...I wish I were a little Kindergartner so I could receive some of this lovin' from Henry. He loves hockey, Star Wars, and his sisters. Nothing is funnier than Emma...nothing. I wonder when that will change.
While I can't encapsulate 4 years worth of photos on here, I'm only going to share one of my favorites, and one that is hanging in my hall at home. This photo will forever be one of my favorite because it captures their personalities so well. "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely". Roald Dahl
What love looks like.
