Photos from Christmas, etc. 1/11/06

Hi everyone, hope everyone's Christmas and New Year's were good. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning just the four of us relaxing at home and then on Christmas day we actually had a sun sighting, so we thought we'd take advantage and so we went to this old abbey about 30 mins from Hoeilaart, from the 12th/13th century, called Villers-la-Ville. (info and better photos http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/villers-la-ville.shtml ) It was closed of course, but still it was nice to get out and go for a walk.














Some of us partied a little hard for the holidays.











A full photo of the front of the house.



That's about it. We still love the house, though we discovered soon after moving in that the walls are a lot more thin than our old place - not great with young kids.

Sonia started crawling last week,

and they both started daycare, and Sara started her new job. Ethan is having a bit of a hard time because there are a lot more kids than at his daycare in LA, and of course, there's the language issue. Poor little guy cries every time we drop him off, but it's getting better than it was last week and will continue to get better. After we moved in, we found out there's a daycare down the street for Sonia (there's a waiting list now, but hopefully we'll get her in there at some point) and then there's a school for 2 1/2 year old's to 5 year old's right behind the house, so Ethan will probably start there in March or April. Only condition is that he has to be potty-trained, which is definitely going to be a project.

Fascinating reading, I know. I'll end there... no offending anyone this time, though the potty training will no doubt produce some offensive stories. Stay tuned.