After about four weeks of no peeing in the bed, we stopped using diapers with Abigail, and she peed three times in a row. Hmmm. So she gets a diaper at night again, but she pees so much that she overpowers it and still gets the bed wet. Good thing we have a washer and a dryer nearby (the neighbors have their laundry hanging outside right now - it is frozen solid).
The girls have been having a lot of fun with Sinterklaas this week. He is this Santa Claus-ish character who comes from Spain in a steamboat. He gets on his white horse and parades around with a bunch of slave-elves. Little black people who are funny, special talents, and love to make mistakes. Not racist at all, right? Big controversy in Dutch society about that now. Some areas have the little people paint their face other colors than black this year.
Little kids leave a carrot and some sugar blocks in shoes, along with a bowl of water, by the fireplace for Sinterklaas's horse. They find some tiny cookies or chocolate in return the next morning. Today we will have a celebration with Naomi's family where the girls will get presents...we found a play kitchen for them. The girls had another first this weekend - they walked all the way into town without any help from us. It takes me 20 minutes to do that by myself.
Claire drove her fancy new car up from Switzerland to visit us this weekend. All the Europeans think she is crazy for making an 8 hour drive for the weekend. We already knew Claire was crazy, but it is nice to see her again! Speaking of cars, we were too slow with ours, so someone else bought it. Guess we will have to wait for another one to pop up which will probably take a few months...
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