Mr. Giraffe is gone!

Well, Ned had 2 favourite toys: Hermie, his beloved teddy bear and Mr. G, his DUPLO giraffe. That giraffe, I tell you, tried to escape soooo many times already. Once it "jumped" over the railing into the water but could be rescued again. Another time we visited an old lady with Alzheimer and Ned tucked Mr. G in her blanket before leaving. We only realized someone was missing on the way back in the car and had to turn around. But, yeah, now it finally really has happened, Mr. G is gone, without a trace:o(((((. We went for a nice spring walk to the shops and when coming back he was gone. Bye bye giraffe, you were a good and faithful friend and I truly hope that Ned will be able to sleep and live without you, although he's asking for his "geigei" (giraffe). If you happen to have a spare giraffe you're not really attached to and don't need, we'd be more then happy to give it a new home:o)))

Well, not only Mr. G is gone, Ben is gone as well (but he'll come back in 1 1/2 weeks!!), which leaves me alone with offspring. To be honest, I was a bit scared of entertaining a 1 3/4 year old all day by myself and the first day started off REALLY badly!!! I had a screaming concert for one hour just after breakfast over NOTHING and again for quite a while after his afternoon nap. Great start of being alone with him for two weeks, but the next day was the exact opposite. We went for a walk and he didn't want to sit in his pusher and walked all the way into town. I was so impressed with the little fellow. The ships office wives met in a cafe in town which was really nice and my little "angel" played all the time peacefully in the toy corner. Unfortunately on the way out he tried to steal some plastic Ester eggs from some decoration in a corner and fell down, headfirst, a couple of steps and broke the fall with his adorable little nose.... but he's fine, only a couple of scratches remind us of the fall... but it truly looked spectacular!! And he even got a little plastic toy dog thing which is quite high in his esteem now already (so, maybe Mr. G will be replaced by Mr. D??)

Spring has arrived as well which is really good. The air is so fresh and wonderful and we go for walks sometimes even twice a day. Slowly offspring also discovered that feeding duck is fun and if we head in that direction he says "Quack quack" and is rather upset with me if we don't turn off towards the ducks....

Tomorrow I'm heading back towards Heilbronn to stay with my parents for a couple of days.... it is just REALLY nice to have other people around who enjoy entertaining a almost 2 year old... I do run out of ideas at times:o)))))