Kitchen Helper

I love to help my grandparents in the kitchen - it's a wonderful place!


Grandma sometimes says that I am more a hurdle than a helper...


Cool! Granddad let me do all kind of forbidden stuff - like sitting on the cupboard and biting into a big chunk of cheese!!! Yummy!!!


...but he is doing so, too!!! Luckily grandma did not see us!


Nespresso - what else?


And I helped grandma writing the menu for Christmas:

Cold spell before Christmas

While Micha and Anna already went to Austria, Kamil has to spend a few days more at work. We had a cold spell the last days with temperatures as low as -15°C. The Havel is beginning to freeze.


But it is not yet too cold to do some exercise outside! Bored by being along on the 4th advent sunday, Kamil got out Micha's mountainbike and biked up "Großer Ravensberg", which is about the highest peak around Potsdam.
a small frozen lake south of Großer Ravensberg.

Anna's First Birthday

It's hard to believe - our little Anna is mixing up our life already since one year! Happy birthday, Anna!!! You are such a wonderful, beautiful and joyful daughter - we are so happy to have you in our family!
Anna loved her gifts:


(Georg und Ruth, sie hat wirklich als erstes euer Geschenk herausgesucht! Und schaut, sie war total fasziniert von euren Büchern!!!)




(Wenig später kam dann Omas und Opas grosses Geschenk dran!)




And she loved her cake:

Anna Walking Her Tatzelwurm

Two weeks ago, at my parent's place in Innsbruck, Anna was walking her Tatzelwurm:

Anna im Waschbecken

Strange Cinnamon Leaf

Advent time is Christmas cookies backing time!

... and this is what happens if your geologist husband is helping: a "cinnamon leaf" cookie in the shape of Taiwan:


Here is a close-up of the sweet Taiwan island analogue model with annotations from the pastry cook.


Beware Taiwan, there is a newly formed "Verschluckungszone" (sensu Ampferer) north of Taipei!!!

Anna Is Waiting...

...for snow!!! Anna and Micha are staying in Innsbruck at the moment (Kamil is gone for fieldwork and a conference to Taiwan). But current temperatures are around 15 degrees Celsius and it seems like the early snow, which the Alps got in October, is melting even up in the mountains. Pfff... what a warm November!

A Sunny Day In The Babelsberg Park

Finally, after two weeks of clouds and fog, we saw the bright sun again this morning - hurray!!! Thus, I packed Anna into her warm clothes and we went to play in the park with Arne and his mother. What amazingly beautiful autumn colors we now have in the Park!

Who has got the bigger pompon?

Aaaah! This refreshing "infusion" of vitamin D felt wonderful!!!

Autumn Walk

Some autumn impressions taken during our Sunday strolls in the Babelsberg Park and along the Griebnitz See:







Some last remnants of the "Mauer" along the Griebnitz See:

Anna's Progress

Firstly, pushing shapes through the appropriate holes (...well, at least the round shape...)


Secondly, playing ball:


Thirdly, and VERY important to her parents, she starts to walk needing only ONE hand to hold to:


And last but not least: having enough friends to push her in her truck through the leaving room:


Yes, the boys already queue up!!!

A New Cousin For Anna

May I present - cute little Martha, Anna's brand-new cousin!!! Martha is the new family member of my brother Georg's family - congratulations to such a sweet little baby girl!!!


Anna and her cousin Judith trying to tandem-ride the red bumper-horse:

Holidays in Südtirol

Apologies for the long absence in posting on this page! We have not been in Potsdam for the last three weeks, but my laptop stayed here... Uh, no posts at all in the month of September!
We have been back to Austria, then Kamil went to a conference in Cogne/Italy, and furthermore, we had a magnificent week of vacation in St.Ulrich in South Tyrol. I will try to update you in this post with some photos of this wonderful time:

We stayed in an old farm house, which belongs to the family of my god-mother. The old barn is located right next to it, and the wonderful garden was an ideal playground for Anna.


A view of the close-by church of St. Jakob, the oldest church of the Gröden valley:


One of the many old farm houses we encountered on our hikes:


Anna doing her first steps in front of the spectacular scenery of Langkofel and Plattkofel.


Role reversal:


Anna and Kamil - and our high-tech first-class supreme and well-worth-its-money child carrier:


Anna and Micha - and an old-style back basket:


But maybe, I should have posted only the following collage - I think, it says all about our vacation! (And please note the Edelweiss flowers left of Anna's foot!)