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!!!