Finally home and now it's three girls in one room! There was lots of giggles and talking which was obvious the next day when Karl took them to Bella's horse back riding lessons.
This time there was no Dramamine or Sea Bands. Guess what, no car sickness! Karl thinks it is the driving and smells of gasoline that caused the sickness. However, we still have some Ziploc bags in the vehicles just in case!
First American Ice Cream! OK, the girls are use to having purple ice cream, it's cream mixed with a purple yam. So when Anton was asking the girls in our Skype chats what was their favorite flavors, they looked confused and drew pictures of purple ice cream on cones. Bella brought out the ice cream on the second night. Karl and Anton were at Scouts, and I thought we should start easy, plain vanilla. It was truly fun to watch them eat it. They would take a small bite, smile, shiver as it went down, giggle, them take another bite.
After they finished, I had them snuggle up under the big blanket while I turned on the gas fireplace to get them warm. That was a huge first also. Christine practically jumped out of her skin but then wanted to know how, what, why, etc.
With so much excitement and still jet lagged, the girls fell asleep talking holding hands on one twin bed. They slept like that all night.
So, Anton eager to have another chess player in the house, tried to get Criselda to play him. We told him it was too soon and maybe checkers would be better. Christine has a new love, the dogs!!! She loves them!!!
This was their first reaction to Magic School Bus. Christine is a sponge at soaking up things and like any possible future science person, wants to know how things work. Watching Magic School Bus was a low key, nonthreatening way to get the message across. Christine is more nervous about her English than Criselda, but she understands more than she says.
First snow!
It only took one ball from big brother for the two to catch on!
After about an hour, they were all chilled and coming in to get warm and dry.
Bella introduced hot chocolate with left over candy canes.
