Mommy mommy mommy mommy. Daddy daddy daddy daddy. I think these are the only two words that Emma knows this week. Doesn’t even ask for anything. I think she just likes calling us to make sure we are paying attention to her. 😂🤪

We are a bit late to the party, but we finally got around to watching The Greatest Showman a few weeks ago. The movie was good and I enjoyed it. But I’m loving the soundtrack. I have been playing it a good bit ever since.

We got an M1 MacBook Pro at work as a test device and I’m getting to tinker with it. So far I’m really enjoying it. Having a few issues working in Xcode with our project, due to some dependencies. Running it in Rosetta fixes some of it at least.

Our daughter has a small cowlick in the front of her hair and it kind of swirls. It makes it challenging for me to brush. I made a comment about this to Shannon and Emma, whose 3, chimes in and tells me that I might need to read the instructions. 😂

Düsseldorf city skyline

After a freezing winter, the past couple of weeks have been down to -13C, today was beautiful. The temperature got up to 17C and was like a heat wave. After being stuck inside for so long, we decided to venture out to take a walk and get some fresh air. We ventured down to the Alt Stadt area to walk along the Rhine and explore a bit.

We tried to be as careful as possible, but there were more people out than I had expected, given that most things are closed. I guess that everyone else had the same idea, after being cooped up for weeks and months during the cold and just wanted to get out and get some sun.

Gott / Jesus

Ergo tower

Celebrating my birthday now will forever be bittersweet. However, this year I guess that I am supposed to learn the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. So, there’s that. 😬

Toys playing church

Emma asked me to play with her and when I asked what she wanted to play, she said church. We then had to set up some of her toys as the congregation and Daddy Pig was the pastor. 😂

I love her creativity. 🥰

Watched church service on YouTube this morning. When it was over, Emma(3) says, “Yay, I like that show.” 😍

Day One Streak

I had planned to do more writing at the beginning of the year. I had thought that would be here on my blog. Instead, I revived my journaling and have been pleased that I have a pretty good streak going. This is the most consistent that I’ve been for a long time.

I do still want to write more on the blog, but I’m still pleased at this start.

It was a nice morning waking up to some snow. Building a snowman and making snowballs was so much fun. 🥰