Toot is the word for dried blueberries.  They are very popular here. 

 

Mumpkin means maybe-I thought about making that EB’s nickname, but then I thought the nationals might think it was weird.

Something that sounds like Y2K is said quite often – not sure what it actually means.

 

Things are going well these days.   We are in a sort of rhythm.  Our cleaning lady comes three mornings a week and vacuums, cleans the bathrooms, and sweeps and mops the stairs and all of the landings.  The babysitter comes 4 afternoons a week while we go to language school, and she cooks supper and cleans the kitchen really good while EB naps.  Sounds like an easy life, right?

Actually, we still work pretty hard almost constantly.  Think about what you accomplished yesterday.  Maybe 10 or 12 things, right?  Here, a realistic expectation is to have a To-do-list with one thing on it, and then still be surprised if it gets done.  Things are going well overall – we are all eating very well – DB and EB are gaining weight, actually, while I have dropped one pants size in the three weeks we have been here.  I guess carrying a 20 pounds baby up and down three flights of stairs many times a day is doing me a favor, huh?