February 2008 - Mike & Sarah Visit

We are kind of silly and enjoy the small things in life. We spent February first anticipating the arrival of Mike and Sarah. We cleaned, organized our crap, ordered bedding, and other such stuff so that Mike and Sarah would be comfortable during their visit. Don’t worry Mom and Dad, we did the same for you when you came, we were just a little distracted with the impending birth. So, then Mike and Sarah arrived and we did a marathon tourist schedule…more on that later. Then, we spent the rest of February being sad (ok a little dramatic) that our visitors left. If you don’t glean anything from the above try to understand that we miss our families a lot and everyone is welcome to come visit.

So the tourism marathon consisted of a visit to downtown Brussels which included the Grand Place (pronounced Graand Platz) and eating mussels at Chez Leon. We also went to a Chocolate Museum that included a demonstration of how to make chocolates. The guy made it look so easy. Now we just need to figure out how to make that delicious raspberry paste that See’s Candies makes.

We then went to Paris and visited the following in two days: Versailles – the Palace where Louis XIV lived in splendor, the Louvre Museum, The Sainte Chapelle – the oldest cathedral in Paris, Notre Dame, The Eiffel Tower, and the Arc de Triomphe. And we managed to eat a delicious French meal complete with foi gras, and oysters. Paris is a very charming city and we only scratched the surface. The next few days included In Brugge – I think there’s a movie out with the same title, Lueven just 10 miles down the road from our house, and Monschau which is in Deutschland just over the border – it’s been a tourist town for 1000 years.

We have already started a list of things we can tell Buster’s girlfriends to embarrass him. The latest thing on the list is that he blew out his pants at the top of the Eiffel Tower; so we had to strip him down to his flagrante delecto, ooh la la!

Buster James Smirking at us

Bim, Jay and Buster in The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

Castle in Monschau Germany

Buster video

Here's James laughing.


He's starting to figure out how to use his hands - he mostly stuffs them in his mouth and chokes. We like to call it his baby-bulemia phase. I guess it's because I tell him he's getting fat and pinch his cheeks. We had a great video of him in his bouncy chair but it's 99meg so Jay has to pull out some video editing software and see if I can get it smaller.

James' blessing day