What do you think of THAT?

Words from my 3 1/2 year old son as he smacked a ball right at me when we were playing baseball today. It was pretty funny. He is a very good baseball and tennis player (even his tennis instructor suggested that he get private lessons, as he was doing far better than all the other children in his class [sorry, Amelia]).

We're looking forward to our last visit to the States this week -- the next trip we make from Belgium to the U.S. will be the permanent one. Hooray!

We enjoyed a sunny weekend here, and Amelia decided she wanted to ride her bike to the market on Saturday. She was excited, because I had bought her a special basket for her bike, with a handle so that she could take it off her bike and do her marketing.



The first thing that caught her eye were some wonderfully red, ripe strawberries. She couldn't wait to eat one, so while I stopped at the Greek stand for some tiropitaki, she dug in.

Her next stop was for tulips.



She picked out some beautiful white tulips with hints of pink -- 10 tulips for 3 euros. I will really, really miss all the fresh flowers when we move back. Especially the tulips!!

She did an admirable job riding all the way there and back (it's about a 15-minute walk each way). She was quite proud of herself, too.

The icing on the cake for the weekend was a personal concerts by my two budding musicians. I'm not sure which is funnier. Amelia's flamenco dress, or Jack's dancing. (Before watching the video, make sure your volume isn't too loud. And if you have dogs, they might start howling along.)