Chloe started preschool this month. She goes three days for a few hours each day. She seems to like it and I think being as social as she is that it is great for her. This is Chloe on Day 1.
Chloe ready for school on Day 2.
Day 3
Day 4. Chloe playing around before she headed off to school.
This is just a shot of Chloe cruising around the house with her play cell phone, wearing mommies shoes and looking so dang cute I had to post the picture. Her nose is a little red due to a fall she took outside. She loves shoes. If she thinks there is any chance of getting outside she will start handing out shoes so that everyone can get going, she does usually give you a pair of your own shoes so that is handy. 
This and two pictures down is Chloe on her way to her first Water Park adventure, boy did she have fun. She thinks water is the greatest thing, hummmm, I wonder who she takes after on this one (Bridget???)? She will now wear sunglasses so we try when possible to put them on her for outside play.
Here Chloe is playing with Caitlin. It started off with her water matt but Chloe quickly tired of that and so we filled the pool. Somehow she stole my chair and Caitlin and her had a great time pooring water on Chloe. Yes, they were both dumping water on her and she thought it was pretty funny. Once again, the kid loves water.
Chloe at the Water Park with her friend Hayden.
Chloe heading out for her last day of site seeing in Germany. 
Chloe with Doug and Dylan. I love this picture. Look how tall Dylan has gotten. This is in Offenburg.
Chloe helping push her stroller to Petite France in Stausburg. 
On the 4th day Dylan's Oma and Opa took us on a great tour of the Black Forest. Here we hiked down along some waterfalls. It was raining a bit. I carried Chloe down (she is hiding behind me) and Doug got to carry her up. It was really steap so glad he got the way up :). In the red jacket is Dylan's host mom, Renate. To her right is her son Dennis and to her left is her mother in law, Oma (Annie).
They packed the back of the car with pretzels for everyone and drinks. So after we had toured the lake we went back to the cars and had a little picnic.
Dyland Chloe are working on blowing some dandelions. It was so dang cute. 
Dylan carrying Chloe. We were walking part way around the lake that you will see in the next photo.
Sorry this first picture is actuall from Day 2. We went up to a Castle and Chloe just loved the rocks as you can see by her happy dancing. Day 3: Dylan was actually with some family friends so we went with Niklas, Renate and Dennis to France to see some monkeys and a castle. No I am not joking. And yes we had a great time. 
This was in the castle (Schloss Haut-Koenigsbourg). Doug and Niklas are playing with Chloe. The Castle was pretty amazing. 
This was at the monkey place (Montagne des Signes). There was this mountain where they let these monkeys roam free within a huge compound and people walk through on a path. You can walk right up to the monkeys and you can feed them popcorn. It was pretty neat. 
Sorry these pictures are all out of order. I will at least try and post the pictures according to the days to make it somewhat organized. On the first day we arrived in Germany we were able to meet up with Dylan when he got done with school and then we went to meet his host family. These pictures are all from the second day. Yes we did all of this in one day. The above picture is Doug and Chloe playing on a castle wall. We were able to eat a snack and have some coffee at the castle/mansion. Apparently some really rich guy had had the mansion built for himself and later it was turned into a hotel. Some very important guests had stayed at the hotel and Niklas (Dylan's Host Dad) had been there to provide security.
The next three pictures are of us making our way around a lake that was formed by ice during the Ice Age. There is a myth about mermaids and the lake but I didn't catch all of that. As you can see Dylan and Chloe wasted no time getting to know each other again. She sure does love her older brother. 
In red is Renate, Dylan's Host Mom and in front of Doug and Chloe is one of Dylan's brothers, Dennis. 
Well as most of you know Doug decided he needed to build Chloe's play structure from scratch. So here are some photos of his work. He isn't quite done but as you can see he has come a long way. It is pretty darn impressive. This first picture is where he began: with an isosceles triangle to support the end of the swing set portion.
This is the structure at the end of day one.
On day two he added a roof.
The slide started off attached to the platform, but when Chloe went flying off of it due to the steepness, well we had to work out a different plan, so now there is a second lower platform off to the side.
