Knorr Family Adventures

I missed last week (#6) because sometimes life happens a bit too fast.  So here is a quick summary - on top of his chipped bone Chris has bronchitis (so he tells me) and was sick last week.  There is a stereotype of men being sick and I feel like it was based on Chris.  Enough said about that ... Ilya hurt his finger at school and I assumed it was just a bruise except it kept hurting and kept being warm to the touch so we ended up going to ER and it turns out he cracked it and had to wear a plastic protector which made it nearly impossible for him to write.  It made our life fairly miserable last week because he is somewhat a perfectionist and he does get a grade on his handwriting.  Of course, lets not forget Fasching - Anton had 4 parties to get to!  Andrei and Ilya had parties at their schools and neither one was at all excited about it. We have a lovely library in our town.  It's really close to our house ( ok , everything in our town is really close to us), I pay 15 euro

I finally convinced Chris to see a doctor since he fell down skiing and his hand has been hurting for about a month now .  Advantages of living in Germany - free and/or cheap doctors.  Disadvantage - he had to spent the entire day dealing with it but in the end he now has a brace because he chipped a bone. Anton's pretty much healed after his tonsil/adenoid surgery but goes in for a final check up on Monday.  His speech therapist explained to me why his voice changed and it's actually an interesting tidbit of useless trivia.  When we talk our tongues get used to only going so far until they hit the tonsils and when those tonsils are shorted that creates an air gap.  This should close as his tongue (which is a muscle) will start hitting his new shortened tonsils. Good for us (and also see the point above) - free surgery, free follow up, free medicine.   Our travel plans have expended and I am going to Barcelona and Madrid with a friend.  Hi friend!!! Family trip to Mancheste