Day 3 - Haute cuisine

• We visited my mom today. She invited us to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. As she is really Chinese she didn't look at the menu at all but just asked the waitress to bring us any four dishes with meat, fish, tofu and vegetables. The food was very good.
  
• Here's how a normal meal at a restaurant with kids goes: Matthias took his shoes off and was jumping up and down on the settee while Florian was crawling around under the table. Then Matthias managed to bite off parts of his water glass (again!, as he had already done that in summer). So there was a short panic - quickly getting all shards out of his mouth - then try to reassemble the puzzle to see if we got all of them - and then stop any bleeding - this time there wasn't any and the glass was complete - phew. After the meal I went to the toilet with Florian, where as usual he suddenly turned around and told me something really important while peeing, so he managed to urinate across the whole wall, seat and the toilet brush and I had to mop it up with tons of paper towels. To sum it up - it was quite a successful lunch with nothing out of the ordinary this time.
• In the evening I did the hamster thing with the kids which means letting them run rounds around our sofa while counting how many laps they can manage. That's a good and proven method to keep them occupied as well as making them tired. Florian clocked in at 120 rounds!!!! Matthias managed about 50.
• After that we watched the animated DVD menu of jungle book because Florian enjoys the animated background and music. Watching the main menu of a DVD for 20 minutes gives a whole new meaning to the term "home entertainment".