Day 13 - Ninjas

• Today Florian asked me what other weapons Ninjas use, so I mentioned nunchakus, wooden sticks and scythes. He didn't know what a scythe is so Heidrun explained it as an old fashioned lawn mower. So current status is: Ninjas are forest keepers fighting with lawn mowers and NOT mean Japanese killer machines!
• In the afternoon we went to Farbie's World, an indoor play area for kids quite near to our place. Trying to impress Florian with my Ninja skills I attempted to wall run on the outside wall of a bouncy castle ... bad idea, my wrists still hurt. Starting a wall run is actually quite easy, but when the wall is very soft you can't push off to get back on the floor, you simply fall off like a sack of potatoes and have lots of other parents and kids start laughing at you.
  
• Florian also does a lot of wall running now. He even switches off the light by wall running (sort of) and hitting the switch.
• In Farbie's there is also a huge inflatable slide which Florian also doesn't slide down normally anymore as no self respecting Ninja would do that. Instead he wall runs up to it and then jumps onto the slide from the top so he starts the actually sliding after two meters of free fall!
  
• Today Matthias was playing with a knife which I confiscated when I saw it. Then I told him "Messer, Schere, Gabel, Licht sind für kleine Kinder nicht!" (translation is something like: "Knife, fork, scissors and light for little kids are not quite right!"). Matthias simply answered: "Cannons are also not for little kids". I had to agree with that, so remember: never give a cannon to your children - especially you Americans :).
  
• Bathing time: Finished another task on my education checklist: Florian is now able to complete the whole bathing cycle. I.e. get in there, wash himself including shampooing his hair, get out, dry with towel, put clothes back on.
• Florian enjoys farting under water which admittedly I also do. It feels good, is funny and makes nice bubbles. Men are just primitive, I know, and I'm not saying this because I'm officially now a woman.
• More on sibling rivalry: A friend our ours told us that her two year old son has carved a "picture" into the lid of his 14 year old brother's laptop PC with some sharp tool. I have to check whether the little one is still alive.
  
• Lunch: left overs. Dinner: Austrian style fried noodles with ham and eggs.
• Evening: Ninjas.