2014: A Year In Review...

It occurs to me that this blog details the highlights of the year as I see them, but maybe the girls have a different perspective. So this afternoon, I settled them down to ask a few questions. Here's Nina first:

Me: Well Nina, we've had a big year, and I'm going to ask you some questions about it. Ready?
Nina: Yeah.
Me: Tell me a fun memory from 2013.
Nina: I really liked when we went to Bogi Park in Austria. It was really fun. And I also liked when we got the dogs. They were so cute and so fun. And the time when we got Moxie and Marley home from the kennel and they were just running out of their cages at the kennel. It was such a joyful moment.
Me: We visited a lot of countries in 2013. Which was your favorite?
Nina: I liked Hungary the most because we went to Budapest, a state (?) [me: city], a city in Hungary. We got to look at the sunset from the pool on the roof. You are probably thinking that it is really cool that there is a pool on the roof, and it is. And the Budapest hotel, the whole thing, was also really really pretty and really nice. There was good food, oh and the most comfiest beds.
Me: Do you remember the lemonade we got at that hotel?
Nina: No.
Me: It was more like a citrus-fruit ade, with slices of orange, and lemon.
Nina: No I don't remember that lemonade.
Me: Tell me something neat that you learned in 2013.
Nina: I learned how to speak lots and lots of more German than I did. I only knew how to say "ente," (duck), "baum," (tree), and a few others, and now I can speak full sentences and maybe even I could say tons of sentences.
Me: That's a pretty great thing to have learned! How about, what was your favorite activity we did.
Nina: Oh, I liked to do stuff we actually made with wood and we sawed in art class in Austria!
Me: What did you make?
Nina: We made something for father's day. I made, like, I forgot what I made, but it was for father's day, out of wood.
Me: How about your favorite movie of the year?
Nina: Oh my favorite movie of the year I think would be Frozen. We didn't see it in Austria.
Me: Well we spent most of this year in the US, so that makes sense. Do you want to go back to Austria?
Nina: Yeah!
Me: What do you want to try new next year?
Nina: Cooking!
Me: What would you like to cook first?
Nina: I think maybe an apple crisp would be nice, so momma could come home and smell apple crisp baking, and she won't even have to make it.
Me: Nina that would be a dream come true for me!


And now Maggie's turn!

Me: Well Maggie, we've had a big year, and I'm going to ask you some questions about it. Ready?
Maggie: Yeah.
Me: Tell me a fun memory from 2013.
Maggie: I liked dressing up in the princess costumes.
Me: The ones in Schonbrunn?
Maggie: Yeah.
Me: We visited a lot of countries in 2013. Which was your favorite?
Maggie: Budapest.
Me: Why Budapest?
Maggie: Because. Wait, was that Hungary that had the clock that played a puppet show?
Me: No, that was Prague.
Maggie: Ok then, well... I guess the same as Nina.
Me: Why did you like Budapest the best?
Maggie: I liked the little mini hot tub where I could touch. It was in the same place the pool on the roof was.
Me: Tell me something neat that you learned in 2013.
Maggie: I don't know. I learned how to count in German.
Me: That's a pretty great thing to have learned! How about, what was your favorite activity we did.
Maggie: Play in the pool at summer!
Me: How about your favorite movie of the year?
Maggie: My favorite one was Balto.
Me: What do you want to try new next year?
Maggie: Take a plane to go see your sister in Kansas City!
Me: That sounds like a wonderful idea Maggie!

Happy 2014 everyone!!