Nancy is enjoying her new home! To the right, she is blowing bubbles outside our apartment in our "yard" (a tiny little common grass area, but it works for us!). In the center, she is putting in her very first screw! Her little table and chair set came with special IKEA tools and she wanted to screw it together herself, and she did! To the left, dancing with Daddy in the kitchen, she even found a way aroundthe heigth barrier! Up and to the left Nancy is copying Mommy blowing a kiss, leg lift and all!
Nancy is loving Belgian food, especially the baguettes! She has learned to dig her whole hand in and pull out the soft center. She was a milk addict before we left and we thought the lack of fresh milk would cure her...however she took one sip of the irradiated milk and instead of the grimace we were expecting she just asked for more! Below, in round three of Belgium versus the toddler, we'll have to call a tie. They have very little carpet here and our wood floors have caused more than one socked-feet slip up and ensuing tears. However I think Nancy learned to make the best of the situation as the below picture shows. She also was getting into the literature, to the right she is reading "What a Circus!" Though she enjoyed it, we have backed off of checking out books from the library after we tried several times to return this one. The library we got it from is where we used to live, now a good distance away, and we found out only open a few very select hours 3 days a week. In addition, there is no dropbox and they wouldn't accept the book at nearby branches of the same library. The above eye roll demonstrated by Nancy shows how I felt. 
Play time! Victoria and Nancy enjoyed an "international tea party" with their Aunt Tina, Aunt Noel and Nate via Skype. They also enjoy reading books together (though Tori prefers to eat them) and playing with Mommy and scarves. Below, Tori is quiet anxious to do everything her big sister does, especially eat!! She saw Mommy and Nancy eating a gauffe one day (belgian waffles) and tried so hard to get it into her own mouth that Mommy gave in and started her on solid foods much earlier than planned (though she was still dissapointed it wasn't the gauffe :) Her favorite "foods?" Tori REALLY loves to eat paper and diapers...if either items are on the floor she will move very quickly to get them and demolish them, as is evidenced by the sticker picture below.
