Bastelnmeister

A glorious thing happened... Team Biggs was healthy for an entire month. I'm not jinxing it by declaring my recent good fortune. Hugo and Carmen were sick four out of five days this past school week. The new fever, cough, non-covid routine. Luckily Hugo and I recently picked up some new furniture for the boys to have more building space. 

The dimensions on the Kleinanzeige (local Ebay equivalent) description were a little off. AKA the table ended up being twice as long.

As such, the 2 mile/5 KM ride home took twice as long. 

Thus, Hugo and I ended up missing our weekly swim/sauna date. But bacon bread and a hot chocolate made up for it.

The plan for the table was lego building but recently Hugo has gotten into creating with cardboard. Here are some of his recent projects:

"I'm basically Leonardo da Vinci." Also, mommy was out of town when this device was created.

Desk Name Plate

"Mommy Giving Daddy a Present"

Playground with two slides, a basketball hoop, climbing wall, teeter-totter, and swing. Of course, no German playground would be complete without sand and a ping pong table. 

Human Robot?

Kita was the inspiration for cardboard play. Every year before Christmas, the Kita puts all the toys away. There is a phase-out period of a couple weeks, six weeks of no toys, and then a couple weeks of phasing toys back in. The kids do imaginary play and make their toys out of recyclables "basteln". The concept behind "Spielzeuge machen Urlaub" or "toys go on vacation" has its origin in addiction prevention. 

For the toy-free time, Hugo engineered his pièce de résistance. 

This week while Hugo was crafting, Carmen was:

But, thankfully they are on the mend so they can get back to their buddies: 

Bonus points if you can pick out Hugo in this photo.