28 weeks and counting

On Thursday Christine and Finlay invited us to take part in St Martins day and walk in a "parade" with paper lanterns. Tim and I were slack and didn't get a lantern, but it was still nice to see so many of them and kids around us being all excited. Basically for those unfamiliar with this tradition (and I was until this week), you walk the streets holding a paper lantern and sing songs about St Martin. It was pretty nice and I think next year we might make more of an effort. Next year Tim might also be able to _carry_ the lantern, rather than try to eat it, which would've been most definitely the case this year :)

On Friday we made it to a Russian playgroup. I was very excited to discover that there is one in Berlin. It's actually organised by a club Karussell, that promote bilingual education of children - ie. German and Russian. So they have various music, drawing, language classes for kids of all ages. We went to the youngest group and there were a total of 4 babies - 3 boys and one girl. The teacher is very nice and plays guitar and the flute and has many toys and props, so there's a lot of singing and dancing... overall I think Tim enjoyed it... the only problem was that it was during his regular naptime. He usually sleeps between 10 and 12, and the group is at 11. He was pretty cranky the rest of the day, so I think we might try it once or twice more and if it doesn't improve then sadly we'll have to give it a miss.

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