has opinions about how things should be done. I got a cool new pan the other day and he's the only one who has used it.
He is so funny in the kitchen. He likes to watch himself cook in the reflection on the back of the stove.
Case and I made cookies today. He thinks he is in charge of the 
mixer, turning it off and lifting the arm when it is time to add things. He also likes to taste after ever step, seeing how things change with the addition of ingredients. It is fun homework to cook snacks together to work on his manual dexterity-grabbing the thin handles on measuring cups is hard but cookies are a pretty good motivator :)
The day before Case and I flew back to the states, it snowed. Case thought it was awesome 
and spent quite a long time stomping footprints and repeatedly yelling "Snow!" (If you don't have a big vocabulary, make good use of the few words you do have.) 
It was really neat that he got to play in the snow there; it has been two years since he has seen snow outside a globe.
Hohenneuffen Castle ruins. Pretty but so cold it hurt. We visited there on January 4th. Any photos of Case smiling are completely accidental, as he whined EVERY SECOND that we were there. It was such a short drive and walk though, that it didn't last long enough to build any resentment. 
Having a whiny kid who coincidentally has a black eye from falling in the hotel room when he should have been sleeping is awesome. 
We went and saw the castle in Heidelburg yesterday. It was beautiful and cold and wonderful and we had a lovely time.
